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Your Dream WEC Schedule
I was just thinking about and was wondering what your dream WEC schedule would be.
Mine would be as follows: 1. Sebring 12 Hour 2. Monza 1000km 3. Spa 6 Hours 4. Le Mans 24 Hours 5. Silverstone 6 Hour 6. Interlagos 6 Hour 7. Potrero de Los Funes 6 Hour {Night Race} 8. Autopolis 6 Hour 9. Buddh 1000km 10. Bathurst 6 Hour {would be cool to see prototypes at Bathurst} |
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Daytona 24 Hours
Sebring 12 Hours Mille Miglia Targa Florio Spa 1000km Le Mans 24 Hours ADAC 1000km RAC Tourist Trophy Venezuelan Sportscar Grand Prix Carrera Panamericana |
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Disregarding regulatory and economic factors:
- Sebring. - Monza. - Spa. - Le Mans. - Nurburgring. - Donington. - Road Atlanta (or, Watkins Glen). - Suzuka. - Bathurst. Regular season events are six hours - with exceptions for Sebring (12H), and Road Atlanta (or, Watkins - 10H/1000 mile). |
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(1) Daytona 24 hours
(2) Sebring 12 hours (3) Monza (4) Brands Hatch (5) Spa (6) Suzuka (7) Le Mans 24 hours (8) Sao Pualo (9) Road Atlanta (10) Mosport Sadly , Europe doesnt have many exciting tracks left anymore . |
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Daytona 24 Hours
Sebring 12 Hours Road America Montreal Spa Le Mans 24 Hours Brands Hatch Monza Suzuka Fuji Adelaide Sao Paulo Road Atlanta Needs another European event but I can't go as far to put either Monaco or the Nordschleife on the list for obvious reasons. |
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not in this order
Sebring 12h Silverstone Le Mans 24h Spa Monza/Nurburgring Shanghai Fuji Suzuka Sao Paulo Austin Last edited by lms; 5 Nov 2012 at 11:24. |
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No Bahrain & regular races cut to 3 hours.
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I couldnt care less where Mosport is , to be honest , it could be in the back of beyonds or Timbuktoo for all I really care , Its a great track as far as Im concerned ..... and thats why I placed it in my choices .
What are your track selections ? |
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Sebring
Oulton Park Brands Hatch Spa Le Mans Monza (with the old banks restored and re-intergrated into the circuit) Reims Nordschleiffe Bathurst Suzuka Road America Interlagos San Luis. There we are, that's my dream. |
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Here is mine a 10 round one:
12 Hours of Sebring 6 Hours of Silverstone 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps Le Mans 24 Hours 1000 Km of the Nurburgring 1000 Km of Fuji 1000 Km of Suzuka Bathurst 12 Hours Laguna Seca 6 Hours Petit Le Mans |
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I'm seeing a trend here. No one, so far, wants to see the old girl go away. Me either.
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Why do you even mention my wife? She isn't involved in or even interested in racing.
Stay on topic, please! |
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If pundits are calling Le Mans "a 24h sprint race", what is so endurance about 6 hours?
I bet unpopular opinion, but I just think current/modern reliability has rendered 6 hour length pointless. And it's literally a 6-hour nightmare for tv. Last edited by deggis; 5 Nov 2012 at 18:53. |
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(1) Sebring 12 hours
(2) Silverstone (3) Spa (4) Monza (5) Le Mans 24 hours (6) Nurburgring (7) Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez (8) Sao Paulo (9) Potrero de los Funes (10) Fuji |
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Money and dates aside, this is how I'd like to see the schedule look.
12hrs Sebring 8hrs Donington Park 6hrs Spa 24hrs Le Mans 6hrs Jerez 8hrs Hockenheim 6hrs Imola 12hrs Dubai 6hrs Fuji 6hrs Shanghai 8hrs Interlagos 10hrs Road Atlanta As you can see, it's prominently European focused ![]() |
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This would be my ideal long-term schedule with an example of dates using the 2013 calendar. I tried to limit the globe-trotting to make it more realistic. Anything with multiple venues means either venue would be acceptable or they can rotate on a yearly basis.
