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The ACO intercontinental trophy should have Sebring, Monza, (Le Mans if they want,) Silverstone, Road Atlanta, Suzuka, Shanghai (China is a key car market) and Qatar (the govt owns a decent share of the Volkswagen Group). Such a big tournament shouldn't have 1000-km races at Spa and Nürburgring when 24-hour races are held in those tracks. Montemló, Algarve, Okayama and Sepang don't have the aura for a world cup. |
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Sorry for the alternateLMS thread, i´ll post my silly season here. I used the mariantic specullations a base and i added some extra info, adding some rumours.
LMP1 -Oreca ORECA Courage LC 70 AIM (maybe 2 cars) -Sebah Racing / Speedy Racing Lola B08 Maybe 2 cars -Signature Plus ORECA Courage LC70 Judd ?????????? -Pescarolo Sport Pescarolo P01 (maybe two cars, maybe one, maybe the 908) -Strakka Racing Ginetta-Zytek 09S -? Lola Aston Martin charouz (anyone will buy any of the 3 expensive Aston Martin?) -? Lola Aston Martin (anyone will buy any of the 3 Aston Martin?) -? Lola Aston Martin (anyone will buy any of the 3 Aston Martin?) -Team LNT Ginetta-Zytek 09S Mansells? -Scuderia Lavaggi Lavaggi LS1 AER Giovanni Lavaggi some races -Drayson?????? maybe a few races??? -How about the Caparo project??? They don´t look very active, -Epsilon-Euskadi? Probably won´t be present but if they get a good sponsor..... LMP2 -Racing Box Lola B08/80 Judd ???? They had some money problems -RML Lola B08/80 ? Mike Newton, Thomas Erdos (new engine, not Mazda) -Welter Racing WR Zytek Philippe & Stéphane Salini (some aero updates) -OAK Racing Pescarolo Mazda (2 cars?) -Kruse Schiller Motorsport (maybe a new car, maybe none) -Sebah Racing / Speedy Racing Lola B08/80 Judd (they have 2 LM invitations, but probably they move to P1) -Gstaad Automobile Club Racing Team Zytek 07S - Zytek ? -Quifel - ASM Team Ginetta-Zytek 09S Miguel Amaral -Pegasus Racing ORECA Courage LC75 AER Maybe 2 new cars -Ranieri Randaccio Lucchini Nicholson McLaren ???? maybe a few races -Q8 Oil Hache Team (Probably 2 new P2, ginetta? Lola? Oreca?) probably Lola -Embassy Racing /WFR Embassy WF-01 Zytek Maybe 2 cars -Ibanez Racing Service Courage LC75 -Barazi - Epsilon Zytek 07S - Zytek ????? -The Bru&Bru Radical is on sale, the won´t be on 2010 -Jota sport??? maybe one P2? -Araxa Racing??? maybe with Porsche rs??? (yes please) GT2>1 -Gigawave??? maybe with a NissanGTR? -Luc Alphand maybe two cars? GT1 or GT2? -BMW? probably not -Hexis? Maybe GT1? -any Gallardo LP560-GT2??? probably not |
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I do think that for the LMS to grow in the general perception they need to capitalise on the publicity from 24 hour race: So no LMS races before Le Mans, then six races two or three weeks apart starting a fortnight after Le Mans and running to mid September. |
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So cars and teams arrive at Le Mans in 2010 having had zero racing experience before hand. How does that work?
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That's also a good way to guarentee that teams will miss races. Two week gaps isn't enough time.
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Also a way to guarantee that most viewers won't bother anymore after the second race...even for me a six hour race every two weeks would be a bit too much. It's a terrible idea.
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None of the possible new entries are new teams, mostly of them have a lot of experience.
Jota Sport comes from the VdeV championship like Ibañez or Pegasus they are a Ligier team, Araxa is a sucesfull team on the german Porsche cup (and it´s said that they bough one RS, but that´s not a confirmed new) and Hexis runs on the Fia GT3 and next year will run on the Fia GT1 championship and maybe in some LMS. Those aren´t confirmed entries, maybe all be on LMS or maybe none of them, it´s just a silly season with rumours I´m sure that we´ll have a few surprises, specially on GT1 http://www.hexisracing.com/index_uk.php http://www.jotasport.com/latest-news/2009/03 http://www.araxaracing.com/ |
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http://endurance-info.com/version2/news-focus-2677.html
AF Corse considering running a Ferrari in LMS with Jean Alesi. |
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I spoke with a team member of Adrian's Saturday at Laguna Seca and was told the car was going to Europe. Paul is running the full ALMS with the Lola Coupe. I was advised that the sked for 2010 will be out this month, hope that info is correct so plans can be made. |
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According to Mariantic , you can add at least one ex-Fernandez Acura LMP2 to your list as well .
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When abouts can we expect a 2010 calendar to appear? Maybe during the Okayama event, release both the LMS and AsLMS calendars?
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No surprise here, but Autosport online reporting that Howard-Chappell and Serge Saulnier upset with the closed top / open top prototype equivalency announcement.
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The Strakka car looked good this year and was quick at times. It's a shame to lose a GZ, but adding the Acura would be good stuff. I guess it would need an aero update for the rear wing, but I am interested to see the car in the Strakka livery.
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The Strakka on P2 with a Acura??????? That´s weird, The ginetta was fast but the drivers was slow (Watts was the only of them with speed enouth)
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Araxa is even more close to run in 2010 on a RS, but the want a solution from Porsche because the car is uneligible on 2011
Moving to P1 would be a solution or change the engine by a 997 one Font:Endurance Info Quote:
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The EI article about Strakka mentions that a second chassis may have been purchased for next year. I wonder if it was another acura chassis? or something else?
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I do NOT foresee ANY forthcoming prototype having the Porsche flat-6. That configuration leads to too much interference with the undertray diffusers, and would therefore leave any LMP using it at a disadvantage in downforce and/or the height of the car's center of gravity.
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I think if you are going to use a production engine in the new LMP framework, it still has to be homologated through the GT2 class to be legal.
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