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: 118,966 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, 11:41 AM
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Racer from Birth Group: Members Posts: 118,966 Joined: 2-February 04 From: Tampa,FL Member No.: 1,623 Region Association: South East States |
European teams are not going to come to US to race. Peugeot and the rest of the teams are not selling anything in the US. Audi has won enough races here they don’t need to spend the money to race here; Le Mans is the jewel anyways. ALMS tanked because Porsche wouldn’t fill the grids with customer chassis. Porsche will not race against Audi. There was no one to pick up the slack which lead to small grids. Group C worked because everyone could buy a 962, WSC worked because everyone could buy 911GT1s. A few Flaws in your argument; Peugeot quit racing before this Racing Season even started Audi has been on abbreviated schedule for a couple of years Porsche does fill the Grids in ALMS. Flying Lizards, Team Falken, the Entire GTC Field, plus the Patron GT3 Cup Support Race Series. Back when the RS Spyder was around, they were available to Customer Teams, but were hugely expensive as the Teams had to pay for the Cars, Technical Staff, etc, that only the Deepest Pockets could afford ( Penske, Dyson, Muscle Milk & 2 Euro Teams). It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the Economy wasn't in the Dumper (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pain30.gif) |
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