Is there any doubt...

[Heeltoe6]

that garra's way of sportscar racing is not working. 2 years sanctioning, 2 yrs a GTS car have won their biggest race. Ok, stuff happens, I can see it occurring, once, maybe even tiwce. But, there wasn't a SRP(or even SRP2) class car in the top 10 At least last year 4th OA was the Dyson SRP car. But it seems it is just getting worse.

From Cormack Fallon’s Rolex 24 Notebook: Post-Race
"So, this is the end of Daytona 2001. Corvette won it, the second GTS-class car in two years, and two AGT cars made it onto the podium. Randy Pobst, second overall, said that he thought his White Lightning GT Porsche had a shot before the start of the race, and made the most accurate of observations. "Prototypes are hard to keep running for 24 hours, so we were in with a chance." Congratulations go to him and the driving crew, but in this day and age, it shouldn't happen. No one knows what will happen next year, but one thing is for sure. Those prototypes, by and large, should be able to complete the distance, and drivers of GT3 Porsches should never be able to look at the overall entry list and consider a race win a possibility. A class win should be the goal, a top-10 finish, perhaps; a podium in exceptional circumstances, if you are away with the fairies at the time."
http://www.speedvision.com/pub/artic...d/010204e.html

I think it's quite clear garra has failed to accomplish any of its goals. The P classes can't even finish a 24hrs race, and if it wasn't for a one-ff by a works ALMS team, at GT car would've won overall. Is this France's vision for the sportscar world. garra just needs to give it up and join ALMS, whihc is facing its own problems, with now bmws and only 1 Panoz. But at least the P cars present can make the whole race. But they are still small. If garra teams went to alms they could flesh out the series. Instead, garra is a farce, and ALMS, which has seemed so strong, seems to be over-extending itself while not having high enough car counts outside of the GT class. If France really cared about sportscar racing, he'd end this little fued. But I know that will never happen.


I do not wish to diminish the great work and talent by all the lower class drivers, they all did thier jobs extremely well, but not one P car in the top 10 is absurd.