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Angel
But last year was not that way, and thus bringing my point to fruition.
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Yes, but last year, that car was uber competitive at Le Mans and led GTE overall at one point if I remember right, and they will be a lot closer to the front of the GTE Am field then a 10 year old Vette...
 
TDZdave
Yes, but last year, that car was uber competitive at Le Mans and led GTE overall at one point if I remember right, and they will be a lot closer to the front of the GTE Am field then a 10 year old Vette...
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Hey that that Vette isn't that old, but your point isn't nonetheless invalid just because of that minor hiccup.
 
TDZdave
Yes, but last year, that car was uber competitive at Le Mans and led GTE overall at one point if I remember right, and they will be a lot closer to the front of the GTE Am field then a 10 year old Vette...
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Competitve and winning are two different things. I'm not saying I wouldn't want to see it battle at Le Mans again. I personally love the Viper. But it didn't do enough by ACO standards to warrant an entry, and I can understand why.
 
Angel
Competitve and winning are two different things. I'm not saying I wouldn't want to see it battle at Le Mans again. I personally love the Viper. But it didn't do enough by ACO standards to warrant an entry, and I can understand why.
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I can as well, though 3 years ago they were a shoe in even being the 10th reserve, now with so much interest in being at Le Mans again I'm just worried that they wont get in at all,
 
Trueman, Akin Awards Gain New Look, Added Importance
The Jim Trueman and Bob Akin Awards – established by GRAND-AM in 2005 to recognize the top Pro-Am drivers
in the respective Daytona Prototype and GT classes – will take on added importance in the 2015 TUDOR United
SportsCar Championship.
The Jim Trueman Award will be utilized to recognize the top-finishing Pro-Am in the Prototype (P) class, while the
Bob Akin Award will recognize the best Pro-Am racer in GT Le Mans (GTLM) on both a per-race and season-long
basis. The winners will be recognized during podium ceremonies at each TUDOR Championship event, and the
highest Pro-Am points finishers in both classes will earn season-ending awards at the annual TUDOR Night of
Champions.
Additionally, the season-ending Trueman and Akin Award winners will have the opportunity to earn automatic invi-
tations to the 24 Hours of Le Mans event in 2016 from their participation in IMSA. The Bob Akin Award winner would
earn an entry in the LM GTE Am class at Le Mans, while the Jim Trueman Award winner would be eligible to com-
pete in the LM P2 class with a car registered in the appropriate ACO homologated category.
Drivers must have either a Silver or Bronze rating and have built a career in another profession outside of auto rac-
ing to be eligible for Trueman or Akin Awards. To win the season-ending award and the Le Mans automatic invita-
tions, they must compete in the four Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup events (Daytona, Sebring,
Watkins Glen and Road Atlanta) at minimum. Trueman and Akin points and awards will be presented at every
TUDOR Championship event.
The Jim Trueman Award is named after the legendary sports car racer, former president of Red Roof Inns and for-
mer owner of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. It was presented to the top Pro-Am driver in the Daytona Prototype (DP)
class every year from 2005 through 2013. In 2014, it was awarded to TUDOR Championship Prototype Challenge
(PC) champion Jon Bennett at the TUDOR Night of Champions at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York.
The Bob Akin Award was presented to the top Pro-Am driver in the Rolex Series GT class from 2005 through 2013.
The Award’s namesake was a two-time winner of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring (1979 and 1986) and was
president of the Hudson Wire Company. The Bob Akin Award also was last presented in the Rolex Series in 2013.
In 2014, it was presented to Bill Sweedler, who finished fourth in the TUDOR Championship GT Daytona (GTD)
standings.

John Pew (Shank racing) wins the Trueman award as the top Am (and only full time) in DP/P. WTR racing was not eligible for the award with no Am drivers so if they wanted to go to Le Mans they would either need to hire Jordan's dog Fonzie the bronzie or submit a entry like everybody else. WTR received the auto entry for 2015 and I think they had a preliminary plan to lease a P2 car but those plans fell through. The entry for 2015 was a "at large" award so it all came down to politics or intent who got the entry.

