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Mark Patterson will drive the #20 Dyson at VIR then the #16 at PLM. I've never heard of him before, how good is he? |
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Along with David Matlin, they make up the private equity firm MatlinPatterson Global Advisors." So he's not very good. |
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He drove for Michael Shank in Grand Am for a long time... won one or two DP races, actually. Decent enough for a gentleman driver, I think.
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11 Sep 2012, 09:21 (Ref:3134105) | #2832 | |
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I wonder if he was one of the people the team thought could help them get the second car to Le Mans this year?
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Isnt he a co-owner (or at least heavily involved) in United Autosports? Zak Brown being the other. I seem to hear UA and Patterson in the same a breath a lot.
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I hope this has bigger meaning to the team in the future. If ALMS/GA drops P1- they'd be good to get their hybrid program running to join WEC and/or LeMans.
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Does Dyson have the budget to go WEC and Le Mans though?
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13 Sep 2012, 12:16 (Ref:3135361) | #2843 | ||
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Dyson himself does ..... big sales from porta-crappers for a start .
If he wants to stay in P1 , he has no choice . |
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Dyson is going P1/hybrid , for what reason ?
There is little point in doing this for the remaining few ALMS races . My take would be that Mazda will fork out for a WEC P1 Dyson/hybrid 2013 season . |
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They could very well just be serving as a test bed for Mazda in the prototype class, but it is also rumored that Mazda is coming with a GX class hybrid for the new series and they could very well be proving out the tech in advance of that. L.P. |
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AIUI the flybrid is pretty much plug-and-play by now... and Dyson really need to do something to close the gap to the HPD, so I wouldn't read too much into this for now.
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