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Toyota basically decided to re-engineer it's car that was dueling with Porsche and Audi just five years ago to fit those "new rules"," and with some upgrades have managed to stay ahead. But the new challengers from Cadillac, Ferrari, and, of course, Porsche, not to mention Peugeot, have arrived using those same shared rules, including hybrid electric systems, that Glickenhaus and Vanwall went without. And then there's Isotta Fraschini, whom are taking their Tipo 6 to Vallelunga for testing after building it in over 5+ months. If that car performs well, and makes good at Monza, what does that say. Quote:
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The route to the Alpine “Hypercar” and the Glickenhaus are very very different.
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However, that will depend on how much testing and development they do. What we’ve learned so far, I think, is that the current rules don’t replace testing and development. It might not be the standard find a tenth here and there and more about making sure you keep that tenth in more conditions, but it still rewards the effort. And, if that is the case, it is good. The Glickenhaus has not been tested and developed as much. I’d love to see it continue racing and at the front. I literally have the T-Shirt, but, in retrospect, it’s not a surprise it isn’t. They need more resources to find the development and testing. Quote:
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Are we sure this is gospel? Seems a bit of an overreaction to the car’s first disappointing showing.
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I would be hugely disappointed if we don't see the Glicks in 2024. On a base level, the series would lose it's best looking car(s).
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Me too.
Fingers crossed they get a bit of support. |
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Even if they don't make it past this year, they have at least had a good run. It will be sad to see them go though, we'll see if there is anymore interested in keeping them going who can
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They joined and participated at the right time - if Toyota had a disaster race your chances of winning le mans were never higher. Not sure those opportunities will exist for a number of years.
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Yes, it may be the competition has caught up a bit, although they are still performing at a respectable level. And we should be grateful they gave us a couple more cars in the top class when it was struggling
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Just the one car- how's it going? Who's the driver with the mostest. er...
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And what is interesting about Dumas’s times is that it doesn’t have the normal characteristic distribution that you normally see (and can see in the others), where the gap between subsequent slower laps is higher at first and then tends to be be more linear until the other end of the distribution. His is. Linear from the start. This might suggest he wasn’t pushing super hard. SpaAverage Lap time
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https://endurance24.fr/jim-glickenha...-de-continuer/ "I was hoping it would be the case this year, but if nothing is done, the race will be over after three hours with a Toyota double." |
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And he could well be right....
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Yes, Toyota are favourites. Strongest well sorted car, great line up and at the top of their game with strategy calls and race management.
I have to admit that part of me just wants ACO to throw their approach out the window and give Glick 50hp, but I don't think there will be any. Performance breaks / weight penalties were pervious years. |
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I'll be the last to defend the ACO but Glick's lack of testing (as result of lack of budget) is certainly not on them. You have to wonder if all Jim's bickering about IMSA rubbed potential sponsors the wrong way. And hasn't he been running at the Ring for years without a realistic shot at the win so what's different now?
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Yeah, some of that has gotten old. Asked a buddy who is a federal attorney in trade and he said the lawsuit wouldn't last 5 minutes as far he could tell.
That said I've bought more than a few of Jim's things, shirts, stickers, flag if I could buy one and would love them in IMSA but trying to out bully felt off putting. But the car is cool as hell |
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It is cool and I'll still be rooting for them, even if it seems that they have little chance. They need to do a 'Wyer' run. Stick to a pace, keep it on the island and make no mistakes on the track or in the pits. Others will break, I'm sure of that - just probably not Toyota. (But you never know).
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Yeah, the blue is by far the best out there prototype or GT
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Speaking of the 709, I think it is a really cool concept that Glick runs that car for a customer as a "factory" car. I don't know that anybody else is doing that, but it is a nice sounding deal to buy a car and get it run at Le Mans while you don't have to put the team together yourself. |
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Thanks. Then the next question will obviously be how will they tell them apart? one has blue mirrors and the other white is probably the answer, but maybe they come up with something a little more obvious?
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All the people that bought a shirt will be printed on a sheet of a4 paper taped to one car, and all the people that bought a watch will be printed on a flash card taped to the wing endplate of the other car.
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I have a shirt, as do my son and his partner, courtesy of a US member (you know your name ) but I suspect it'll be his name on the car.....
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