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I am in agreement Mal. I beleive the way forward for the ACO is to generate more manufacturer interest. This will hpoefully bring more marketing and spectator interest and therefore the series will thrive and hpoefully be seen as the best racing series to be in and watch. I have and always will be a huge sportscar fan and cant wait for the closed top coupes to come back. I feel IMHO the open top cars have been viewed as bigger and slower F1 cars by those who do not know the difference and therefore the spectator numbers have declined in the past but a return to closed prototype racing will engender the Le Mans feel again and the crowds we saw in the eighties for Gp C racing and before will return.
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That's been my impression too. I'm convinced there have been more spectators at Le Mans in the last 3-4 years. Does anyone have any official figures from the ACO?
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Has this been mentioned here before or have I missed something or is it really old news?
The news being that Autosport this week are reporting that the Group C cars will be the support race next year! |
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Another interesting development..
Peugeot recently announced that client cars will be available next year... Rumours are that one of the first candidates linked to such a transaction will be nobody less than Henri himself, the alternative being that he takes his own made cars to ALMS to race there next year... |
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Going back to something you said in another post about interlopers in Tribune 34, I saw a couple of ticket girls selling mini-tickets on lanyards to people outside the stand. I'm guessing that these where "sit where you can, but if someone with a real ticket shows up, bugger off" type tickets. |
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Be great to see them Group C cars again .... i just love'em !!!
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Went to the Silverstone Classics last year, and i'm from Munich. So theres really no excuse . But then my sister lives in Milton Keynes, so it's free meals and housing plus a car. Makes things easy.
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Group C's back again - like I needed another reason to go next year!!!
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