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Tracy Krohn certainly isn't messing around with his drivers for the 24.
http://sportscar365.com/imsa/tusc/kr...driver-lineup/ That is quite the lineup he has hired. |
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Thanks Mike, you clarify a lot of things for us on here. Do you hire the works drivers independently or by approaching the factory? I'm fully aware that they don't cone free (or cheap!), but the spread of them seems fairly even most years at Daytona so I figured that there was a degree of involvement from their management in the arrangements. Very interesting if that's not the case; I assume in that case that the Liebs and Holzers of the world have a few offers then.
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The season and Daytona entry situation is coming better focus now. While there were 80 entries requests submitted to IMSA, that doesn’t mean that there’s actually money available to fund that many cars.
What we’ve learned recently, by class: GTLM: The class with the fewest question marks. The 12 entries (10 full season, 2 NAEC) are so far doing what they said they’d do. GTD: There still may be some attrition after Sebring or Laguna Seca, but so far GTD has been surprisingly stable. Konrad Racing, which was the odd-man out for an entry (first GTD alternate), teamed out with Dempsey Racing, which had an entry but was looking for driver dollars, resolving that issue. The mysterious TBA entry, which is thought to be a Nissan GT-R GT3, has withdrawn from Daytona, so an alternate will get in. That seems to be the #556 Level 5 car (NAEC campaign with Terry Borcheller and Mike LaMarra?) and/or the #65 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari (the Via Italia racing mob that raced with Scuderia Corsa last year at Daytona as well). Both are on the entry list for the Roar. P: The 17 cars with confirmed entries are looking solid as of now. The situation with the alternates is less obvious — if Starworks or 8Star had a deal lined up, they almost certainly would have gotten a confirmed entry. 8Star Motorsports looks unlike, with Gustavo Yacaman, who was thought to have been part of the solution to getting the car onto the grid, now being associated with OAK. Then there’s this from John Dagys: Quote:
PC: Six or eight weeks ago, this was the hot class. Now it seems as if this is the class with more cars available than money to actual race them. Level 5 has two confirmed entries but is short of driver dollars. Where does Sean Rayhall switching from 8Star to BAR1 leave 8Star? And what’s the current status of the two alternates, Pickett and JDC/Miller? Are they still capable of stepping in, if not at Daytona then at Sebring? (JDC/Miller was planning to start at Sebring in any case.) |
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At least for PC, 8Star has still confirmed Enzo Potolicchio for the full season and Tom Kimber-Smith for the endurance races. Pickett seems to have tabled the possible PC program but JDC/Miller is staying on the reserve list.
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As for Pickett, the PC program was aimed at Nissan Academy drivers. Pickett still has the car, and they’re now openly in a partnership now with Nissan. And they are AFAIK still the top PC alternate. If an entry becomes available, do they (can they) still take it? I don’t know, but there clearly was funding associated with the original entry request. Whether the budget has flowed elsewhere is a different question. As for JDC/Miller, I wonder if they end up doing a Dempsey/Konrad sort of deal with Level 5. At this stage, there seem to be no remaining full-season GT alternates. So if any full-season cars drop out, replacement entries will have to come from the P or PC reserve list. I suspect the PC situation will become a lot clearer by the Daytona 24. |
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I'd be the first to admit the late 90's GT1 cars are a very different animal to a GTD 911 though.... Given what Mike said about teams hiring the factory drivers, rather than being given them, then maybe the price tag for hiring Webber in particular might not put him top of the list for the GTD teams? I also wonder if Porsche LMP testing commitments might be an issue? Last edited by KA; 4 Jan 2014 at 10:34. |
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As far as Porsche goes, they have their hands in so many cookie jars right now because of various GT series efforts that they support, as well as the new LMP1 program. Audi have the R8 GT3 program, which though well-established now, is a relative newcomer compared to Porsche.
Audi also have the benefit of customers who are supported by Audi Sport, but who's drivers aren't offically part of Audi Sport, and even at that, with the LMP1 program and DTM efforts, they often have too many drivers and too few seats to fill. Even with Allan McNish retiring from driving for Audi, I'd bet that Audi will be spoiled for choice to fill that one vacant seat--which means too few seats, and too many drivers. And that's also even with Marc Gene being allowed by Audi to spend more time at Scudiera Ferrari, due to his F1 test duties, because of in-season testing returning this year. Audi have drivers to spare, who are associated with but not offically part of Audi Sport, and the racing season hasn't started. Porsche have drivers all over the map because Porsche's tentacles have spread wide and far, successfully and profitably, for years and years it seems now. However, several Porsche drivers are out of luck, because half of their current LMP1 line up have little to no GT car experience, and I'd bet that some of them wouldn't volunteer for such duty based on that, so both sides may well be the wiser there. But as Mike pointed out, even if Audi or Porsche offer a driver, the team still has to pay to "rent" them for the race. Be it Audi or Porsche asking a driver to do a race for them, or being allowed to freelance under permission from Audi or Porsche (or whoever), these guys are still paid professionals, and that means payment from the team as well as their bosses. As for Starworks, I wonder what the "unseen" engine combo is, be it one entirely new (such as a HPD or Nissan engine, both of which qualify as DP engines) or one not seen since last season, as in the Ford 5.0 Cammer V8 or one of the Dinan BMW engines? I'd bet that Barron probably has quite the choice of engines to pick from as long as it fits DP/LMP2 rules and can be shoe-horned into the back of a DP and mate to the Xtrac gearbox that Riley DPs use. |
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Pretty sure it's HPD if it comes to anything.
Hurley Haywood at Dempsey for Daytona. Here's hoping he's still got some of 'it' left! |
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Oops, that's what I get for skimming news stories!
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Marshall pruett has mentioned in his roar article that the mystery dp engine is believed to be a honda mdx based 3.5 L twin turbo engine that May not come together in time for the Rolex.i wonder how different it will be from the p2 engine and how much more power it will make.
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Honda did have a short lived 4.0 class V6 that was intended for DP use, and probably derived from the same V6 that the LMP2 engine came from. Not sure how much all three engines share tech wise, though.
All could be deriviatives of the Honda J-series V6 engine, which are still in production in the J35/J37 of 3.5-3.7 liter V6s. |
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And I wonder about using a J-series at 3.5L because the J-series has 98mm bore centers so that means 89-90mm bore max and that would make a very long stroke engine(93mm).Also the J-series was never design to be a performance engine,just to be a people mover(van and sedan engine),so it has very small bearings(can't handle sustained high revs or boost) and SOHC heads.That's why the P2 engine is 2.8L instead of the ACO/FIA legal 3.2L to get the stroke shorter. Honda has a new production 3.5L 90 degree DOHC V6 twin turbo in the works for the new NSX and it is pretty much a street legal race engine(very compact and light with no external pulleys or belt). |
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I am not sure if this has been asked of already, but what has become of that Action Express/Delta ADR partnership that was set to display a new form of bodywork for the second of the team's two Corvette DPs? Judging from the Roar photos and recently released video, the body work is almost exactly the same as last years car.
Perhaps it wasn't slated to debut until Sebring or later? Could someone fill me in on this? |
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Recent news was that AX/ADR wouldn't have the bodywork race ready until probably Sebring.
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I think I read somewhere that it was still being planned but not expected for Daytona as it would be too late to have it homologated anyway.
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I'm sure we've speculated about this before, with Pickett's status as an official 'Nissan Partner Team' is anyone thinking of a GTD programme with that mysterious GTR that was seen testing at Silverstone a while back....? Either that, or they're trying to figure out a way of fitting the ZEOD- RC into the Prototype class after Le Mans... |
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