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I have to admit that it's going to be harder than I thought to say goodbye to the DPs. They sure as hell came a long way from their inception. If they still were the ugly abominations of launch, it would be easy as hell to say bye, but I've really grown for them since the C7-ish bodywork came around for the Corvette DP.
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Thought I read somewhere that IMSA rejected their request but they weren't ruling out a WEC spec program. Maybe now that ESM is doing their own thing with Nissan they will do something similar (perhaps something along the lines of the Dinan-BMW program).
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Definitely gonna miss it. Ok so the hell what that it wasn't the complex Mulsanne straight machine the LMPs are. So the hell what that it was only a Corvette in name and looks only, Were the late 90s GT1 cars any less Guilty of the same smoke and mirrors? It was a damn cool car born from a concept that worked so well, it outlived the series that conceived it. It gave us some spectacular racing at the end of the day and looked damn good while doing it.
While were on the subject of cars that be gone:
Deltawing: Ok I get, it wasn't something liked by all. But this car's existence is something that no one will even com close to making for a long time. I get that many others will just remember it for the same overused phallic jokes (so original), but I'm gonna always remember being around to see something that was originally for indycar end up becoming the most interesting shape of Sportscars (and ontop of that, ended up in more races then the hideous disaster its crash structure came from. Its a car in the shape of rocket, what else needs to be said?
Mazda Lola: Yeah it hasn't had the sort of competitive run many had hoped it would (mostly because it was held back by the worst PR ever for the last two years and the Japanese execs only recently finally came to their senses this year), but what an amazing year it had trying to. What makes this car's final race such a big deal is that this is the end of the line for a Lola competing in any current series. In kinda the same vain as the Gibson LMP2, this car managed to outlive the original company that designed it. There hasn't been a American Sportscar Champion with Prototypes that didn't have at least one Lola Made car in it and sadly, this is the final time that ever happens.
Overall, it'll be a very different landscape in the US without these three unique cars on the same grid anymore.
While were on the subject of cars that be gone:
Deltawing: Ok I get, it wasn't something liked by all. But this car's existence is something that no one will even com close to making for a long time. I get that many others will just remember it for the same overused phallic jokes (so original), but I'm gonna always remember being around to see something that was originally for indycar end up becoming the most interesting shape of Sportscars (and ontop of that, ended up in more races then the hideous disaster its crash structure came from. Its a car in the shape of rocket, what else needs to be said?
Mazda Lola: Yeah it hasn't had the sort of competitive run many had hoped it would (mostly because it was held back by the worst PR ever for the last two years and the Japanese execs only recently finally came to their senses this year), but what an amazing year it had trying to. What makes this car's final race such a big deal is that this is the end of the line for a Lola competing in any current series. In kinda the same vain as the Gibson LMP2, this car managed to outlive the original company that designed it. There hasn't been a American Sportscar Champion with Prototypes that didn't have at least one Lola Made car in it and sadly, this is the final time that ever happens.
Overall, it'll be a very different landscape in the US without these three unique cars on the same grid anymore.
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I prefer my racing cars to err... "resemble cars"..., cars that I could drive or have fantasized about owning. If everything started to look like a DeltaWing it would ruin racing as a spectator sport "for me". Maybe if I was a bike guy, it would have had more appeal. This is most likely why I liked the Corvette DP's so much, with GTLM being my favorite class.
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Goodbye Daytona Prototype, you saved sportscars in North America, and provided us tons of fun. You were ugly at first, but grew into an actually amazing concept. Should've been preserved as DP rather than thrown together with LMP2, but what's done is done. Thanks for the years of excitement, and may you never be forgotten as the last stand of the "every man's racer"/"budget top tier class". Good luck in your last event, and may you win and shred the tires in a burnout. Farewell DP, farewell and may you live on in historics in all your thunderous glory. ._.7
Also a farewell to the Deltawing, you may have been a rejected Indycar chassis turned LMP, and never have lived up to the expectations per say, but it was cool seeing a vastly different concept of car in an era where such radical designs have no real home.
Also a farewell to the Deltawing, you may have been a rejected Indycar chassis turned LMP, and never have lived up to the expectations per say, but it was cool seeing a vastly different concept of car in an era where such radical designs have no real home.
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Not sure I ever said I wanted everything to look like the Deltawing, I only said that it was a unique concept and it the uniqueness people clamoured for (yet for some reason, turn right around and hated it).
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Sportscar365 is reporting that the DeltaWing will run the 2017 Rolex 24 as its final race.
EDIT: Found this shortly after posting and I had to add this. Racer had a really good article that reflected on the DP as a whole and had reflections from several people. It's a really good read. http://www.racer.com/more/viewpoint...types?showall=1&limitstart=#!RD_COTA_2015_380
EDIT: Found this shortly after posting and I had to add this. Racer had a really good article that reflected on the DP as a whole and had reflections from several people. It's a really good read. http://www.racer.com/more/viewpoint...types?showall=1&limitstart=#!RD_COTA_2015_380
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I hope that it wins.
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Dammit...this just makes me feel even older...how many eras of racing is a person supposed to live through 
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A lucky person you are.Dammit...this just makes me feel even older...how many eras of racing is a person supposed to live through
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Did anyone catch the Porsche Cup Challenge Race 1 on the IMSA app? I was busy getting a haircut and missed it.
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It should be on the IMSA Youtube channel in a week right?
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Just saw an article on Facebook saying IMSA will extend the eligibility of the Deltawing so it can race at Daytona. Didn't read the article, so somebody else will have to confirm.
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Ehhhggggg, man, I'm really late to party on this one.
My bad!
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So Panoz is indeed looking at a GT class car but not with the Deltawing monstrosity but with a new Esperante.
Hopefully if they do actually go through with it it end up better than the Abruzzi.
Hopefully if they do actually go through with it it end up better than the Abruzzi.
