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Well it was good to see them race at silverstone and i wish them luck in the next race
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That’s kind of cool. I’m not going to criticise them for that.
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Their top speed will be one to look for at Fuji. They definitely have that in hand. Hope they challenge.
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They certainly seem more competitive than last season, so the signs are encouraging for the season ahead
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Toyota wil win easy on all tracks, they sandbagged qualifying and weren't they even faster in raceconditions?
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I don't know what you mean but Toyota did a 1:35.9** in qualifying. In the race they set a 1:37.289 on lap 8. I don't think they sandbagged when they were a second faster than last year even though they were 40 some kg heavier. I was surprised that the Ginetta was able to get a 1:37 in qualifying because they are bringing a new car basically and have no experience with it on the tracks they are to run.
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A Ginetta LMP1 car was delivered to a customer yesterday. I will not get to try it at the slot car club until next week😊
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Ginetta officially does not care any longer
https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/...paign=widget-1 Ginetta boss Lawrence Tomlinson told Motorsport.com that he no longer has an appetite to run the LMP1 cars in the WEC next year. "In terms of racing the cars ourselves in the WEC, that ship has sailed," he said. "I do things that make me money or make me happy, and racing in the WEC does neither." |
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When you think that FIA and ACO are at the deepest level - they just crash another bottom and sink further into the place where sun doesn't shine.
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Yes but running neutered, butchered P1 cars in 2021 was always just about as bad idea as was the theoretical possibility of running neutered GT1 cars in 2011 GTE-AM
I guess if you are Chris Dyson with cash it might make sense to enter Le Mans next year even with horribly slowed down Ginetta, given it's possible the new out of shelf Toyotas and Glickenhaus might explode with gremlins and give the trophy for best of the rest, but you might just as well achieve the same with Oreca 07. AER's track record is still terrible despite SMP Dallara managing podium last year Last edited by Deleted; 21 Jul 2020 at 14:49. |
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It all started in a very intriguing way, with a Mecachrome deal. It could be a real old school cross-classes cooperation and not only chassis but an engine development story. But...
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With Mechachrome and the rest of the combinations in mind, in the end Le Mans 2018 was probably the final time there was a true, rich and pure constructors tech competition in sportscar racing... even though technically even that race was messed up with Toyota's forced-in stint advantage that resulted in penalties if not followed... Le Mans 2019 and to lesser extent 2020 now show the very last remnants of what there once was but essentially it is all over. Racecar Engineering magazine, I'm unsure what the point of that publication is anymore, other than purely for discussing some aspects of Formula 1 Speaking of Chris Dyson, it's kind of interesting to have one man here who was there racing at the the final fall of LMP1 in America, and now showing up at the very end of worldwide LMP1 collapse too. In both cases making room for much more simplistic show cars, first for remnant dinosauric Grand-Am tube framers and their LMP2-based spec successors, and now for the panic-driven mess FIA and ACO have come up with in attempt to please everyone, yet in actuality pleasing very few Last edited by Deleted; 21 Jul 2020 at 15:27. |
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His racing career recollections would be worth reading. I would definitely buy it. Not saying about Ginetta's vision of modern racing landscape falling into some sort of communism (everything is standard but shifty persons still manage to live way better than 90% of others, and journalists are scared to write about it openly). |
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I guess it's understandable why the industry sportscar journalists don't want to talk about the shadiness of it all, because you know they want to be employed and invited to places in the future too. And as for the mainstream media, they and most of their readers don't care about sportscar racing in the first place, so there's no incentive to talk about the cartel business models of Hughes de Chaunac and alike, nor of political courtrooms where most things are decided today instead on race tracks |
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All in all a sad situation. Maybe Ginetta will be able to turn to their "garagist" roots and supply more chassis for club racing or national level events. For example, I would have watched Italian Prototype championship if it wasn't a one make series. I have nothing against Wolf but some competition won't hamper them.
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Yet mere half a decade later the only class they can continue to compete is a frozen spec class of P3 - And even that is because they've struck exclusivity circle deal with the ACO. That is unless they wish to build LMH bop wagon, which they won't, or insert aesthetic and bopped body parts on LMP2 car other people made and sticker rebrand it as Ginetta LMDH, which they don't. I've probably told you this earlier already but I strongly urge you to follow Thunderhill 25 Hours this December (if it's run) because it's one of the only puristic sportscar races left on the planet without ludicrous bop and spec rules. The margins between winning cars are massive and you have all sorts of weird stuff there, plus exotics of yesteryear such as Lola LMP2 the last time around. Streaming coverage has also improved over the years Last edited by Deleted; 21 Jul 2020 at 17:24. |
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