1. Sebring 12 Hours with ALMS- March 16th 2. Montreal/Mosport 3 hours- March 30th 3. Brands GP/ Donington 3 hours with ELMS- April 13th 4. Silverstone 6 Hours with ELMS- April 27th 5. Spa 6 Hours with ELMS- May 11th 6. LeMans 24 Hours- June 15th 7. Monza 6 Hours with ELMS- July 6th 8. Nurburghring/Hockenheim 3 Hours with ELMS- July 20th 9. Abu Dhabi 3 Hours into night- August 10th 10. Suzuka/Fuji 6 Hours- September 7th 11. Phillip Island/Bathurst/Interlagos 3 Hours- September 21st 12. Petit LeMans with ALMS or ALMS standalone on Friday 10 hours/ 1000 miles – October 19th |
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TV ..... fine , show highlights then , Im happy enough with that . |
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Go for a grand scedule of 14 rounds!
March- Sebring 12hrs late April- Monza 8hrs May- Spa 8hrs Late May- Silverstone 8hrs LeMans 24hrs early July- Nurburgring 6 hrs late July- Catalunya 6 hrs early August- Fuji 6hrs mid August- Suzuka 12 hrs late August- Autopolis 6hrs mid September- India 6hrs late September- Brazil (Space for PLM) early November-Austin Texas 6 hrs late November- Abu Dhabi 6hrs |
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If TV is going to dictate how sports are run, not just presented, then every race should be run in seven-minute sprints to fit between commercials.
Soccer somehow is allowed to run 45-minute uninterrupted halves, though. Six hours is an endurance race, not because of the pace (who says endurance racing should be slow???) but because it is difficult to keep any machine operating at maximum for a long time: human beings, human organizations, mechanized machines ... Should marathons be doubled in length because runners can now cover the distance so much more quickly than 100 years ago? The original runner delivering the news of the Greek victory at Marathon died---should marathons be "Run 'til you drop"? Should the whole idea of endurance races be scrapped because cars can now run fast for 24 hours, when originally it was rare that any car could run at any speed for that duration? Longer races are more demanding, even if teams (and cars) can usually finish them. The simple need of maintaining focus for the entire race length gives the race its particular flavor. The added duration also allows more time for error---errors in traffic, errors in the pits, strategy errors. This creates more drama for the viewer and more challenge for the teams. |
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I think I'd go with a mix of tradition and tracks I know and like. Dates are not ironed out in my plan. Daytona (24h) Sebring (12h) Spa Le Mans (24h, obviously) Silverstone Donington Nurburgring Monza Suzuka Interlagos I suppose the rest 6 hours. Also, maybe throw in my home track Mosport, and Road Atlanta. Hmm. Maybe add an extra race in Germany (Hockenheim? Ideally the impossible old track) and Japan (Fuji for Toyota) whilst Audi and Toyota are in the WEC. Cater this other manufacturers if they join. Maybe a race in Australia too? It'd be nice to see these cars at Bathurst or on the Nordschleiffe, but that isn't feasible. So between 10 and 15 races. |
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Length of the regular races must the single biggest reason for crappy tv deals and don't see this changing. ACO can ask for full live races, but they're not going to get them. Teams won't be pleased forever with 5000 worldwide webstream viewers. LM24 is of course different because it has prestige, and it happens only once in a year. Umm, what was that other World Championship for sportscars, which used to have the E word in its name until manufacturers got rid of it and not soon after that regular race format became <500km? ![]() Quote:
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Daytona - 24hr
Austin - 6hr Sebring - 12hr Monza - 2x 500km Spa - 1000km Le Mans - 24hr Suzuka - 2x 500km Silverstone - 1000km Nurburgring - 2x 500km Petit Le Mans - 1000mi Interlagos - 6hr Abu Dhabi - 8hr |
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Sebring 12H/Daytona24H (alternating)
Monza 6H Spa 1000K LM24 Silverstone 6H Suzuka 6H/ Fuji 6H (alternating) Laguna Seca 3H/Watkins Glen 3H (alternating) Petit Le Mans 1000M Phillip Island 3H and the grand finale Bathurst 12H ![]() It is a dream thread so I would not even entertain the thought of any of the bland Middle Eastern circuits, but if reality comes into this, probably Abu Dhabi, and Chinese and South American races would be added. |
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