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
http://sportscar365.com/imsa/tusc/wayne-taylor-racing-loses-podium-over-drive-time-issue/
WTR moved to last place but IMSA changes the rules so they dont lose all of their points.
Based on the 18 hour points standings, they had 11, not counting the 1 point for starting the race that everyone gets. Since they don't get the finishing points, that's all they should have received.
Barfield(I think it was him as race director back then) did the same thing to MSR in 2013 when they had an illegal engine part; however, they got 0 points after penalty even though they're scored as 3rd. Walters did the same thing to Conquest at Petit in 2012 for a drive time violation which was only like 2 minutes over. Whinemer Handsome had to bitch about it publicly to social media too.IMSA that's strike one.
So they finished last but got 2nd place points?
Yea Walters handed out 1000 dollar fines very frequently all last season, and the officials would tell the teams just to take it when the teams would ask for an explanation. I know that's not a large amount per say, but it was certainly time for a change. I'm not a huge fan of Barfield, but he's certainly more towards how I would run the race even though he already has changed the rules post infractionMore like the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There's no "massive pool of LMP2 stuff out there" that's in America. How many teams from places other than America would come over and race? Why would they when there's an ELMS and AsLMS that's much cheaper and closer to home? That doesn't even count the WEC. The sports car series market has too many options for teams to come here. Unless Hpd, Mazda, Onroak, and Panoz can support double what they have currently, teams are headed to PC/GTD/PWC if GM and Ford pull out of P. That is, unless different manufacturers step in to develop. Nissan hasn't supported a car since Pickett's half assed attempt at an entry. BMW doesn't even support the BMW engines in P. That's all Dinan. Not sure what would possibly come in 2017, but I'd rather plan to keep what's here than rely on others to show upAnd even if that somehow managed to pull apart P (which I highly doubt would happen...there's a massive pool of LMP2 stuff out there)...why not throw out PC and just make a GTE/GT3/GT4 series? Would that really be so bad? Heck they could even replace P with that new "Class 1" thing in 2017 and invite those teams to the NAEC races. A giant GT series would be really cool, I mean, there's one in Japan that does well, or so I've heard.
But big deal if GM and Ford aren't in P...were either of them in ALMS LMP2? No. Were either in Indycar before (discounting Champcar/and pre-merger) 2012? No. Did either suffer without them? No. Does the fan base care if Ford or GM aren't in one of the classes? Highly doubt so. That's the whole point of sportscar racing...choices. Manufactures and fans alike.
