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That is what I kind of thought 2013 would look like for both series, upset that it looks like I'll be missing the Road Atlanta round of GA. But the trade-off of my first F1 GP might make it worth missing. Making me consider getting cable again to catch the GA season and Sebring plus I'd guess Speed/FoxSports will try to get the new series.
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Looks as if Connolly had everything on stand by until after the election to due to his run for the state Senate. Notice he mentioned Chevy Riley and not Corvette. So likely they will be gen 2 cars. So that will mean 5 new DPs to the series. Think it will be possible that 13 or more may attempt the majority of the season. Not sure if there will be three Starworks for Daytona due to Potolicchio. Possible that Starworks could be a single car team for the full series, MAYBE 2 cars. They did list a single car for next week's test but it is no longer on the list of cars scheduled. |
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Just imagine the Conti challenge field running at Road Atlanta. How many laps between caution flags for them? Smallest field I saw was 60 for the season, even the split race had 60 at Lime Rock (33 ST and 27 GS). That could make for a LONG slow race with the aggression it sounds like they drive with every race.
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So I posted Daytona earlier, this is what I expect for NAEC and full season.
DP: 01 Ganassi BMW/Riley 02 Ganassi BMW/Riley? 2 Starworks Ford/Riley 5 AER Corvette DP 8 Starworks Ford/Riley? 9 AER Corvette DP 10 WTR Corvette DP 42 Sahlen's BMW/Riley 43 Sahlen's BMW/Riley 60 MSR Ford/Riley 90 SoD Corvette DP 99 GBSR Corvette DP X Potolicchio Corvette DP X Matt Connelly Chevy/Riley? X Matt Connelly Chevy/Riley? GT 31 Marsh Corvette 44 Magnus Porsche 51 APR Audi 57 Stevenson Camaro 59 Brumos Porsche 62 Scuderia Corse Ferrari 63 Scuderia Corse Ferrari? 66 TRG Porsche 67 TRG Porsche? (NAEC) 68 TRG Porsche? (NAEC) 69 AIM/FXDD Ferrari 73 Horton/Park Place Dealers Porsche 87 Racer's Edge RX-8??? 94 Turner M3 X Matt Connelly Porsche? X Aston Martin? GX X McMahon Lotus? 38 BGB Cayman? 40 Dempsey Mazda? 41 Dempsey Mazda? (Funding is an issue for the team, at least on the P2 side. Does Mazda pay for the Dempsey name?) 70 Speedsource Mazda 71 Speedsource Mazda? 74 Horton/Luna-C Cayman As with the Ford DP, I expect we lose out on Aston in the big class due to merger uncertainty. Chris |
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#52 R8 GRAND-AM again with "Audi of America" banner next weekend at Daytona's test days. Audi seems to be taking the Rolex Series really serious now!
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So apparently Doran's DP which stood in Dr.Jim Lowe's basement(!) for the last couple of months is on the way back to the Doran shop where it will be updated to Gen3 specs, probably with Riley bodywork.
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It would help, at least aesthetically, to have more than just two bodywork options for DPG3.
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Dagys has just posted his silly-season list of entries for 2013:
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...-heating-up/P1 Potentially 3 makes in the GX class: Porsche, Mazda, Lotus GT might see the likes of Porsche, Chevy (Camero and Corvette), BMW, Ferrari, Audi, and Aston Martin? |
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I hope there will be body work for new manufacturers. Maybe Ford would resume the Ford GT and the Aston Marting will resume a vantage or a DBR9. That would be awesome. I hope that DP will evolve towards be something like japan gt500.
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There are 4 body styles available if people choose to run them. You have the Corvette which is ran on all three chassis. Then each chassis has their own generic body style. As it is right now the only Dallara and Coyote chassis running are running the Corvette body. We very well could see a Ford powered Dallara this year.
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I thought Gainsco/Bob Stallings ran a Riley-Corvette? I looked around on line and don't see where they have switched.
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Yeah the Gainsco Corvette is a Riley.
I'm pretty sure that each chassis manufacturer doesn't have its own generic bodywork, unless you are counting the DPG2 bodywork. The Coyote chassis is sort of the "official" Corvette chassis so it is only the Corvette, and the only DPG3 Dallara running is the Taylor car so it would be silly for Dallara to develop new bodywork for theirs. |
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