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Circuit of the Americas (early September? with PCW?) | 17 | 36.96% | |
Indy - plenty of history and, more importantly, plenty of run off | 6 | 13.04% | |
Montreal - close enough to the US border and would serve US N-E audience very well | 8 | 17.39% | |
Road America - the only right choice but lots of 'upgrading' to do to please the FIA blue blazers | 7 | 15.22% | |
no US (or Canadian) round at all - the WEC doesn't need a race there anyway... | 6 | 13.04% | |
somewhere else in North or South America (Brazil???) | 2 | 4.35% | |
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5 Feb 2017, 20:06 (Ref:3710215) | #251 | ||
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According to Spanish media, AF Corse will test this week in Vallelunga the Bruni´s replacement. They mention Endurance-Info as source.
https://www.motor.es/noticias/ferrar...201733710.html Candidates: Pier Guidi, Riberas, Vries and Molina. Very surprised to see there Molina and Vries. |
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P1 privateers have the endurance trophy and are not eligible for the world championship. So your list becomes: Audi, Toyota. Audi, Toyota. Audi, Toyota, Porsche. Audi, Toyota, Porsche, (Nissan) Audi, Toyota, Porsche. Toyota, Porsche. Furthermore, I believe your quoted 2.4.3.c doesn't apply, as the FIA World Endurance Championship (for P1) is neither a Trophy, cup, challenge nor series. There's the Privateer trophy, no cup, no challenge and the series is a multi-class, not limited to P1. IMHO none of these apply to the P1 championship. You guys should know I'm a WEC fan. I'm just actually curious how they got it through the world council. I'm asking this question as I hope someone in, or close to being in, the know can actually answer it. Last edited by Ephaeton; 6 Feb 2017 at 00:57. |
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6 Feb 2017, 01:02 (Ref:3710306) | #257 | ||
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As I said, the FIA can do whatever they want with their own branding. How many sanctioning bodies break their own rules when it suits them?
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6 Feb 2017, 01:08 (Ref:3710312) | #258 | ||
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If they could do whatever they want, why would they establish their own regulations, just to ignore them? That would open them up to being susceptible to other series featuring one, two, three makes forcing the FIA to acknowledge their "world" "championship" status. "Corruption" or "Conspiracy" is just an easy short-cut IMHO.
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6 Feb 2017, 01:20 (Ref:3710314) | #259 | ||
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If the governments of the world can do it (get away with breaking their own rules and protocols), should we expect private organizations to do the same?
Besides, aside from giving the "World Championship" endorsement to the WEC, the FIA seem to by and large have a hands off relationship with the WEC. After all, all the lead guys who front the WEC are from the ACO, not the FIA. |
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6 Feb 2017, 05:01 (Ref:3710363) | #260 | |
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The privateers are still part of the FIA World Endurance Drivers' Championship. Actually so are the LMP2 drivers, which could be a bit of a cheap trick. But I couldn't tell you the mechanism for the validity of the Manufacturers' Championship.
Incidentally it turns out LMP2 could actually ostensibly form a World Championship, since there is 4 different cars. But I still don't think they'd consider it world level. |
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6 Feb 2017, 06:44 (Ref:3710381) | #261 | ||
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6 Feb 2017, 07:54 (Ref:3710398) | #262 | |
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Nyck de Vries has been dropped from the McLaren junior program and will test for AF Corse this week.
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Tockwith might bring a Ligier to P2 in selected rounds:
http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/t...on-wec-effort/ but Sebring (IWSC) ruled out... |
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6 Feb 2017, 14:01 (Ref:3710492) | #265 | |
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7 Feb 2017, 21:43 (Ref:3710808) | #266 | |
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Couple of key things in this interview with Gerard Neveu http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/n...e-and-prudent/. My favorite part was the mention of GT convergence. Seems like it's on the table still and it's not a shut down from the wec on the GT3 and GTE cars coming together.
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It's hypothetically possible that a GTE car could win the championship, I'd think. Amazingly improbable, not impossible. |
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8 Feb 2017, 20:25 (Ref:3711023) | #268 | |
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I thought the drivers points standings was based on overall finish but that was it. Its kinda silly though. The only championship where I think points should be allocated based on overall finishing position (but is not currently doing that) is the IMSA North American Endurance Cup.
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After all he took a step back from FR3.5 to GP3, and still got dominated by his own teammates. |
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In 2015 the LMP2 champions finished 4 spots ahead of the LMP1 Private Team champions in the WEC though. |
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8 Feb 2017, 23:40 (Ref:3711062) | #271 | |||
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That's 2 world championship driver titles, 2 world championship manufacturer titles, 3 trophy driver titles and 4 trophy team titles (sum: 4 championships and 7 trophies, or: 11 titles) for 5 (P1-H P1-P P2 GTE-Pro GTE-Am) classes. 2017, obviously, won't have a P1 Endurance Trophy for neither team nor driver (so "only" 9 titles for 4 classes) Last edited by Ephaeton; 8 Feb 2017 at 23:50. |
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5 Mar 2017, 08:08 (Ref:3716600) | #272 | ||
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Audi refugee Oliver Jarvis joins Jackie Chan DC racing.
https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/...-squad-875450/ |
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Guess The 'Am' !!! http://www.dailysportscar.com/2017/0...ng-effort.html No Simon Dolan driving anywhere this year? That'll be a pity if so. |
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5 Mar 2017, 23:16 (Ref:3716750) | #274 | |
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That 38 lineup is going to win the championship.
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Porsche have announced their GT Drivers.
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