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If I was Stefan Ratel I would keep as far away from anything the ACO are doing as possible!
I know some people criticise Ratel and SRO for all sorts of things - BOP, SC use etc etc ....... but I have to take my hat off to him. To consistently have the size of grids in Europe over the last five years that they have, just proves that they are doing something right. The old adage of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' springs to mind here! GT3 just works, so please do not change it - evolve it yes, but don't change the basic format. The conversations with Bentley last year proved a point - 'We don't want a 'works team' really, but if you support 'customer' teams like Audi and Lambo do then BOP might be a bit more favourable ........ Stefan - don't touch the ACO with a barge pole! |
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How did he basically kick out Bentley M-Sport? Bentley make no mention of this when deciding not to race this year? They even said they'll be back next year? So?....
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It's a huge gray zone... is ok for a private team to be officially supported by a manufacturer with work engineers and drivers becoming actually a semi/full official tem, it's a no no if a manufacturer directly deploys a full official team. This kind of situations have always been in ratel championshipd... WRT is from years de facto an audi sport official team, most of all during spa 24H, or over 10 years ago during FIA GT champ vitaphone racing was clearly backed by ferrari/maserati against corvette and saleen teams that barely could get a season budget. |
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I was not a fan of biased GT3 racing at all. After reading of those 5 parts of analisys at dailysportscars my thoughts were cemented completely. So I do not care if they combine into another circus with ACO. Won't be amazed if Alpine wins another "Le Mans" in GT. I realize that colourful cars with famous drivers at the wheel are very attractive for most of the fans. But I'm not addicted to racing - I do not have to watch racing no matter the fact what sort of racing is delivered. Lots of people at this forum were blessed to watch racing in 80's and 90's, so maybe they are full with recollections and ready to watch new type of racing where cars are not the dominant factor. They'll cheer for their favourite team and drivers. I was not so lucky, I've just read articles in 90's. So, I'm not full with normal racing when the car decides and driver is just an arrowhead. I don't fancy of watching "Le Mans" anymore - not because of small grid or predictability. I don't want to waste my time onto scripted play directed by the authorities who completely destroyed a normal hierarchy of sport. BOPed racing is senseless for me.
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We can't really single out GT3 anymore. It did officially start bop racing, but now almost all of the non-spec classes have become GT3. GTE, GT4, LMH, DPi, TCR, the list goes on, it's all the same. I guess if they didn't differ from each other in looks department we could refer to them all as GT3.
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I think this format is so popular because manufacturers are afraid of direct comparison. It's marketing fault. I sound paranoiac but for me it's obvious. Advertising used to be more clever and way more classy. Today they are so unconfident with their cars that can not live without BoP. All that nonsense about cost saving is vanished totally by spendings in GT3 alone. I would be surprised if TCR is cheaper than S2000.
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1) Marketing as you presented, as well as coming up with hokey reasonings for cars having these classy tech properties - the best phrase is "technology transfer from road car" - that supposedly helped them to win the competition. These reasons can be anything, like "superior fuel consumption", when no-one mentions the latest adjusted size of the fuel tank and latest adjusted size of fuel flow restrictors. And the sad thing is, you think most people just wouldn't know better when they nod when hearing these claims, but really it seems to me like they don't even care. 2) The easiness of just turning up with whatever and expectation of the series to take care of speeding up and development. Now obviously many manufacturers, Germans especially, still burn money in the oven regardless, and don't really support the cost cutting theory, as you said. But for the most part you can play cheap penny and expect to win (or tell your chassis customers to to expect to win) with zero effort at least once or twice during a season. 3) Every other series/class is also doing it so why would anyone bother with the "dated old world" concept anymore, if the ROI is the same or even better (see reasons 1 and 2). It's the same argument used for pro-am racing, it's hard to go back to what there was once you have over saturated the market. FIA GT3 and FIA GT4 grew relatively slowly in it's first two or three years because no other series in the world, save perhaps Grad-Am and to some extent old FIA GT (although up there the cars at least were originally built for real regulations and were used as such in ACO racing), was really utilizing the same system. But along the way, GTE in 2010-2011 and so on, everyone started adopting the same model. The last few non-spec categories which had retained technical regulations, such as LMP1, finally also had to started to hear lobbyism cries from OEMs wanting to get piece of the pie their way, the only way, and they gave up. Speaking of which here's the latest series to join the 'fun'. DTM's had handicaps systems in use of course in addition to more spec chassis, but this sounds like officially becoming full bop series now too https://www.autosport.com/dtm/news/1...or-2021-season A system of Balance of Performance (BoP) is also expected to be used, despite ITR chairman Gerhard Berger's dislike for the concept. "It's clear that we'll have to extend our technical regulations and it's also obvious that this extension will go in the direction of GT Plus regulations," Berger told Autosport. "To further develop the platform in this direction was our plan even before Audi's withdrawal. -- Audi has previously stated that its customer teams could compete in the DTM following its exit after 2020, should the series adopt cars based on the GT3 formula. Last edited by Deleted; 20 Aug 2020 at 14:15. |
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Maybe not the right thread but I didn't want to start another one.
