Thread: FIA GT GT4 - The future...?
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Old 14 Jul 2010, 06:19 (Ref:2726396)   #15
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RickP:Clio51 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the gridRickP:Clio51 should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
The biggest problem with GT4, other than the very good points made my SpeedKing about rules creep which has meant (legal) original cars have been left behind by items that were specifically banned when we built the cars such as "no aero addenda" c.f new Maser, and "no Porsche 911s" otherwise we'd have built one. Only high volume production cars "Ginetta then allowed in to ruin the UK series"...
But also cost, Michelin are charging twice as much to sell us the GT4 tyre in the European Championship as they charge for exactly the same tyre at the VLN races!
The entry fee is ludicrous for 2 * 40min races and as a result it's costing (as a team that runs seriously cheap) about £1 a second that the car is on track! That's the same we were paying to run a LMP2 car in 2004!!!! Given lack of decent billing (again as well highlighted above) and poor TV coverage we've pulled our car from the European GT4 this year purely because cost-wise to sponsors it makes no sense whatsoever.
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