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There's another thread for that. Let's focus on USR here, ok?
- o - You saw that the WEC is considering adding more races in North America. USR teams have concerns about the increased schedule (some are adding 24 Hours, others are adding 12 and 10). We would love to see European and Japanese teams back at any of the classic endurance races. And all of us would love to see WEC and USR teams fight each other, right? So I propose that this second round is awarded to Petit Le Mans. I suggest a double 6-hour format, like in Austin, so USR teams run less hours. But here's the twist: instead of doing a WEC and a USR race, how about doing a prototype race and a GT race? That way, GT gets attention for 6 hours, whereas protos do their own stuff. And we can see WEC and USR teams race against each other! |
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But USR's DP and P2 cars are supposed to be equalised. Problem solved.
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funny how all kinds of cool/weird looking cars need to race alongside dps otherwise noone would give a **** about them racing in the top class, speeding them up, le mans entries... looks like they intend to keep this failure alive. Hopefully they will die a slow and painful death and this whole merger disaster folds so a new road racing series can emerge ("dtm") with all the manufacturers supporting it. i can totally see this co-existing with an "alms" gt series.
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1. 24 Hours of Daytona (Jan.)
2. 12 Hours of Sebring (March) 3. Barber (April) 4. COTA (April) 5. Laguna Seca (May) 6. Mid-Ohio (June) 7. Sahlen's 6 Hours of the Glen (July) 8. Mosport (July) 9. Road America (July) 10. 11. Indy (August) 12. NJ (September) 13. VIR (October) 14. Petit Le Mans (October) Can't run COTA during football season. Do not need Street courses. Indy must be tied to NASCAR weekend. Kansas one season only. |
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Welcome to Ten tenths, nevertrustamidget!
I know, was kidding The ACO and IMSA can solve that. |
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That is only if they can speed up the DPs enough without increasing costs "too much".
NTaM, welcome. You haven't filled one of the slots on your calendar. Indy needs to be able to draw, and the course itself isn't anything special, except for the one, long run. Not to mention, that instant narrowing at Turn 1 could easily make a mess of a bunched field. Also, street circuits ARE necessary in markets that are critical for the series, but don't have a suitable permanent circuit. And it's not like Baltimore, Belle Isle, or Long Beach are awful, even by street circuit standards. Go take a look at the 2002 and 2003 iterations of Miami, the 1991 iteration of New Orleans, the 2005 iteration of San Jose, and the 1987 iteration of San Antonio. (If you want confusing, look up the IMSA Columbus street circuit: start line, finish line, timing line for laps, and pit lane all in different places.) Trust me, the current crop of street circuits isn't bad at all. BTW, what do you categorize Montreal as? |
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Until 2000 Spa was a street course, Mount Panorama, CGV, and Monte Carlo all are brilliant street circuits. While theyres probably enough permanent courses, I think it's still good to have some temporary street circuits on the calendar.
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Early days but these comments lead me to hope there may be a more inspiring technical rule set for 2016 in the USCR.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...rd-neveu-pt-2/ Even though no P1. |
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The top of the Mountain is really not that open, but I understand what you mean. After thinking about it modern spa was a poor example too as even though it was public a lot of safety changes had been made by 2000.
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From Marshall Pruett:
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...d-am-programs/ "P1 is not included in the USCR's class structure, but there's a belief that with enough support, a concession to keep the top-tier prototypes remains a possibility." ???? |
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Mr Dyson is that you?
Greg?? Duncan??? P1 outside of the WEC is dead for now as it is essentially a manufacturers class. If you want to go there to get creamed by Rebellion and destroyed by the Audis/Toyotas/Porsches then do so. You're not proving anything in the Special Olympics of racing the class has provided us the last 2 years stateside. Though I'm glad we'll still get to see those beasts in the WEC at COTA, they truly are the top flight of sportscar racing. |
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