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ACO taking the reins of the JLMC
Seems the current series status became a "rien ne va plus"....
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Good to hear, I wonder if they can attract manufactuers without stepping on the toes of Super GT.
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As for the need, It would be a good thing for the Japanese manufacturers to have a series in their own back yard to help build and develop cars to promote their brand in other markets (N.America and Europe) that are larger than their home market! L.P. |
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Toyota has been talking about a return to Le Mans, so this might give them a push in the right direction. I think it will be good for Japan and Le Mans.
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Toyota back at Le Mans? Sounds great to me.
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In the 80's Japanease manufactuers ran big budget Group C sportscar and Group A touring car programs in Japan.
I don't see why the JGTC and JLMC couldn't complement each other, afterall the JGTC is becoming more DTM like by the year rather than a pure sportscar series. Mazda, Honda, Nissan and Toyota could all have some involvement in ACO prototpye racing in the next 3-4 years, programs not necessarily based in Japan. All these car's could potentially race in the JLMC with home grown teams as in the Group C days. Last edited by JAG; 21 Jul 2007 at 16:09. |
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Japanese Tube Frame Fraud Championship (if they ever set foot in the UK, Trading Standards MUST sieze all the cars as they are not GT cars, they are basically protoypes, same with DTM) has a limited lifetime, I hope JLMC improves in quality - if it supported F1 at one or two races, 3 hours race after the GP it would really boost it.
With Toyota going to LM24 with a hybrid it seems that they may want to run their cars in the JLMC. Shame that there is no rule which mandates that all cars must run in ALMS, LMES, FIA GT or JLMC regularly to get in to LM24. |
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When i said about japan needing western sportscars i meant supergt is the world's strongest gt/spoprtscar series.
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Maybe more on the scale of NASCAR racing, but it is still regional to Japan and Indonesia. Have a link to their web site?? there might be some spectator info on it. |
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I wouldn't mind if the Japanese returned to ACO racing - as long as the ACO don't get in the mode of relying on manufacturers and then when they all leave (lets face it - its cylcical) the series all falls in a heap because there aren't the privateers left there.
And they could run both - Super GT to impress Japan and run a lower budget team in JLOC and then to Le Mans and LMS/ALMS for the Euro/USA markets - it does make some sense... |
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