IMSA IMSA : 2019

[MaskedRacer]

Originally Posted by Nick Woodbury

OH MAH GAWWWWD

Pretty good, glad they are going back to the traditional colors at Sebring however. Now we await if Porsche is doing anything. I like their factory colors too so its not a big deal if they stick to that.

[MaskedRacer]

Also like that BMW are back to 2 white cars again. Always liked that BMW, Porsche, and Ford keep their WEC and IMSA teams in cohesion with each other. Hopefully Corvette's Sebring WEC car will be the traditional yellow as well. Kinda can say that about Risi Ferrari, their Daytona drive line up is essentially the #51 AF Corse driver squad plus Rigon who drives the #71.

[seanyb505]

Originally Posted by Nick Woodbury

OH MAH GAWWWWD

What kind of car is that? I can't see any decals identifying who it it

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

What kind of car is that? I can't see any decals identifying who it it

Hmm. I think it's the new Pinto.

[TF110]

Oreca Acura's are in the traditional white and orange like the realtime and comptech Acura's before them...

[Akrapovic]

Have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed in them lol. They're still good, but I think Porsche maybe raised the bar a bit high. I was hoping for some classic Ford GTs. Didn't know what to expect from Acura, but by pure chance it's maybe a little too close to the Penske livery for my liking.

Not bad, but I'm still disappointed and don't know why. But even with those, the current IMSA grid, especially DPi and GTD, is maybe the best set of liveries on the grid right now.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Retro Fords at the Rolex 24 means they get BoPed to victory right?

https://twitter.com/dailysportscar/s...95384309878784

I like 'em. The liveries. Not the Fords

I am having a hard time remembering an old IMSA Fords in Castrol colors.

[broadrun96]

I'm with him.

The Fords aren't bad and the livery works on the cars. But it's not really classic livery, but then maybe that's me being old and thinking that's not that old a livery.

The Acuras are just a waste of time and effort, looks pretty close to the '18 livery. I know it isn't and I see the RealTime and the older Comptech Spice/Acuras but nah, not worth it. But then what else could Acura really run?

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

I'm with him.

The Fords aren't bad and the livery works on the cars. But it's not really classic livery, but then maybe that's me being old and thinking that's not that old a livery.

The Acuras are just a waste of time and effort, looks pretty close to the '18 livery. I know it isn't and I see the RealTime and the older Comptech Spice/Acuras but nah, not worth it. But then what else could Acura really run?

I think you're spot on there. It's at best old, but it isn't a classic. The GT40s ran at Daytona - it'd have been awesome to have a proper classic GT40 livery. The cynic in me says they didn't do that because you'd have to remove all the sponsor stickers. Instead they wanted stickers for money, so had to go for one like that.

Ford may have been better doing some sort of art car, and making a cool modern Castrol livery that fitted the classic GT40 shape or something.

Acura...no idea what they could've done. It's actually hard to think of a classic Honda livery that'd fit here. Being a Brit, all I can come up with is BTCC

[fieldodreams79]

Well, I love them, but Gulf has been done to death and the other that jumps out is black with a circle number on the side. Badass but not really good for adverts, to your point Akrapovic, which is what race cars are these days; fast and fun billboards.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by joeb

I am having a hard time remembering an old IMSA Fords in Castrol colors.

I don't think it exists, but here's a Castrol Ford at Brainard:



It's a "Mustang".

[joeb]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

I don't think it exists, but here's a Castrol Ford at Brainard:



It's a "Mustang".

Lol, of course that's a mustang!

[TF110]

The orange and white has been an Acura color scheme for a long time in the US racing scene. It doesn't look unique because their original livery is basically the same colors Not much more you can really do with them except the wing endplates could be orange too.

[carbsmith]

It's really just pointless. What they had was Acura enough.

I really don't see how the Fords would be considered not old enough to be classic



The classic GT40 paint schemes are all not from IMSA, so not really applicable for the anniversary.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by carbsmith

I really don't see how the Fords would be considered not old enough to be classic

The classic GT40 paint schemes are all not from IMSA, so not really applicable for the anniversary.

I don't think being old makes it classic. That red Ford livery is absolutely not a classic in my head. It's nice, but that's about it. The Jaguar may be a classic...but it's a Jaguar. Not a Ford.

Plenty of awesome GT40s have raced at Daytona. It won the 24 hours twice, and they have a 2 car entry, so use those liveries. Even if they aren't classics because they're beautiful, they're classics because they're D24 winners. But again, they'd have to get rid of sponsor logos.

They're not bad really. Kinda nice. But it was always going to be hard to follow the pink pig.

[fieldodreams79]

In the end, they're merely covers for a machine. Let's go racin'.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

In the end, they're merely covers for a machine. Let's go racin'.

Quit yer cryin' or we'll talk trash about someone's obsession with retro Falcons liveries in the NFL

[skycafe]

Ford owned Jaguar in 1990. So that was really a Ford victory.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Quit yer cryin' or we'll talk trash about someone's obsession with retro Falcons liveries in the NFL

This is a personal attack and I'll have to report it to the mods.

But, please, continue with the useless argument about the Ford Prototype paint schemes

[jimclark]

Originally Posted by skycafe

Ford owned Jaguar in 1990. So that was really a Ford victory.

[ATLFalconsFAN]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Quit yer cryin' or we'll talk trash about someone's obsession with retro Falcons liveries in the NFL

Hey now.

[carbsmith]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Plenty of awesome GT40s have raced at Daytona.

The 24 Hours wasn't an IMSA race until 1975.

Using the Castrol scheme has little to do with being a Ford and a lot to do with the team's main sponsor being Castrol. I don't think they're required to go drag out an Emil Frey Jag, and pay $1m to get it into IMSA just to celebrate their long association with American sports car racing.

[jimclark]

Originally Posted by ATLFalconsFAN

Hey now.

The chorus......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwAYIxUso


('86 btw....sorta the right time period.... )

[joeb]

A little info on the IMSA bop process.

https://racer.com/2019/01/15/hodgson...l-daytona-bop/

Interesting how much input the manufacturers have had in the process.

[broadrun96]

well it seems Core got in on the IMSA throwbacks too, although it makes it look less like a street Nissan than the ESM livery did. But it does look like the old factory Nissan GTP cars, and other Datsun/Nissans