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As expected RAM Racing will look to make the step up next year.
Two WEC entries 1x GT-Pro: Matt Griffin/ 1x GT-Am: Johnny Mowlem/ http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111505 Will be great to see them at Le Mans. Hopefully Ferrari will chuck them another factory hot shot for the race like Davide Rigon. |
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I think we will see Craft Racing AMR in GTE-Am next year if they win the GTC championship is AsLMS. Winning GTC means they get an automatic GT invite. They're an official Aston Martin team and Stefan Mücke is entered for Craft for the Sepang round in the AsLMS.
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Speaking of 2015 P1 possibilites.....;-)
Has anyone read anything more about Nissan and/or Ferrari for '15?
Any other rumors for any other factory teams? I'd read in the past that Jaguar, Renault, Honda, and BMW might be interested. I truly believe the WEC can become a great series if you could add a few more factory teams to P1. By the way, I don't know my history in Le Mans racing. What has been the most factory teams racing against each other for the overall in any particular year/era? |
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Nissan: Depends on how well the ZEOD RC performs. Nissan wants to use the electric tech if they go into LMP1.
Ferrari: Unlikely, would distract from F1 (resources and budget) Jaguar: Some rumors but nothing concrete. It would most likely be for 2016 or later. Renault: Possible, more likely 2016 (depends on how they want to use the Alpine branding) Honda: HPD-ARX 04 available to customers, nobody has bought one yet. Honda will probably not run it as a factory car. BMW: No news at all. Expect them to focus on DTM and USCC. |
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28 Nov 2013, 03:48 (Ref:3337622) | #34 | ||
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Ferrari in 2015?
Thanks for your updates...
Perhaps you missed the article on Ferrari's possible re-entering prototype racing. Their president was quoted as saying they "would like to get back to racing against other actual car manufactures, rather than "lemonade makers."" This isn't the column I read, but here's the same info from the net: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/01/f...rs-of-le-mans/ and more: http://www.carscoops.com/2013/08/fer...back-from.html http://motorsportmodeller.blogspot.c...s-in-2015.html Reading that news for the first time made me more excited about racing than I can remember! |
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The consensus at the time that it was Luca making political statements aimed at F1 and the rumours were fueled by a speculative blogger.
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Porsche Factory GTE x2 confirmed for next year. Big news.
http://sportscar365.com/wec/porsche-...ogram-in-2014/ What do people think the chances are of us getting a third 'Porsche North America (CORE)' entry in GT at Le Mans? |
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I'd say 80 to 90% if there's no driver crossover between the TUSC and WEC driver squads. Maybe that's why Porsche are on the factory driver recruitment drive at the moment.
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So just for example you could have: WEC 1 - Lieb/Lietz WEC 2 - Pilet/Bergmeister TUSC 1 - Long/Braun TUSC 2 - Tandy/Christensen Then at Le Mans you could fold the second TUSC line-up into the other cars then add Wolf Henzler. Toughest ask would be at Petit where they'd need to go out and find two more drivers. But with the ladder system they are never short of guys. |
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I'm guessing that Marco Holzer will be at CORE in 2014 with Braun driving in LMPC
WEC 1 - Lieb/Lietz WEC 2 - Pilet/Bergmeister TUSC 1 - Long/Holzer TUSC 2 - Tandy/Christensen The option would be Bergmeister rejoing P Long in TUSC. |
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I agree with that line-up except I would keep Braun in at CORE and have Tandy be the Porsche journey-man (being the extra driver for 100 different teams around the globe).
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I'd be surprised if Tandy didn't end up in one or the other of the factory teams, after how well he drove at Petit Le Mans for Falken.
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Lieb has virtually no experience in prototypes so unless he's exceptionally fast in testing I doubt they'd put him in. Best to leave him where he does best. Oliver Turvey is another young hot shoe that comes to mind when I think of an empty P1 driver slot. |
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Do you think there's a chance that Porsche could enter CORE as well to give themselves an even greater chance of GTE PRO victory? Stranger things have happened.
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Understood. I wonder if Proton will step up to a Pro car with Tandy, Bachler, and perhaps Collard? They ran a very quick #77 this ELMS season.
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Proton plans to run a pair of 991 RSR next year, both in AM class. They could have 2 automatically entries, one for finishing 2nd in ELMS this year and a 2014 full season WEC entry. If Dempsey continues the deal then hopefully there's a 3rd Proton-prepared 991. |
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