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11 Dec 2003, 23:31 (Ref:809691) | #1 | |||
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New Sports Car Series
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11 Dec 2003, 23:46 (Ref:809699) | #2 | ||
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Wow what an Idea?
um the real Trans-Am maybe- Gentilozzi better get off his MotoCrock Arse and talk to this guy and make it happen Trans-Am needs this. |
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12 Dec 2003, 00:00 (Ref:809702) | #3 | ||
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i almost forgot! how cool would it be to get a winter series in NorthAmerica to follow- No competition from other series, and something for all of us to watch
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12 Dec 2003, 02:57 (Ref:809762) | #4 | ||
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Good Bye Trans Am, you are out of business.
Good move by the owners of these cars, who are undoubtably upset at the moves made in T/A the last couple of years. I hope they do well. Hey, what about getting that Victoria Day in May event on at Mosport, it is normally a good draw. |
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12 Dec 2003, 03:54 (Ref:809777) | #5 | ||
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Paul Gentilozzi has dellusions of DTM for the Trans-Am- it is a great series and with a more open regulation book it can be spectacular, where are the V6's and all the different V8's he complains that T/A is the only series that uses 311cu.in. V8's -well? don't go crazy and adopt 4.5 litre DOHC engines and alienate the GT1 and SCCA guys who make Trans-Am the cool thing it always was.
the big engines are great but what wrong with 302cu.in and 289's and 350's? (5.0L 4.6L and 6.0L- with spec ignition boxes rpm limit is no problem to govern.) they could run together and have in the past, fuel injection or carburettor- PG is a bit misguided with his aspiration for this series, especially now with the CART debacle. |
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12 Dec 2003, 07:33 (Ref:809848) | #6 | ||
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"Fragmentation?" - Anyway, for the competitors's sake, I wish this venture luck, maybe this group will get it right.
"with silhouettes resembling American Muscle Cars" - in other words, a No Jag Zone? |
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12 Dec 2003, 21:31 (Ref:810556) | #7 | ||
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Scott Pruett has now bailed out of Trans Am. He and Max Papis will be racing in Grand Am for Chip Ganassi in a DP next year.
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12 Dec 2003, 21:36 (Ref:810562) | #8 | ||
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Not a good sign when CART/Trans-Am drivers are leaving, which is an echo of what's been said earlier.
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12 Dec 2003, 21:50 (Ref:810574) | #9 | ||
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PG had the idea of making trans am like it was in the earlier 90's and eigties- a series with manufacturer support and all- well fathead The ALMS get factory supports GTS cars, and GT not you, Trans-Am should get an infusion of new tech DOHC, fuelinjection etc. but the beauty of it is the brutal power be it OHV or OHCm it is rear drivers with detroit lockers no Traction control and just one big wing, the series is good, the races are fun, but T/A is not an EliteClub for a even a select few of racers, the Basis of TA is grassroots road racing, and the GT1 crowd should be included evry race- If you have a GT1 car come and race, pass minimum weight and size, engine rules and race - none of his malarky about only his what 5 rocketsports cars being the only ones able to win- that's poop, and its hurting his series under his mis management- OH ****- that means CART will be introuble because of him.
And pruett and Papis- good pairing and its good to see them in a full time drive- they should clinch the daytona 24, and almost every race between them. |
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13 Dec 2003, 03:59 (Ref:810731) | #11 | ||
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Geez, first CART and now Trans Am!? Two of the great all-American series could be vanishing right before our eyes.
Could it be that Gentilozzi is not the Superman we thought he was? Has he bitten off more than he can chew? Road racing in America is certainly going to look different in the coming years... |
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