ALMS & Grand-Am to Merge, Hooray |
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ALMS & Grand-Am to Merge, Hooray |
carr914 |
Sep 1 2012, 04:53 PM
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Racer from Birth Group: Members Posts: 118,899 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Tampa,FL Member No.: 1,623 Region Association: South East States |
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/spo...alizing-merger/
Too much division to come to an end - I'm glad to see it before one went under. I wondered what was happening when I read that the Circuit of the Americas was negotiating for the US FIA Race that typically has been held at Sebring (& Petit). The fact that a P1 Car wasn't even in the picture at the end of todays race in Baltimore tells the story that small fields & competition in Sports Cars had deluted the landscape T.C. |
carr914 |
Sep 3 2012, 08:50 AM
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Racer from Birth Group: Members Posts: 118,899 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Tampa,FL Member No.: 1,623 Region Association: South East States |
I hate to see the Technology of Prototypes go away, but here in America there was No Manufacturer Involvement & Tiny Fields.
In P1; Mazda is on the Dyson on the Car, but in name only. It's a Lola Chassis (now Bankrupt) ans an AER Motor Muscle Milk is a Acura/Honda that was designed years ago P2 Scott Tuckers Ill-Gotten Gains Level5 Team poured into another pair of Acura/Honda PC - all Spec Racers - Oreca Chassis/Chevy Motors if it wasn't for the Superb GT Racing, ALMS would have died after the 07 Season when you had Audi, Peugeot, Porsche, Acura, Mazda & Independants in Prototypes |
ellisor3 |
Sep 3 2012, 09:41 AM
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HPWhore Group: Members Posts: 811 Joined: 23-October 08 From: Fleming Island, Florida Member No.: 9,683 Region Association: South East States |
I hate to see the Technology of Prototypes go away, but here in America there was No Manufacturer Involvement & Tiny Fields. In P1; Mazda is on the Dyson on the Car, but in name only. It's a Lola Chassis (now Bankrupt) ans an AER Motor Muscle Milk is a Acura/Honda that was designed years ago P2 Scott Tuckers Ill-Gotten Gains Level5 Team poured into another pair of Acura/Honda PC - all Spec Racers - Oreca Chassis/Chevy Motors if it wasn't for the Superb GT Racing, ALMS would have died after the 07 Season when you had Audi, Peugeot, Porsche, Acura, Mazda & Independants in Prototypes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) It is inevitable that some classes will go away, but reducing the classes hopefully will bring additional team money from Europe to this series. Right now there are too many classes between ALMS and Grand Am to get the manufactures involved in American Racing, they have only one such series in Europe to focus on. I hope they will leave the GTC or something similar to allow smaller teams to stay in the sport. The ALMS was a faux series from exactly the points TC made anyway. Will be interesting to see how the new GX class will fit into this series. |
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