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Welcome to racing.
Hopefully this will not come to pass this year. Larger gids will help promote the race sereirs. and hopefully larger race sponsors too. Qualification = fastest or lowest times. Untill the grids are large enough or there are soo many teams, we can all hope, most likely it is a moot point. |
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There are a number of cars entering the LMS mid season, Lister for one.
Spa and Silverstone can accomodate a larger field. |
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16 Mar 2007, 20:22 (Ref:1868521) | #30 | ||
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Nobody will be forced out as it won't be in LMS - If it happens it would be the Spa 24 Hours
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Just to be clear - if Team Corvette race it will be at the Spa 24 Hours
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If team corvette would run some of the LMES races this year, they would prove alot more to me, than if they were to run here in the states. There is just no WORHTY competion here any more!!
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they'd prove more to me if they'd have P&M build Z06s for the GT2 class and sell them to customers.
there's already Corvettes in LMS and FIA GT. |
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If P&M felt they needed a new challenge, the place for them to go, would be LMP1. Having said that, GM has a Marketing plan to follow, and will continue to run, until they don't want to market their car further. The GT1 field is currently disappointing, but we said the same thing about LMP2 just a couple of years ago. |
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Who cares what car is a closer competitor in the showroom. These classes aren't set by price. Is the Ferrari 430 GT also in the wrong class? Who mentioned drivers? |
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If anything GM stepping down to GT2 would be a greater challenge, up against the might of Porsche and Ferrari, especially if they relied on customer teams.
Surely the pull of the Corvette brand would see them sell plenty of Corvette GT2's, eventually becoming self sustaining, even profitable, like Porsche's 911 cutomer models. They could even tap into the potentally lucrative GT3 market, who knows, even encourage a GT3 support series for the ALMS. If P&M/GM want to demonstrate their technology P1's the obvious choice, even if they follow Acura's path with an off the shelf chassis. |
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ahh, imagine a chevy v8 in a lmp1 car. that would be great!
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you made a comparison of P&M moving from GT1 to GT2 as alonso moving from F1 to GP2 |
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Corvette C6/ZO6 (homologation ACO N°: LMGT1-02)
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Perhaps in another thread, but the #3 Corvette came out in a different livery this morning. They are using the livery from the Ron Fellows GT1 Champion Corvette Z06 road car.
http://www.the-paddock.net/sportscar...iew/241254/49/ |
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LOVE the #3 paint scheme
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