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9 Sep 2005, 16:00 (Ref:1403048)
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Semi-Recent History Lesson?
I had a bit of a discussion of semi-recent history but didn't have a clear and complete timeline timeline to work off of.
The question is who was running what classes where from about 1996 to 2002 in IMSA/PSCR (and back to IMSA), USRRC/Grand-Am, Le Mans, FIA GT/WSC, and elsewhere? Mike nuked everything post-1996 in his brief history. |
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9 Sep 2005, 16:18 (Ref:1403065)
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in '96 FIA GT wasn't around, it was BPR, but that was still GT1 and GT2. Le Mans.... was there LMP1 and 2 or was it just "LMP"? then the two GT classes. Apart from BPR becoming FIA GT in '97, that's pretty much how it stayed until 99/00 I think. After that it took on the current form (of course the classes were renamed at the start of this year). I don't know about the other series...
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9 Sep 2005, 17:13 (Ref:1403109)
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I tried to divine the classes from old results, but it's hardly explanatory and a lot of work.
 Just for example at Le Mans, what it looks like: 1996: P1, P2, WSC, GT1, GT2 1997: P875, P650, WSC, GT1, GT2 (just alternate names for the LMPs?) 1998: P1, GT1, GT2 (nothing but P1 in the race, or just no finishers in other P classes, WSC eliminated this year?) 1999: no results archived on motorsports.com  2000: P900, P675, GTS (old GT2), GT (old GT3?) (GT1 eliminated) And then renamed back to P1 and P2 with some changes in the rules, and a year later back to GT1 and GT2 in name only. |
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9 Sep 2005, 17:17 (Ref:1403113)
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For 1999 I think it was P1, possibly P2? I dunno, but GT1 became GTP and we then had GT2.
with 2000 - I think GT was the old GT3 - not sure. But would have been a very similar standard if it wasn't. |
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9 Sep 2005, 20:10 (Ref:1403221)
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A little more I've dug up:
IMSA 1996: WSC, GTS-1, GTS-2. 1997: WSC, GTS-1, GTS-2, GTS-3 This note on 1997: IMSA's GT catagories will be shuffled in 1997. GTS-1 will stay as is but GTS-2 will become GTS-3. A new GTS-2 catagory has been formed similar to international GT2. This class consists of heavily modified cars such as Ferrari F550, Viper, Lotus Esprit and Corvette. With the GTS-1 class being full of Camaros I'm guessing it wasn't similar to the FIA GT-1 class. 
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9 Sep 2005, 20:32 (Ref:1403236)
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Didn't know any Ferrari 550's were around as long ago as '97...
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9 Sep 2005, 21:03 (Ref:1403258)
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I believe that the 550 road car was just being launched around then
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10 Sep 2005, 15:54 (Ref:1403766)
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There was an LMP2 class at LM 1998, but only one team entered.
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10 Sep 2005, 16:40 (Ref:1403784)
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10 Sep 2005, 21:18 (Ref:1403939)
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That was one of the Italtechnica built cars iirc
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