The GT2 cars are higher power but lower downforce than the GT3 cars. They're meant to be easier for a gentlemen driver to get the most fun out of without the skill and commitment needed in high downforce cars.
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The GT2 cars are higher power but lower downforce than the GT3 cars. They're meant to be easier for a gentlemen driver to get the most fun out of without the skill and commitment needed in high downforce cars.
The only GT2 cars I know of are the Audi R8 LMS GT2, Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport and KTM X-Bow GT2. They were designed as a concept by SRO (who used to run the FIA GT Championship) as a sort of middle ground category between GT4 and GT3 that rich folks in customer teams could drive, which to me has led to an annoyingly confusing naming convention.
It’s a bit of a stillborn category in my eyes. It’s been a few years since it was proposed and while COVID hasn’t helped, nobody had the money for an amateur racing category in expensive cars, and manufacturers would be putting in all that effort to develop and sell maybe ten examples of each. On the other hand GT3 is popular and ubiquitous and has provision for PRO/AM competition.
Barring an asteroid impact, it looks like Toyota is going to get an overall win again. Call me a cynic but it’s not a huge achievement when your competitors are miles off the pace. The more intriguing races are in the other categories. Bring on the other manufacturers!
Indeed impressive, even if they are benefitting from lack of competition from big names.
and the GR is different to the TS050 but still. I need more variety in my case, lol
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Yeah, so long as they do not wreck or explode it's a foregone conclusion. In light of 2016 that might actually be a struggle for Toyota. It's not a coincidence their reliability issues cleared up when they stopped having to push the envelope and actually compete.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rare White Ape
Was hoping the cars wouldn't turn back on during their photo staging pit stop, but, alas.
That was a pretty intense ending for LMP2, and kinda scary for the flagman. Probably should notice there's a battle and skip the photo-op and put him on the wall.
Yup. I would have been okay with him getting popped so we can do away with that for good.
Can I just say, the Glickenhaus entry is one of the sexiest prototypes I’ve ever seen!? Exactly what you’d expect a modern endurance car to look like. A real shame the ACO couldn’t rein in the Toyotas a little to give them a better chance, but I guess they don’t want to upset them given they were the only manufacturer in Hypercar. Hopefully some new BOP next year will drop them down a little.
With the ACO's goal of having GT racing be privateer/amateur only, with manufacturers only allowed to participate in prototype/hypercar teams, it made me wonder if GM would want to pull a VAG and compete against themselves, Corvette vs Cadillac, the way that VAG will have Audi vs Porsche vs Lamborghini. I doubt it, and it seems to make more sense to have Corvette as the hybrid race car brand since Cadillac is transitioning to an all electric lineup in the next 10 years or whatever it is.