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Yes, I agree... But hey, at least Super GT welcomed those DTM cars with open arms for next year. Not quite when those GT500 cars would compete in Europe.
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Car Graphic magazine reported the budgets of GT300 class.
A certain team clarified the annual participation badgets (*vehicle price/lease fee is not contained). *FIA-GT3 car: about 60 million yen *JAF-GT300 car: about 100 million yen |
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Hmm, that doesn't look good for the GT300 cars... Although they have extreme aero bodywork, it's gonna hurt on the pocket when it was crashed.
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7 May 2012, 11:06 (Ref:3070600) | #559 | |
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no surprise, after all a prototype with a proper racing engine is always more expensive than a gt3 car. I'm sure that the various garaya and riley shiden will disappear soon if the presence of less restricted GT3 cars will grown.
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I've got to agree with the sentiments of the GT300 runners here, they're being beaten out in their own class! It's not helpful that GT3 regs are a farce... I haven't watched any of the races so far this year, where are the GT300 cars deficits? Straight line speed or cornering (or both?)
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SGT joint tire test is carried out on May 8-9.
http://www.sportsland-sugo.jp/race_2...t-tiretest.php *Participation team GT500: #1, #23, #24, #32, #38, #39 GT300: #0, #3, #11, #43, #52, #87, #88 *Cerumo SC430 hugely crashed. Lexus tries front exhaust. |
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8 May 2012, 11:41 (Ref:3071122) | #565 | ||
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Wow thats one secondhand SC430 big damage at both ends of the car (high speed spin?), assuming from the pic that the driver is ok?
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8 May 2012, 11:43 (Ref:3071126) | #566 | |
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Ouch looks like he's knocked all four corners off that!
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8 May 2012, 12:32 (Ref:3071165) | #567 | |
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It looks like an hvy impact in the Hi-Point or Rainbow Corner.
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8 May 2012, 14:38 (Ref:3071235) | #568 | |
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I think they would have been better of having allowed GTE's or something with solid regs, it's gong to be so difficult to balance up GT300 and GT3's...
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They had GTE (well, GT2) for years before switching to GT3, but not a lot of teams were interested in that due to the higher running costs.
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To be fair DTM were due to have MG racing in the series before they went bust in '05 so they do accept foreigners. Though it is harsh if they don't let them compete...
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8 May 2012, 20:06 (Ref:3071398) | #571 | |
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The thing with the JAF GT300 machines I thought was their engine not being built for higher hp? Something about fuel consumption and/or reliability with increased restrictor size?
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8 May 2012, 21:47 (Ref:3071445) | #572 | |
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the various JAF-300 like garaya, lexus is350, shiden, mosler were using restricted full race engine: example the is350 uses a different version of the rvk8, the garaya uses the engine that was used in the 350z gt300, mosler MT900 of last 2 years was using a judd 3.4
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8 May 2012, 22:14 (Ref:3071458) | #573 | |
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Then whats wrong now? The IS doesn't compete, the Garaiya is there but they don't make the power the GT3s do. So whats the reason? Maybe Samurai San can help us out?
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In my opinion is fair that JAF-300 prototypes are less powerfull than GT cars, because they have a turn speed that GT cars won't never have because of aero and the weight. However i think that gt300 will solve soon these kind of problems because will become shortly a full gt3 competition, and cars like vermac, arta, shiden etc.... will disappear. |
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Oh please, I don't want those cars to disappear... If they did, it's gonna be another GT3 clone and competing against GT Asia (where they have GT3 cars).
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