Mike Borkowski Q&A?

[H16]

Really funny talking about how Grand Am is like NASCAR when he was thrown out of the BGN series and sued by AT&T for misrepresenting the company a few years ago, now its great that Grand Am is NASCAR with a rear engine.

Grand American is making an effort to ‘NASCARize’ sports car and prototype racing. Nowhere in the world is there a racing series with closer competition, more sponsors, more teams, more jobs for professional drivers and more last lap wheel-to-wheel racing than NASCAR. If they can accomplish a fraction of what they have with NASCAR, it would be a tremendous success.

Also, the Bentley didn't win it's "class" at Le Mans, it won overall, something the Fabcar didn't do at Daytona and needs help from Grand Am dumbing down or eliminating every other class to do in their series.

Compare that excitement to watching Audi spend 15 times the budget and lap the field five times or more, or watching the Bentley “win” Le Mans and Sebring, when in actuality it was the only car in its class. If I show up to a Grand-Am Cup race with an Indy car and the series lets me run it, did I really win? I don’t think so. If there was a series with 20-30 Bentley’s or Audis, that could be awesome too, but in the real world, it will never happen. It is too cost prohibitive.

Yet, even HE thinks that the formula could use more power. Sorry, no rule changes for 10 years...

I would love to see some more power in the top Daytona Prototype class

[cybersdorf]

says Mike:
If I show up to a Grand-Am Cup race with an Indy car and the series lets me run it, did I really win? I don’t think so.

More to the point, would he really win? I don't think so.