2017 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship - General Season Discussion ThreadSports Cars
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DesertPenguin09
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So they tried to give it a "hood"?
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- Leadfoot530
IMHO race cars and road cars should never try to be intertwined. It's like compairing apples to oranges. One is built for all out speed and performance, the other for families and/or performance, but built to meet regulations for the road. "It doesn't look like the road car!" Well no kidding. It's based of a Le Mans prototype. It's not going to look likr anything else.
You want to compaire the two, build the race car, then base the road car off of it! Imagine how much fun that would be!
You want to compaire the two, build the race car, then base the road car off of it! Imagine how much fun that would be!
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A Group C resurrection of sorts?
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CodeRedR51
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- catamount39
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I view the Cadillac like a baby of the Audi and Porsche LMP1 cars which is why I like it. The Mazda is unfortunately the best. I say unfortunately because there's a chance it'll spend lot's of time looking pretty...in the garage (hopefully not, but it's hard not to be worried about that
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Alex Job back for NAEC with a Audi. http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/a...8-lms-for-sweedler-bell-montecalvo-in-tpnaec/
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- INF_Mike458
Will their PC nature cause about 10 billion safety cars?
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- mwoodski
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This.
Knowing people behind the scenes, they all dislike the TV package a whole lot, but there's not much they can do about it for the time being. IIRC, this is the final year of the Fox contract.
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- mwoodski
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So just like the nuclear arms race that was GT-1 in the mid/late 90's that saw budgets spiral out of control and cause the whole thing to come crashing down over the span of a year...sounds perfect to me.
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It may not be the prettiest thing I've seen, but thank god there is an identifiable livery there...as opposed to the all-too-frequent "white with a red or blue accent stripe on it" which half the damn field seems to field. The lazy black cars with stickers are equally bad.
I'd like to see far more cars with easily identifiable, unique liveries. In person, or on TV coverage a car should be identifiable at a distance. Well done with the yellow!
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Roar BOP table has been released, now we find out if all of the work IMSA has done on the technical side is going in the right direction. http://files.constantcontact.com/db5636c9001/0727cee9-9398-4ef5-b13f-7498d3ece430.pdf
According to MP on this weeks MWM the Gibson V8 has been tuned back a little at the request of Gibson over concerns of reliability at Daytona so the times are not likely to show the real potential of the new cars.
According to MP on this weeks MWM the Gibson V8 has been tuned back a little at the request of Gibson over concerns of reliability at Daytona so the times are not likely to show the real potential of the new cars.
CodeRedR51
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I wish GTD wasn't forced to use green accents. If you could replace the green with the bright red around the front intakes, that would actually be a really great livery.
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- catamount39
Should have black for the Pro class number plates and white for the Pro-Am class number plates, and NO GARBAGE ON THE MIRRORS AND WING. IMSA why? We're not stupid.
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I'd prefer simple windshield banners in a not-as-desperate colour. I think they chose red/green because it's increasingly simple to use and the PRO and AM stickers have been that way for a long time. Continental Sports Car Challenge has a nice simple windshield banner --- inverted for each class.
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Please don't make me start on a long post about much I hate... no, hate is too strong... really dislike the IMSA color coding system. Like why can't each class have their own color? Do you know how hard it is to explain to someone why two classes use the same color? And how they're not actually racing each other for position...?
(series of twitches and minor convulsions)
...Okay. I'm fine.
Side note on the Acura: That front number plate placement is... interesting.
(series of twitches and minor convulsions)
...Okay. I'm fine.
Side note on the Acura: That front number plate placement is... interesting.
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Window banners work way better as they're more visible from a distance compared to the rather small number plate and other accents that can blend into the paint scheme. I don't know why IMSA hasn't brought that to the main series and scrapped the color crap, perhaps NASCAR has a limit on the amount of "sensible" things they are allowed to do.
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Window banners work way better as they're more visible from a distance compared to the rather small number plate and other accents that can blend into the paint scheme. I don't know why IMSA hasn't brought that to the main series and scrapped the color crap, perhaps NASCAR has a limit on the amount of "sensible" things they are allowed to do.
Looking at the TV contract, seems about right.
While true, we (the ones watching at home) aren't in the stands either (though as pointed, the windshield works way better from a distance then the barely visible endplates and mirrors.)
