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Old 1 Sep 2012, 23:12 (Ref:3128642)   #2826
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My thoughts exactly! It's the same at Grand-Am. Clearly they should marry
At least its not as bad as the muggings that Chip's two teams have gotten away with in Grand-Am.
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 05:39 (Ref:3134042)   #2827
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Mark Patterson will drive the #20 Dyson at VIR then the #16 at PLM. I've never heard of him before, how good is he?
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 06:13 (Ref:3134050)   #2828
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Mark Patterson will drive the #20 Dyson at VIR then the #16 at PLM. I've never heard of him before, how good is he?
From Wikipedia: "Mark Patterson is a South African born private equity and hedge fund businessman of caucasian descent, notable for co-founding the private equity firm MatlinPatterson Global Advisors.
Along with David Matlin, they make up the private equity firm MatlinPatterson Global Advisors."

So he's not very good.
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 06:18 (Ref:3134053)   #2829
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He drove for Michael Shank in Grand Am for a long time... won one or two DP races, actually. Decent enough for a gentleman driver, I think.
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 06:22 (Ref:3134054)   #2830
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He drove for Michael Shank in Grand Am for a long time... won one or two DP races, actually. Decent enough for a gentleman driver, I think.
And he drove a few times for United Autosports as far as I'm aware. (Including Petit Le Mans last year in a P2 car)
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 06:47 (Ref:3134058)   #2831
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(Including Petit Le Mans last year in a P2 car)
Where they finished second in class. (13th overall, 8 laps back of Tucker's 33 car.)

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Old 11 Sep 2012, 09:21 (Ref:3134105)   #2832
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I wonder if he was one of the people the team thought could help them get the second car to Le Mans this year?
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And he drove a few times for United Autosports as far as I'm aware. (Including Petit Le Mans last year in a P2 car)
Isnt he a co-owner (or at least heavily involved) in United Autosports? Zak Brown being the other. I seem to hear UA and Patterson in the same a breath a lot.
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Old 11 Sep 2012, 15:52 (Ref:3134277)   #2834
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Isnt he a co-owner (or at least heavily involved) in United Autosports? Zak Brown being the other. I seem to hear UA and Patterson in the same a breath a lot.
No, just a paying driver. Richard Dean I believe is the other co-owner.

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He drove for Michael Shank in Grand Am for a long time... won one or two DP races, actually. Decent enough for a gentleman driver, I think.
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Where they finished second in class. (13th overall, 8 laps back of Tucker's 33 car.)

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Fair enough, but James Weaver he is not.
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Fair enough, but James Weaver he is not.
And the search for his replacement goes on... Hopefully. Although you don't just luck into a James Weaver all too often.

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No, just a paying driver. Richard Dean I believe is the other co-owner.

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Another name I hear often in conjunction with UA. So its Dean and Brown who are the owners. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Old 13 Sep 2012, 06:14 (Ref:3135181)   #2838
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dyson racing with kers at vir & plm

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Old 13 Sep 2012, 08:11 (Ref:3135236)   #2839
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Wow. Was anyone else expecting this news? Strikes me as a bit of a risk to bring this in at crunch time in the championship. But all the best to them and Flybrid in making this work.
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I hope this has bigger meaning to the team in the future. If ALMS/GA drops P1- they'd be good to get their hybrid program running to join WEC and/or LeMans.
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Hope they go WEC !!!
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Old 13 Sep 2012, 11:37 (Ref:3135341)   #2842
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Does Dyson have the budget to go WEC and Le Mans though?
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Dyson himself does ..... big sales from porta-crappers for a start .

If he wants to stay in P1 , he has no choice .
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Dyson himself does ..... big sales from porta-crappers for a start .

If he wants to stay in P1 , he has no choice .
It's also an unknown if GA/ALMS will accept hybrids in 2014. If not, it would be an almost wasted project.
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Dyson is going P1/hybrid , for what reason ?

There is little point in doing this for the remaining few ALMS races .

My take would be that Mazda will fork out for a WEC P1 Dyson/hybrid 2013 season .
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Dyson himself does ..... big sales from porta-crappers for a start .

If he wants to stay in P1 , he has no choice .
Dyson, for whatever reasons, does not really seem to be interested in racing outside of N.America. He has had ample opportunity to do so, and passed. I would think they will end up in the top class of the new merged series, they have raced DPs before.
They could very well just be serving as a test bed for Mazda in the prototype class, but it is also rumored that Mazda is coming with a GX class hybrid for the new series and they could very well be proving out the tech in advance of that.


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Dyson is going P1/hybrid , for what reason ?

There is little point in doing this for the remaining few ALMS races .

My take would be that Mazda will fork out for a WEC P1 Dyson/hybrid 2013 season .
AIUI the flybrid is pretty much plug-and-play by now... and Dyson really need to do something to close the gap to the HPD, so I wouldn't read too much into this for now.
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Unless someone is going to pay him to do so .
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I don't think Mazda has those kind of money.
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There is little point in doing this for the remaining few ALMS races .

My take would be that Mazda will fork out for a WEC P1 Dyson/hybrid 2013 season .
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AIUI the flybrid is pretty much plug-and-play by now... and Dyson really need to do something to close the gap to the HPD, so I wouldn't read too much into this for now.
I also think this is just Dyson's attempt to be more competitive vs the HPD. They can also run this setup next year in the ALMS. Maybe there is a desire to be the last LMP1 champion in ALMS history?
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