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The confusion I was alluding too was the ACO insisting one broadcaster shows all ILMC events hence Motors TV couldn't show it yet Eurosport didn't have free airtime. I would hope by next year either a compromise is reached to split rights amongst broadcasters or Eurosport have firm plans like they do for Le Mans, WTCC and IRC. Bottom line money talks and the ILMC will have some weight behind it. |
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I think it is safe to say that Europe will see a reduction in events in 2012.
I wouldn't be shocked to see 2 in Europe (including LM), 2 in North America, 2 in Asia (China) and 1 in South America. The obvious questions are whether PLM is maintained, whether South America happens at all.... If no South America, I can see 3 Europe, 2 North America, 2 Asia. Alternatively, it is 3 Europe, 1 North America, 1 South America, 2 Asia. The problem with weakening, or killing ALMS (I think LMS will be fine as a privateer series), is you end up with no support cars for these races. How interesting is this years Sebring, if you remove the ALMS cars from the grid? |
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That's what I would shoot if I were the ACO. It's a great balance and very realistic. As a South American I would love it, but I don't see a desire of big companies or goverments in doing a long term project. The other Asian race should be in Japan. The other two European races could rotate between Spa, Silverstone and Italy (Spa is close enough to Germany). Not me. There will be four races in Europe this year, so there doesn't seem to be a high repulsion for a dominant European calendar. |
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FIA GT had three events outside Europe in 1997 (Japan, 2x US), as did ALMS with NA in 2000 (UK, Germany & Australia). Yet these series weren't even dreaming of world championship status back then. I know that technically you'd only need three continents to actually receive the WC status from FIA -plus their blessing of course-, but I think ACO should make further effort of bringing the championship to SA or Australia - a final flyaway race to close the season.
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I guess I'll believe it when I see it, but it makes sense for Mazda to contest LMP2. Might this be a legitimate MZR stock based engine? Does it make much sense to use a turbo 4 in LMP2 given the current rules?
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Mazda doesn't seem to always do what makes the most sense, rather they tend to do what costs the least cents.
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I can see another why Mazda is leaving Grand Am though, in a couple of years that car will pretty much become uncompetitive with the arrival of the Ferrari Italia, Mercedes SLS AMG GT3, Lotus, and possibly the R8 LMS GT3 cars.
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Just like AMR, they don't don't have the FoMoCo money/resources to help them.
AMR's VH chassis, which underpins most of their cars, was developed by Ford as was the Astons' V8 and V12s, the latter being basically 2 Mondeo V6's mated back to back. The MZR engine was a joint project between Ford and Mazda. All of that happened when Ford was sole owner of Aston Martin and Ford had controlling ownership of Mazda--Ford now owns 10-12% and about 20% respectivly of those companies, and though Ford probably had little to do with their race programs, FoMoCo's resources on the production car side gave a help to those programs. It may be coincidence, but AMR scaling back their DBR9 program to LM only in '07 and '08 and Mazda's downturn in the ALMS happened to conviently coincide with Ford giving up control of those companies. Or it could be as alleged--trying to do as much as you can while spending a little as you can, which against big factories, doesn't seem to work out well from past examples. |
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I only noticed it because it's mentioned by Mazda when talking about the 787B restoration, which will be demo'd at Le Mans.
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I think this is great news , and bound to eventually spinoff into either the LMS or ALMS .
Any word as to who might run this opperation ..... perhaps Dyson ? |
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Oh dear !!!
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Dempsey is driving it ..... Whoever thought that one up needs a frontal labotomy !!!
Shaking head in amazment !!! |
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He's Mazda's PR tool in the US, what do you expect?
He didn't seem to be the safest of drivers in even in a GT car so I´m kind of surprised they´re trusting him to drive this gem. |
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EDIT: I REALLY hope Patrick does not bin the car! I would be a nervous spectator watching the exhibition when Dempsey is in the car. |
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