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This isn't a rumor, but I'll "pitch" it out there. Sports car racing fan and team owner CJ Wilson just signed a 5 year contract to pitch for the LA Angels of Anaheim that is worth ~$77.5 million. Will some of that money make it's way to Grand-Am or the ALMS sooner or later?
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I know, right? He has been horrible the last two playoffs. Granted, as a Dallas hater, I did not have any problem with that! At least I can pull for him a little bit now. Baseball players make mad money every year (no salary cap like the other American sports), but this year has been particularly crazy it seems. |
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Pagenaud is going to Indycar full time with Sam Schmidt. Wonder what will happen to his Peugeot WEC duties now, he's been a real star for them. Select rounds again, perhaps? But with the FIA allowing 3 cars again, I am expecting Pagenaud to get a full time seat in one of 908s, if Peugeot will enter 3 cars.
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Dallara, of course it is preparing the Chassis for Porsche, no doubt.
The R18 will look almost the same, i don´t think it will have major changes. Unless the hybrid solution obligate that major changes... who knows!!! By The Way, If Audi and Porsche will be running in 2014 will they share a common chassis??? |
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I may be wrong, but as I understand it you can enter three cars at Le Mans, with the top two finishers counting for points, in other rounds you can still enter three cars, but only two will be registered for championship points.
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Even if they change the cockpit and windscreen i don´t think it will appear very diferent, but that is just my opinion :-) In 2014 the car´s will look more different i supposed. |
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I'm not sure if there is enough demand for a purely customer LMP1 car at the moment. Then again, Lola is pretty much the only one offering a P1 customer coupe unless the Wirth and Oreca coupes get off the hard drive and into production as customer cars. I guess there is the Dome also, but I don't know. Of course, the demand situation all changes if there will be a P2 version, but who knows. If it is an in-house design, let's hope it does not get hit with the ugly stick.
Perhaps Dallara is also keeping a P1 car on their hard drives just in case anyone comes calling (customer or factory)? Maybe someone like OAK is planning for the future? The Pescarolo coupe may only have a couple years of life left (not counting ALMS grandfathering) as a P1 car. |
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This could be interesting in the end of the season, as the teams could use the 3rd Car to distance the competitors.
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I remember reading somewhere that cars not entered for the championship will be "invisible" for points, so with a 3rd car finishing second the third placed car would get second place points.
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Yes, but it will be one car more to overtake to get to the competition in the championship
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are the 2014 lmp regs known? I thought there were just rumors so far... So we could see a potentionally "freakish" porsche lmp1 with the bigger greenhouse, shorter car etc....
And how can Dallara design a chassis for porsche if they already designed one for audi, porsches "competitor" in lmp1 from 2014 (if it is indeed porsche and if audi will stay in lmp1 in 2014)? The same chassis manufacturer designing cars for competing lmp1s? |
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