2014 United Sports Car Championship

[FoolKiller]

Look at it from the team owners' perspective all you want, but if you merge two series and make it so the fans of one of them don't want to support you, then you might as well have taken all the money to merger cost, converted it to gold, and hit yourself in the head with it. Team owners don't buy tickets, souvenirs, food, etc. Caving to team owners at the cost of fans has killed other sports.

ALMS started with For the Fans. ALMS fans remember that. The moment it becomes For the Owners they will bail and the whole thing will be a failure.

No one will be 100% happy. That goes for owners, drivers, manufacturers, and fans.

And like I said. If you could convince the powers that be that DP should stay the same, but LMP is still involved, ALMS fans will be on board. In fact, they'd be happier.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

If Ganassi wanted to race Le Mans, you know they have more than enough money. Why aren't they? Simple: they're racing DP because it makes better business sense up to this point. Starworks raced LMP2 because Enzo Potoliccio cut a check. Notice they didn't race LMP2 in America where they stayed with DP rather than racing their LMP2 in the ALMS. Logic should say that make one car that everyone can use around the world will work the best, but in reality, a tube frame, 90s era technology, slow, and up until 2012 pretty darn ugly car has gotten more entries consistently than cars that can be raced anywhere around the world here in America. Why is that so? Easy: those old ugly slow cars make better financial sense. After all, Bob Stallings wants to retire with a fat checkbook doing what he loves. Peter Baron wants his children to go to college. Michael Shank's life is making the racing business turn a profit so he can keep the lights on. They've all made the same business decision to go with DP because it's just that, good business sense. If you go away from the affordable aspect of the DP, it becomes an old slow paperweight. Then the teams that can afford it, upgrade or buy a LMP2. Those who can't (roughly half) get lost in transition. The end result is 5 DP and 5 LMP2 in a watered down prototype class where the DP's that can spend the most money dominate and all the ALMS fans accuse NASCAR of rigging the series. Looks like a lose/lose to me. If you think Ganassi is tough now with how even the DPs are kept, imagine if chip can spend all he wants. Then it becomes a challenge of who has the deepest pockets. Teams are lost in the seams because they don't feel like showing up every week seconds off the pace. Then we end up with the ALMS again from 2008-now where everyone talks about how good the Gt racing is and the prototype race is over after turn 1.

The only better sense I see is that he doesn't get his butt handed to him outside of the American motorsport spectrum...which he does already. He has plenty of money to go over there, but winning is an entirely different beast. If staying home made better business sense then Chevy wouldn't go and they'd dominate here, and GM would have them crush regional groups like they did with Cadillac and Pontiac in the past. Starworks probably wanted to compete on a more international level then stay at home that doesn't mean nor prove that DP should only be here. Unless you have explicit insight on to why they went WEC over ALMS I'm sure we'd all love to see it, cause you've gone quite personal with your assumptions and a source would be nice. At least mine is more realistic, their is also a marketability about being an American team racing against the world.

Once again I doubt who has the deepest pockets will prove to be the winner especially after what we saw with Porsche and Acura back in the day. Also LMP2 is still price capped overseas so if they really want to be invited they'll run their cars accordingly to ACO/FIA regs and homologation. I find it hard to try and take you seriously when you spout of these crackpot views with no basis of support. You don't know how WEC or Le Mans works and yet you still choose to act as if you do. Once again we get you don't want to see this, I am fine with DP having to spend more money and see a more updated car compete, I just don't like the reaction for the elitist nationalistic Rolex fans that think their series is the paragon of racing, it's not nor ever was and we can hash that out if you'd like.

 

[MrWednesday]

ALMS started with For the Fans. ALMS fans remember that. The moment it becomes For the Owners they will bail and the whole thing will be a failure.

And the moment you lose the owners, they bail and there won't be a series for the fans to watch.

Besides which, Grand-Am had fans. I'm not saying that USCR should blow off the ALMS fans, but doing a part of the series the Grand-Am way is not going to wipe out all the fans. (And losing the prototype ALMS fans also doesn't necessarily mean losing all of the ALMS fans.)

Ideally, they find a balance which largely preserves the grid sizes from Grand-Am while not running off the ALMS fans, but I tend to think that they're currently leaning a little too far to the catering to ALMS fans side of things.

