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Originally Posted by gregtummer
Last fall when the WEC schedule came out, Panoz should have moved the Petit Le Mans date. It is Oct 17-20.
Here is the WEC schedule after Le Mans.
6 Hours of Silverstone 26 August
6 Hours of São Paulo 15 September
6 Hours of Bahrain 29 September
6 Hours of Fuji 14 October
6 Hours of Shanghai 27 October
So if any WEC teams wanted to participate in Petit even though it isn't in the championship, they would have to go from Bahrain to Georgia, USA in one week and then to the other side of the world in Japan the next week.
Here is what Dr Don should have done. Move Petit Le Mans to September 8. The WEC teams will be in Silverstone 2 weeks before that, so that will give them plenty of time to get to Petit. And then, the next WEC race is the next week (September 15) in Brazil. Petit is basically in their flight path, so teams can stop at Petit and then continue their journey to Brazil.
This makes too much sense to me.
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The WEC schedule is already too tightly packed there for the teams to find a reasonable way to unpack everything for the ten hour war at Petit and rush down to Brazil and go racing for six hours the next week. At the very least it would add too much cost to be reasonable.
Plus the Petit test weekend, as mentioned above, would be killed by the Baltimore weekend (also, tough turn around for ALMS teams to get to Atlanta by Wednesday and have a well sorted car for ten hours the following Saturday, scratch a couple entries due to street race crash damage or lose entries at Baltimore in preparation for Petit) plus the September opening was there to be filled, which it was with VIR the 13th-15th.
Chris