I think that can of worms may have been opened if Porsche is giving teams running year old equipment the kits to upgrade them to current equipment.
Get that weak shit off my track
Ah, ok. I misunderstood the loophole they used. So in the future, everyone should use some version of their new car in the last Pro race, and then the next year Pro and Am can be step by step.
Last edited by Kchrpm; January 16th, 2014 at 11:52 AM.
Get that weak shit off my track
Porsche did it by the books... a car is allowed one evolution of a homologation if it's done within the first year of said homologation.
Larbre running a C7, a car that hasn't even turned a wheel in the WEC, as an AM car is not at all the same thing.
Basically Larbre just wants a waiver to get around the rule.
Of course, there is nothing stopping a team from running the C6.Rs either, there's plenty of them out there. GTLM is just too expensive for most teams to compete in against the factories.
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Here's one of the comments from another board:
Reply from another poster that I think sums up a little of the fan frustration:Originally Posted by mike
That's goofy.
Not fer nuthin but when I see a full-on factory effort
achieve success at that level I'm not all that impressed. With the rescources
available, they damned well oughta be.
But if you and your buddies were
able to buy a GT3 spec Corvette and went out and were successful that would mean
something to me.
Whoomah!
The Rolex Series Camaros are still eligible for GTD, but I have a feeling GM quietly told Stevenson to let that program end.
The last time Corvette had direct competition from another Corvette was Pacific Coast Motorsports running an old C5-R in the last years of the GT1 class. The team had zero support from GM.
There was also the case of Lou Giglotti's GT2 Corvette that GM snuffed before Corvette moved into the GT2 class.
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If a quality team came along, they probably would consider allowing them to race in IMSA with a C7R. But, the odds of such a thing are incredibly small. For practical purposes, they are right. However, you can buy a Corvette DP... anybody can. I'm not sure about the comment about the factory budget and expecting success... everyone is factory or semi-factory. Stevenson was told to park the Camaro... or more specifically, all funding was pulled from that effort. I can imagine the GTD thing is about control though. If they choose to run GTD here, I would imagine it will be a P&M car, not a Callaway. Also Lou raced against the GT2 Corvette Racing team for a season, and actually outqualified them once. What was snuffed, was Lou going to LM, as the car only had ALMS homologation.