 

[cnd01]

The only better sense I see is that he doesn't get his butt handed to him outside of the American motorsport spectrum...which he does already. He has plenty of money to go over there, but winning is an entirely different beast. If staying home made better business sense then Chevy wouldn't go and they'd dominate here, and GM would have them crush regional groups like they did with Cadillac and Pontiac in the past. Starworks probably wanted to compete on a more international level then stay at home that doesn't mean nor prove that DP should only be here. Unless you have explicit insight on to why they went WEC over ALMS I'm sure we'd all love to see it, cause you've gone quite personal with your assumptions and a source would be nice. At least mine is more realistic, their is also a marketability about being an American team racing against the world.

Once again I doubt who has the deepest pockets will prove to be the winner especially after what we saw with Porsche and Acura back in the day. Also LMP2 is still price capped overseas so if they really want to be invited they'll run their cars accordingly to ACO/FIA regs and homologation. I find it hard to try and take you seriously when you spout of these crackpot views with no basis of support. You don't know how WEC or Le Mans works and yet you still choose to act as if you do. Once again we get you don't want to see this, I am fine with DP having to spend more money and see a more updated car compete, I just don't like the reaction for the elitist nationalistic Rolex fans that think their series is the paragon of racing, it's not nor ever was and we can hash that out if you'd like.

I'm not looking to hash anything out. Im looking at this from the standpoint that grand am bought the ALMS. I think it would be bad if grand am made all the ALMS teams buy a gagt and DP. We both can agree that thats unfair. I believe that it's not unreasonable to have issues with Imsa making all the DP teams spend the cost of a new car upgrading what they have when 13 DP competed full season and 16 competed in more than one race comparative to the 4 LMP2 that raced full season in the ALMS. Considering Guy Cosmo put some stuff on his twitter making even more evidence to the case that L5 is going to the WEC and not even worrying about the USCC shows that there won't be any more than a handful of LMP2 teams unless the DP teams switch over which is honestly the most cost effective strategy given the rules are making the DP teams collectively bend over and grab the vasoline. If you think that's perfectly fine, that's your opinion. Im not trying to say who's better. I am analyzing the situation from the perslective of majority rule. The majority of prototype teams (excluding PC because they're being retained) are DP teams from grand am, so why screw them over when that's the largest base?

 

[RACECAR]

Keep in mind, those are still "Draft Rules" so they are still subject to change based on input and feedback from the teams.

 

[cnd01]

Keep in mind, those are still "Draft Rules" so they are still subject to change based on input and feedback from the teams.

That's the one glimmer of hope left. From the way Peter Baron was talking on gaunleashed, all the DP teams pitched a massive fit and honestly I don't blame them. Peter talked about how Porsche makes a set of shocks that cost 150K a set that can fit the DP. That's slightly excessive but teams can use those by the draft rules. Peter was talking like Imsa had no clue that the package would end up costing that much which tells me they really don't know a lot in general or they're just gauging what doesn't tick off the largest amount of people

 

[FoolKiller]

And the moment you lose the owners, they bail and there won't be a series for the fans to watch.

Besides which, Grand-Am had fans. I'm not saying that USCR should blow off the ALMS fans, but doing a part of the series the Grand-Am way is not going to wipe out all the fans. (And losing the prototype ALMS fans also doesn't necessarily mean losing all of the ALMS fans.)

I mean the merger will be a failure. Mergers are to grow customer/fan bases. If enough ALMS fans lose interest it becomes a loss. You don't have to lose them all to be a failure, just enough to have lost money on the deal. And if you don't want to piss off owners/drivers you shouldn't be talking about altering safer crews.

but I tend to think that they're currently leaning a little too far to the catering to ALMS fans side of things.

Yeah, because completely eliminating the top tier class from ALMS, makes ALMS fans feel like they got all the advantages.

And I honestly never thought I would see racing fans complain because cars were asked to go faster...in a race. I mean, what do you want? Slower P2 cars with lowered tech specs? Imagine the marketing material: All your favorite cars...going slower!!! The tickets will sell themselves.

Perhaps you prefer DP be the same and P2 be the same?

Face it, ALMS lost a class and Grand Am needs to make more adjustments to their cars. As far as I can see, from a fan's perspective, enough changes are happening to make everyone angry. Choosing to not see the loss of P1 as significant is willful ignorance of what ALMS fans see as a huge compromise in this.

Trust me, I was at the race last week. None of the comments I heard sounded like fans who felt like they were getting an awesome deal. Quite the opposite.

 

[cnd01]

I mean the merger will be a failure. Mergers are to grow customer/fan bases. If enough ALMS fans lose interest it becomes a loss. You don't have to lose them all to be a failure, just enough to have lost money on the deal. And if you don't want to piss off owners/drivers you shouldn't be talking about altering safer crews.