Sweedler won the Akin award and is entered in the Scuderia Corse 62 car in GTE-Am that they raced last year. Keating either need to win his class (GTD) or if he really wanted to go he could have entered the Viper GTLM in Imsa's GTLM class and maybe stole the Akin award away from Sweedler by finishing last in GTLM as the top and only Am. Since he is in the business to sell Vipers passing up a chance to run a full season in his GT3 customer car vs the old factory GTLM car that makes no sense. It also didnt hurt his cause in 2015 that the Viper GTLM won the class in Imsa in 2014. However leaving that car parked in the shop under a tarp for 7 months since didnt help his cause this year.
 
Pascal Vasselon said the new Toyota is currently or was running last year's aero (like what Porsche is doing) but new hardware (engine/hybird).
 
By Motorsport.com
The all-new Toyota TS 050 HYBRID will run for the first time this month.

The definitive turbo-powered LMP1 car for 2016 will make its track debut next week after an initial run using an interim car last month during tests at Motorland Aragon and Paul Ricard.

The interim TS 050 ran alongside an existing TS 040 over three days, as the team made its initial running with the majority of its 2016 package.

Toyota has expedited its plans to run a turbo powerplant with a new battery energy-storage system to replace the former super-capacitor set-up. It remains unclear which aspects of the car will be added to the interim package next week to complete the full spec TS 050.

"What is not going to change is that fact that we're orientated towards KERS," Toyota's Pascal Vasselon told Motorsport.com.

"It doesn't change, but everything else changes - we're going from condensators to batteries. It's a big change.

"We manage to model those things, simulate them, then correlate the work we're doing when we run. We're going to do four tests, 30 hours of endurance, until Le Mans," he added.

Conway excited
Toyota driver Mike Conway told Motorsport.com last week how he much he is looking forward to forging a new partnership with Kamui Kobayashi, who replaces Alex Wurz in the team.

"I'm looking forward to the season ahead and working with Kamui," Conway told Motorsport.com. "He obviously has a good pedigree and he has already fitted in to the team well.

"The team has done a great job in getting everything ready and now we just have to get stuck in and learn as much as we can on the track."

Sebastien Buemi is looking forward to running in the new Toyota TS 050 HYBRID next week. The Swiss driver will undertake his fifth consecutive season with the Japanese manufacturer in 2016.

"We are yet to drive the full-spec specification, so it is too early to say too much," said the Swiss. "But we feel good in the team and the plan is to get back and fight with [Audi and Porsche]."
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Hello all, I do apologize if someone has already asked this but I didn't want to go through 133 pages on this forum.

Does anyone know which current LMP2 chassis is the strongest overall?

There are quite a few different chassis out there in LMP2 right now(Oreca 05, Gibson 015S, Alpine A450, Ligier LS JP2 etc.), and I'd like to know if anyone knows what are the particular strengths of each chassis. I've noticed that people never discuss a aerodynamics or mechanical grip of particular chassis so are they all designed to perform the same or are there significant reasons why a team may choose one chassis over another.

Thanks!
 
FutureF1
Hello all, I do apologize if someone has already asked this but I didn't want to go through 133 pages on this forum.

Does anyone know which current LMP2 chassis is the strongest overall?

There are quite a few different chassis out there in LMP2 right now(Oreca 05, Gibson 015S, Alpine A450, Ligier LS JP2 etc.), and I'd like to know if anyone knows what are the particular strengths of each chassis. I've noticed that people never discuss a aerodynamics or mechanical grip of particular chassis so are they all designed to perform the same or are there significant reasons why a team may choose one chassis over another.

Thanks!
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I would say the Ligier is most complete, but not enough teams have run the ORECA 05 (which has a Le Mans win to its name) to form a real comparison imo.
 
On the TS040, the Gazoo livery. Lovely.

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I hadn't seen that last picture showing the TS040 from the R3Q before. I think the livery looks great and you won't mistake it for the Audi. I am also delighted to see we should be returning to grey wheels. Looks so good.
 

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