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So if I am reading right there will be no Honda's racing in 2010?
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I don't think the DTM and Super GT are looking to combine the two series. They are just looking for common rules so DTM cars and GT500 cars can race against each other on equal footing.
This will allow Toyota to build one car, brand it Lexus and race in Germany and brand it Toyota to race in Japan. That way DTM gets its third manufacturer without actually changing its tech regulations too much. Private teams may also buy cars and race in either series. What they could do is to have joint end of season races in markets they are interested in, like USA (California) and/or China. Super GT and DTM raced in these markets in 2004, though not really very successfully... but if they combine their resources, they could then do it properly I think. |
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So Super GT cars use carbon chassis now instead of the older regs of having to use the production cars unitbody between the front and rear firewalls(a la, FIA/ACO GT1)? But then again, DTM cars have used a carbon monocoque/tube frame chassis since 2000 when it started back up, so Super GT(If carbon monocoque/tube frame hybrid chassis are allowed) have a lot in common with a DTM car.
It seems that aero(DTM cars with their winglets and dive planes) and engines(DTM standardizing on 4.0 flat crank V8s, with Toyota using a 3.4 flat crank V8, Nissan using a 4.5 flat crank stock block VK45 based V8, and Honda with their stock block 3.4 V6) are the big sticking points. But what are the aero regs as far as front and read diffusers between DTM and Super GT-I know that Super GT cars use LMP900/675 like front diffusers, and GT1 like flat bottoms with rear diffusers, but I don't know about DTM with the front diffuser(one of the reasons that GT1 cars can't corner as fast as Super GT cars is their limited front diffuser effectiveness). |
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Regs for this/next year are for a 3.4L V8 that is common to Formula nippon and LeMans 2011 regs IIRC, hence why Toyota ditched their bigger V8. Nissan was given a concession this year I believe. Quote:
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Equalising power-to-weight ratio isn't enough. Downforce, weight distribution, power curve, brakes, suspension... all those variables matter. Ballasting the fastest car won't necessarily make them compatible.
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Honda is continuing in Super GT with the front-engined NSX-replacement concept that was shown a few years ago. It had a V10 and 4WD but the road car development was cancelled while the race car program should go with the IRL-Nippon V8. The Honda factory drivers are still expecting drives for next year.
Super GT's an example of a 3-manufacturer championship working very well for more than 10 years in full-blown form and equality always being maintained with very different machinery. I don't think there was a year in the current decade when one of them didn't win at least a race. I guess it helps not to have a manufacturer like Mercedes around eager to outspend and nuke everybody... |
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Do the rules allow them to race a car that they do not make????
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Hence, I'd be a bit disappointed if this comes off, though it would make some sense - still, in my ideal world everyone would just build cars to GT2 rules |
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It is a sad day when Honda do not make a car that they can race, I know the race cars have extremely little to do with road cars but it is still a shame.
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seeing as all the DTM and SGT manufacturers are interested in alternative tech, does anyone see that being allowed in down the track? the ex-GT500 Supra HV-R seemed to work pretty well Last edited by The IC; 9 Dec 2009 at 09:14. |
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And is already taken for the German GT3 series.
Nonsense. Of course a DTM C-Class would, because it's a different set of regs, but a Mercedes car built to Super GT rules wouldn't. |
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Actually, we should first discuss whether this mashup would create touring cars or grand tourers. In my opinion, it only depends on whether sedan or coupé bodies are used. And what about "Super Touring Masters"? 1990s Supertouring cars are dead, so the name is free. |
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I am guessing the new Honda CRZ will be too small to make into a GT type car?
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That's right, mildura1963. It might qualify for GT6 or GT7, though... :P
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Mercedes is coming up with a racing SLS, so it should be GT regs. They have known for a while that the current DTM isn't going anywhere; and it would be easier to attract others with GTs instead of with luxury sedans with race engines. Cars frozen this year; disappearing next year?
Bernd Schneider looks pretty involved with the SLS; he was at Laguna Seca for a press event talking about the upcoming Black version and how much he would like to race this car... |
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Dead-Eye, the carmakers' speech is sometimes different: if we can build these insane beasts, we can surely make great road cars.
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SuperGT already has exemptions for certain sedan model cars in GT300. Examples form recent memory include: Lexus IS350 (MR), Toyota Corolla Axio (MR), Subaru Legacy (FR), Subaru Impreza (FR and 4WD!) SuperGT is an extreme example of equivalency formulas and success penalties; a diametric opposite to the near-spec nature of DTM. I think it's the fundamental regulatory differences that would make a marriage of the two series difficult.
However, GT500 is becoming more and more strict in its regulations and with some performance parity, there is no reason DTM cars couldn't run alongside the GT500 cars. Of course you could argue that no parity is necessary and DTM could represent a third class in the series, running their own points championship. I don't know that DTM's sponsors would be happy with less than 1/3 of the airtime, though with a much broader audience. In fact, I hope they do just throw in DTM in the mix. I think it could make for a fascinating series. Super GTs (GT500 - they're really GTPs tho, aren't they?), Super Touring Cars (DTM), and the smorgasbord of machines known as GT300. Lexus, Nissan and BMW could build DTM-spec sedans to race with the Audis and Mercs, maybe Benz will want to build a GT500-spec SLS? (Although FIA/ACO seems like a better match for that car) |
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The original news is that BMW is talking with the ITR (DTM), JAF (Super GT), ACO and FIA about running their ALMS M3. So that means entering a "real" GT in some unconventional championships and either changing the rules so they're more inline with real GTs, or BMW thinking of making a Super GT/DTM prototype out of its GT2 car.
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In the German media they actually talk about how similar the DTM cars are to their roadgoing counterparts. That's also the reason they went from coupes to saloons in the first place.
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