Driver categorisation

[Mike E]

I have updated the list I did last year of driver gradings. It is much longer now because it covers ACO, GT3 and IMSA. I'm pretty sure most of it is right, but there may well be some dodgy information in there.
One oddity is that Karun Chandok has been downgraded from Platinum to Gold, which can't be right, surely.
So, if you should be working but would rather waste your time messing about with filters on Excel, follow the link below (hope it works).

http://1drv.ms/1BvnYrx

Movers and shakers:

Gold to Platinum
Kevin Estre
Jann Mardenborough
Martin Plowman
Nick Tandy
Jordan Taylor

Silver to Gold (a selection, potentially significant for crew composition in LMP2 and GTE-Am)
Johnny Adam
Ben Barker
Paul-Loup Chatin
Maurizio Mediani
Christoffer Nygaard
Sean Rayhall
Fernando Rees
Jeffrey Segal
Matthieu Vaxivière
Mirko Venturi

Gold to Silver (potentially significant for crew composition in LMP2 and GTE-Am, although lots of these guys will have been downgraded because of inactivity)
Rui Aguas
Martin Brundle
Andrew Davis
Casper Elgaard
Tommy Erdos
Alain Ferte
Gabriele Gardel
Philip Giebler
Luke Hines
Jonathan Kennard
Jan Lammers
Anthony Lazzaro
Jos Menten
Shogo Misuyama
Fabio Onidi
Darryl O'Young
Harold Primat (got to be useful to someone)
Lionel Robert
Boris Said
Stephen Simpson
Tim Sugden

Other thoughts
SMP will have 3 Platinums to share between their two cars: Minassian, Salo and Aleshin, which means two Platinums in one car with a Silver or a Bronze.
Strakka will have their usual line up of two Platinums and a Silver.
ESM have two Platinums (Ryan Dalziel and Scott Sharp). Not sure if they will split them across the two cars.