Yeah, because completely eliminating the top tier class from ALMS, makes ALMS fans feel like they got all the advantages.

And I honestly never thought I would see racing fans complain because cars were asked to go faster...in a race. I mean, what do you want? Slower P2 cars with lowered tech specs? Imagine the marketing material: All your favorite cars...going slower!!! The tickets will sell themselves.

Perhaps you prefer DP be the same and P2 be the same?

Face it, ALMS lost a class and Grand Am needs to make more adjustments to their cars. As far as I can see, from a fan's perspective, enough changes are happening to make everyone angry. Choosing to not see the loss of P1 as significant is willful ignorance of what ALMS fans see as a huge compromise in this.

Trust me, I was at the race last week. None of the comments I heard sounded like fans who felt like they were getting an awesome deal. Quite the opposite.

Not realizing LMP1 in the ALMS this season and last is a waste of isobutanol and E-10 is ignoring the obvious. It had to go. It's not like the ELMS got rid of it too or anything when it was revived because it failed under a very similar platform to the ALMS...

 

[IforceV8]

DP cars had to be improved regardless because its a tough sell to call them the "top tier" of American sportcars and watch them qualify 3 sec behind the cheaper and spec LMPC Rocketsports car.

 

[cnd01]

DP cars had to be improved regardless because its a tough sell to call them the "top tier" of American sportcars and watch them qualify 3 sec behind the cheaper and spec LMPC Rocketsports car.

How many people watching on tv or even in the stands at the track not knowing a lot about sports car racing sit there and say "these Daytona prototypes are 3 seconds slower therefore I don't like them and the teams should spend half a million dollars making them faster..."

 

[Furinkazen]

How many people watching on tv or even in the stands at the track not knowing a lot about sports car racing sit there and say "these Daytona prototypes are 3 seconds slower therefore I don't like them and the teams should spend half a million dollars making them faster..."

How many people got an event like ALMS or USCC and not have a clue whats going on?

 

[cnd01]

How many people got an event like ALMS or USCC and not have a clue whats going on?

I'd argue a lot are too drunk to know a whole lot from going to races in both Rolex and the ALMS. Most could care less who's faster or who's better and are there because they enjoy going to races like myself. I don't care if it's a spec miata series racing as long as the on-track product is worth the price of admission, and imo, the grand am race is better and easier to keep track of.

 

[aarror]

How many people watching on tv or even in the stands at the track not knowing a lot about sports car racing sit there and say "these Daytona prototypes are 3 seconds slower therefore I don't like them and the teams should spend half a million dollars making them faster..."

Maybe they dont need to spend that much, but if this series is going to work they need to speed them up. Keep them at the curreny speed and they'll be passed by PCs, and the slow ones will be getting in the way of the GTLM cars. (which are the only class that will keep me watching next season.) However, unrestricted materials were a bad move, because it gives big teams like Ganassi a huge advantage over everyone else. Actually, it wouldnt suprise me if Ganassi pushed for this rule.

Getting rid of the IMSA safety team was a stupid decision, allowing unrestricted materials for the DP was a stupid decision, and a PC only race on a roval was a stupid decision. The way this is going I'll be shocked if the series lasts.

 

[Furinkazen]

I'd argue a lot are too drunk to know a whole lot from going to races in both Rolex and the ALMS. Most could care less who's faster or who's better and are there because they enjoy going to races like myself. I don't care if it's a spec miata series racing as long as the on-track product is worth the price of admission, and imo, the grand am race is better and easier to keep track of.

But do you go to a race track and a national level event without having a clue? It's like me going to BTCC and expecting a go kart race.

 

[cnd01]

Maybe they dont need to spend that much, but if this series is going to work they need to speed them up. Keep them at the curreny speed and they'll be passed by PCs, and the slow ones will be getting in the way of the GTLM cars. (which are the only class that will keep me watching next season.) However, unrestricted materials were a bad move, because it gives big teams like Ganassi a huge advantage over everyone else. Actually, it wouldnt suprise me if Ganassi pushed for this rule.

Getting rid of the IMSA safety team was a stupid decision, allowing unrestricted materials for the DP was a stupid decision, and a PC only race on a roval was a stupid decision. The way this is going I'll be shocked if the series lasts.

