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Gigawave Pulls Out
Just read this in the lastest Autosport Magazine (31/12/2009).
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Now that is not good when a manufacturer aligned team shuts. Am I correct in saying Nissan were the only manufacturer to build to the true new GT1 rules?
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31 Dec 2009, 13:18 (Ref:2606765) | #3 | |
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That is a shame, I enjoyed watching the Nissan this year.
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The Ford GT is a new generation GT1 car also.
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31 Dec 2009, 14:04 (Ref:2606786) | #6 | |
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I assume from their website that it is just Gigawave Motorsports that has stopped and Gigawave the RF/camera etc company is still going.
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31 Dec 2009, 17:30 (Ref:2606856) | #7 | ||
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Did they not employ Mr Stepney? He must be on the job market now
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^^ they did, and they were a pretty decent team too - competitive in FIA GT, won the Silverstone LMES race (against only 2 others, admittedly) - a pretty solid outfit, Mr Stepney helped with that for sure.
Shame, the head of Gigawave, Mr Gigawave (not his actual surname, I can't spell that!), is a pretty decent chap - met him in Adria last year, very nice, happy to show you around etc - I even got a look inside the truck that does the feed for the TV/GT1live.tv, whilst they were doing a live broadcast! |
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Well, this is a little serious as the Gigawave team didnt just run the cars, they also were the Europe, Middle East and American concession of Nismo Motorsport so were charge with selling the GT-R GT1 and it's associated spares. I have no doubt that Nissan will find someone else to do this task and there already are 2 GT-R GT1s destine for Swiss Racing. But still, cant be good for the GT1 championship
The Gigawave car is owned by Nissan so we might still see a "factory" team car race in the FIA GTs. Lets face it, it sounds like GT1 cars a thin on the ground so the SRO are pretty much going to allow Nismo to run a factory car. I know the GT-R is the Halo car for Nissan but i always felt that time and developement would have been better suited to developing a GT2 spec 370z. The GT-Rs both in SuperGT and GT1 bare little resemblance to the road going car hell they dont even use the same engine! |
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Was Nigel Stepney still working for them?
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7 Jan 2010, 14:13 (Ref:2609497) | #13 | |
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Yes, he was. As has been shown in the Flavio case, the FIA cannot ban team members as there is no contract between them and the series. The FIA had a press release advising teams not to hire him but couldn't out right ban him and to honest, he was just a disgruntled employee. He GT racing isnt as liable to handing over the designs of a car!
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7 Jan 2010, 14:57 (Ref:2609513) | #14 | |
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The FIA lifted their recommendation against both Nigel Stepney & Mike Coughlan back in Feb 2009 http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/02/0...-and-coughlan/
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A shame to see Gigawave close down... Any other Euro Motorsport factory willing to work out the dough to produce GT1 Skyline??? I sure hope so.
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Replacement found http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80866
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Uk Drag racing, tuning, the Max Power kind of stuff so really suprised and by this choice ?!?
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Autosport magazine has two news items, one says that Nissan have signed a new team to run their GT1 car and immediately below that another item says that Mr Stepney has resigned as a Director.
Coincidence? |
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We shall see before too long. I suspect their decision making had something to do with who would foot the bill on such short notice.
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More pics of this drag Evo?
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offtopic but - http://www.magnusmotorsports.com/gal...ragmonster.htm
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