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Old 26 Jan 2012, 22:05 (Ref:3017496)   #1551
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Kind of a surprise to me, but Autosport today says that Lucas Ordonez will be driving for Greaves this season and will race LM alongside the Brundles.

Obviously the Nissan connection remains but I thought for all the world we'd see him alongside Jordan Tresson in the Signatech car. I suppose this also means he will be doing ELMS and not WEC? He could be doing both I suppose and remain for Signatech.
Is it possible this is the result of P2's driver rating/seeding regulations?
SignaTech claimed ILMC championship victory, and scored a podium at LM. Would this have any effect on his driver rating or, the team's capability to provide a seat?

It might be a possible explanation.
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Old 26 Jan 2012, 22:08 (Ref:3017500)   #1552
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Maybe running for Signatech for every round of the WEC except Le Mans and getting delegated to Greaves only for the 24 Hours?
I think this is the most likely scenario. The Greaves car should garner some good publicity at LM so makes sense to put him in there I suppose.

I thought we'd have heard a bit more about line-ups for Signatech by now given they have two cars. I'd assume the second one is full of gentleman drivers perhaps.
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Old 26 Jan 2012, 22:13 (Ref:3017503)   #1553
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Is it possible this is the result of P2's driver rating/seeding regulations?
SignaTech claimed ILMC championship victory, and scored a podium at LM. Would this have any effect on his driver rating or, the team's capability to provide a seat?

It might be a possible explanation.
I'm not sure whether a season's worth of LMP racing is enough to move him to Gold classification, even though by the end of that season Lucas was more or less on the pace of his teammates.

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I think this is the most likely scenario. The Greaves car should garner some good publicity at LM so makes sense to put him in there I suppose.

I thought we'd have heard a bit more about line-ups for Signatech by now given they have two cars. I'd assume the second one is full of gentleman drivers perhaps.
Although having read the tidbit, it does say "for this year". Hmmm. The entry list announcements are only 6 days away, so... we shall see what's what next week.
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Old 27 Jan 2012, 12:24 (Ref:3017754)   #1554
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I thought we'd have heard a bit more about line-ups for Signatech by now given they have two cars. I'd assume the second one is full of gentleman drivers perhaps.
not 3 cars? 2 for wec, 1 for elms
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Old 27 Jan 2012, 14:26 (Ref:3017807)   #1555
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I don´t know about Signatech TBH: Yes, they´ve announced to enter 2 cars in the championship but since then news has come out that last years´ partner Didier Calmels had reached an agreement to run a private Pug (before the board´s decision to withdraw) so it could be they´ve split and that the necessary budget isn´t there anymore???
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Old 27 Jan 2012, 14:33 (Ref:3017815)   #1556
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not 3 cars? 2 for wec, 1 for elms
Don't think they were ever down to do the ELMS were they?

I wouldn't be surprised (similar to last season) that we only end up with one Signatech car. Hopefully the line-up is decent.
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Old 29 Jan 2012, 11:57 (Ref:3018498)   #1557
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I guess this is a very old rumor that is still alive, but Luther Blissett still has hopes of fielding a Le Mans team. Who knows if it actually happens or not.
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Old 31 Jan 2012, 11:11 (Ref:3019341)   #1559
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I'm wondering whether one of the gaps at Signatech will be filled by Olivier Lombard? I'm sure Nissan would have looked to try and keep hold of him. Plus he brings some useful funding with him.

He tweeted that he will announce his programme for 2012 soon. I imagine that will be Feb 2 if he is staying in sportscars.
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Just on twitter RCE tweeted something about a possible WEC entry.
Could this be the Dome s102? It is in the December issue...

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On twitter:
RacecarEngineer: And on top of all of the F1 stuff we are still sitting on a very surprising and cool LMP1 story (see Dec issue of RCE for a huge hint)

Anybody with a december issue of RE (or an other inside) in this. Wasn't the december issue the one with the piece about Dome?

Maybe the alleged link between the new Toyota and the Dome?

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1) Honda is considering returning to the LMP1 class now that Toyota is in it and
2) Mazda is in development of a LMP1 themselves.

Apparently they go another route of green racing, by use of a Hydrogen Rotary.
Apparently the print version - nothing here: http://www.sportauto-online.de/motorsport-978772.html
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Taki Inoue tweets that his Le Mans participating plan did not accomplish.
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Kind of a leftfield one but E-I reports that Alexandre Premat has signed a deal to compete full-time in Aussie V8 Supercars.

I'm sure he must have had offers for WEC/LM drives. Maybe he didn't want to compete in LMP2 any longer?

http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...ance-9442.html
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In V8 Supercars all drivers get paid, and some of them pretty lavishly from what I've heard... so that might have played into that.
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Kind of a leftfield one but E-I reports that Alexandre Premat has signed a deal to compete full-time in Aussie V8 Supercars.

I'm sure he must have had offers for WEC/LM drives. Maybe he didn't want to compete in LMP2 any longer?

http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...ance-9442.html
At one point I thought he was in one of the Oak P1 cars but Oak ended up only entering 1 P1 which will be most likely Moreau and Kraihamer in WEC?
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Kind of a leftfield one but E-I reports that Alexandre Premat has signed a deal to compete full-time in Aussie V8 Supercars.

I'm sure he must have had offers for WEC/LM drives. Maybe he didn't want to compete in LMP2 any longer?

http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...ance-9442.html
Left field indeed! No one saw this coming. With no experience in V8s its a bold move by Garry Rogers to give him a full season drive. Im a bit surprised why Premat would want to race a big heavy V8 compared to a LMP which is more similar to what he has raced in the past. Well good on him anyway, hope he goes well.

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In V8 Supercars all drivers get paid, and some of them pretty lavishly from what I've heard... so that might have played into that.
Im guessing most drivers would be on six figures and at least half a dozen at the top would be earning upwards of half a million AUD per year with one or two of those on seven figures (or at least to anyway). Good money to be earnt.
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I think we've all known this for a while now after all the rumours last year but I was at least hoping to see Farnbacher at N24. Shame
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They still have their ADAC project I think: https://www.facebook.com/Farnbacher.ESET.Racing

Everything's in german and the translations of their latest messages don't work too well.
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I think we've all known this for a while now after all the rumours last year but I was at least hoping to see Farnbacher at N24. Shame
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N24/VLN is being evaluated, might be with either the GT3-car or the GTE, probably the later.
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N24/VLN is being evaluated, might be with either the GT3-car or the GTE, probably the later.
I meant the GT2 programme, don't really care of their GT3 plans. But I'm glad if they continue at the Ring
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farnbacher got still 2 F458. one for short races and one for endurance-racing. report in german, so maybe translation needed:

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