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21 Mar 2010, 03:20 (Ref:2657016) | #1 | ||
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What is Sportscar (and GT) Racing?
Sellf-evident title, I hope.
I have been reading this forum for years. I love that you all know so much more than me. So, please, answer this. |
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A way for rich men to pour money into a hole in the road. Oh wait, is that boating?
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Sports cars and Grand Touring cars are not the same. We can start there. Most of the BS arguments over what belongs and what does not start from the totally wrong belief that sports cars and GT cars are the same thing.
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simple answer: 24h Le Mans
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To launch a new FIA GT2 category based on strict technical rules, with limited wavers and ‘balance of performance' limited to success ballast. A category where GT manufacturers will prove through competition they can produce the best road going GT car. |
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So, the ACO owns the sport? No one, and nothing else counts?
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preaty much--let me explain, it is the single most important race, that evvery, yes every team/driver in sports and gt cars wants to win, beside that the most sought of championships are the ALMS, LMS, AsLMS, fia gt used to be there but is now @#$@#$ thanks to Ratel
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FIA GT isn't endurance racing, that's for sure.
The LMS and Le Mans should be commended for sticking with genuine long distance racing. The ALMS is getting better with Laguna 6 hours on the schedule and having a 10 and 12 hour race on the schedule. But the point is that if the LMS, ALMS and FIA GT all failed, Le Mans 24 Hours would still exist and is the only race involving sportscars and GTs that would stand on it's own two feet. Sebring to be fair is close all well. Same applies for Indy 500 and Monaco. Ben |
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It's a race from the start to the finish of course
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I cannot believe that you do not know the answer to your own question. I have seen you on these forums any times. Or is this a trick question?
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It is what it says on the packet? Bodywork over the wheels racing for GT and sportscars.
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LOL yeah ... I remember reading about a Can Am car where it was tried but imediatly got prohibited too. And another occasion where it was measured with some obscure method that the driver seat was a centimeter out of center line and because of that technically legal
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One could argue that Sports and GT racing is where it all began as the first inter city races in France were all for road going cars with two people on board. Single seater cars with narrow bodies and the driver sitting on the centreline of the car came later.
Now we define GT cars as a real, road going car of a sporting nature but this definition gets somewhat blurred when it comes to the top Touring cars, where does the BMW GT2 car really fit? I would like to define sportscars as open top cars and GT as closed top cars but that does not really work. The McLaren raced quite legally as a GT car, did they ever ban it for being centre seat? |
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1995 (or 1994, or 1996) WR had the driver in the middle.
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By looking at this years it seems like it was introduced by BPR and died that way too. However, it was during the huge sports car racing void in the 90s
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The Sportcars racing still keeps the taste of classic racing, the F1 and other competitions become too much professional and cold but sportcars still smell like old times... Veteran drivers, joung ones, glentemen drivers, big professional structures, teams with literaly 4 guys and no money, people who desing and drive their own car..... And a big, big variety of really different cars -with different sounds- and more take overs in one race (on each category) than the past 20 years of F1..... That´s maravellous
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22 Mar 2010, 16:46 (Ref:2657920) | #22 | ||
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Lots of Intereserie cars were modified single seaters, so had central (single) seats.
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Sports car racing = grand touring car racing + sports prototype racing
Grand touring (race) car = a road sports car (not necessarily a grand tourer) modified for improved preformance on track. Sports prototype = a purposely-built race car with closed wheels and a non-touring car shape. I'm not totally sure about where to put Japanese Super GTs and Grand-Am GT Prep 2 cars, since they fit into the latter definition but are commonly considered as grand tourers. |
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