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View Poll Results: Where will the WEC US round 2017 be held?
Circuit of the Americas (early September? with PCW?) 17 36.96%
Indy - plenty of history and, more importantly, plenty of run off 6 13.04%
Montreal - close enough to the US border and would serve US N-E audience very well 8 17.39%
Road America - the only right choice but lots of 'upgrading' to do to please the FIA blue blazers 7 15.22%
no US (or Canadian) round at all - the WEC doesn't need a race there anyway... 6 13.04%
somewhere else in North or South America (Brazil???) 2 4.35%
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 15:29 (Ref:3689959)   #126
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Looks like Rusinov and G-Drive might pull out over driver ratings. What a joke.
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 18:19 (Ref:3689995)   #127
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The driver ratings are mental.

So Rusinov is a Gold for not winning the WEC title in an LMP2. Rory Butcher is a gold, despite only being a GTE driver for a year and not winning the GTE Am (AM!!) Title. But the fastest silver in ELMS, Mr Thiriet, is still a silver because his car failed and he didn't win the title.
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 18:24 (Ref:3689996)   #128
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After all his comments throughout the season about the insanity of the driver ratings system, I'm genuinely surprised that the ACO didn't accidentally "upgrade" DHH to a Gold.
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 18:27 (Ref:3689997)   #129
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After all his comments throughout the season about the insanity of the driver ratings system, I'm genuinely surprised that the ACO didn't accidentally "upgrade" DHH to a Gold.
DHH isn't a gold? Christ. Next someone will tell me Blekemolen and Dixon are Bronze.
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 19:01 (Ref:3690004)   #130
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DHH isn't a gold? Christ. Next someone will tell me Blekemolen and Dixon are Bronze.
No, but a nice factory Cadillac driver just 2 years ago is now Bronze! (seriously, he's one of the nicest guys I've ever met).

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Old 21 Nov 2016, 21:30 (Ref:3690040)   #131
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Some obvious moves, some surprising (to me!) possibilities:

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Bruni to Porsche?!
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Old 21 Nov 2016, 22:42 (Ref:3690060)   #132
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Bruni to Porsche?!
That was reported by Endurance-Info as well.

in French: http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/127358/

possible moves for 2017:
* Vanthoor, Werner, Bruni, Sven Müller -> Porsche (GT)
* Bamber, Tandy -> Porsche (LMP1)
* Tomczyk, Wittmer, Catsburg, Sims -> BMW
* Luhr -> dropped by BMW
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 01:29 (Ref:3690094)   #133
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Surprised that Luhr would be dropped. Maybe the off track dram at Petit played into this?

Dirk Werner back in a 911 should be entertaining.

Bruni in a 911...not gonna happen
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 02:16 (Ref:3690096)   #134
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Surprised that Luhr would be dropped. Maybe the off track dram at Petit played into this?
There were rumors after mid season that he wasn't performing up to the rest of the crew and was probably on the way out. Doubt the Petit thing has any bearing on not returning since I think that decision was made before that weekend.
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 02:38 (Ref:3690098)   #135
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There were rumors after mid season that he wasn't performing up to the rest of the crew and was probably on the way out. Doubt the Petit thing has any bearing on not returning since I think that decision was made before that weekend.
starts to make you wonder about why he was dropped by Audi...
I've seen Lucas Luhr driving very well in the past (Muscle Milk, some stints at Audi, Spa 24 hours iirc for BMW). Maybe he's not a consistent performer over the season.
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 08:13 (Ref:3690141)   #136
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starts to make you wonder about why he was dropped by Audi...
Didn't he go against the doctors orders and ran a marathon whilst he was meant to be recovering?
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 08:33 (Ref:3690145)   #137
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That was Primat who dumped a DTM race in favor of doing a running event. And Audi Sport dumped him in retaliation (not that I blame them). He was also going downhill as far as his performance at Audi since winning the LMS drivers' title in '08. He struggled with the R15 and then in DTM. Audi were probably not going to renew his contract/allow it to lapse anyways at that rate.
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Old 22 Nov 2016, 08:38 (Ref:3690146)   #138
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Ah you're right, I always got those two mixed up.
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Old 28 Nov 2016, 11:00 (Ref:3691703)   #139
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Collard, Perrodo Step Up to LMP2 With TDS Racing

They will be joined by Matthieu Vaxiviere. The future of the Thiriet by TDS program in ELMS is unclear.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/c...th-tds-racing/
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They will be joined by Matthieu Vaxiviere. The future of the Thiriet by TDS program in ELMS is unclear.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/c...th-tds-racing/
In an earlier article Endurance-Info suggested there would be an ELMS programme too, but that depended upon Thiriet (driver categorization, his ambitions, ...)
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News today that GTE drivers and manufacturers winners have been upgraded to world championship status by the FIA.
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Good news, so lets see if we get a few more manufacturers take up the chance, with BMW joining who else is out there
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You have no idea how much I'd love to see at GTE Jaguar F-Type!
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Good news, so lets see if we get a few more manufacturers take up the chance, with BMW joining who else is out there
Strongest rumour about an unannounced GTE programme in the works right now for 2018 is Lamborghini.
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Strongest rumour about an unannounced GTE programme in the works right now for 2018 is Lamborghini.
Might it be a use for some under employed Audi staff?
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I'm guessing "very unlikely". Lamborghini has its own racing program now, and the people in Audi who would be most suited to this are most likely already on Audi's customer GT3 programme.
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So at least the F1 Baku / Le Mans clash has been removed.
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April fools Day is early!

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Isn't he in the frame for the Merc F1 seat.....?
Nah. I heard the pope didn't like snapchat so couldn't work with Lewis.
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