I'm not against speeding the DP up, but I am against opening the DP up to where the cost skyrockets and Ganassi dominates even more because the LMP2 and DP teams can't keep up with development because Ganassi has the deepest pockets. Thats a crappy deal to both DP and LMP2 teams alike

But do you go to a race track and a national level event without having a clue? It's like me going to BTCC and expecting a go kart race.

I'm saying you can't physically go to the track one weekend and watch the ALMS race, and then go back a month later and watch grand am race and immediately without anyone telling you know that the DP is 3 seconds off LMP2 pace, and I still don't understand why 3 seconds of laptime matters so much that people hate the DP because of it. If the race is good, watch it...if not, watch what you want. If speed is that important, why are companies like Cessna/Textron, Telcel, PDVSA/Venezuela, Velocity Worldwide, Gainsco auto insurance, and Total lubricants forking over the exorbitantly larger amounts of moneu so they can claim their car is the fastest sports car in America?

 

[IforceV8]

How many people watching on tv or even in the stands at the track not knowing a lot about sports car racing sit there and say "these Daytona prototypes are 3 seconds slower therefore I don't like them and the teams should spend half a million dollars making them faster..."

Are they awake in your argument?

 

[RACECAR]

If speed is that important, why are companies like Cessna/Textron, Telcel, PDVSA/Venezuela, Velocity Worldwide, Gainsco auto insurance, and Total lubricants forking over the exorbitantly larger amounts of moneu so they can claim their car is the fastest sports car in America?

1. Cessna/Textron & Telcel: Because Ganassi?
2. PDVSA/Venezuela: For the same reason Citgo Does? (BTW,PDVSA only is there because of venezuelian Race car drivers/owners as they are in Indycar and F1 so not really worth the argument)
3. Velocity Worldwide: ???
4. Gainsco: Not the slightest bit sure here since ironically, no insurance company covers Auto racing (biggest piece of irony in motorsport sponsorship, isn't it?)
4. Total: Because they are selling motor oil so naturally they go to any racing series otherwise its quite daft not to (again, hardly an argument).

And you'll hate me for saying this, but the NASCAR ownership pretty much is a huge factor in exposure. Sponsorship is not really about who's on the fastest car, its about getting the brand out there and getting seen.

 

[IforceV8]

1. Cessna/Textron & Telcel: Because Ganassi?
2. PDVSA/Venezuela: For the same reason Citgo Does? (BTW,PDVSA only is there because of venezuelian Race car drivers/owners as they are in Indycar and F1 so not really worth the argument)
3. Velocity Worldwide: ???
4. Gainsco: Not the slightest bit sure here since ironically, no insurance company covers Auto racing (biggest piece of irony in motorsport sponsorship, isn't it?)
4. Total: Because they are selling motor oil so naturally they go to any racing series otherwise its quite daft not to (again, hardly an argument).

And you'll hate me for saying this, but the NASCAR ownership pretty much is a huge factor in exposure. Sponsorship is not really about who's on the fastest car, its about getting the brand out there and getting seen.

Stallings is the Chairman of Gainsco and google says Velocity WW is a ad agency (who knew) 💡

 

[cnd01]

Are they awake in your argument?

They're in the stands with alcoholic beverages and/or their families. They're the people who cheer when someone goes into the tires or love the brute v8 engine notes coming out of the fart cannon grapefruit launcher exhausts on the DP.

1. Cessna/Textron & Telcel: Because Ganassi?
2. PDVSA/Venezuela: For the same reason Citgo Does? (BTW,PDVSA only is there because of venezuelian Race car drivers/owners as they are in Indycar and F1 so not really worth the argument)
3. Velocity Worldwide: ???
4. Gainsco: Not the slightest bit sure here since ironically, no insurance company covers Auto racing (biggest piece of irony in motorsport sponsorship, isn't it?)
4. Total: Because they are selling motor oil so naturally they go to any racing series otherwise its quite daft not to (again, hardly an argument).

And you'll hate me for saying this, but the NASCAR ownership pretty much is a huge factor in exposure. Sponsorship is not really about who's on the fastest car, its about getting the brand out there and getting seen.

That's exactly correct. It doesn't matter who's prototypes are faster as long as they're exposed. NASCAR did a better job promoting the series and making the prototypes team owner friendly

I'd argue more people would show to a tractor pull that a sports car race if marketed better.

 

[MrWednesday]

If speed is that important, why are companies like Cessna/Textron, Telcel, PDVSA/Venezuela, Velocity Worldwide, Gainsco auto insurance, and Total lubricants forking over the exorbitantly larger amounts of moneu so they can claim their car is the fastest sports car in America?

