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...which is exactly why I said the LOOK.
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I heard Multimatic was the North American firm, along with Dallara, Oreca, and Oak.
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First off, the market the FIA is considering is Not TUSC. They are looking at attracting more P2 teams (Pro-Am) to WEC to suck money out of rich racer-wannabes. Most of that market is likely to go to Oak or Oreca because those are trusted names in sports cars (and will probably give sweet deals to teams which stay with them.). Gibson (Zytek) hasn't had more than two cars on the grid in several years, and it was never the "hot" chassis. In fact the company has been dormant for a long while. Pretty sure the FIA isn't worried about Gibson. Riley? No Rileys in Europe. Maybe half a dozen in TUSC, but how many full-time? And with Ganassi going to the Ford GT program, that's one less customer (two chassis.) Starworks has a pair but often it seems cannot afford to run them. No one is counting on them as customers, I figure—and the rest are all Rolex-24-only. I'd say Honda, with Zero P2 cars on the grid in any series after Spa, is not a factor at all. HPD had a real hard time funding its new P2, and couldn't sell it even before people knew it didn't work. And Honda has no interest in running an HPD-VW or whatever. Or in building a spec engine that isn't in some way relevant to its current programs—no badged spec V8s for HPD. No HPD in future P2 under current rules. Coyote? The two AXRs—and isn't AXR owned by NASCAR or a NASCAR player? And Visit Florida, which used to be Spirit of Daytona and was rumored to be one of the most highly NASCAR funded teams. They are going to go wherever the money suggests. Besides those three cars, what business did Coyote have in P2/DP? How much leverage does it have? And has Coyote Ever built a CF tub? Dallara has built tubs for everyone from Audi to GP2 and GP3 to IndyCar for a decade. It's got a big budget and big facilities and can probably crank out the needed chassis easily, whereas Coyote? Is it even set up for CF? How much would Coyote have to invest for a chance to build half-a-dozen chassis over four years? what's the RoI? Oreca and Oak are P2 staples ... hard to argue they shouldn't be included. Dallara because it has the stability and the money; Oreca and Oak, all that plus an existing customer base. HPD couldn't afford to build the 04b on time, or to make it work. Gibson (Zytek) is just coming back from limbo. Coyote is small and unknown in Europe. Can't blame FIA for picking the strongest businesses. Multimatic can possibly market as "Lola" (the whores) and is probably selling itself as the constructor with the greatest stability and ability with CF (old Lola staff and stuff.) The way articles keep mentioning a "North American" constructor instead of 'U.S." makes me think it really is Multimatic, a Canadian firm. All just rumors until there is an official release anyway. |
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Even so, it's still miles better than the ROW contingent, which is 4 chassis, one engine, and I presume only two specifications for bodywork per constructor with zero in-season development.
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FIA-ACO P2 4 chassis limitation Spec component elements Spec tire Spec engine 2 likely bodywork options - for aero Fake rebranding themes No development No actual BoP (if current model followed) Worldwide accessability IMSA-NASCAR P2 4 chassis limitation Spec component elements Spec tire Free engine X bodywork options - primarly for 'styling cues' Fake rebranding themes Development allowed likely (+ to be adjusted in IMSA wind tunnel) Usage of results based BoP (if current model followed) If not in harmony with FIA-ACO specs no access to anywhere else except one race Last edited by Deleted; 25 Mar 2015 at 23:57. |
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Yep, the imsa option looks much better, imo.
Plus it's not like any of the teams would want to do races outside of Le Mans, we've got years of that to go off of. A select few would maybe actually do Le Mans, but history says most won't. |
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I am reminded that IMSA started with Camel GT, AAGT, then GTP ... which weren't all welcome everywhere, but sure worked.
