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| carr914 |
 Sep 1 2012, 04:53 PM
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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. |
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| damesandhotrods |
Sep 3 2012, 11:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 26-September 10 From: Santa Cruz California Member No.: 12,218 Region Association: Northern California |
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.
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| Type 47 |
Sep 3 2012, 08:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 1-June 10 From: St. Louis, MO Member No.: 11,790 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE(damesandhotrods @ Sep 3 2012, 09:30 AM)  European teams are not going to come to US to race... But their drivers will...Euro sports car racing sucks comparied to ALMS GT racing |
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carr914 ALMS & Grand-Am to Merge Sep 1 2012, 04:53 PM
Zimms I agree. I don't think there is enough sponsor... Sep 2 2012, 02:02 PM carr914 What I would like to see;
A True Prototype Class ... Sep 2 2012, 04:32 PM Rleog So what do you think after reading this:
http://w... Sep 2 2012, 06:42 PM damesandhotrods I don’t see any way this can be good. Getting c... Sep 2 2012, 07:29 PM Vacca Rabite I'd love to see sports car racing televised ag... Sep 2 2012, 07:57 PM
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I'd love to see sports car racing televised a... Sep 3 2012, 06:33 AM carr914
So what do you think after reading this:
http://... Sep 2 2012, 08:03 PM ThePaintedMan This whole thing is a :stromberg: sandwich. I hea... Sep 3 2012, 06:23 AM ellisor3 With NASCAR attendance and interest sinking, I see... Sep 3 2012, 07:03 AM Cap'n Krusty
With NASCAR attendance and interest sinking, I se... Sep 5 2012, 04:45 PM bcheney
With NASCAR attendance and interest sinking, I s... Sep 5 2012, 08:04 PM carr914
I'd love to see sports car racing televised ... Sep 3 2012, 08:41 AM carr914 I hate to see the Technology of Prototypes go away... Sep 3 2012, 08:50 AM ellisor3
I hate to see the Technology of Prototypes go awa... Sep 3 2012, 09:41 AM Rleog http://www.autoextremist.com/fumes1/
According to... Sep 3 2012, 09:29 AM stuttgart46 It's like sitting on pins and needles waiting ... Sep 3 2012, 10:22 AM carr914
European teams are not going to come to US to rac... Sep 3 2012, 11:41 AM Rleog "Porsche will not race against Audi"
Po... Sep 3 2012, 02:20 PM carr914
"Porsche will not race against Audi"
P... Sep 3 2012, 04:04 PM Britain Smith It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
... Sep 3 2012, 06:54 PM ThinAir This stinks. I stopped watching ALMS because the r... Sep 4 2012, 10:57 AM ThePaintedMan
This stinks. I stopped watching ALMS because the ... Sep 4 2012, 11:50 AM dlestep
"- too many classes on the track at once to ... Sep 5 2012, 08:50 AM ThinAir
"- too many classes on the track at once to... Sep 5 2012, 09:18 AM URY914 Yea, I read that sentence too and thought differen... Sep 4 2012, 12:41 PM Rleog More comments by owners and drivers:
http://www.r... Sep 4 2012, 03:52 PM seanery Details of tomorrow's announcement start to le... Sep 4 2012, 07:21 PM Zimms The Announcement will be streamed live @ 10 EST fr... Sep 5 2012, 07:19 AM Zimms Nothing groundbreaking. The details:
No new name ... Sep 5 2012, 08:54 AM seanery I could see some type of DP/P2 melding set to happ... Sep 5 2012, 08:59 AM carr914 I optimisticly look for the 2 Groups to work toget... Sep 5 2012, 09:01 AM Zimms
I optimisticly look for the 2 Groups to work toge... Sep 5 2012, 09:12 AM seanery yeah, I agree, and from a fan perspective, I wish ... Sep 5 2012, 09:04 AM seanery Ed Brown shouldn't be going anywhere, Jim Fran... Sep 5 2012, 09:15 AM Rleog 2013 ALMS trivia question:
Which owner, and in wh... Sep 5 2012, 10:24 AM carr914 I kinda Disagree, Jim France is a Sports Car Guy u... Sep 5 2012, 08:24 PM bcheney
I kinda Disagree, Jim France is a Sports Car Guy ... Sep 7 2012, 05:06 AM carr914 Gregg Pickett of Muscle Milk has gone on Record sa... Sep 6 2012, 05:50 PM carr914 Press Conference today to outline the Classes for ... Jan 4 2013, 07:58 AM ThePaintedMan
Press Conference today to outline the Classes for... Jan 4 2013, 10:59 AM carr914 The LMP2/DP was a forgone conclusion - the surpris... Jan 4 2013, 02:25 PM naro914 I posted this over on Rennlist:
What I was hoping... Jan 6 2013, 02:27 PM mr914 DP cars made me stop my annual pilgrimage to the r... Jan 6 2013, 02:52 PM carr914
Combining DP and LMP cars is stupid. LMP cars ar... Jan 6 2013, 03:01 PM naro914
Unfortunately Porsche's LMP1 car coming in 20... Jan 6 2013, 03:20 PM Zimms
Unfortunately Porsche's LMP1 car coming in 2... Jan 6 2013, 07:57 PM carr914 Group Road Trip! Jan 6 2013, 06:58 PM |
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