[LM24] Aston Martin to return to Le Mans ! ! !

[pitviper]

i agree sean, i believe that they would rather set their sights on the true cream of the crop so to speak. and as far as diverting money goes, i would have to believe that you could take the Jaguar F1 budget and turn it into very competetive programmes for BOTH aston martin and jaguar. as far as "interbrand battles" who cares who's winning to ford as long as it's 1-2 for AM and Jag. they reap the benifits either way.

pit

[veeten]

exactly, p-v. I look at it this way...

GT/GTS- AM Vanquish GTS V12

N-GT/GT- Jaguar XKR-GT SC-V8

Split development funds accordingly...problem solved.

[BSchneiderFan]

Personally, I'd rather see Ford devote the resources to one team and have a Jaguar or an Aston Martin prototype. Jaguar, historically, makes more sense, I suppose, but AM have competed successfully in sportscars too (and did field a Formula 1 team once, whereas Jag, until 2000, never did).

[Chevyguy]

Umm... this info about Aston Martin returning to Le Mans was supposedly on DSC, but I didn't see it there. I did a search "aston martin le mans 2004" and it lead me right back here. Can someone link me to something here? Two pages is alot of talk for something with so little gatherable info.

[pitviper]

thing is, with the GTS (and GT for that matter) route, i believe you get the best of both worlds. you get immediate brand recognition than with the all too oft "that's an Audi?!" that i hear so much of from newer or "would-be" fans. i think that having both marquees in at the same time would also benifit the sport as a whole as well. you have twice the potential following that could now be becoming associated with the series.

pit