I doubt the current management has the desire or the cojones to do another GTP-like spec---something so much better than everything else, everyone adopts or adapts it---but that is what I have to hope for. All during the ALMS days fans argued whether Dr. Panoz should embrace or ditch the French. Eventually he had to, because all the Euro teams left ... but imagine if ALMS had split in 2006 or 2008? Kept P2 and P1 equal in performance (or rather, let them be.) Anyway ... Unless the cars are 100 % identical on both sides of the pond, all this talk about "eligible in all series" is crap. If tires are different in WEC, then all a team's set-ups are garbage if they send the same car across. If one series has a different weight, then all suspensions set-ups and even maybe ECU settings would be different on each side. Excpet for GTLM/GTE, who really much crosses anyway? And as i recall Corvette racing went over one year and got last-year's Michelins or something and couldn't compete. How many prototype teams have tried to do le mans? and I already know how many tried to do other WEC races plus North American races with the same chassis--a total of Zero. How many Euro teams came to the U.S.? Outside of Sebring and Petit, .... rebellion, but they pulled out. And P2 teams from WEC which wanted to run TUSC could if they wanted .... They could have this year if they wanted. As it stands, with common tubs, it would be as easy for a TUSC team to go to WEC as it ever has been. But I am not sure that is even relevant. I didn't see any. The whole reason for a common spec really isn't so teams can cross over, it is so constructors can afford to make a living by increasing the market--and if the common tub is adopted, that will have been achieved. Whether the finished priooduct has a spec engine or a Chevy V8, the constructors will get the economy of scale which will make their businesses healthier--which could mean a Lot when some of the P1 factories decide to take their major money elsewhere (as they always seem to do.) I want a common spec across the ocean and around the world, but not a Spec spec. If TUSC is forced to run crap cars (worse than now, even) then I do hope they set up their own regs. |
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Yeah but the WEC isn't pushing P2 as a top class it's basically a field filler. P1 is the attraction where Imsa only has these as the top crap.
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ALMS was struggling hard after 2009. Not enough money for promotion, not enough money for the teams, not enough money for the series to keep going, ultimately. I want full FIA sports car racing here. I just don't see how it makes financial sense. Let us keep in mind that ALMS always "allowed" P1. Thing is Muscle Milk was the only real P1 car on the grid, with Dyson occasionally chasing, several laps back. Last edited by Maelochs; 26 Mar 2015 at 01:19. |
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Tell Jim France and Scott Atherton to change LMP1-L in order to make it cheaper to run then!
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Dyson never had that engine going well. ALMS got hit hard just like every other business post 2008. Who knows what will work in the future, but most dont like the way its headed.
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People know that AsLMS and ELMS are second-tier feeder series which can barely fill their schedules or their grids--the series where racers go until they can get it together to move up to the big time. Clearly none of us want TUSC to be a second-rate feeder series. We want it to rival WEC, not be subjugated to WEC. Implying that its okay if TUSC uses a lame spec top class because there are other lame things in the world is not sound logically nor satisfying emotionally to fans, and likely will not be profitable financially. After all ALMS went broke, but so did Rolex. In fact, without NASCAR paying the bills, Rolex wouldn't have lasted halfway through the decade. In a "Cars are the Stars" world, saying the cars are as good as any aging, washed-up, no-talent B-movie extras in any other film market is saying exactly what's up. And it is very ugly. |
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Best solution at this point is honestly for IMSA to tell the ACO where to get off, same as I thought when these moronic rules came out a month ago. They still can and should. Screwing Riley and the massive Ford vs. Chevrolet battle that is coming to GTLM should be enough for Riley to focus its efforts on the GTLM Vipers and return them to competition for 2016, so that when the P2 rules fail that IMSA can simply write it off and focus everyone's attention on the GTLM slugfest that is very likely to be coming in the near future, with them just trying to get Corvette Racing to supply customer cars to Taylor, Spirit of Daytona and Action Express and Ford to supply customer GT40s to Shank and Starworks. Combine that with Riley-run Vipers, Falken's Porsche 911 RSR and the PC guys moving into the next-cheapest class (GTD, which becomes GT3 in 2016 anyways), you can write off the LMP mistakes with not only still having a series, but probably having a better one as a result, though I suspect the fact that the privateer teams will have little hope against the factory juggernauts will cause grumbles. But then again, whoever is serious about it could just as easily use their privateer teams as B-Teams to improve their odds of winning.... |
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