Sportscar/GT (and Le Mans) Rumours and Repetition - Page 168

Gingers4Justice · 1 Jan 2014, 18:04 (Ref:3349485)

Fair play to him. If it's not his cup of tea, then it's not his cup of tea.

Simmi · 1 Jan 2014, 22:11 (Ref:3349535)

Bruno Senna didn't like it first time around but suddenly when he was left without a drive sportscars became a hell of a lot more attractive.

That said I don't think Button will continue to compete after his F1 career.

rich07 · 2 Jan 2014, 08:19 (Ref:3349599)

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Originally Posted by Samoan Attorney

Not a problem he encountered much last season in the McLaren!

Hahahaha I tip my hat to you John. Nice one

Mal · 2 Jan 2014, 12:05 (Ref:3349652)

Not sure what to make of this tweet by 'sniffermedia'

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sniffermedia ‏@sniffermedia 1h
Something astonishing I learnt over festive period is the Brawn F1 team were going to build an LMP1 for 2010 season #betyoudidntknowthat

Bandicoot17 · 2 Jan 2014, 13:02 (Ref:3349660)

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Originally Posted by Mal

Not sure what to make of this tweet by 'sniffermedia'

Follow up tweet too. Wonder who the team was?

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Yep they were in advanced discussions with a well known team and about to green light it. Then the three pointed star came along!

vincegail · 2 Jan 2014, 13:13 (Ref:3349662)

I very much doubt this. In the beginning of the 2009 season, Brawn had the best car by far, but they were reaping the results of Honda's development work in the previous year. Later on, the development pretty much came to a standstill, allowing other teams to come closer and even pass the Brawn.

I can't see the combination of 'not developing the F1-car' and 'making a LMP1' car. If they even couldn't do their core-business (F1), how would the LMP1 fit in the picture?

Pandamasque · 2 Jan 2014, 13:28 (Ref:3349666)

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Originally Posted by Simmi

That said I don't think Button will continue to compete after his F1 career.

Button mentioned a number of times that he would 'love' to do Le Mans. I've heard him mention at least once this year a possibility of SuperGT career after F1.

And as far as dognig slower cars, having followed his career, in my opinion his ability to overtake, to drive off-line and place his car in traffic in F1 today is only matched by Alonso's. For that and a number of other reasons out of the current F1 drivers, he'd be my #1 choice for LMP. I think when he's ready to move on, a works WEC contract isn't going to be hard to find.

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Originally Posted by vincegail

I can't see the combination of 'not developing the F1-car' and 'making a LMP1' car. If they even couldn't do their core-business (F1), how would the LMP1 fit in the picture?

Additionally, wouldn't there be a BETTER chance to field a Brawn LMP when the 3-pointed star arrived and gave Brawn a nice bag of money for his F1 team, money that Brawn was running out of during the course of the season?

Mal · 2 Jan 2014, 14:48 (Ref:3349689)

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Originally Posted by vincegail

I very much doubt this. In the beginning of the 2009 season, Brawn had the best car by far, but they were reaping the results of Honda's development work in the previous year. Later on, the development pretty much came to a standstill, allowing other teams to come closer and even pass the Brawn.

I can't see the combination of 'not developing the F1-car' and 'making a LMP1' car. If they even couldn't do their core-business (F1), how would the LMP1 fit in the picture?

Unless Honda was also involved?

nkh · 2 Jan 2014, 22:24 (Ref:3349828)

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Originally Posted by vincegail

I very much doubt this. In the beginning of the 2009 season, Brawn had the best car by far, but they were reaping the results of Honda's development work in the previous year. Later on, the development pretty much came to a standstill, allowing other teams to come closer and even pass the Brawn.

I can't see the combination of 'not developing the F1-car' and 'making a LMP1' car. If they even couldn't do their core-business (F1), how would the LMP1 fit in the picture?

The reason they didn't develop the F1 car much was lack of money, not lack of talent. If someone had paid them to build a LMP1, then the F1 development would have been the same, but the team could have avoided laying off people and assigned them to the LMP1 program.

Mal · 5 Jan 2014, 10:25 (Ref:3350543)

I picked up this from a post by 'CanAmMan' on the Roar before the 24 thread, from a live interview he witnessed in Daytona with Scott Atherton:

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Atherton also:
there is a big announcement coming concerning world endurance .

any ideas? - or is this typical Atherton bull****?

