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SCCA WC will visit California twice in 2013 (Long Beach and Sears Point), so adding Laguna Seca would be overkill. ALMS and Grand-Am are occupying Road America, so there's no room for them. Road Atlanta is a very busy weekend too.
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At least they're back with ALMS at Lime Rock. Might have to make it up there for sure this year.
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John Dagys' interview with Geoff Carter on WC GT3 entries.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...gt3-expansion/ |
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Well this puts the WC series on the map in my mind. I imagine Audi, Mercedes, and BMW were approved specifically since there are teams who want to field those cars. If somebody wants to field a Ferarri or McLaren, then I bet they will be allowed too.
By the way is the Porsches that run in the GT class the Porsche 911 GT3 R? |
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No, they are cup cars.
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I'm not sure why nobody didn't just bring over a GT3 R, maybe it's because they've slowed morphed into what they currently are and nobody wanted to start from scratch. Here's a lap around Sonoma in the GMG WC Porsche from this season. It was my first time driving a WC car.. noticeably more downforce than a normal Cup. The clutch/flywheel are extremely light and combined w/ engine internal differences and ECU mappings it makes for a super response engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYQccSG8dH0 -mike |
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I dont think we'll see the Porsche GT3R in WC. If you read in the article about what they think about allowing the Callaway Corvettes compete against the homegrown WC Corvettes then I cant see it happening.
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I almost forgot about this series (for shame). I remember seeing some rounds on TV several years ago, and it was quite exciting. A thread about the series makes perfect sense because of all those Merger stuff imminently coming. While that new American Prototype and GT series starts to get their rules and races set for 2014, this could be a huge opportunity for SCCA to snatch up attention and race fans for themselves, away from the soon to me merged series.
It's a golden chance that the SCCA I feel will capitalize on. Bringing GT3 cars aboard is an excellent start. |
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Now ther SCCA needs to bring back A-Sports racing, make it the top class in WC, and blow the new American Sportscar Series right onto its American Racing Sportscar Extravaganza.
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LOVED World Challenge back in the days of those B5 Audi S4s, E36M3s...there was even a Supra and RX7 in some of the races. I kind of graduated to watching ALMS around the time the WC got marginalized...but maybe it's time to give this series a look again.
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I think the difference in performance between the cars in WC GT was the most surprising to me. The Rolex and ALMS cars (in the same class) all go about getting their lap times in a very similar way... in WC GT it seemed like the lap times were generally pretty close among all the different cars, but the way they got to it was really different. Not just the Volvo Vs. Cadillac, but even the Porsches, GTR, Ferrari, etc. I don't know if it's due to vehicle prep/cost or specifics to the rules. -mike |
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RLM just said Sofronas (GMG) already has 4 Audi R8s lined up for 2013! Pappas will run the SLS. Green Hornet with their Porsche. Holy cow, didn't see this coming. The series could have just changed the playing field somewhat.
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Damn, they are really making me wish they were coming to PLM this year and definitely going to have to follow the series in 2013.
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This is going to be an awesome series in 2013, I think.
Looking at Mid-Ohio qualifying times, the Volvo S60 was around an ALMS Lotus Evora GTE (if I'm reading correctly and not missing anything weird about conditions). I didn't realize they were that fast and the Volvos were already amongst my favorite racing cars. |
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The CTS-Vs and Volvos seemed to take turn 1 through 4 like the GTEs last year at PLM. And think the Caddys may have made more noise than the Vettes, they were definitely deep and rumbling beasts.
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I'm very interested to see which European BMW Z4 team is looking to expand to America. I want to see that car so badly I really hope it makes it to the grid.
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