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Looks like Martin Brundle has caught the bug more than we thought.
Seems like he wants another shot in a P1 at Le Mans! Let him. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101912 |
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Wolf Racing Cars moving up from CN to design a LMP2 car for 2014. |
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LMP2 is certainly attractive nowadays. We have HPD, Zytek, Oreca, Norma? and soon to join Pilbeam, Wolf Racing, Lotus, Bailey... Its getting bigger than LMP1. Maybe they could try some kind of P1 cost capping so atleast a manufacturer knows how much they have to spend. I think thats the appeal of LMP2 right now with the cost cap. You know your competitors aren't talking to NASA's materials science department...
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When I say cost cap I don't mean 300,000Euro. Even F1 is heavily interested in resource restriction agreement.
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Not impossible...
The best way is just not suitable for F1 and maybe LMP1 That solution being that manufactures have to sell their cars for a maximum price. This way making it unprofitable for a manufacture to "over develop" their cars. |
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lol @ the Norma name. Sounds like DEE-DEE's ugly sister
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The rest made their money back on spares and parts packages, no cost capping there....
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So if you like Oreca sell a bunch of chassis, the demand for spares for those cars is high, making the chassis easier to gain a profit on. Norma however have only sold 1 or 2 chassis, making the demand for spare parts low, and therefor making a profit very hard. |
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Speculated a few well know teams will be entering the WEC, I wonder if the French team is DAMS? As expected Loeb, Status GP and possibly Murphy looking to go WEC too. GTE could be set for a revival with "GT3+" cars, the new all new manufacturer could be Nissan. |
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I guess ACO will allow GT3 cars to race at last. Still, I hope they would balance it out.
On the other hand in regards to spare chassis and/or parts, is there a cap on how many parts they could build and sell to the customers? |
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Would appear then that the McLaren will be the first of these GT3+ type GTE cars.
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crap :/ I hope this wont happen. but mclaren would be great. or a lamborghini.
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The article reads as 5 manufacturers ready to make the GTE class bigger. One with an entrance in it is 'well known'. But that's not BMW, Mercedes, McLaren nor Audi. So who is it? They also talk of a French team
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