Samoan Attorney · 5 Jan 2014, 10:34 (Ref:3350545)

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Originally Posted by Mal

I picked up this from a post by 'CanAmMan' on the Roar before the 24 thread, from a live interview he witnessed in Daytona with Scott Atherton:

any ideas? - or is this typical Atherton bull****?

If only you knew what he knew............

gustavobamba · 5 Jan 2014, 10:37 (Ref:3350546)

My bet is they are going to redesign the Deltawing Coupe, "make him not so ugly"

Coach Ep · 5 Jan 2014, 11:31 (Ref:3350559)

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Originally Posted by canamman

Here are my notes of interest at the ROAR today:

4) Saw the live interview that Bob Varsha did with Scott Atherton.
Atherton also there is a big announcement coming concerning world endurance .

No combined WEC/TUSC weekend at COTA perhaps (although anybody else than SA wouldn´t call that big...) or a second WEC race in North America from 2015 onwards?

MitchZ06 · 5 Jan 2014, 11:37 (Ref:3350561)

Combined GT regs to be released soon?

Maelochs · 5 Jan 2014, 13:56 (Ref:3350578)

Depends on how old the post is, and how old the press release it is based on.

Possibly it is the announcement that Patron is putting up $300,000 in purses for the NAEC.

No media events scheduled for the rest of the Roar, I don't think ... they wouldn't wait until Sunday (football day) for a big announcement.

Lagunaseca_4life · 5 Jan 2014, 17:50 (Ref:3350626)

Foot ball is in the play offs, and now playing Saturday and Sundays only two games each day for next two weeks before Super Bowl.most people are not interested anymore because there teams are not in it....

Maelochs · 5 Jan 2014, 19:15 (Ref:3350649)

Yeah, I forgot about the playoffs (pretty funny since I watched the New Orleans game last night ...)

Still, no apparent press activity from Daytona on Sunday ....

Pandamasque · 7 Jan 2014, 18:00 (Ref:3351308)

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Originally Posted by Coach Ep

No combined WEC/TUSC weekend at COTA perhaps (although anybody else than SA wouldn´t call that big...) or a second WEC race in North America from 2015 onwards?

1. Why would Atherton advertise their a disagreement with the WEC?
2. Why would Atherton advertise WEC expansion in the US?

Coach Ep · 7 Jan 2014, 20:14 (Ref:3351352)

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Originally Posted by Pandamasque

1. Why would Atherton advertise their a disagreement with the WEC?
2. Why would Atherton advertise WEC expansion in the US?

1. Maybe to announce a new date for his beloved TUSC at COTA???
2. (going in opposite direction here and highly unlikely but still) So WEC and TUSC can have another Super Endurance weekend??? (assuming they've worked out their differences)

Maelochs · 8 Jan 2014, 00:08 (Ref:3351410)

I think the "Big Announcement" was the racing regulations. Nothing to see here, move along ...

wdave0 · 8 Jan 2014, 15:41 (Ref:3351669)

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Originally Posted by Mal

I picked up this from a post by 'CanAmMan' on the Roar before the 24 thread, from a live interview he witnessed in Daytona with Scott Atherton:

any ideas? - or is this typical Atherton bull****?

The world will not end as predicted - we get at least another millennium.

Pandamasque · 9 Jan 2014, 02:13 (Ref:3351872)

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Originally Posted by Coach Ep

1. Maybe to announce a new date for his beloved TUSC at COTA???
2. (going in opposite direction here and highly unlikely but still) So WEC and TUSC can have another Super Endurance weekend??? (assuming they've worked out their differences)

Neither strikes me as big announcement. But then, this is Atherton

Thaw Daggerslash · 12 Jan 2014, 14:42 (Ref:3353056)

Interesting quote from McNish at Autosport International today. This is taken from Autosport's live text commentary:

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We already know that Porsche is joining Audi and Toyota in LMP1 in 2014, that Nissan is doing the same in '15, and that Ferrari is poised too.

McNish reckons there are "two more manufacturers beyond the ones we already know about" planning to come in as well.

He predicts that 2014-6 will be "very bright" for top level sportscar racing.

"Le Mans brings iconic names back because it's an iconic place."

What does Mr McNish know that we don't? Any guesses?

Gingers4Justice · 12 Jan 2014, 14:46 (Ref:3353057)

He could just mean Nissan and Ferrari?

Thaw Daggerslash · 12 Jan 2014, 14:51 (Ref:3353059)

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Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

He could just mean Nissan and Ferrari?

Maybe, but the "beyond the ones we already know about" makes me wonder...besides, the Ferrari/Nissan thing is pretty common knowledge by now.

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