Michelin Le Mans Cup

[Akrapovic]

9 is very disappointing. I was hoping for more given the amount of GT3 cars there are in the wild.

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

9 is very disappointing. I was hoping for more given the amount of GT3 cars there are in the wild.

There are also a lot of GT3 series...

[Mike E]

Only 9 cars because the series is only open to teams with an 'F' in their name: AF, FF, FFF, TF.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by FIRE

There are also a lot of GT3 series...

And a lot of teams run multiples. Plus the GT3 entries in ELMS were just expected to all move to this Cup, which hasn't happened. Disappointed as I was really looking forward to this series.

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Full Season Regs
http://www.24h-lemans.com/wpphpFichi...egulations.pdf

LM Support Race Regs
http://www.24h-lemans.com/wpphpFichi...egulations.pdf

Entry deadline for the LM is apparently April 15... Race length still TBA between 50-61 minutes.

[Deleted]

Looking at the (pitiful) GT3 charts from the HTTT tests, looks like ACO have bopped them down from last year despite them not competing with LMGTE anymorè... you know they are quite bit down on hp from last year in the maximum speed charts. So maybe at the LM support round, the LMP3s don't have such big straight line speed disadvantage (@ Mulsanne) against them like they traditionally seemed to have. There is still some gap, but not as big. And of course, there will probably be further adjustments between the classes.

The regs state an event may be cancelled if less than 10 cars are entered. Anyone else think that ACO may actually cancel the whole season now with the awful turnup, apart from the LM round of course?

[Racing Harz]

Website is gone - the series, too?
http://www.michelinlemanscup.com/

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Isn't that website
http://www.gt3lemanscup.com/en/

Forever with the under construction sign...

[Bcarr6]

I think we are going to peak at 9-10.... Pointless.

GT Open numbers massively up, Blancpain Stonger than ever, Brit GT, ADAC GT, and so on, and so on...

Perhaps if you're right about GT3 being BOPd down by ACO, no GT3 customers are keen on their cars being slowed to make ACO's LMP3 cars look better

[Mike E]

Originally Posted by Chiana

Looking at the (pitiful) GT3 charts from the HTTT tests, looks like ACO have bopped them down from last year despite them not competing with LMGTE anymorè... you know they are quite bit down on hp from last year in the maximum speed charts. So maybe at the LM support round, the LMP3s don't have such big straight line speed disadvantage (@ Mulsanne) against them like they traditionally seemed to have. There is still some gap, but not as big. And of course, there will probably be further adjustments between the classes.

“The key here though, as elsewhere in GT3, is going to be Balance of Performance. Here for instance we are around 12 km/h down on straight line speed compared to the same car in SRO BoP trim (265 km/h to 277)."

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/0...ife-hobbs.html

[Mike E]

Website is back up again. Not much info though. Zero participants for Imola.

http://www.gt3lemanscup.com/en/

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Mike E

Zero participants for Imola.

At least in this area their half-done site is showing signs of realism.

Ba dum tss!

[Deleted]

Deadline for the LM support race LMP3/GT3 registrations was five days ago.

Deadline for the Imola one-off GT3 registrations was also five days ago.

Deadline for the full season GT3 registrations was five weeks ago.

Oh well what's the hurry in announcing anything

[Rodger Davies]

Though I'd personally much prefer to see the championship not exist, I imagine they'll have no problem shifting LM support invites to be honest, so even if the other lists are pretty poor I wouldn't have said the delay is overly 'concerning'.

[Deleted]

True dat

I have no idea why the deadlines for LM have to be in April already anyway, have it at the end of May!

[Bcarr6]

To give you an idea of how low the grid currently looks- there is 8 confirmed full season, one Le Mans only GT3, one extra GT3 considered, and supposedly a rumour of Teo Martin joining...

Le Mans GT3 Cup 2016 Lineup

FF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Johnny Mowlem / TBA

FFF Racing Tean by ACM - McLaren 650s GT3 - Adrian Quaiffe-Hobbs / Hiroshi Hamiguichi

FFF Racing Tean by ACM - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Caudarelli / Sean Fo Songsang

Tockwith Motorsports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phillip Hanson / Nigel Moore

TF Sport - Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 - Salih Yoluc / Euan Hankey

AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castelacci

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Felipe Barreiros / Mads Rasmussen

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Adrien De Leener / Pierre Marie De Leener


LM ONLY

United Autosports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phil Burgan / TBA


UNDER CONSIDERATION

Pegasus Racing - Callaway Corvette C6 GT3 - TBA / TBA


RUMOURED

Teo Martin - BMW M6 GT3



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[GT6]

A good mixture of makes there should be an interesting race at le mans

[Deleted]

Any news yet on whether Eurosport will cover the Le Mans race? With the Legends support being axed away, there will be an empty slot next to the Warm-up on the ES morning programming. I really, really hope they get it. ACO should encourage it too, to give the "Road to Le Mans" extra branding.

[Bcarr6]

Finally a new announcement:

Villorba Corse with a 458 for Cedric Mezard and Steeve Hiesse


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[Bcarr6]

Villorba also saying possibility of a second car later in the season


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[Bcarr6]

Updated entry list:

Le Mans GT3 Cup 2016 Lineup

FF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Johnny Mowlem / TBA

FFF Racing Team by ACM - McLaren 650s GT3 - Adrian Quaiffe-Hobbs / Hiroshi Hamiguichi

FFF Racing Team by ACM - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Caudarelli / Sean Fo Songsang

Tockwith Motorsports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phillip Hanson / Nigel Moore

TF Sport - Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 - Salih Yoluc / Euan Hankey

AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castelacci

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Felipe Barreiros / Mads Rasmussen

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Adrien De Leener / Pierre Marie De Leener

Villorba Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Cedric Mezard / Steeve Hiesse


LM ONLY

United Autosports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phil Burgan / TBA


UNDER CONSIDERATION

Pegasus Racing - Callaway Corvette C6 GT3 - TBA / TBA

Villorba Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - TBA / TBA


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[Deleted]

LM only for United Autosport's LMP3.

I don't think any other P3 has been officially-officially confirmed yet, all the previous "announcements" have been more rumor in nature

Anyway, another interesting thing is that Brundle senior chooses LM over Baku GP booth sweating.

[Rodger Davies]

Whoah, back up..... there's no LM Legends race this year? Please tell me they didn't drop it for this mess?


I honestly didn't think they have a problem filling the support race with GT3s, however rubbish an idea the series is.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Rodger Davies

Whoah, back up..... there's no LM Legends race this year? Please tell me they didn't drop it for this mess?

ACO first promised they were gonna retain both existing support races, ie Legends + the spec GT series, in addition to this one. But they lied to us and silently changed it to just this new race + the spec series.

Group C voluntarily wanting (???) to choose LM Classic event over the LM support slot is one thing, but it's not like that class (or the biannual 1949-196X (and did they even ask them to cover this slot by the way?)) are the only two periods in the world that could be raced. So there's no excuse there.

[Victor_RO]

Originally Posted by Chiana

Anyway, another interesting thing is that Brundle senior chooses LM over Baku GP booth sweating.

This race is Saturday morning, if he has a private jet on hand he can fly straight to Baku once the proceedings end and he might make it in time for qualifying there.