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5 Jan 2016, 11:33 (Ref:3602208) | #751 | |
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Expect the Asian summer series to be announced tomorrow. 3 races all at sepang, may, august, sept, p3, cn & gt cars.
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5 Jan 2016, 12:17 (Ref:3602219) | #752 | |
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The Malaysian Le Mans Series.
SO ACO will presumably host FIVE events at Sepang annually they must really love it there. Did they not get enough interest for P3/only so they had to add GT(3) too... Are there LM auto invites... |
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5 Jan 2016, 12:25 (Ref:3602223) | #753 | |
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Doubt it but it helps justify Asian based teams purchasing these cars since the current 4 Asian events in a year schedule gets a nice expansion.
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5 Jan 2016, 17:32 (Ref:3602293) | #754 | |
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I wish the Malaysians would put money to host a WEC event. Sepang is one of the very few new circuits, on F1 calendar, that I actually like. Sadly, I don't see it happening. At least it's great to have lower prototypes there, though.
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5 Jan 2016, 19:36 (Ref:3602330) | #755 | |
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I was 'fine' with it for years, I mean the profile wasn't quite as sterile as most of Tilke's later work. The two straights next to the stadium stands were kinda iconic actually. But then they poured tons of asphalt to majority of it like every other F1 track (didn't have it originally, being 90's track). Also the everyday tropical downpour means that you have to race in morning or noon unless you want boat races, so you are very limited in what you can do in todays world where red flags are thrown at the first drops of rain. The immense humid heat is a killer too.
PS I actually do like 'boat races' but FIA does not. Even though the track is ridiculously wide and the safety areas too... |
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7 Jan 2016, 03:17 (Ref:3602702) | #756 | |
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The rain isn't so bad around May through July, but April is the end of the wet season. So a race there should be early Summer or Spring for those in the northern hemisphere. That's after f1 goes there, so it could work.
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Just a mini-rant, so disregard if you want: I do feel that I need to say that in recent days I've been depressed and frustrated, and at time times, motorsports has provided me with a sens of frustration over the year, especially the past decade or so.
So I'll say this: If you like what you're seeing, appreciate it now. Because it might be gone in a short while and replaced by something less likable. |
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What did you mean about motorsports, though. Did you mean motorsports were, sometimes, a relief or an outlet for frustration, over the past decade or so? That's what it ends up being for me, sometimes. I love racing regardless of my state, but when I'm sad, depressed, frustrated, I guess it also serves me as an escape from that |
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I've told many times I don't particularly care for drivers in sportscar racing, but in the world of ever more pro-am implementations, can people here list series / categories still 100% free to enter with *whatever* lineup? And by whatever I don't mean some 87 year old taxi driver from Berlin who's never seen racing circuit before, or licenceless kids fresh from karting or whatever, but you know... from plausible to the superstars free. In essence, no Proam.
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VLN comes to mind...
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13 Jan 2016, 12:11 (Ref:3604347) | #761 | ||
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GTE Pro. It's the only ACO category with no restrictions.
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13 Jan 2016, 21:35 (Ref:3604528) | #762 | |
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10 years ago we probably would have trouble listing enough series and categories which did have driver restrictions.
Or factory/privateer, for that matter. |
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14 Jan 2016, 00:40 (Ref:3604573) | #763 | |
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Super GT I think is pretty open in driver age rank/talent. Some guys have been there in Japan for decades but still do gt300/500.
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14 Jan 2016, 10:49 (Ref:3604670) | #766 | |
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Yeah but these sub GT3 Pro Cups and GTE-PROs are already classes artificially separated from the Proam classes running same cars, so they don't really count.
In VLN, are they all free? Could Sebastian Loeb partner up with Fernando Alonso and Valentino Rossi and no one else in every class? What about if three businessman who only have Ferrari Challenge or whatever experience, can they enter any class by themselves? |
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14 Jan 2016, 16:17 (Ref:3604762) | #768 | |
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Four platinums in Opel Astra OPC car if they desire? |
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14 Jan 2016, 16:23 (Ref:3604765) | #769 | ||
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Yup... no designated Am-classes that I would be aware off - maybe some of the manufacturer cups have some limits, but I doubt even that.
But of course no one would do that... so the system is more or less self-policing. |
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14 Jan 2016, 20:38 (Ref:3604841) | #770 | |
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Even 'in theory' is fine in this day and age. VLN has done good there
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18 Jan 2016, 12:14 (Ref:3605903) | #771 | ||
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Ginetta G57
Some interesting comments here from Lawrence Tomlinson on the new G57.
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2016/0...ht-future.html He reckons it will lap Silverstone in 1:47. The LMP2 pole time last year was 1:48.021, and the GTE-Pro pole was 1:59.970. Considering how LMP3s have struggled compared to the GTs in ELMS this is quite a jump. There have been significant changes under the skin of course, not least replacing the Nissan engine with a 580bhp Chevy. I get the feeling Ginetta has lost interest in LMP3, probably because of the limitations imposed by the cost cap (and the bad press Ginetta have got because of it?). “In terms of quality of the car, we have moved on tremendously from the LMP3 car which had a tight budget. We found that a challenge from an engineering point of view. We’ve enjoyed being involved in LMP3, it’s been great fun, but this car is the next step for us. “It’s got an engine built in house which is under stressed. It’s got an Xtrac gearbox in it which you’d expect in an LMP1 car, but you’ve got it in a car here which is under £200,000. You look at the value of it relative to the value of an LMP2, and it’s faster, and you can fit two people in it, and it’s air conditioned, what’s not to like about it?” |
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It's easy to improve laptimes and meet paces of other classes when you don't have to follow any regulations anymore.
Their weak car builds = unhappy customers probably factored more than anything else for the LMP3 dismissal... Anyway, since they talk of LMP3 in past tense... maybe ACO knew Ginetta was gonna ditch the class (and customers with it), so that's why they imposed the chassis spec limit for 5 instead of 4 like in LMP2... four in the end regardless |
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