'The “future of GTE” will be announced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, according to ACO President Pierre Fillon who said today that the WEC promoter is “completely open” to the option of keeping the formula alive into 2023 with Pro-Am lineups only. 2023 is when the WEC’s only brands with factory teams – Ferrari and Porsche – are due to launch top-level prototype programs.' https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...y-notebook-14/ |
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Oh god they're going to do it arent they? They're going to ignore the obvious solution that works across the world and i honestly dont get why.
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It makes some sense. There are 27 GTE Am cars entered for LM this year, including the reserve list. The owners of those cars have spent their money and want to race them, and the ACO want to keep rheir customers happy.
Also, the focus in 2023 will be the arrival of Audi, Porsche and Ferrari in Hypercar, so they don't need the distraction of trying to integrate GT3 or whatever as well. |
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With how different the new Hypercars race from the previous prototypes and reports that the GTEs were held up by the Hypercars through the twisty bits at Spa, I'm not sure if the ACO wouldn't be better of with a bespoke low-downforce GT-ruleset rather than the also quite downforce-heavy GT3s.
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I think GTE Pro will be done after 2022 season and won't be replaced. GTE AM will continue until 2023. What happens in 2024 I think will depend on the popularlity of the prototypes. ACO will need to decide by early 2023 if they want to bring in GT3 cars to have as field fillers. But a small GT3 field filler at Le Mans won't match the prestigue of GT3 racing for overall wins at Spa and Nurburgring 24 hours. After Ford, BMW, and Aston Martin are gone from GTE Pro now. Le Mans and Daytona too are no longer the marquee races in GT racing. That is now become Nurburgring and Spa 24s now.
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Outside from GTE Pro and AM situation, we still not seeing GT class (GT3 and GTE) get mandatory to use hybrid or at least some talk by now compare with rally or touring car, and now Electric GT will be come too. I can't wait what route FIA take for this.
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Leena Gade now leads the FIA’s GT Commission and is tasked with revitalising GT racing. Damien Smith spoke to her about potential plans for the future
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Maybe Ratel will give up GT3, and make a whole new regulation to make it cheaper.
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new GT3 regulations seem everything but cheaper considering are going to be much more aero advanced judging by M4 gt3 bodywork.
GT3 success in its core is given by pro-am/silv/gent drivers willing to pay to enjoy taking part to races, as long GT3 format is attractive for their target users, gt3 will keep on doing good, whatever specs or name will get in future. |
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GT4 are really slow.
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GT4 are made to be in their performance/budget window, nothing more, nothing less. In recent years they actually got some speed, considering first GT4 models like corvette C6 GT4 or vantage GT4 were basically denuted road cars with slick tires and a rollbar |
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Hybrid and electric are certainly where manufacturers are going to want to be spending their development and sponsorship budgets in the short term.
But, with the hypercar class being available for interesting projects does the main GT hierarchy need to just focus on selling as many cars as possible to privateers and having an obvious pyramid from national level to the world championship? No need to over think things. If you want to boost grid numbers for the WEC just make GTE into a super-GT3 class with a bit more power, grip, aero, etc that isn't an order of magnitude more expensive or complex for any of the hundreds of drivers, tens of teams running GT3 already. |
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The problem it seemed is that GT3 is carefully constructed to hit a certain lap time and to be more AM friendly in terms of drivability. That if I remember rightly means that trying to upgrade GT3s to be dramatically fast is, while entirely possible, potentially a lot more expensive than you'd figure because many more bespoke components would be required, and you'd need much improved brakes, etc. I am by no means an expert on the technical side of things, but that's about what I remember reading last year |
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