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Well look at this. IMSA is gonna only be the four chosen one chassis after all.
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Wow, I didn't think IMSA would take the approach of only allowing a single North American constructor. When they currently have Multimatic, Riley and Coyote involved, that really does seem to be a really strange decision if they haven't consulted with those parties beforehand.
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Anyways, this ACO-spec-honoring makes no sense given that you cannot run those cars anywhere else in the world anyways (expect Le Mans) unless you have the FIA spec engine and chassis. Nonsense. "Mazda" will have to ditch the ancient Lola and have either Oreca, Oak, Coyote/Riley/Multimatic or the 4th option. HPD is surely done for. Last edited by Deleted; 25 Mar 2015 at 21:04. |
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Tomorrow? Only Dallara. Within a few months - all of them. Riley already made some noises about wanting a slice of the P3 market and Coyote was thinking out loud about a potential P2 a few months ago. Just a question of hiring the right people and buying the right equipment, seeing how even garagiste-CN-contructors are using CF chassis these days.
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Here's what will actually happen: Riley is gonna focus on GT cars and that will end Ganassi's DP program probably after this season, followed by Coyote doing the same thing with GM GT cars. All will also make new chassis for Trans Am cars and NASCAR and the like. This will also shrink the field for next year's prototype class, adding to series existing problems with car count in the top class. And by the end of 2016, the outright rage at the problems that are likely to result will make for loud calls to dump the prototypes altogether. |
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As bad as the DPs were, I'm now going to miss the DPs considering the P2s will be more spec with just "styling ques" where as atleast the DPs had multiple chassis and constructors. I can deal with the fake branding if there is an actual spec that Coyote or Riley have to build their cars to rather than just changing a grill and lights on a P2 and calling it whatever when it's almost literally identical to any other P2 |
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I completely agree with you. I'm very disappointed in myself for it, but now I'm more and more wishing IMSA weren't following the ACO's almighty **** up at all.
We now have a choice between WEC/ELMS with a few chassis and spec engines or TUSC with effectively spec chassis (people could theoretically pick any but surely going with the US option will be most logical) and maybe some engine variety (hard to see many others than Chevrolet at the moment though - maybe the WEC spec engine branded as an Audi). And no open tyre choice anywhere. Or the choice of just ignoring its existence completely, as I currently manage successfully with PC and will with P3 unless some non-Ginettas turn up. |
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First off, it won't be that hard to "design" a next-gen P2 spec chassis because about everything will be determined by the ACO-FIA. It's not "clean sheet of paper," it's "Connect the dots and color in the resulting picture any way you like."
Second, Ford was going to GT with Ganassi likely being the team, so Riley not being one of the four won't matter ... Riley can do GT. Dallara can knock out a couple CF tubs in no time, it has tons of experience, as do Oak and Oreca. Mutimatic has been building cars for a long time and I have no doubt they are already tooling up for the 2017-2021 life of the first-gen next-gen ****-2s. I doubt Riley, which has a couple Starworks, a couple Ganassi, the Fifty-Plus car, and couple oddities floating around at the Rolex, will mind not being part of the business considering most of the Euros will probably by Euro-built cars (think Oak and Oreca will work out some "customer appreciation" deal?) I doubt there will be a difference in price from constructor to constructor—I expect FIA to fix the price, and I expect Oak and Oreca to offer the best deals on replacement/repair parts to their loyal customers. The TUSC market is likely to be ten to twenty cars and a few replacements over four years (plus lots of bodywork, which will probably come from a partnership with the manufacturers.) The manufacturers (or Manufacturer, as Chevy is the only one likely to stay) might even mandate a specific chassis ... probably not i figure. If four constructors split the TUSC market, each will get four to six cars over four years—maybe 16 up front for teams a couple spares, and a couple more the next year when 2016 cars are no longer grandfathered, and a few replacements when a car can't be repaired. I don't see a constructor fighting too hard to get to build two or three chassis at a fixed price point. Quote:
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I thought Multimatic were doing the Ford GT, not Riley?
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TY yes, I should have made that more clear. Riley runs the GTD Vipers already and would probably love to go back to GTLM if it could get the money.
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Once the GT40 vs. Corvette battle gets hyped in 2015 and goes hot in 2016, I'm thinking that this maybe Riley's backup plan. That would also explain the GTLM Viper entry at Le Mans this year - its running the car to make sure people remember it exists. When IMSA's prototype field goes south in 2016 and 2017, Riley will get FCA to nut up and provide backing, and the GTLM Vipers will return to Le Mans in 2016 and then to IMSA starting with the Six Hours of the Glen. After the probably-pathetic 2017 prototype fields gets reviled by the fans and ignored by the teams owners and marketers, the prototype era in IMSA will close out with a whimper, followed by the vast battle in 2018 between Corvette, Viper and GT40, as well as everyone else in IMSA GTLM....
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And then, IMSA brought in the DTM-based "Class One" cars to replace prototypes!
Even though it won't happen anytime soon, TUSC going to the GT-only series route might not help it much as they'll have to compete against PWC and the Blancpain Series for attention. |
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but if the 2017 ACO P2 engine is going to be non production based, will the IMSA P2 engines still be production based? I'm sure we'll find out in time, but just wondering what some of your thoughts are.
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If prototypes do survive, it will be in the form of the Class One cars MagVanisher mentioned, more silhouette GT than prototype. And that would be fine with me. These P2 rules, however, are not fine. The response from fans of this sport has pretty much been utter horror from all involved, which is why Atherton's tone about how limiting the builders will allow them to thrive is such utter BS its laughable. This is gonna kill the LMP2 category, and if IMSA has]d any common sense they'd get away from this. But it appears that the braintrust there has every intention of repeating all of the same bloody mistakes that the ALMS made, so here we go into the mess once more, at least until the privateers all go "to heck with this" and either bail on IMSA entirely or switch to GTLM and GTD cars. |
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How exactly do you think Corvette vs Ford is gonna be any more ratings effective than Corvette vs Viper was? It's not gonna be a magical crowd magnet alone.
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Also, with Chevy being the only manufacturer, the company might decide that racing itself is no longer the best way to promote the company--but I think it more likely that the GM PR team will flood the airwaves with ads about "Chevrolet Power has won every singly Tudor series race this season," not mentioning that the Chevy V8 is practically mandatory in the P-class. |
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I'm sure GM will demand a Corvette body if one wants a GM engine in the back.
Mazda might stick around but only for their 'works' program, cannot see anyone else wanting to run their vacuum cleaner engine. If PC is retained as a separate chassis configuration (current cars or new LMP3s) I don't expect many new P cars in 2017/beyond, maybe a handful of 'Corvettes' + couple of Mazda + couple of stock bodied P2s, 10 or so in total, 12 would be a lot. Suddenly the life span of the DPs and spec Orecas might be extended even further! |
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You know I'm wondering, since the new selected four chassis manufacturers are gonna be using spec engine outside the States, will they actually bother constructing the car so that it allows more engines than just the standardized one? I mean obviously the 'US manufacturer' as in Riley/Coyote/Multimatic is gonna do it, but the others? Someone like Oreca might just say **** it and optimize it for one now that there is no need for anything else. I mean, look at their R-One and the amount of work required for modding it.
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