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17 Dec 2019, 11:54 (Ref:3947133) | #278 | ||
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Bruno Spengler will drive a M8 GTE.
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18 Dec 2019, 01:45 (Ref:3947269) | #279 | |
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Couple Camaro GT4s back in Michelin Pilot Challenge (there's too many PC classes) at the expense of a couple AMGs. TGM will switch to Camaros for the Plumb brothers in the one with team owner Ted Giovanis and Owen Trinkler in the #46 car. It seemed like a quick car with the right driver last season.
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19 Dec 2019, 12:42 (Ref:3947541) | #280 | |
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Racer news round-up this morning:
Magnus has officially joined up with Grasser Racing for 2020 with Potter, Lally and Pumpelly. Juncos is not going to be at Daytona and the 2020 season is not that likely. |
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19 Dec 2019, 15:04 (Ref:3947562) | #281 | |
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At 8 DPIs and 6 LMP2's for 14 prototypes overall at Daytona this year. 7 GTLMs. Figure about 20 GTD's. I think we'll get a 41 car grid for the Rolex 24. Give or take a 1-3 entries that we don't know about being entered or might expect to show up and don't.
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Just saw on DSC that the Aston GTD for Heart of Racing has confirmed Riberas and De Angelis as full season drivers. Gotta say I'm surprised Porsche let Roman get away after the success the kid has had the last couple years in the cup class. He is only 18 and has been winning everywhere in a Porsche, can't wait to see how he does in different machinery.
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20 Dec 2019, 17:32 (Ref:3947760) | #283 | |
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Wondering if the reveal of the ROAR entry list which is effectively the race entry is coming out soon. Last year it was out on December 21. Its Friday afternoon Dec 20 as I type this.
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20 Dec 2019, 19:54 (Ref:3947781) | #284 | ||
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Rick Ware Racing announce their entrance to IMSA
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20 Dec 2019, 21:12 (Ref:3947789) | #285 | ||
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Complete with GTLM legal number plate.
In all seriousness, a nice, different livery. Hope they feature well during the season. |
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20 Dec 2019, 21:14 (Ref:3947791) | #286 | ||
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21 Dec 2019, 00:57 (Ref:3947812) | #287 | |
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First spin of the wheel for 2020.
DPi Acura +2.0L to 78L fuel Cadillac +20 kilos to 950 +.3mm restriction to 32.2 mm +3.0L to 73 Mazda +5 kilos to 910 +1.0L to 80 LMP2 Riley/Multimatic gets aero tweeks to match others performance Full class +5.0L to 75 GTLM BMW no change Corvette 1260kg minimum weight 44.0mm air restrictor 7400rpm redline 2.25deg minimum rear wing angle with a 15.0mm maximum Gurney flap height 0.88 minimum lambda number 89.0L maximum fuel capacity Ferrari +1.0L to 88L Boost pressure increase across the rev range Porsche 1270kg minimum weight 31.5mm air restrictors 9400rpm redline 1.2deg minimum rear wing angle 0.89 minimum lambda number 86.0L maximum fuel capacity GTD is changed all over for most every car https://racer.com/2019/12/20/key-gtd...sa-bop-tweaks/ |
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21 Dec 2019, 01:04 (Ref:3947814) | #288 | |
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Mazda TCR got rug pulled out from under it. Shop building the cars, and prepping a large number of MX-5 Cup cars, is closing, Long Road Racing is closing unexpectedly. Mazda looking for new vendor to test and build so TCR Mazda3 isn't racing until 2021 now.
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The biggest let down to me is no Land/Moneplast Audi. I love it when they come and race. Always a factor to win. What is the deal with them not coming this time. Also too bad we don't a GTD entry from AF Corse or SMP. Granted the GTLM Risi Ferrari is effectively the WEC AF Corse driving squad. |
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21 Dec 2019, 06:26 (Ref:3947843) | #292 | ||
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For a track as open, not just fast, as Daytona, I think only 40 cars could seem a bit thin. Certainly, circuits such as Daytona, Sebring, Watkins Glen, and Road America should be able to handle 50-car grids without undue issues. Daytona could hold 60, while I think 55 ought to be quite manageable at Road America. Road Atlanta would be the one enduro where I think a number like 40 is actually more desirable. If VIR hosted the Protos, too, again, I think a 45-car field would be reasonable.
If these figures are untenable, not because of economics or the wider environment of available racing series, but as a result of the perceived specter of decidedly more safety car periods, I'm inclined to put that into the category of "need to address driving standards". (I don't think any of us should be interested in caving to less-than-professional conduct out on the course. Yes, mistakes happen, but there's a point beyond which expectations can't be allowed to slip.) |
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IMSA is right now pretty much where the ALMS was in around 2007/2008: great quality and just about okay-ish in entry figures.
The problem with the latter - if it is one - is that with GT3 as the lowest class (much like with what GT2 had become by the end of the noughties), the bar for an entry has been raised to a really high level, where you really can't run a low budget effort anymore like you could in the days of Porsche Cup cars and tubeframers, which was what had made up the slowest class at Daytona since the 1980s and all the way into the last years of Rolex GT. To me that seems by design rather than by default, though, as shoestring efforts with four moderately wealthy buddies running a car from the back of an open trailer really don't add much to the series except their entry fees - and in contrast to SRO and Creventic, IMSA is not dependent on those for most of their budget. What will be interesting is what they'll do once the next economic downturn comes around and grids inevitably start to shrink further: Bring back Porsche-only GTC? Allow GT4 or LMP3 in the main series? |
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To be honest, they haven't had the best time in IMSA: their post-race technical infringements outnumber their podiums over the past two seasons. Granted, they only have themselves to blame, but it's going to leave a sour taste, especially when they are crossing a continent to race. I'm sad to see them bow out for the same reason, but it's probably for the best, if they have to downscale then obviously domestic/European efforts would be the priority for a German team. Hopefully they return soon, having read the IMSA rulebook properly this time! Without dragging this too far off-track, it's not large fields that are overrated - it's SRO's utterly ludicrous officiating of said large fields that is the problem. |
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Bit of an aside, but can anyone point me towards a proper timetable for the Rolex 24hrs? All I’ve found so far is a schedule of the days that the event runs!
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And I could see lmp3 being added at some point. I'd rather see the next highest class after gtd that currently runs in the Michelin sport support series (whatever its called) that runs 2 hour races currently on imsa weekends be added, so we got some of those buddies running cars out of trailer on the back of the grid. Maybe them and lmp3 both, I guess. I assume we're headed that way eventually when current gtlm goes the way of the old gt1. But it is too high-end to get on the grid for a series that needs to keep grid size above what it currently is, it seems. |
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From articles I've seen it's the cost of racing going up across the board unless you want all spec sameness like TransAm TA2. There's nothing wrong with that and it's a great show. But it's definitely NOT what most people think of when thinking about sportscar racing. |
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