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15 Sep 2019, 01:52 (Ref:3928015) | #101 | |
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Kevin's dad is stepping down from Corvette for Jordan Taylor for 2020. No info given if he's retired or retiring, and no mention of the third drivers.
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15 Sep 2019, 16:08 (Ref:3928135) | #103 | |
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Racer and a couple others all have hints to it with the usual GM we don't comment on drivers stuff so fairly comfortable in thinking he's moving to third driver or full Kevin's dad status
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16 Sep 2019, 15:31 (Ref:3928346) | #104 | |
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Mixed about the Long Beach race format change. I always liked Proto/GTLM because of less yellows and also it gave the event an "all star" race feel to it. Probably done because of the chance of GTLM going down to 6 cars in 2020.
I thought maybe that IMSA could have opened up GTLM to GT3 cars with all pro drivers, option tires, and no GTD BoP. Acura and Lexus could have been attractors to this. They tend to employ sneaky silvers too and would have rid GTD of that. But the series elected not to go that route next year at least. |
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16 Sep 2019, 17:43 (Ref:3928366) | #105 | ||
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As the for the early GT3+ style that GT3s in GTLM would be, your big spenders of GM and Porsche would not be fans of that. GM for the money spent to build a new GTE car and now you want the run cheaper cars, and Porsche, well running another 911 in the class could possibly be blocked by them by blocking their car from supported upgrades. Plus we have all the look at Porsche and the BOP crying from the last 6 races before Laguna, just imagine trying to balance 2 more cars. Never mind if McLaren and Lamborghini want to get involved in cheap racing, although the draw may not be as great as they don't really do "factory" cars in GTD. I think you will have to see some serious cash on the table from all who want to run and some serious BOP management possibly even at the Prologue with an IMSA driver and no updates allowed in season. And then you wouldn't get noticed by the ACO anyway and what marketing does a GTLM win get you over a GTD win in the showrooms? You still get the pretty pictures to hang over the show car and the same claim of Champion but you've spent much less. And if you're Porsche, and Audi it seems, actually make money doing it. |
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Scott Atherton is retiring at the end of the 2019 season, so IMSA will have new leadership and a new public face in 2020. Atherton will remain on IMSA's board.
I wish Scott Atherton well in his future pursuits. I think he did a very job in a very difficult position. Press release here. |
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About bringing the Frankenstein Riley to IMSA P2:
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25 Sep 2019, 21:19 (Ref:3930131) | #109 | |
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I think they'll race it and place towards the rear of the (small) class. They'll get tired of it and either quit or get another car. Maybe they don't have the funds, but I would have gone with the Mazda version and try my hand in DPi and prayed for some good BOP.
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25 Sep 2019, 22:17 (Ref:3930142) | #110 | ||
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BAR1 wasn't a bad team and they've run multiple chassis well for years and had good drivers working their way up, it wasn't a good chassis with Mazda until they finally had to admit defeat and push for changes. A team without any sportscar experience and using different cars to start out is a recipe for bad things. And sadly bad things and bad drivers often take out other drivers and cars. |
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I legitimately don't think it matters what car you run in a 2 car ProAm class with revolving driver lineups. RWR does have sports car experience, the question is just about its recency and relevancy.
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29 Sep 2019, 08:06 (Ref:3930709) | #113 | |
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Are they employing pay-drivers?
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1 Oct 2019, 17:10 (Ref:3931329) | #115 | |
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They'll need them if what is being said here is true and they aren't that well off in terms of funds.
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1 Oct 2019, 21:02 (Ref:3931367) | #116 | |
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RWR is in no uncertain terms, a pay driver team. The announcement all but says they're going sports car racing to attract more pay drivers. You don't even run in LMP2 unless you're going to have pay drivers, that's literally the purpose of the class.
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2 Oct 2019, 00:03 (Ref:3931381) | #117 | |
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They're back, and oh dear God it's a 4 pot turbo again. Looks like we need to bring some scaffolding for joeb's Mazda and make a mock-up this weekend.
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2 Oct 2019, 01:10 (Ref:3931385) | #118 | |
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Just to show it's actually the networks honestly not actually giving a rats ass about the viewers. Here's the baseball playoffs, yes the actual playoff schedule. Think having to switch mid-race is bad, follow this convoluted bs. And most don't get MLBTv so the probably biggest series starts on a network on an upper tier, often beyond NBCSports. Until the World Series what channel it's on can vary up until the start of the series. And the announcers are TRASH, TBS only does the playoff games and yet that's ok? They're so bad the worst sportscar crew appears excellent, they actually missed the final out of the 8th inning and couldn't find the replay until after the game.
Now imagine you're selling a product with maybe 125k consistent viewers. The fact IMSA and Indy is on TV at all in the modern era is amazing. And just wait, the NFL has threatened to take ALL of their games to private ppv, it won't but that will cost billions of sponsor dollars we won't be able to attract to racing. And F1 in the US will likely be 100% behind the ppv wall in 2020, maybe 2021. The contracts are already insane dollar figures and you never know when your provider or the channel will decide to strike and then you're out of multiple channels. Sadly I don't think a season subscription model would work for IMSA as its sole distribution medium. People know the NFL and F1 and will to an extent seek it out, not so much for sportscars in the same numbers. Just a little keep things in perspective venting, remember if major sports have problems getting money what's the smaller ones left with? |
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3 Oct 2019, 00:14 (Ref:3931606) | #122 | |
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Dear God, what in the name of all that is American is this? No wonder they released it now and not at the track so we don't burn the Vette garage.
https://www.imsa.com/news/102019/cor...gt-u1skSBQdHd0 It's not April Fool's Day is it? No specs released yet, they'll be shown at the official reveal at Petit. Sorry, but no front engine and no yellow is NOT a GTE/LM Vette. |
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I need to see the C8 in person before I make a final decision. I'm trying really, really hard to like the car, but I'm not feeling it. At all. I genuinely hope people like the car and buy lots of them but I wish they had named it something else. I'm still going to be a huge Corvette Racing fan! I'm not sure you can just turn it off cause I don't like their ride. Who do I root for? BMW? I don't think I can. |
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Can anyone confirm for me if this is a first? I know that the front diffusers on even GT cars usually have strakes in them. But the C8R seems to have several in the raised splitter section of the diffuser, and they run all the way to the leading edge.
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