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Originally posted by mountainstar
Facts are Facts Mr. team owner.
Chevy is gone and what's gonna happen now?
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Sounds like Honda and Toyota will be competing against each other, mountainstar....
But in reality, once they came into the IRL, Chevy was at least a step behind anyway....
I also agree 1000% with Team Owner on this one....
GM had a sportscar LMP program badged as Cadillac that was just beginning to make progress and had really gotten fast and competitive in the 3rd year of the program (due more to Wayne Taylor and his people than GM, BTW)....
But they pulled the plug on it and wouldn't even let Taylor run it as a privateer....because they didn't have the patience and the foresight to see that it takes some time to get competitive....and they didn't want the Cadillac name associated iwth a privateer effort...
Thus thee are 5 or 6 world-class endurance prototypes that have been collecting dust, when they could have been racing and getting even better and faster...
Some may argue that GM's Corvette program in GTS DOES win, and they are staying the course with that program, but that entire effort is a Pratt & Miller-engineered program...in the same way that NASCAR's GM efforts with Hendricks, Childress, & DEI are doing all of the engineering, etc...
This news didn't surprise me one bit....like Team Owner says, GM has a history of "cut and run," and they didn't have to do any real hard work earlier in their IRL life, because Infiniti wasn't putting any real money into their efforts back in the 1990s and the earlt part of this century....
When the competition got tougher, they couldn't hack it....and it is cheaper to pull the plug than it is to work at getting better....