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Old 31 May 2018, 22:52 (Ref:3825936)   #526
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Old 1 Jun 2018, 11:52 (Ref:3826005)   #527
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More good news but expectations being played down due to lack of running.

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Old 1 Jun 2018, 13:10 (Ref:3826020)   #528
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Obviously not many people now believe Mr Lowdon words in full. It was business as usual too before Spa's fiasco.
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Old 1 Jun 2018, 14:19 (Ref:3826033)   #529
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Obviously not many people now believe Mr Lowdon words in full. It was business as usual too before Spa's fiasco.
I don't think they'd be showing up for a second embarrassment. You gotta think if they didn't have the funds they would have withdrawn / the FIA would be wanting guarantees they are now legitimate.
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Sexy rear end on that Cetilar Villorba Corse Dallara - even if it's incomplete!
"take your wing off, awwwww, mmmmmmh" . By the way, has Ginetta received the money ?
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Old 1 Jun 2018, 20:29 (Ref:3826100)   #531
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By the way, has Ginetta received the money ?
Probably Mr Lowdon is refreshing his online banking page right now.
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Old 1 Jun 2018, 22:23 (Ref:3826129)   #532
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Old 2 Jun 2018, 05:29 (Ref:3826154)   #533
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Old 3 Jun 2018, 22:55 (Ref:3826652)   #534
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Shame i have already booked everything, the prices are so reasonable

Looking at today's result it seems they need all kind of support.
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i remember Jan Lammers helping to fund one of his racing for Holland cars by selling small squares on the car in which you could put a message, some of the dutch in Tertre Rouge campsite bought a square, Perhaps Ginetta could try that to raise some cash
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In daily sportscar's lmp1 preview, they mention a low-downforce kit

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In daily sportscar's lmp1 preview, they mention a low-downforce kit

I wonder if we'll see it?
I'm almost sure they said that there were some test of both aero kits in a straight line test. But, as we can read on the article, would the ACO/FIA allow them to run an unproven aerodynamic package?

If they run the high downforce kit, they will be slower than some P2 cars, but I think they really don't care at this point. I think they want to show that they exist, but they dont care too much about the speed. That could be changed later with a more stable program.

If they are slow, I'll still follow them with atention, and enjoying the particular sound of the Mecachrome single turbo.
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Old 9 Jun 2018, 01:08 (Ref:3827761)   #539
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There was optional testing available for all teams at Bugatti last Tuesday. I don't know if Ginetta run there because the ACO didn't hand out any data of it and no-one reported anything about it, but if they didn't, that's (another) mistake when mileage is so low

It's bizarre if they haven't tested low df kit at all considering IIRC all they did between Spa and TD was straight line speed running... why would you have high df for that... are you telling me that it just hasn't existed so far? Jesus
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It's bizarre if they haven't tested low df kit at all considering IIRC all they did between Spa and TD was straight line speed running... why would you have high df for that... are you telling me that it just hasn't existed so far? Jesus
Who knows, maybe the low downforce kit development was stop when the Spa saga came up. I really want to know how the LD kit would look.
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IMO in Free Practice, they should run one car (the more "Ginetta-backed one") with LD and have the other one (the more "Manor-backed one") with existing HD just in case it doesn't work out. I don't know why ACO would reject that

And/or beforehand they could do what ByKolles did in 2016 and run at the LM airport runway. That would at least give LD some shakedown if they haven't done it yet for some bizarre reason and don't want to drag the cars out of the city itself.

If going with HD kit for the race, I don't believe they can beat Oreca P2s in qualifying trim and that would be bit embarrassing. Especially after things like these were said:

"Even if you’re last in P1, which we won’t be, you’ll still be way ahead of P2."
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Endurance-info reported about people testing on the Bugatti circuit. It was raining the whole day and that probably deterred more from joining as apparently only 5 took part. I'd imagine Ginetta would rather not take the chance of having an off in the wet?
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Hmm yes that may explain some things, thanks
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"Even if you’re last in P1, which we won’t be, you’ll still be way ahead of P2."
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Right now you can see the Ginettas on the scutineering stream and they have quite a few new sponsor stickers on them
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Different sponsors applied to #5 and #6. #5 is fully European while #6 is fully Chinese. Not sure if that means the full takeover of #5 by Ginetta.
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One car lost Chinese backing.
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No diveplanes. Wonder if they plan to race like that?
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No diveplanes. Wonder if they plan to race like that?
I think the answer could be "yes". I been looking for pictures of the test at the Bugatti circuit but couldn't find any. Had they tested there?

If they really don't surprise me at the first practice with a new front, I think this is all they have.
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