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The Viper introduction is Wednesday at noon. At some point there will be a racing program announced, perhaps even Wednesday. I've heard rumours of it being ALMS, can't wait to find out though.
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so that means he can buy some more hpds? maybe moving up to lmp1? (just trying to look at the bright side of this mess )
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Mike Fuller reports that Level 5 is done. Assets are frozen, no more racing.
Honestly, I'm glad. Sports car racing is nice but not if it's obviously based on ripping off gullible people with no choice. I'm fully aware that racing is often founded by money from shady sources but this one was too obvious to ignore. |
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Shame to see such a 'slick' operation disappear but, as others have said, it can't be based around earning money that way.
Big hit for the ALMS. Must have been a bit of a moral dilemma for the drivers and staff if they knew this could all happen. |
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Doesn't Black Swan lease their car or engine from Level 5? Could this cause problems for that team as well?
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This must be a blow for the honest people working for Level 5 and for ALMS.
However, I must admit that I am also happy with this verdict. At first I did not like how Tucker was buying himself a racing carrier by spending a ridiculous amount of dollars or switching cars 3 times during one year (open Lola -> closed Lola -> open HPD) and then when the payday lending/native tribe story came out, I liked him even less. People who did not know about Tucker's dubious business, should read http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130325 According http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...n-lmp2-effort/ Black Swan bought the old Lola Coupe HPD from Level 5. So I hope that they are safe. |
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wow, can't condone what he's done but terrible news for the ALMS, what does it have to do to catch a break?
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Wow. So Level 5 is gone. I didnt see this coming to be honest, I knew there were mutterings about his businesss but I just didnt think that something like this would happen in the short term at least. Leaving aside the legal and ethics of his business, its gonna be a big blow for ALMS with such a highly funded professional team leaving like that. And not to mention the Sacred Monster, Christophe Bouchut is out of a ride .
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Business ethics aside, this is the same guy that ran himself in two LMPC cars the entire season in 2010 so he could take the points of the higher finishing car, to guarentee a championship..in a class with 3 full time entries. This is the guy bringing a 400k Porsche GT3 cup car and full pro rig to the SCCA runoffs, an amatuer event, to win a 2 car class. The same guy and team who entered the minimum number of events last year in the ALMS to qualify for the championship, ran the 70% distance to qualify for points, so he could win the LMP2 title..in a class with no other entrants. Yea, huge loss. |
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So just as it seemed that there could've been some life in ALMS P2 after all, it has already lost 50% of it's potential participants...
I never liked the guy and his actions deserve to be punished, but shame to lose the team anyways. |
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That's the major question now, we'll probably have to wait for Laguna (since that's where they said they'd debut). If (and that's a big if) the Radical-Roush Yates materializes and Dempsey decide to join in, we'll only still be at 4 cars.
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