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I thought the McLaren GTE would not appear until later in the year? (Then again, we said the same thing about Manthey and the 991). Absolutely no chance of any BMW, Lexus, or NSX at Le Mans though.
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Only later in the season and after Le Mans. The list posted here is just rampant speculation and has only strenuous links with reality in places. (Sorry Beetle, but that's the truth)
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From what I've heard I don't think McLaren will be rolled out in time for Le Mans.
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And Maxime Martin is a BMW works driver now. Unfortunately we probably won't see him at Le Mans this year.
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Information explosion.
I haven't even heard ANYTHING about the Lexus LFA coming to Le Mans. I know that Acura is planning to launch a 2-3 car GTE factory program with world class drivers in 2014 in the WEC. Jaguar is planning the same as early as next year. I don't think the Bailey LMP2 car is going to happen... not enough updates on their website. What about Kessel Racing? They're doing 3 cars in the Gulf 12 hours and were in the ELMS last year... could they possibly race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Broniszewski, Philipp Peter, and Davide Rigon? What about the LMP2 Deltawing idea? Far out... but anything's possible. I didn't know that Julian and Zugel left Greaves. I also didn't know about Sam Hancock... or Jorg Muller. Is there a possibility Hancock could go to AMR and race the Vantage like he did in 2011? In that case, the entry list is as follows... LMP1 = 11 entries
LMP2 = 22 entries
GTE-Pro = 15 entries
GTE-Am = 14 entries
NOT CLASSIFIED = 1 entry
Legend: Black: Confirmed/Le Mans invite Green: Likely Red: Possibility/Unlikely |
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If Philipp Peter shows up he will suffer the wrath of Marco Holzer.
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Also, if you're so insistent on having the Vipers on your list, one thing to note: there is NO. FREAKING. WAY. that Ryan Hunter-Reay will be racing at Le Mans next year. Not when he has an Indycar title to defend and there's a 120% possibility that an Indycar race will clash either with the Le Mans test day or with the race itself.
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That list exceeds the 56 cars grid capacity. You also have Makowiecki and Melo with AF Corse, Melo is no longer a factory driver and Mako has never been one. And Vilander with ESM? I really doubt that's going to happen in a race where AF Corse is present.
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Beetle, you have a Pro-Am lineup in the 99 AMR Vantage. I wouldn't bother with an entry list for at least another month if I were you. There is too much uncertainty, realistically 60% of the text in that list is either red or green, especially in the GT classes.
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Just because you start a thread doesn't mean that it is then 'your' thread. It is a public forum and people are allowed to disagree with or question the things you put.
I apologise for what you deemed to be overly pessimistic comments. I'll now only look to add to this thread constructively, but it's clearly not just me who feels that way. |
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Beetle is just on a power-trip with this thread. A thread of this caliber (see thread title) needs to be more than one guy posting a different entry list every couple of hours after he has a daydream.
Start with confirmations and work your way to 56. Don't start with 100 cars and work your way to 70... |
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Hey guys!
First official writeup of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans Entry List. Available in Word 2010 and PDF. 59 entries, the 3 reserves being... #28 Gulf Racing Middle East #32 Lotus #62 Kessel Racing Here's the link to the download... |
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Impossible, a factory team would go to Le Mans with cars in the latest possible specification and those are not allowed in GTE-Am.
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Agreed why some people are chastised for being enthusiastic and contributing is beyond me. Its great to watch the entry list gradually develop from pure speculation to the actual thing.
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Looks like if Rebellion do compete with two cars then Mathias Beche will be part of the driver line-up. Might make sense to swap him out with Bleekemolen on the list at this stage?
Been good to see Beche progress and move up the ranks. Second in class on his debut this year. 8th overall. He's definitely got the pace. |
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Fair enough......
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Right... the last few days have been a big misunderstanding on this thread. I appreciate all of your really helpful comments, guys! The thread, unfortunately, gathered some unpopular attention as well. So... I posted the link to the new entry list. Can you view it fine? It's just a lot easier for me to format Microsoft Word than the forum posts. Plus it looks a lot better. Again, thank you guys for sticking with this thread through it's trials and tribulations. |
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