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16 Oct 2006, 20:37 (Ref:1739643) | #26 | ||
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Put it this way 360, if I owned BMS, seeing Prodrive and privateer Astons do a lot better than my own, would really **** me off. It would also make me doubt if I wanted to stay with Aston for another season......
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16 Oct 2006, 20:52 (Ref:1739654) | #27 | |
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Getting back on topic......my best estimates are that AF Corse will run in the ALMS next year with a 2 car team. They'll leave the FIA series to Ecosse, JMB, Edil Cris etc...
They may keep a single car entry in FIA, they do have 3 chassis'.... |
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16 Oct 2006, 21:40 (Ref:1739682) | #28 | ||
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The 'bits' that BMS need off the Phoenix car are the Michelin tires. Too bad for them that Pirelli is paying the bills in the "works" capacity, since you can be darn sure FoMoCo isn't coughing up the cash.
Look at the relative performance of the BMS 'works' car on Pirellis at Le Mans compared to the two AMR cars. Pescatori, Gollin and Babini was a great lineup, but still adrift on pace. Also look at the experience Race Alliance had on Dunlops. If you want to Aston, you also want to Michelin. I'm sure Cirtek/Team Modena would also agree. AMR at Le Mans certainly did. |
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Hmmm don't get much chance to post here at the min! But my thoughts anyway...
BMS, by the looks of things, are having a pretty bad season. They've not been competitve all that often. So to repeat that they're a real factory team isn't really giving either AM nor BMS much credit (and to put credit where it's due, I'm sure both parties put immense amounts of effort in). It doesn't do FIA GT that much credit either in this argument (and this argument alone), since the supposed high quality factory Aston team hasn't won anywhere, whilst probably-cash-strapped privateers have taken the chequered flag in both FIA and LMS races. I do agree that FIA GT probably has the highest quality GT1 field altogether, though, not least because it has the largest GT1 field. However, I'd say ALMS has the highest quality when it comes to GT2. Comparing Porsche teams against each other, and doing the same for Panoz and Ferrari teams, you'd have to present a very watertight argument to persuade me into believing FIA GT has the higher quality entries. |
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17 Oct 2006, 10:20 (Ref:1740011) | #32 | ||
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I guess you could say that I have everything crossed that it happens - as you say Risi, Ecosse and AF against the new Porsche's, the Panoz and with luck the Spykers would make it the most diverse (and probably strongest) GT2 field anywhere. |
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17 Oct 2006, 15:22 (Ref:1740307) | #33 | ||
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Risi is running two F430s in GT2. Why would they change to the AF Course ?
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17 Oct 2006, 22:13 (Ref:1740667) | #34 | |
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They wouldn't change....AF Corse would be in addition to Risi.
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I know I'm kind of precluding Risi finding their own sponsors, but other than the Forza II branding and LP Italy on the side of 62, and the temporary AMD branding on 61, the only sponsorship on the Risi cars this year has been from dealers (Houston, Silicon Valley, Toronto/Ferri). |
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18 Oct 2006, 11:27 (Ref:1741078) | #38 | |
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Will AF Corse be always sponsored by PlayStation? Will Risi be always sponsored by Xbox?
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18 Oct 2006, 14:06 (Ref:1741212) | #40 | |
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Ah? Thus would PlayStation leave AF Corse at the end of the year? And Xbox with Risi? At the end of the year too?
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19 Oct 2006, 09:43 (Ref:1741943) | #41 | ||
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Intersting discussion between Folgelhund and Schumi but surely the fact that AF Corse is factory backed and all the rest are not will help them get the sponsors and Ferrari provided (and mostly paid) the drivers just as Porsche have done for years. What they do in 2007 will depend who finishes up running the new Porsche because Ferrari will not want to see Porsche return to doninate again.
The Ferrari works deal will not go outside Italy but the Porsche deal could go anywhere there is a team with enough money to run it. I expect a good battle next year between two top teams, one for each make, three if Panoz can see advantage outside Le Mans (doubtful) but will that bring in other teams when they may decide that they are only picking up the crumbs. |
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26 Oct 2006, 23:30 (Ref:1750566) | #43 | |||
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Why so called Professional Teams foolish enough to think they could stick on some rubber and be competitive is beyond me. Of course those teams would never ever get the most out of the Michelins if they had them.It´s more than tyre pressures that makes a tyre work or not. |
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Quite right CMK, Ebimotors and Collard are far too professional to try to run a car on the same settings even with different compounds and/or constructions. To suggest this for any of the teams in GT2 is ridiculous, the fact is that the Michelin tyre used by Scuderia Ecosse was far better than the Pirelli supplied to the other Ferrari teams. Look at Mika Salo's reaction to the American Michelin after he used it at Laguna.
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27 Oct 2006, 13:02 (Ref:1751055) | #46 | ||
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Look ,those cars were developed for a special tyre and of course all development was focused on optimising the car for the tyre .If you put something different on the rims you are going to get the whole process starting from new.If you are lucky ,the Tyre manufacturer has picked you as a development partner ,this way you are working the problem from two directions,see Formula 1.But this only works when you actually know what the tyre really needs on your particular car.And again it´s more than pressures ,springs etc....You really need to know what the tyres need to perform and maybe this is impossible with the range of adjustability your car has in terms of rollcentres,ackerman,cambergains etc..so the tyre is easy to blame ,but look at some very striking examples of teams converting from known second best tyres to the so called good ones and still not performing .
It´s as complicated as it gets,and even the best loose a second per lap overnight with falling or raising temps in F1 ,so why should it be different in GTs? and those have done more testing than the average GT Team has competition miles per year...So I only said that it is not the tyre that is at fault ,it is the lack of development to make the combo work. |
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In GT1 the Austrian car switched to Michelin with great effect and that car was developed on Pirelli so far as I know. I don't think comparisons between F1 and GTs is possible, GT cars do not have the range of variation, but the engineering skills are not lacking in my opinion and the teams certianly not thick, underfunded yes, thick no Last edited by old man; 27 Oct 2006 at 16:05. |
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28 Oct 2006, 03:33 (Ref:1751664) | #50 | ||
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True that the development tyre for the 996 GT3-RSR was Michelin, marcush. Porsche is very closely allied with Michelin through Supercup and Carrera Cups too. Certainly there was some tweaking in the suspension design and setup for Michelin tyres, but of course those too doubtless developed a lot over the years that the RSR ran (and the R and RS before that) so the cars would have evolved to deal with that too.
That being said, factory-supported Porsches have run on Pirellis for 2 years now (Autorlando Sport in LMS 2005/06 and Ebimotors FIA 06) so they must have been doing some simple development work. In addition, factory-supported Porsches ran on Dunlops in 2004 (Freisinger, LMES). The Scuderia Ecosse vs. AF Corse argument also supports Pirelli being slower in general, even when it's the development tyre. Prodrive 550s have certainly been slower on Pirelli than Michelin, even when still supported by CARE Racing. old man, it's only fair to point out to you that the DBR9 was developed on/for Michelins, in 2005. The Pirelli deal with the works teams only arose in 2006, and of course not at Le Mans because of the fact that they weren't as good a tyre. This may have some effect on the superiority of the Phoenix and late-season Race Alliance pace, but I believe that the Dunlops and Pirellis are also just plain slower. |
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