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Back in the day Penske could have Paul Tracy testing 40 hours a week during the off season and replace every single part in the car. These days absolutely everything is so limited that no matter how prepared you'd like to be you just can't rock up and run flawlessly with a new car because you don't have the mileage to cover everything or the allowance to change half the things that are problems.
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Thanks for the history, Mr. jimclark.
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Well might as well put it out of its misery for 2019. If the speculation about too large grid sizes being an issue for Mid Ohio and Laguna Seca is indeed the case. Then I think removing the 2 cars for LMP2 will be the most likely option. Good idea I think and no worries. They won't be missed.
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According to IMSA's 2018 Supplementary Regulations for the two events Mid-Ohio would hold 43 cars: https://competitors.imsa.com/sites/d...m-o_042518.pdf
and Laguna Seca 40: https://competitors.imsa.com/sites/d...s_082918_0.pdf It might get really tight for Laguna (depending on the number of GTD sprint entrants) but with it being later in the year the prospect for a small number of full season/sprint cup entries to drop out is certainly not unrealistic and the issue would solve itself naturally. No need to send anybody home yet (and splitting the field into 2 races is of course also an option). Edit: The max. entry numbers for the other tracks (excluding LB, Detroit, Lime Rock and VIR for obvious reasons): Daytona = 60 Sebring = 60 (2018) Watkins Glen = 55 (2018) Mosport = 50 (!) (2018) Road America = 55 (2018) Road Atlanta = 45 (2018) Last edited by Coach Ep; 2 Jan 2019 at 15:13. Reason: more numbers added |
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https://competitors.imsa.com/sites/d...070218_rev.pdf I'm guessing that's a bit of an overseen error and probably gets corrected (brought down) for this year (and I wouldn't be surprised to see another 40/low 40 number there as well). For GTD Sprint Cup I'd expect a lot of the full season entrants to 'pull double duty', my guess is up to 10 out of the probable 15 full season ones. Maybe 3-4 additional, unique entries? Or is the count already higher than that? |
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It's nice when the team cash, Ben Keating in this case, flips through the retro liveries and says "Hey, I do business with them" and can give the bosses a call. A couple months later, retro livery that might actually look better than the original.
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Well, yeah a class win is significant .. at Daytona. Leave Daytona and nobody will bother to even yawn about it.
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5 Jan 2019, 14:27 (Ref:3874154) | #963 | |
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If you look at the teams they are targeting, the teams and the class landscape has changed significantly. 2018 only saw 2 European teams go over for LMP2 - JCDC Jota and United Autosports. JCDC Jotas driver structure appears to have changed to a more customer focused one, and United Autosports don't seem to want to travel over for a lower class.
Go back to 2017 and obviously Rebellion and DragonSpeed entered, but they've both moved to LMP1. There are DragonSpeed LMP2 entries around, but the main project is now LMP1. And then 2016 there was SMP, but they're also moved primarily to LMP1. Of all the teams who went over before, only JCDC are really an option now, and they appear to have changed focus a little. Whilst Europe is overflowing with LMP2 teams, not many are at the level of travelling over the Atlantic for a single race. Those with that sort of capability have moved into LMP1. G-Drive are probably the most likely, but they're more interested in a DPi than a lower class it seems. If Scott Atherton is surprised at that, he should hand his CV to the ACO. They'll all be surprised not everyone wants to run a hypercar, and everyone can be surprised together! |
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We do talk a lot about LMP2 teams making one-off entries, but do PWC teams ever make one-off GTD entries? And if not, why not?
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Mazda into the 1:34's this morning and now in the second session of today so is the WTR Caddy. This pace is nuts and getting close to the best there is around there.
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http://www.dailysportscar.com/2019/0...r-sebring.html
Read about what Perf Tech is considering. Personally I agree with it totally. Hope they make the move. Put LMP2 out of its misery please. |
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I can't believe including freight the ELMS season is that much cheaper than IMSA, not that I doubt his numbers more amazed at them. But the entry fee he mentions being as much for Daytona as for the entire ELMS season, that is insane and frankly for LMP2 obscene. I could understand over the course of the season the "marketing fees" plus entry fees being insane but there's no marketing charge for LMP2s is there? Run time on the cars is down to go ELMS with 6 races (6 hours or 4) vs 8 and 3 of those are a combined 46 hours but that still seems like a hella deal at almost 25% cheaper than IMSA for the season and a LOT more cars in the field.
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PT is seriously underestimating the logistic efforts and P2 competitiveness to run in ELMS, they'll end up being nothing more than grid fillers (with no shot at all at the desirable LM auto invites).
Now, the discussion where to go with P2 is legit - either they get sped up (ACO will more than likely veto that option and DPi manufactures will scream murder) or those same DPi manufacturers will need to be forced to sell/lease out customer cars in order to keep privateers in the series. |
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$1.3m USD converts to near enough £1m. That seems amazingly cheap. Actually, seems cheap for IMSA too. That's a good chunk less than any number I've seen before.
Maybe you can run ELMS for that, but as Coach Ep says, you won't do well. Not when you have teams like G-Drive, Signatech, SMP, TDS hanging around. I understand they don't want to pay a lot of money to race on their own, but I'm not sure ELMS is the answer. More customer DPis is the real answer, but they don't seem to be coming. |
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Daytona alone is as many hours as the entire ELMS season. Just the NAEC is two seasons and one more race worth. |
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