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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
They entered 2 of them in American in an Am class as a pro team. Let's not pretend they've gone in on a level playing field on that one. VLN races are often about BOP gaming and delta running outside the N24. SuperGT seems fair enough but I don't know much about it. But debuting your factory backed cars in Am classes and weaker series just seems a bit of a waste of time tbh.
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Others are doing and have done the same thing. Why criticize only the Lexus team? There's guys racing on their squad that are not very good 'pros' and the driver ratings thing is far from being perfect. And the VLN series being a BOP game applies to all cars, not just one. And usually it's before the N24 they try to game the system, not after (when the RC F won late in the year).
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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
I'm looking forward to seeing the car in a big boy series and playing with other GT3s properly. Its disappointing to wait this long on it (the excuses don't wash tbh. GT3 cars are basically prototypes - they just got it wrong for quite a while) and when it's finally here they enter into Am classes and series rather than the main ones. Was looking forward to this and the NSX and it's all been a bit disappointing and skewed.
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GT300 in Super GT is not an AM class. You admitted you don't know about that so maybe you should watch it sometime. The races are on NismoTV's youtube. The GT3 cars run the same BOP as they do in SRO.
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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
Hopefully they will enter it in a Blancpain race this year, and a proper full season effort next. That's when the real fun begins.
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It's still just a GT3, they can enter any series that runs those cars and it'll be fun. Blancpain is not the end all be all to GT3 racing. What makes Emil Frey or Farnbacher that much better than any other team running currently in GTOpen?