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Hmm, I can see Peugeot remembering lucking into a win after Jaguar stumbled. Doesn't of course alter the appeal of LMPs running at Suzuka - it would be a great spectacle.
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The really heavy manufacturer full-season involvement didn't come about until 1989 or so when the Japanese manufacturers started to run the full season, and we had that wonderful few years that saw Jaguar, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Peugeot etc involved before it started to decline with the FIA's ill-conceived 3.5 litre engine rules I guess it's a different world now in terms of costs, but a lot of the privateer teams did find the money and sponsors go globetrotting and take in the long-haul trips to Japan etc. The other big difference, of course, was that those privateers could buy a customer car that was good enough, in the right hands, to take on and beat the factory competition-Joest, Brun, Kremer, John Fitzpatrick and Richard Lloyd all beating the factory Porsches from time to time |
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20 Jan 2010, 21:31 (Ref:2616578) | #256 | |
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You can see once again the big players want the LMIC, it's needed to push sportscar racing upto the next level, while still trying to protect and grow the regional series.
One manufactuer competing, and dominating, in Europe, while another does the same in the US, does nothing for the credibility of the sport. |
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The Oreca 908 would be a welcome addition and add credibility to the LMIC. For 2011 Toyota could be considered and for 2012 Porsche. |
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23 Jan 2010, 18:54 (Ref:2618187) | #258 | |
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Rebellion's program seems pretty huge for 2010, I wouldn't be surprised to see them in it.
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23 Jan 2010, 19:20 (Ref:2618196) | #259 | |
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Right now I'd say all bets are off for potential US entrants until the ALMS sorts itself out.
If the ALMS re-emerges under new management, with fewer rounds, there's the potential at least half could be part of the LMIC. 3 Euro Races 3 US Races 2 Asian Races |
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24 Jan 2010, 14:00 (Ref:2618568) | #260 | ||
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Although I think the Intercontinental cup would be a good idea, I hope that the ACO doesn't overdue it. ACO cannot forget that the sport is made up by a large number of low budget and/or privateer teams in the '4' classes and a majority of the teams are regional except for the 24 hours.
If they go all out to please the Manufacturers, they might kill the ALMS and the LMS and end up like the World Sportscar championship in 1993, with a grid of 15 cars or something because noone can afford to fly their cars around the world. I hope they don't get greedy and start thinking about going to Africa, South America or Australia in the first 5/10 years (the sport, the economy, is not ready for that). I can understand the feelings of ALMS fans but you can't put it on the ILMS the reason for ALMS' downfall, nor will I put it on the economy. Audi has wanted a world series for a while and even if ACO were to standfast and say "No" to save the regional series, that doesn't guarantee Audi would return. It would better than chances but they could still stay out or just run major races, with the only problem that they wouldn't be able to say they were ALMS or LMS champion, if that holds any leverage. ALMS needs to promote more privateer racing. But unlike the LMS, ALMS has to fight against Grand-Am to get the privateers. I mean, Grand-Am is close enough to sportscar racing and in Europe there is no rival for LMS so all privateers went there, and it's worked. America is different. For some reason Grand-Am managed to work and just like IRL/CART, something's gotta give or else both are going to be buried. It's good to see that this year, the calendars of the ALMS and LMS are a bit more harmonized. Not much can be done about July / August, unless the LMS stops racing during those months because ALMS has 5 races in 8/9 weeks. Therefore, 3 LMS races are within a week of an ALMS race. With June blocked out and April/May harmonized, there's not much more room for both series to fit in 8 races between July and September without stepping over each other. What ACO and the 2 series have to try to do, is push Silverstone later, so not to interrupt the summer schedules (and not include any of the summer races in the ILMS) so that the regional cars will stay in their respective championships, and if the rules are well set (I like the idea of obliging an ILMS team to also commit to one of the 2 regional champs), this could work. Just my 2 cents. |
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24 Jan 2010, 14:47 (Ref:2618592) | #261 | ||
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Agree - key will be the 2011 LMP2 cars. They have to find a way to controll costs in this new class but still have a good show. This should help ALMS a lot.
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27 Jan 2010, 17:22 (Ref:2620438) | #262 | ||
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Sorry if I missed it but, have they said how long the races will be?
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27 Jan 2010, 17:27 (Ref:2620441) | #264 | |||
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Please provide factual evidence that the big manufacturers (the big players) want the LMIC. We can all agree on Audi, but who else? If you can't back up your statements, please stop making things up. |
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27 Jan 2010, 20:11 (Ref:2620547) | #265 | |||
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Hugues De Chaunac, Oreca CEO is another one... Those opinion are in the Le Mans oficial website: Now... do you really believe that with a World Series on the run, Porsche, Toyota or anyone else will just come to do Le Mans? |
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27 Jan 2010, 20:15 (Ref:2620550) | #266 | ||
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That wasn't the problem in 93... FIA an F1 where the problem... to many manufacturers in Le Mans, too damn less in F1...
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27 Jan 2010, 20:21 (Ref:2620558) | #267 | ||
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Oreca isn't a major manufacturer. So we'll go with Peugeot and Audi for now, that's it.
Toyota, if they can start selling cars again are said to be interested in North America. Porsche, we shall see. |
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Peugeot, Audi, and Aston.... these are the only players by now,so yes, that's it Quote:
And we will... ... and they all will go for the world series, not for the ALMS only or the LMS only. America is a big market, not THE market, so if they can go global, they wont go regional.... |
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28 Jan 2010, 03:52 (Ref:2620758) | #270 | ||
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Trying so hard to get them out of the showroom quick that they have the throttle sticking?
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28 Jan 2010, 14:32 (Ref:2621035) | #271 | ||
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I see DTM are holding their season Finale in Shanghai - bearing in mind Audi's involvement is there a chance this could be combined weekend with LMIC??
http://http//www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81097 |
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28 Jan 2010, 14:53 (Ref:2621054) | #272 | ||
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Would be the obvious thing to do, but bear in mind it will be a street track not the F1 circuit.
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28 Jan 2010, 17:43 (Ref:2621144) | #273 | ||
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It doesn't...
The problem is, and the options are: 1. A global series with all the best LMP1 Teams, privateers and manufacturers with races in Europe and America and eventually Asia (that's enough), and strong regional series with LMP2 and GT fields. 2. A cock fight between ALMS or LMS to "who haves more manufacturers engaged"!.... like it as been until now. And may the "best" (biggest and more appealing regional market) wins... As the things are actually, i don't see any manufacturer to do simultaneously the ALMS and the LMS... With the LMIC, LMP1 teams will go to Europe and America anyway, not all the races (50/50 plus asia) but the european fans and the american fans can enjoy to see them in the biggest races.... not only by TV... |
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28 Jan 2010, 18:07 (Ref:2621159) | #274 | ||
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Well I certainly hope you enjoy the ACO's future series, Le Mans Intracontinental Cup.
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