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Regarding personal prefrence, personally id like to have Martin Haven, David Leslie and John Hindaugh in the commentry booth. Now that would be a amazing team!
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Naa ..... Murry Walker would add a laugh alongside Hindy and John Watson !!!
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Is any of the Audi thing confirmed, and if so, who will drive? Will they take Mcnish from the alms? (please???) |
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not yet, expectation is that Dr.Ullrich might announce this at the Essen motorshow first week of December
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My own personal guess is that we will get the following lineup:
ALMS McNish / Capello - ALMS Luhr / Werner - ALMS LMS Biela / Pirro - LMS Premat / Rockenfeller - LMS LM-24 McNish / Capello / Wurz Luhr / Werner / Ekström Biela / Pirro / Kristensen Premat / Rockenfeller / Scheider |
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McNish was on Endurance Mag this week and made it very clear he wants to race in the LMS against Peugeot.
It sounded like the shorter calender also appealed. Ullrich also comfirmed they will race in the LMS and are currently having discussions with importers. The final decission will be made in November. Last edited by JAG; 1 Nov 2007 at 00:30. |
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If Audi stays in the ALMS, they need McNish unless they can con Kristensen into doing ALMS/LM only and pull out of DTM. This is because Allan and Tom have been Audi's quickest drivers, and one of them will be needed to partner Capello if Audi stays in the ALMS.
But there's the possibility that Audi does Sebring/PLM only in ALMS, and does LMS/LM, especally if IMSA doesn't give in at least partially to the ACO rules. |
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If Peugeot stay in the LMS and Audi join them, then that will be great. We actually see a race. Not these silly Peugeot Parade days.
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Well , i reckon if Nishy wants to race against the Pug's , the Audi top brass will let him do it . He has done a lot for the team and im sure he would get his wish .
My favoutite picks for the LMS would be McNish-Capello & Biela-Rockenfeller ..... then we would see sparks flying ..... |
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Couldn't McNish and some of the other Audi Team Drivers do both? Most of the dates don't overlap!
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Perhaps McNish will do LMS plus Sebring, PLM and maybe Laguna and perhaps TK will be his partner. |
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Audi are more likely to need quick drivers here than in ALMS I reckon...
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I don't really think Audi are short of quick drivers, nor will they struggle to sign up any new hotshots.
Are Alex Wurz and Ralf Schumacher out of an F1 drive? |
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I hope McNish stays in the ALMS as long as the P2 competition remains competitive with respect to overall wins. Frankly I think the Porsche-Acura-Audi battle will be better than Audi/Pug in the LMS, and McNish's best skill, navigating traffic, is best employed in the tight and twisty, runoff-less confines of North American circuits.
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It be only fun in LMS if Peugeot get there act together with reliability. If Audi comes, I feel a bit sorry for the pesca's. Ok they had to fight the 908, but they aren't so bulletproof as the Audi's (well not really at LM this year ) So they could fight Peugeot. But then again, the RS spyders are also coming to LMS...
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Oreca taking over Courage could be a good thing in future in P1, will the make it in time for 2008....
Well the bulletproof thing was about 908 versus R10. (I see my sentence was a bitconfusing) |
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in "Endurance Mag" on MotorsTV, Dr. Ulrich said clearly that an LMS effort from Audi, must have the support from nationals dealers, as it was in 2004 with bot Audi UK and Audi Japan, McNish too wanted to add an LMS title to his 3 ALMS trophies !
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IIRC, he said they are in discussions with national dealers in the countries were the LMS will stage events, i.e promotion of events etc., not that Audi was asking for their support in order to push ahead with a program.
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