Thread: IMSA USCC in 2016 and 2017
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Old 18 Jul 2017, 21:44 (Ref:3752615)   #5350
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Originally Posted by chernaudi View Post
We do have to remember, to be fair, that nature didn't always agree that PLM should run to either 10 hours or 1000 miles; remember 2009 and 2015. Granted, having a flooded out track and a lot of clean up to do to allow the race to resume didn't help matters.

Fuji in 2013 and Silverstone in 2014 were other cases in point. You can't beat nature.

But for PLM I'd rather it go back to being time or distance. There's been 1000km races in the past that were called short of doing 1000km and becoming 6 hour+1 lap races as even those distance races still in reality had a 6 hour time limit.
Weather happens at times for many races....and I recall 2009 and 2015. I was there!

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nah, 10 hours is good.

it was always whatever comes first.

now its just ten hours, potentially over 1k miles.
You're WRONG! Distance race more better.

2016: 412 laps = 1046 miles
2015: The rain won
2014: 400 laps = 1016 miles

Times are harder to come by but I think the closest was early 2000s at 9.5 hours. Always went distance.
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