PWC: 2020

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by nasportscar

Look for some of these to be implemented and others to at least be reconsidered for 2021

Fingers crossed!

[W2Motorsport]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

I’ve honestly found GTWC America this year incredibly dull.

Grid size on big circuits becomes so noticeable.

22 cars at Oulton Park in British GT is enough at a tight little circuit and multi class helps too.

But single digit GT3 cars going for 90 mins, just becomes tedious.

I hate to sound so down on the series, I remember doing St Pete’s back when it was PWC with the always elvolving nissans (what year was that?), and the series was fantastic then. Where did it all fizzle out?

I still think merging GT4 sprint with GT3/GT2, knocking back to 50-60 min races, allow single drivers or double driver pairings, no full pro, pit stop for driver change, maybe wheels, and you’d be onto something. Covid area grids would be around 20, which is light enough to allow space for GT3s to pass GT4 traffic without crashing everytime. Feels so logical?

I really don't understand how or why there has ever been push back from the teams on combining the grids. British GT and GTWC Asia both have mixed GT3/GT4 grids with pro/am and am line ups and they tend to have good racing. Hell the 24H series runs mixed grids with GT3/GT4/TCR and stuff even slower than that without issue. For GT4 teams being on the grid with GT3 would give them additional exposure which should help with sponsorship, and the same can be said of GT3 as I'm sure viewership suffers when the car count is in single digits. 10 GT3 cars by themselves is sad, 30 cars with 10 GT3s and 20 GT4s is an excellent grid.

JMO.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by W2Motorsport

I really don't understand how or why there has ever been push back from the teams on combining the grids. British GT and GTWC Asia both have mixed GT3/GT4 grids with pro/am and am line ups and they tend to have good racing. Hell the 24H series runs mixed grids with GT3/GT4/TCR and stuff even slower than that without issue. For GT4 teams being on the grid with GT3 would give them additional exposure which should help with sponsorship, and the same can be said of GT3 as I'm sure viewership suffers when the car count is in single digits. 10 GT3 cars by themselves is sad, 30 cars with 10 GT3s and 20 GT4s is an excellent grid.



JMO.

I'm with you on this, The predecessor to this series used to have giant grids and that made for great racing because you had to mix it up with traffic if you were one of the top class. Having 100 cars on a race weekend is great, but if that's broken down into 10 races it's not as great. A tuning car race and a GT race would be plenty good for the series. Sure you can still break it up into different sub classes for trophies but just keep the cars on the track together.

[TWRv12]

Any updates on Jones' crash?
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/impc/j...-vir-accident/


Can't believe he ended up in a forest?

[broadrun96]

It's not very far back to the tree line there but makes you wonder what happened with the barrier. Wonder if all the rain messed with the position and angle of the barriers to get him airborne? It's a long run off across grass being you get to the wall and trees just beyond that by only feet. But that was an IMSA event.


Panoz returning to the track for Road America this weekend. Wish IMSA would let them run an event at Road Atlanta but doubt it after the comments they've made in the past.

[TWRv12]

Barriers look inadequate.
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.5...hl=en&t=h&z=15



Seems a bit similar to Lime Rock 2016, Pirelli World Challenge, Andrew Palmer crash. Wonder how he is?

[cbbrit]

More here re-the return of Team Panoz Racing:

https://sportscar365.com/sro/sro-ame...der-of-season/

[cbbrit]

Road America Weekend Notebook:

https://sportscar365.com/sro/sro-ame...nd-notebook-3/

[Bcarr6]

Indy 8hr entry list expected later today, all arrows point towards a massively underwhelming grid...

Gruppe M just confirmed no more IGTC for 2020, and no pro Mercedes is expected at Indy

The Bentley announced yesterday Is good news though

I’m hopeful the compass 720s Gt3 plan materialises

[broadrun96]

It looks underwhelmimg at 22 cars. 6 GT3s, 5 ProAm, 1 Am and 1 TBC. 9 GT4s. Honestly I don't watch often and just catch video highlights after now. The car counts aren't the thing, it's the makeup. I miss the old run whatever and build your million dollar mustang if you want, you'll get ballast and regs but have fun. That's missing and I get that era is over, even in TransAm.

[W2Motorsport]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

It looks underwhelmimg at 22 cars. 6 GT3s, 5 ProAm, 1 Am and 1 TBC. 9 GT4s. Honestly I don't watch often and just catch video highlights after now. The car counts aren't the thing, it's the makeup. I miss the old run whatever and build your million dollar mustang if you want, you'll get ballast and regs but have fun. That's missing and I get that era is over, even in TransAm.

Its a combination of the car counts and lack of full pro for me. I used to somewhat follow it when they had full pro, even with low car counts. Now its pro/am still with low car counts and its lost all of its attention from me. I do watch GT4 and TCR races from the weekends though. If they combined GT3/GT4 I'll watch again assuming 20+ grids similar to British GT which is usually interesting.

As far as the Indy 8 Hours. I had actually been planning to attend this from PA. With this grid I'm now looking into attending an IMSA race instead (Maybe Petit Le Mans, or the GT race at Charlotte). I'm a big Mercedes fan and was hoping for at least one full pro (Engel and Stolz are racing with ADAC that weekend, but most of the factory drivers should of been available).

[broadrun96]

I'll be at Petit, so far it's gates open as usual. You'll see us but, yes the wife will make me say, say hi from outside the canopy if you stop by.

[WyldStallion]

I'm typing this during the 2nd hour of the race. Rain races are more interesting with prototypes I think. Not so much for GT cars..unless they are mixed with the protos.

First 20 minutes of the Indy 8 was interesting with the rain/pit strategy. SunEnergy Mercedes 'won' that round...until the safety car came out. Been under yellow more ever since.

But Acura/Honda has never won an ICGT race I think. So cheering for them just for that. Also want to see the Hardpoint Audi do well too.

[broadrun96]

Slicks look necessary now but a handful. Multiple wet tires blowing.

And a Bentley failure in the rear corner and damn

CBS Sports has the race live this afternoon until 2 EDT