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27th January 2007, 19:52 #1
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Imagine...
Okay, I'm not a hater, as the 24 hours is a good view, and the competition is really close. But for a moment I want to close my eyes and imagine...
-Audi, Courage, etc dicing it in LMP1 on the high banks...
- Porsche and Acura dueling it out in the infield inn LMP2
- Saleens, C6Rs, A-M, Ferrari, and Lamborghini fighting viciously for GT1 honours
-Panoz, Porsche, Ferrari, and Spyker staying out of evryone else's way, yet scarpping like little muts for a class win....
Despite close competition, great sponsorship, and world class drivers, what was once an icon of world endurance racing is now an excellent national championship round. Whether that's a good or bad thing is for you to decide..
With apologies to Lennon:
You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
I hope some day 'they' (ALMS/ACO) will join us (GrandAM)
and the world can live as one.9-23-2006 Cadey-Lee Deacon,The Rocket Pub, New Parks, Leicester: Little one, through some miracle of reincarnation may you be given a second chance at a full life. You\'ll not soon leave our thoughts and prayers ;(
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27th January 2007, 23:01 #2
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ummm That wont happen. Don Panoz and the Grand AM people have a frost relationship going back to when they sandbagged his "batmobiles" with a weight penalty and a tire rule that would handicap him from going for the overall when Grand Am first started. This frosty relationship is what eventually drove him to buy ALMS/IMSA....
It is a shame, for although the cars are funny looking and the racing is good, it isn't the real thing for those of us who have seen the big prototypes run. I figure the R10 would be about 5 to 8 seconds a lap faster within a lap of pulling the car off the trailer...."Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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28th January 2007, 02:44 #3
if the GrandAm teams come into the ALMS with P1 and P2 prototypes then thats fine, I wouldn't mine Chip Ganassi coming into ALMS to challenge Roger for a racing crown.
but the DP's should be tossed out of humanity as they are but FuglyBrian France is a violation of Section 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing)
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28th January 2007, 02:53 #4
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Harvick, they may be ugly, but the racing they are producing is close and THAT is what Grand Am was after. It is a spec racer mentality....and of course, us hard cores hate it, but the design of the rules gives them big flat bottoms, no real venturis and a big greenhouse...
"Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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28th January 2007, 02:54 #5
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That would be nice, but I'm content with the status quo.
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28th January 2007, 23:44 #6
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As long as Nascar has a hand in the pot, all we're gonna see is rolling billboards. I got a chuckle when they compared the DP's with cup cars and Indy cars. DP top speed is less than a cup car. I would've thought they would be faster - they are prototypes, aren't they? Oh, wait that's ALMS. Silly me!
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29th January 2007, 00:42 #7
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Originally Posted by newf66
Can't compare the DPs to them.
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29th January 2007, 12:07 #8
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well you must have miised the part where they saiud the cup car pits out around 700 hp and the dp only 500 hp
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29th January 2007, 13:18 #9
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Yah, I get it. But, my point is - shouldn't they be faster? More HP?, Etc? They are supposed to be prototypes. Oh well, maybe it's just me.
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29th January 2007, 14:30 #10
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Originally Posted by newf66
First leg he will be thinking in Portuguese championship. Then he can go for WRC2.
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