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Originally Posted by JAG
Lots of fine words but I do think this rules stability argument is a bit of a red herring.
Take Dyson for example, they ran the MG Lola AER for years and reached a stage were they could challenge Joest and Champion Audi.
They switched to the presumably very expensive RS Spyders and never got the best out of the cars before returning to Lola and AER.
Looking to 2011 and beyond Dyson could quite conceivably be running a version of the AER and Lola chassis for a decade.
Nothing would be better for the series than for Dyson to join Highcroft and commit two P1 cars for the 2011 season. Put on a united front and start planning for 2011 now. I'd also bump the LMPC's upto P2 and you'd have a great base to build upon.
Please don't run a combined LMP class as it disincentivizes the likes of Highcroft and potential new entrants from investing in new P1 cars.
It also makes it very difficult for entrants to embrace the new cost effective P2 regs if you are expecting them to compete for overall wins rather than letting them get their own thing going with the current LMPC cars.
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Dyson drifted far away from the recommended setup for the Spyders. Those cars were highly complicated and they had to "Dyson-ize" it and it didn't quite work.
Go back over some of the 2007 and 2008 races, Calvin Fish mentioned this several times.
As for full prepared teams, none is more fully prepared than Duncan's operation. CMK what did he say last weekend? I don't think I caught it. If your talking about his view of what happen between David and Klaus, I dunno, I let it go over my head.
Atherton laughed at Ducan with his "business plan" because the likes of "Solo Al", Ex-NFL Quarterbacks, The Fields and Autocon. The last two who treat it as a "weekend out" with our expensive toys.