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To add to this, the Blancpain Sprint Series struggled for entries against the Endurance series. To tackle this they had some rules about entering the Spa24 requiring a Sprint entry or something. So it wasn't THAT popular in Europe either.
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Well now that's interesting. Now they have a car they can run in IMSA too even if that hasn't been announced as their intentions. Otherwise it seems like a downgrade from the McLaren.
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Gainsco seems all over the place. I kind of figured they were in cost saving mode 2 years ago, now consecutive years with new gt3 cars. I hope they run some imsa rounds..
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I wonder if they'll keep their McLaren, or if they'll sell it?
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I read somewhere that Fogarty / Gainsco had some trouble coming to grips with what the McLaren liked as far as set up goes, and that they never got it dialed in to where he felt he could get the car to do what he wanted. He said something about having to drive around the set up basically.
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everybody's gotten over the cringe displayed at Laguna Seca for a joke of a season finale yet? I haven't yet. There's still plenty of time to forget about it though and reach the state where I, too, will say, 'bring it on'.
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That's a common theme by some in this thread.
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What's the current situation with streaming for next year? Stream quality used to be decent and the races were uploaded to youtube. Then with the motortrend and CBS sports deals, the series became really difficult to follow. Even the live streams that weren't blocked were extremely poor quality. Has the situation improved in the last year or so?
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This series went from pioneering with its streams to unattainable
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And then placed them behind a paywall.
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Those cars "sound" so bad.
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