[WEC] 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship

[HORNDAWG]

Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Didn't someone say that P&M are running chassis 002 and 003 in TUSC right now and 001 would be brought out for Austin (although none of us knew why when that was mentioned)?

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[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Didn't someone say that P&M are running chassis 002 and 003 in TUSC right now and 001 would be brought out for Austin (although none of us knew why when that was mentioned)?

Yeah but he said it would've been used for the IMSA race if given green light

Originally Posted by HORNDAWG

14 weeks, an eternity!
And yet people complain about TUSC's Le Mans break of around 4 weeks, go figure.

The only one I'veen heard complaining of that has been Bobby Rahal.

[Articus]

Originally Posted by Chiana

Yeah but he said it would've been used for the IMSA race if given green light

Which i should have realized back then made no sense.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Articus

Which i should have realized back then made no sense.

Maybe but A) Corvette has fielded three cars in ALMS before @ Mosport 2007 b) the guy who mentioned that owns the a-w-e-s-o-m-e P&M Corvette chassis history archive site so his word tends to be thrustworthy

Maybe plans have changed. Or they lied. Or something

[Coach Ep]

Corvette for CotA not a done deal yet apparently:

In particular the potential for a possible one-off entry at CoTa has been, and is still believed to be, a point of discussion.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2014/0...-corvette.html

Hmmm.

[Salamus]

Mike Conway replaces Nakajima at COTA.

[Pontlieue]

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/fuj...shinji-nakano/

Taisan is planning to run at Fuji in the WEC. No interest in AsLMS.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Pontlieue

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/fuj...shinji-nakano/

No interest in AsLMS.

Hmm, so they are exactly like everyone else?

[Deleted]

Taisan actually had entries on the initial AsLMS entry list, but I guess they finally realized what crappy value for money that dead end series really is.

It's good to have one off entries for the WEC, makes the grid seem less sterile. But, if they don't aim to run anywhere next season and only do Fuji now, I'm not sure how they expect to get entry for LM next year. Bottom at the reserves at best

[Salamus]

Originally Posted by Chiana

It's good to have one off entries for the WEC, makes the grid seem less sterile. But, if they don't aim to run anywhere next season and only do Fuji now, I'm not sure how they expect to get entry for LM next year. Bottom at the reserves at best

Two words. Asian team. There aren't many of them and the ACO tries everything in their power to invite Asian teams to potentially make endurance racing attractive in Asia.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Salamus

Two words. Asian team. There aren't many of them and the ACO tries everything in their power to invite Asian teams to potentially make endurance racing attractive in Asia.

Yet Taisan only got themselves to the reserve list this year, despite actually running full AsLMS last year (with actual ACO eglible machinery too, unlike Craft and all the other Asian teams bar P2s)

[BudLightJaguar]

What comes to eligibility, ACO should reserve the 56th Le Mans garage in 2015 for a DP team. It's a showcase for new technology...so...tube frame...N/A cross plane V8....

[MagVanisher]

Originally Posted by BudLightJaguar

What comes to eligibility, ACO should reserve the 56th Le Mans garage in 2015 for a DP team. It's a showcase for new technology...so...tube frame...N/A cross plane V8....

It will be a disaster, let alone saving the driver from imminent death at Le Mans. We don't wanna have another fatality after 2013.

It would be best if the 56th entry will be a team from either DTM or Super GT. If not, close the 56th Garage.

[Rcz]

Well IMSA type cars had there own class at Le Mans during the 80s apparently. If they can upgrade there safety perimeters of course, then why not?

I would like to see a experimental DP with a Carbon Chassis

[rich07]

Originally Posted by Pontlieue

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/fuj...shinji-nakano/

Taisan is planning to run at Fuji in the WEC. No interest in AsLMS.

lol

Great advertising for AsLMS. A good Asian team like them having no interest in their local series, despite the series desperately wanting teams like them to race in AsLMS.

Bravo....

[TzeiTzei]

Is it actually certain that DP wouldn't pass the crash tests? Just asking because I have no idea. I'd like to see one at Le Mans, just because, you know, we could actually see the G56 car running after two years of total failure.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by MagVanisher

It will be a disaster, let alone saving the driver from imminent death at Le Mans. We don't wanna have another fatality after 2013.

Imminent death? What?

Okay having a car that doesn't pass FIA crash tests would be stupid, but in principle, how exactly would running @ Circuit de la Sarthe which now has / will have asphalt runoffs at approx 85% of the corners/straights be any more dangerous than at bumpy unadulterated Sebring with infinitely thicker traffic density (not to mention LMPCs causing havoc...), or at the streets of Long Beach? Yeah the top speeds would be higher, but not that much more so than at say Road America or Mosport.

Not that I would ever want to see DP at LM, but still.

[Juntos]

Will we ever watch the Deltawing competing with the ZEOC? That would be the a battle of G56 ugly titans. One that WEC must see.

[somebodysb2]

A DP at Le Mans? Seriously?

I mean, you guys saw what happened to the Gainsco car at Daytona..right?

It'd be great if they let a GT3 car run as G56. Something that will actually finish the race, and something that may restart GTE/GT3 convergence talks i.e. much more relevant to motorsport.

[Hendrix]

Originally Posted by somebodysb2

I mean, you guys saw what happened to the Gainsco car at Daytona..right?

I'm not so sure any car could withstand that incident without having a similar outcome (injured driver). Usually race cars don't run into stationary objects at full speed so they don't really plan for it, just like how cars usually don't crash into certain sections of Le Mans (until they do).

[TF110]

Huge news! Rebellion preparing a 3rd entry in Austin!
http://twitter.com/RebellionRacing/s...21469573087232













Gotcha But, in real news, Bart Hayden confirmed to Auothebdo theyre developing a high downforce package.

[rich07]

Originally Posted by TF110

Huge news! Rebellion preparing a 3rd entry in Austin!
http://twitter.com/RebellionRacing/s...21469573087232













Gotcha But, in real news, Bart Hayden confirmed to Auothebdo theyre developing a high downforce package.

Awesome! I see the third car has it's forks down at ground level so it appears to be running the low downforce aero

[Hingo]

Originally Posted by somebodysb2

It'd be great if they let a GT3 car run as G56. Something that will actually finish the race, and something that may restart GTE/GT3 convergence talks i.e. much more relevant to motorsport.

Now that would be worth watching.

[Flo aus N]

Originally Posted by Hingo

Now that would be worth watching.

But a regularly GT3 (except the Z4), running in a low-downforce version would just outperform every GTE... Especially in Le Mans, considering the better downforce / drag ratio of the GT3 cars and the more horsepower. And there would be another problem: The better Topspeed would make the LMP2 cars very happy....

[Mike Hedlund]

Originally Posted by Flo aus N

But a regularly GT3 (except the Z4), running in a low-downforce version would just outperform every GTE... Especially in Le Mans, considering the better downforce / drag ratio of the GT3 cars and the more horsepower. And there would be another problem: The better Topspeed would make the LMP2 cars very happy....

There is no "low downforce" GT3 version. GT3 cars have higher drag than GTE cars.

-mike