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Which is a bad mistake, mr Leventis is a good driver in P2 standards but in the top class he is gonna cost them a lot of positions. But it's not like you could say NO to team owner
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23 Jan 2012, 21:21 (Ref:3015882) | #1528 | ||
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Oh ya! Thanks. I was asleep.
Remember the discussions about Leventis in P1. You'd think they'd learn from ASM and Miguel Amaral. Quick Gentlemen drivers are already an issue in P2. In P1 they're still quick but everyone else is oh so much quicker. |
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23 Jan 2012, 21:41 (Ref:3015900) | #1529 | |
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It's for sure a frustrating one. Especially from a British perspective I find myself drawn to this team to support them. But they go into the race knowing they are at a massive disadvantage. Watts and Kane are quick but will be leaned on more heavily and feel under pressure to make up lost time/build a buffer.
Of course you HAVE to give credit to Leventis because without him there is no entry. He knows the situation and if he's fine with it then that's that. A much better scenario than them not being there at all. BUT if Honda were looking for a team to partner up with more heavily next year which would you pick? You'd pick the all-pro line-up of JRM. |
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23 Jan 2012, 21:51 (Ref:3015909) | #1530 | |
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I'm sure Nick can be convinced to field a 2nd car or step out of the seat if some Hondabucks arrive on his lap. I'm sure JRM will be fine, but Strakka was giving Highcroft a bit of a butt kicking when they were using the same cars at the 2010 Le Mans 24 even before Highcroft's car started to have problems. There seems to be some talent behind that organization.
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23 Jan 2012, 23:16 (Ref:3015943) | #1531 | |
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Sorry if this has already been announced on the forum anywhere but I've just seen that Andrea Bertolini will be running in the second WEC Pro car for AF Corse.
This SPEED article also confirms Bruni/Fisi will be back alongside the one line-up I'd seen confirmed which was Waltrip/Kauffman/Aguas. http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...m-wec-entries/ |
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I remain to be convinced that we will see the 2 all-fairly-pro lineups proposed for Oak. Do we really see Nicolet stepping down to a P2, especially if it is run for contract customers? Heck, I think 2 P1s period is still an uncertainty with Oak, though should Kraihaimer come with an appropriate budget I could see the chances improving! |
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Really nice to see Andrea back in serious business, I was anticipating something like this after I saw the Risi line-up for Daytona.
It's weird though, got so used of seeing him paired with mr Bartels and now they're doing different things. |
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24 Jan 2012, 10:55 (Ref:3016104) | #1534 | |
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he will replace jaime melo who has been released by ferrari a month ago, after all is an official driver of ferrari and currently a ferrari f1 simulator developer.
Maybe he will run also this year the 24h of spa if bartels call him again, ne needs of trusted people after the epic fail of #2 last year. |
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25 Jan 2012, 01:36 (Ref:3016572) | #1535 | |
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I find it pretty strange that certain drivers seem to have come undone in the past season. Jaime Melo and Pedro Lamy being the obvious ones. Was Jaime that bad? From what I remember he was brilliant in the F430. Im starting to think its more the F458/setup than him. Pretty odd to see him have so many mistakes last season. Petit Lemans being the most embarassing. What will Jaime Melo do next season? seeing as he is not with AF Corse or Risi. He's still one of the top GT drivers of the past decade and suddenly without a ride.
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Melo has always been fast, but he has always been rough on equipment and he is also supposedly hard to work with. I don't know if it is true or not, but he has supposedly run off some very good teammates. How much better would Risi would have been if Bruni was still around? But, yeah, Melo has always driven with a bit of "red mist" and I'm a bit surprised that it has taken this long for him to get the boot even with his speed. Unfortunately for Risi, I'm not sure if Vilander is any more reliable and he isn't as fast as Melo.
As for Lamy and others, it is a bit strange to see drivers just fall like lead balloons. McNish and TK were once the golden boys, now they seem like the second (or third) string Audi pairing. Lamy obviously. You could look at Panis too. Wurz went from being the star driver at Peugeot to being a punching bag almost overnight. I don't know why that is. Age? Maybe. In the case of Peugeot, maybe something like Davidson's testing skills meant that the new car ended up being more tailored to his likes rather than what the old guard liked (Wurz, Nic, Lamy, etc.) and that ended up influencing the timing sheets. Of course, guys like Gene and Wurz have a lot of testing experience and I'm sure they had a lot of input into the new car, but maybe that did not matter. I don't know. It almost seems like we have to push the reset button on driver expectations at the start of every season. |
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25 Jan 2012, 11:28 (Ref:3016718) | #1541 | |
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E-I just tweeted that that GreenGT H2 will be running at the Le Mans test day.
Could they be hoping the DeltaWing won't show? |
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Sounds like an overambitious program for ´12/´13 to me...
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25 Jan 2012, 12:58 (Ref:3016753) | #1544 | |
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Yeah I'll believe it when I see them actually running at Silverstone this year but fair play to them. After the 56th entry snub it would have been all too easy for them to throw the towel in but this COULD end up clocking up more competitive race miles than the DW this year.
Looking forward to seeing it on track in June but sadly it will be crawling during the parade laps. |
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good luck with the GreenGT project. There are a lot of things I'd prefer to see than the DW but if they pull this off it will be truly innovative
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Well, we can hope for that at least!
As far as Test Day goes, I think the ACO let some hybrid street cars (Honda and Nissan stuff) run with the GreenGT test car last year at Test Day. Not during the time where the actual race cars were on track obviously, but on that weekend. At least I think that was the case. It would not be surprising if the GreenGT ran sometime with the race cars or during other down time if it is ready to run. |
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Kind of a surprise to me, but Autosport today says that Lucas Ordonez will be driving for Greaves this season and will race LM alongside the Brundles.
Obviously the Nissan connection remains but I thought for all the world we'd see him alongside Jordan Tresson in the Signatech car. I suppose this also means he will be doing ELMS and not WEC? He could be doing both I suppose and remain for Signatech. |
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