2015 TUDOR United Sportscar Championship
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If I remember correctly, Dyson owned the company that made their engines.
Truthfully, we all knew less cars were coming because of the massive budget increases that have come and the quickly changing regulations. I would like to see a more stable series in 2017. Teams need rule stability and reduction in cost
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Once the regs changed, that's when Dyson went to hell. The one thing that sorta annoyed me about Dyson Racing was how seemingly stubborn they were to change their ways. When they got the RS Spyder, they refused to run it as Porsche instructed them to and unsurprisingly, they sucked. Pickett racing buys one of the former Dyson cars, runs exactly as instructed and boom, they are competitive. I honestly feel like if they would have changed the way they ran things, they would be relevant. In 2009, I was absolutely convinced that Dyson wasn't going to win the LMP2 championship simply because:
- Unproven engine combination up against the tried and true ARX-01 (that and the magic that was Adrian Fernandez).
- The Traditional Dyson bad luck (blowing up, slowing down etc)
- Inability to change
And what happened? Well, ask history that. We're in a era where you can't "Dysonize" cars anymore, everything works a certain way and will only work when they are run that way. If they do run Bentleys, I hope don't do that with them.
- Unproven engine combination up against the tried and true ARX-01 (that and the magic that was Adrian Fernandez).
- The Traditional Dyson bad luck (blowing up, slowing down etc)
- Inability to change
And what happened? Well, ask history that. We're in a era where you can't "Dysonize" cars anymore, everything works a certain way and will only work when they are run that way. If they do run Bentleys, I hope don't do that with them.
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So what exactly is the criteria for your carefully worded previous question? Does a "good team" have to have the hottest PR girl, low priced swag, funniest social media,or lots of hardware in the team lobby?
Yes http://www.dysonracing.com/company/news/article.php?news_id=1183 http://www.aerltd.com/
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Actual competition is where the team has to work for success. Essentially being able to finish well among plenty of teams. Personally, I'd say at least 6 or 7 privateer teams for privateer classes or at least 3 factory teams in classes that have full works factory teams.
And when Dyson had a Daytona Prototype team in grand am, they sucked. MMPR had one too I think, but they never did anything if they ever got to the track
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So going off that, MMPR did actually do that. Granted Rebellion basically handed it to them when they suddenly decided to bail on the one series where they could win overall, but they did (unlike ESM or Dyson).
Think that car was only in the 25 Hours of Thunder hill and not in any actual Grand Am race. Maybe you're thinking of a team that was sponsored by Muscle Milk.
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Dyson Racing was one of the founding teams of the Rolex Sports Car Series, winning sixteen races and two drivers' and two team championships from 2000 through 2002.
http://www.dysonracing.com/team/team_history_ga.php
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You're thinking of the Godstone ranch sponsored Ford Lola that was run by Dyson at Miller Park back in 2009.
In 2004, 2005, or 2006, Dyson ran a full season Crawford which podiumed once I believe at Long Beach. They had a bunch of DNFs and poor results
To bad the DP didn't race until 2003
That was back when grand am had ALMS 2013 season car counts too...
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I don't think that they raced in a grand am race, but that's their car. Here's the Dyson DP
Closest thing I can find and I'm not quite sure that's the Pickett Racing car in Grand-Am.
There was a time where Dyson was a very good team. In the SRP days, Dyson was one of the best; however, they have not been one of the best in quite a while at least to me. Mid 2000s were the last time I considered them a good prototype team. Of course, they're a very good GT3 team with Bentley backing now
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Wanted this from the beginning. It gives more strategy to the teams, plus you could have reason to double stint tires now. Besides look at the BMW pit stop. Sure that was a bit of a screw up by the driver, but none the less, it's safer to have the car off whilst the crew works on the car. Not to mention the whole seat belt issue, which in FIA races isn't such an issue as they use these pitstops. IMSA PLEASE DO THIS.
Plus they do it at Le Mans.
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Connor Dayton @TheConMannn · 23h 23 hours ago @dhhracing @seanrayhall driver's choice: leave early and risk a pit road collision not strapped in or lose time. If I was a pro, I'd risk it
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Here is a short race report found on Twitter.yes, I drove the start and a double stint so from 2 10pm to 4 30pm local time.
Soon I'll be able to officially announce my plans for this season, which should be quite good again
And good luck with your plans for this season, Chris!
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DHH is a rich am driver who doesn't even race in the series, but he obviously knows more than everyone else...oh well, he only crashed his car twice during the race and ruined their reverse gear ending their race. He's gotta get his ego back somehow
start the video at the 1:00.10 mark
ACO pit regs. Dalziel isn't in the car properly with extra time. Not the solution.
Plus, teams expect drivers to be in and out of the car in 25 seconds which is about the regular amount of time the car is stopped in the first place.
I do think the cars should be shut off when they're stopped. That could pose a significant danger to a tire changer's arms and hands.
In the end, these guys are professionals. In the profession of race driver, there is a certain danger involved. That's why there are pit road speed limits and hans devices. Accidents do happen on pit road, but I have never ever heard of a driver get seriously injured or die because of a pit road crash where the driver wasn't fully strapped in. The Petit crash was mostly the spotter's fault for not telling the drivers that pit out is closed. BTW none of the drivers were hurt
If I was an am gentleman driver with a family at home, I would make sure I was strapped in tight before I left. If I was a pro, I'd risk it every time because it's my job to be the fastest.
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I remember that guy. 
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I saw this 12 Hours of Sebring poster appear on Facebook today. I like it.
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Cars definitely need to be shut off during stops, that RLL BMW wheel changer almost lost his hand! That was a really close call.
Fuel and tires at the same time isn't as big of an issue for me, maybe slow fuel rate so a stop takes 5-10 seconds longer, as opposed to 30 seconds if you split them up.
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In V8SC, they have restricted the fuel flow rate to 13 liters per second, but they do have 100 liter tanks, the penalties for having the wheels spin while the cars are up on the jacks are quite extreme, if the teams believe that there is a influence outside of their control they have to notify the stewards prior to the stop,
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March is going to be a good month this year.I saw this 12 Hours of Sebring poster appear on Facebook today. I like it.
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Marshall Pruett saying WT racing could be excluded from the results http://www.racer.com/imsa/item/112965-pruett-rolex-24-at-daytona-rewind?showall=1&limitstart 
