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That's what they said about DP but look at Ganassi! Hyperbaric chambers for the drivers at Daytona for example. There's always a way to spend money to go faster. All good rules and specing can do is limit the effect of the money. In PWC it's Cadillac at the moment. |
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If adding endurance races is unrealistic, could we see a companion prototype series to PWC?
Keep it sprint-based, allow P1 if there is sufficient interest, or otherwise P2 - PC - CN... fields might be heavy on the CN kind of cars, but if you got MMPR, Dyson, Level 5 and perhaps ESM and 8STAR on board that could make for an interesting product. |
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And frankly, team owners and drivers want that. It's not so important as to the exact type of racing as long as the series shows respect for the teams and their combined product (both the teams and series are producing the product). Give em that, a fair shot to compete, some intelligent and consistent decision making and people will want to race. Add into that the fact that the PWC GT season budget is about 1/4 of a GTD or LMPC budget, and well... I know it's not perfect for fans who want their old ALMS or Rolex endurance racing back. But for most of the teams, they really just want to race and feel like they have a chance to compete. -mike |
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What is it with everyone and wanting to bring in Prototypes to this series? I've heard that idea more than I'd like to, and it makes no sense what so ever in regards to the series. The PWC is just fine without them, and they bring nothing but a bad rep and a tribe of bitter fans with them. Keep them where they belong in TUSCC. Sure, the whopping 4 P2 cars may bring over 50,000+ additional fans to PWC, but the rapid rate at which this series is expanding is attracting a large enough fanbase to the point where it wont matter.
Pirelli World Challenge is a GT only operation and it will stay that way until the end of the world, or until nascar gets scared and buys out the series. Last edited by Nick Woodbury; 17 Apr 2014 at 23:10. |
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Mike - Are their serious talks about having GT (and GTA) run in their own race? We will be reaching some serious car counts in the near future.
While I LOVE PWC so far this season, the size of the field is getting to be a bit much with GT and GTS. |
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IMO, the only redeeming quality of having the field combined is every so often seeing the GTS Mustang with the big Yo! MTV Raps decal on it. |
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18 Apr 2014, 01:17 (Ref:3394167) | #432 | |||
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However, I really wouldn't be surprised if we see a split GT/GTS race before the end of the year as an experiment. The only way to make it really work is to have 30+ GT cars at every round and I'm not sure if that's feasible in the first season. IMO, as Tudor Long Beach showed a race with only 20 cars on a street course is simply boring... just imagine 20 cars on track at say Road America... There were also serious talks at Long Beach about doing away with the standing starts. Some drivers/teams think it's not worth the risk and that it's sort of a gimmick. It even got so far as a vote in the drivers meeting.... I'm curious what fans of the series think of the standing starts. Obviously it's more entertaining than a rolling start, but would a rolling start which reduced the chances of a big crash detract enough from the race? -mike |
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18 Apr 2014, 01:25 (Ref:3394171) | #433 | ||
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Rolling starts for sure.
The standing stars were cool back in the day, but the GT3 machinery really isn't designed for it, imo. |
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Yes, the standing starts make me cringe. The races would be better without them.
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To me standing starts are an open-wheel (and kart) thing. Now that Volvo is out of PWC, the standing starts just aren't worth it for a minor cool-factor.
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18 Apr 2014, 02:28 (Ref:3394183) | #436 | |
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I think that having a rolling start would be best.
The standing start is cool, but with such short races, it would be good to limit the risk for cautions. At Long beach, I think that the race might have gone caution free if not for the confused state of traffic following the start. |
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18 Apr 2014, 13:16 (Ref:3394414) | #438 | |
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A P class in PWC would be bad. This would take away the coverage of the GT cars. The reason why I like the BES, is because the GT3 cars get plenty of coverage.
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18 Apr 2014, 13:26 (Ref:3394426) | #439 | ||
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A P co-series would be ok like the old days Can-Am - Trans-Am. Otherwise there's not enough room or track time to add to the existing series in it's format as a support. It is getting near to good enough to be a stand-alone.
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18 Apr 2014, 13:43 (Ref:3394436) | #440 | |
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I am one of those "bitter" prototype lovers and even I can see that PWC is better as a GT3 series.
I love multi-class racing, but I also love seeing a whole field of cars competing for the overall win. PWC offers multi-class racing now, though it way get big enough to be GT-only next season (here's hoping.) Either way it provides great racing which is really what it's all about. Particularly in a short race, the added classes aren't essential if there are enough serious contenders and all the cars are pretty close in performance---there will still be lots of action. As for prototypes--how long has it been since an North American series has managed to put together a healthy grid of prototypes? Rolex managed it, but the cars were so ... whatever (no need to stir That pot) that no one bothered to watch. ALMS did okay through about 2009 with its combined classes and such, but it pretty much withered quickly, and LMPCs are cool cars but (IMO) shouldn't be in a top-tier series. I like the prototypes better than the GTs but I like good racing better than either, so let's keep PWC as a good racing series, and not wish it to become a clone of ... a couple failed series. |
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20 Apr 2014, 13:23 (Ref:3395641) | #441 | ||
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I agree that there really is no problem at the moment with the series, it's exploding because of what it is so why is everyone suggesting changes to it?
Classes were a little cramped at the street circuits bit it will be less noticeable as they come to more road tracks. First season of BES was all the better for the GT4 cars and this is reminding me very fondly of that. That said, glad to hear that someone is looking at sanctioning an endurance race for these cars. If I was to make a request, it would be higher quality streaming, but that's the sort of thing that will come as the series grows, I'm sure. |
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20 Apr 2014, 13:41 (Ref:3395661) | #442 | ||
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From the commentary it seems they are aware of what isn't working in the US, and make a point to specify how things are different/preferable in PWC.
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22 Apr 2014, 10:50 (Ref:3396611) | #444 | ||
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Now when they improved the streaming video I no longer can watch it on my iPad? So much for improvments
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Ah, live...my bad.
Not sure why they don't just stream right to Youtube. |
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Their TV package on NBCSN is bad. Too many commercials. 2:50 left, "we'll take a quick break"? Glad they have it streamed online!
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23 Apr 2014, 00:43 (Ref:3397007) | #449 | ||
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The live stream isn't what the series wants you to watch. It is nice they put it up, but they would prefer we watch the NBCSC or MAVTV broadcasts where they are paying to have it up hence the crappy feed and website for the stream. No incentive to do better if it takes away from what they want people to watch.
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23 Apr 2014, 14:30 (Ref:3397262) | #450 | |
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The TV production was not that great. Lots of commercials and not a too much racing. I guess it's hard when the first 20 minutes of the race was run under caution. Why can't RLM do PWC? Seems they could do a much better job.
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