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Sure... let's all go to America. Quoting Dead Kennedys: California Übber Alles!!!
Ill keep this simple and clear. Someone, doesn't want to LMS be a rival of ALMS. Let´s keep the Europeans with a small size championship, because thay already have Le Mans. For the big time, for the big guy, an for the big bucks, let some of them to come to America, where the "real" stuff is. @JAG... to they use a different kind of LMPs in America? or are you suggesting that they have the money, and we don't? |
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You could run a 962 on a much smaller budget than current LMP's, maybe even GT2's.
Yes you could ..... and a Mars bar was only 22 pence back then . The 962 was still an expensive beast to run , especially if you were a top team . |
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I fail to see that development has been encountered for, here?
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We always seem to talk about the 962 , but there were composite tubs out there then , and in the end the 962 in most privateer hands had a composite tub too . For that time , that was expensive technology , or not ?
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The ALMS and LMS series calendars allow for each other - and reflect the dynamics of the two markets. Where's the problem there? Seriously, for the LMS to start regarding the ALMS would at the best of times be a curous decision, in late 2008 it would be height of idiocy. P.S. Love having the Dead Kennedys cited on here - confirms that this forum attracts a more cultured form of poster Last edited by isynge; 12 Oct 2008 at 00:17. |
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My friend... I like late 20th century sub-pop, i have a degree in fine-arts, graphic design to be more specific... how "so much not sportscar fan" that could be? |
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Why does having different styles mean that the LMS is being forced down somehow? The LMS design is big grids (so hardly a small championship), high levels of gentlemen driver participation and classic event locations. The ALMS is closer to all-pro, TV-friendly sprints at venues that are selected partially for accessibility at the track. I don't think that anyone would suggest that the two are really competing at present, and I think it should stay that way. The ALMS is largely dominated by teams based in North America, and the LMS by teams based in Europe. For various reasons they have different economical models that work for them. Long may the current system reign, imo.
PS: biologists aren't much closer to the target demographic of sportscar racers than fine-arts majors. I won't pigeonhole my tastes in music, except to say that I've been listening to a lot of ECM lately (if we're shouting out record labels). |
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Anyone remembers this?
http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/08/...e-near-future/ So whatever they do with the race formats, I guess it reflects teams' opinions. |
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Whereas in Europe, you have F1, WTCC, the various national touring car championships and -at least at the moment - FIA GT that all occupy the spots above LMS on the pole, so LMS is near the bottom, and you can see this in the high percentage of amateurs in the field, at least outside of LMP1. So for its local market the ALMS is much more important than the LMS. |
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Anyone noticed the clashes?
Only two of them; Catalunya/St Petersburg and Nurburgring/Mid-Ohio. One more than last year though. |
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It seems to me, by the posts in this thread, that is evidently not a priority for some as it appears they feel it is a degradation to their own series (which is inferior ? ) and do not wish it to be even more so with another series thrown in the mix that could potentially draw teams away. When in actuality it is meant to bolster the whole. Pitty! Oh, and just which European teams are being pushed away to race in the ALMS, the black hole of Sports Car racing? L.P. Last edited by HORNDAWG; 12 Oct 2008 at 16:09. |
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