I assume you mean s/are/aren't/? i.e. "why aren't companies like..."

 

[RACECAR]

Stallings is the Chairman of Gainsco

Ah so basically, its Grand-Am's version of Greg Pickett. Also makes me question how these upgrades are too much for him even while he is the chairman of the sponsor on the car. Pretty sure his position in the company gives him bucket loads of money.

and google says Velocity WW is a ad agency (who knew) 💡

And upon finding that out, no wonder they are here. So they are advertising...advertising. You know where this is going next...

That's exactly correct. It doesn't matter who's prototypes are faster as long as they're exposed. NASCAR did a better job promoting the series and making the prototypes team owner friendly

Did they really though? I know I haven't gone to any races so I can only rely on TV really, but apart from "I'm this guy and I'm a Grand-Am Driver", I don't really feel they've done enough to promote Grand-Am. Honestly I really don't feel NASCAR Cares that much about Grand-Am (or Road Racing in General), hence why the whole "The France Family/NASCAR have destroyed American Road Racing" Paranoia makes no sense to me. Hell, they don't even care about their own fans at this point (if their recent string of BS and lack of changes is any indication) so I'm hardly convinced they care about Grand-Am enough to do anything.

 

[Mac K]

They never did enough to promote either series. The lack of a proper television package kept people from watching ALMS races and poor marketing by both series didn't help either.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

They never did enough to promote either series. The lack of a proper television package kept people from watching ALMS races and poor marketing by both series didn't help either.

ALMS did a fantastic job with the live streaming every race for the last x seasons. I only see 1 Grand-Am race per season which is the Daytona 24 hours and it strikes me as being a competition amongst amateurs which is disrupted by some dumb rules like the safety car unlapping. USCR needs to retain the sporting regulations from ALMS to be interesting as far as I'm concerned.

 

[01GTP]

All I want as a fan is to have the ability to see flag to flag live racing on TV, no matter where I/we live.
ALMS live timing is all I have for constant live coverage.
Sure, oversees there was live streaming but if it is available at all, it should be available to all, everywhere.
Blah, blah ,blah on the politics, just make it available to all, period.
As a fan, that's what pisses me off.

The coverage on TV for Petit I was given was ridiculous.
On Saturday, 1.5 hours live and a tape delay on Sunday for 3 hours of flag to flag coverage.
I watched Saturdays coverage at first to see what it was, found it was LIVE around lap (?) 294.
So I then started Sunday's tape delay up to lap 294, switched to Saturday's LIVE coverage, watched it, switched back to Sundays coverage for the end of the race. Dumb, but I did it because I am a die hard fan and want the most coverage I can, on TV.


And if it has to be a delay can someone please air it when 2 other races are not live, I mean WTF.

What's on track will be fine, give it all a couple races, and we'll see.

 

[Mac K]

ALMS did a fantastic job with the live streaming every race for the last x seasons. .

Yes they did, but not everyone has the means of watching the stream or they just don't want to. I don't mind watching the livestream, but a lot of people still like watching it on good old cable TV and it looks like someone realised this and thus the multi-year deal with FOX Sports. If I recall correctly, almost every Grand-Am race was live this year on SPEED TV, part of the reason NASCAR is popular is that it has an easy to access, easy to follow TV package. Hopefully the merged series follows suit and sportscar racing as a whole can get the credit and ratings it has always deserved.

 

[cnd01]

Yes they did, but not everyone has the means of watching the stream or they just don't want to. I don't mind watching the livestream, but a lot of people still like watching it on good old cable TV and it looks like someone realised this and thus the multi-year deal with FOX Sports. If I recall correctly, almost every Grand-Am race was live this year on SPEED TV, part of the reason NASCAR is popular is that it has an easy to access, easy to follow TV package. Hopefully the merged series follows suit and sportscar racing as a whole can get the credit and ratings it has always deserved.

I'd say 1/2 of the races were tape delayed, but every one of them except the Rolex 24 was shown from flag to flag

 

[Zuel]

After reading through some things here and there, finding that the thought is somewhat mixed about the merger. Not sure the concept of the DP-P2 class will work, for the matter the DP car will have to upgrade the aerodynamics to a degree which is unknown at the moment. The GT car classing is very interesting, to a point where it will come down to track, car set, team mind set and driver. GT Le Mans (GTLM) will have some very thrilling racing going into mid-season I think, with GT Daytona (GTD) not too far behind, especially with the cars being so close to production.

The competition is going to be something to look forward to in GTD; PC should be good as well. Though the thing that strikes my fancy is what new cars will be show cased. A tentatively BMW rumor from what has been read already stated the new M4 race car will be running not the current M4 race car in the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. We know what Ferrari is planning to do but nothing from Bentley, Jaguar, and Austin Martin along with a few others, Nissan will run the GT-R in GTLM for sure. Though will they also run it in GTD or bring a stronger 370Z.

In an odd way losing P1 and have it run in its own division seems somewhat as losing C Class cars in a way though P1 is not going anywhere. To a point people looked at it, felt and responded the same about the change. Some were really out ranged about the whole ordeal, just as now. Panoz is not pleased with the merger and may feel suckered into something now, not sure. He may be able to take something to the FIA who knows. The one thing I see may return is old school door to door racing; don’t get me wrong the racing is great now. I’m talking about mid-80’s to mid-90’s racing, where a race came down to a .002 second advantage in the box, drivers racing their hardest the last two turns, or that lone team making a big outcome.

Racing like that is somewhat a lost luxury in some cases not all just in some. There have been some races that have been very close though not close enough. This venture may or may not work; it all depends on how DP competes with P2, looking forward to see what happens. One other thing, you do know of the new BMW M4 race car is rumored to be shown sometime in December?

 

[FoolKiller]

I'm saying you can't physically go to the track one weekend and watch the ALMS race, and then go back a month later and watch grand am race and immediately without anyone telling you know that the DP is 3 seconds off LMP2 pace, and I still don't understand why 3 seconds of laptime matters so much that people hate the DP because of it.

I'm wondering how many ALMS events you've attended. What you describe the fans like is not the people I've met.

DP isn't hated because they are slower. Like I keep saying, that's an issue every ALMS fan would love to see unchanged in the merger. The issue is that the DPs vs LMPs is the same you get from car guys arguing American cars vs European cars. People who buy a foreign car and watch their racing are more likely to like ALMS in every aspect from engineering, style, etc. I've even heard people describe it as European-style sports car racing.

And no one is wanting to speed DP up because they watch Grand Am and notice. I'm not sure where you're going with that. They are speeding them up because they are merging. And yes, the fans will notice a 3 second difference when they are on the same track.

Yes they did, but not everyone has the means of watching the stream or they just don't want to. I don't mind watching the livestream, but a lot of people still like watching it on good old cable TV

According to Les Moonves, head of CBS, ad revenue parity between online and broadcast is only 3-5 years away. People who are stuck on cable only are about to be bypassed by technology. If Fox and USCR are smart they will find a way to at least get the endurance races online with no delay or interruption other than ad breaks.

 

[Sam48]

Greaves Planning Full Season P2 Entry for USCC

Great news from across the pond!

 

[cnd01]

I'm wondering how many ALMS events you've attended. What you describe the fans like is not the people I've met.

DP isn't hated because they are slower. Like I keep saying, that's an issue every ALMS fan would love to see unchanged in the merger. The issue is that the DPs vs LMPs is the same you get from car guys arguing American cars vs European cars. People who buy a foreign car and watch their racing are more likely to like ALMS in every aspect from engineering, style, etc. I've even heard people describe it as European-style sports car racing.

And no one is wanting to speed DP up because they watch Grand Am and notice. I'm not sure where you're going with that. They are speeding them up because they are merging. And yes, the fans will notice a 3 second difference when they are on the same track.


According to Les Moonves, head of CBS, ad revenue parity between online and broadcast is only 3-5 years away. People who are stuck on cable only are about to be bypassed by technology. If Fox and USCR are smart they will find a way to at least get the endurance races online with no delay or interruption other than ad breaks.

couldn't resist

I am totally agreeing that IMSA needs to get the endurance races streaming with multiple cameras uninterrupted.

@Sam48 Looks like a done deal. A fully committed European team.“Our intentions are to enter the full championship,” team principal Tim Greaves said in an exclusive interview ”We haven’t gotten anybody signed yet but we have a lot of strong interests. We obviously had two good showings at Sebring the last two years, in terms of the reliability and performance of the car. We very much think we’ll be there for the full series."

Since this team is committed, I'd like to know

1.) Who the drivers are
2.) What the sponsors are


Hopefully, they ship their Zytec Nissan over, Dyson rents it, pays for all maintenance, and actually finishes races with it.

Now if only we knew what European team was coming over...