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LMSCorvetteGT2
Is his activities of wrong doing too much for him to stay in the states, does he get a warmer welcome overseas when he does it?
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Well he is clearly over matched in GTLM against all the factory drivers so this move makes sense.His options in TUSCC to be competitive are either run PC or GTD and neither one gets you to Lemans and would require buying another car.Why he didnt run the WEC season in GTE-am after Sebring who knows,maybe he had business commitments.
 
Krohns car is quite old spec as well. He had a 2010/11 chassis and of course after the LeMans crash he was in a GT3 converted to GTE in effect?
 
IforceV8
Corvette C7R confirmed for WEC COTA with Milner and the Taylor boys bringing sponsorship. http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/corvette-confirms-fia-wec-cota-entry-driver-lineup/
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catamount39
Nice! Let's hope this is a sign of a "possible" WEC effort in the near future.
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I think it is more a tester, as I see Luc Alphand running C7's next year probably.

EDIT: Breaking. http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/exclusive-esm-enters-fia-wec-at-cota-scales-back-tusc-entry/
 
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IforceV8
Huh? He retired in 2010. Its about 3 factory GM drivers promoting the Lone Star WEC race rather than a test session.
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Why not both? It can be a good shakedown test for Larbre Competition AND great American PR for both Chevy and the WEC.
 
RACECAR
Why not both? It can be a good shakedown test for Larbre Competition AND great American PR for both Chevy and the WEC.
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Larbre switched to LMP2 but they have only raced twice this year so who knows if they have any money left.The C7 has run 2-24hr,a 12hr,and a 6 hr and several sprint rounds so I doubt they would have any breakthroughs running 1 car at COTA.I would be shocked if this was anything more than a PR run but that is OK, GM has 3 fast guys in the car and could easily win GTE-Pro.
 
IforceV8
Larbre switched to LMP2 but they have only raced twice this year so who knows if they have any money left.The C7 has run 2-24hr,a 12hr,and a 6 hr and several sprint rounds so I doubt they would have any breakthroughs running 1 car at COTA.I would be shocked if this was anything more than a PR run but that is OK, GM has 3 fast guys in the car and could easily win GTE-Pro.
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Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
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I know what you mean, I remember hearing the reason at the 24hrs but I forgot exactly why they were allowed (something to do with Dempsey's team maybe). At least the RSR's weren't much of a match for the Ferrari's and Aston's though...alright they were close lol.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
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The 991's are last years car...
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
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The year old model rule for AM's was abolished this year.
 
Tired Tyres
The year old model rule for AM's was abolished this year.
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hawkeye122
The 991's are last years car...
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LMSCorvetteGT2
Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
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But Larbre were not allowed to run the C7R as this is the first year of development of the car. Whilst there may be a revised 991 this year the original came in 2013. So the objection was allowing the AM teams to have brand new kit untested by anyone.

Pretty much if you want to run a new spec car with the old spec being a year old - go for it (See the 991).
If you want to run a totally new car that has debuted this year - no can do.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Yes but they only switched it would seem due to the ACO/FIA not allowing a change to the rules that says they can't run the newer car (C7r instead of C6.r) when the 991 RSRs of this year were being used by AM teams. I remember reading that Fehan talked to the FIA/ACO to help Labre and it didn't work, yet I don't remember exactly why some teams get to run new Porsches
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Well if the Larbre guys are hanging around the garage then this would make sense.

While Corvette Racing remains committed to the TUDOR Championship, Fehan hasn’t hidden the fact that they continue to keep all options open for the future, including having a constant eye on the progress of the FIA World Endurance Championship.


“We always look at opportunities that are out there,” he said. “Do I see any change in the near future? No. But does that mean that we have tunnel vision on what we do? No. We look at everything.


“Right now, for the factory team, it’s not in the cards, in the short term, to compete in the WEC. But we’ll wait and see how that develops. We’ve never turned our back on it and we’ve never closed our eyes on it. It’s always an option for us.”


Fehan said they’ve received customer interest in the Corvette C7.R for the FIA WEC, including potential GTE-Pro entries for 2015.


Larbre Competition was known to have been evaluating a GTE-Am entry for this year but their request to allow the 2014-spec model into the Pro-Am class, reserved for one-year-old models, was denied.


http://sportscar365.com/lemans/lema...ut-the-corvette-c7-r-every-time-on-the-track/
 
Tired Tyres
The year old model rule for AM's was abolished this year.
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Thanks for the correction and info Tired
Furinkazen
But Larbre were not allowed to run the C7R as this is the first year of development of the car. Whilst there may be a revised 991 this year the original came in 2013. So the objection was allowing the AM teams to have brand new kit untested by anyone.

Pretty much if you want to run a new spec car with the old spec being a year old - go for it (See the 991).
If you want to run a totally new car that has debuted this year - no can do.
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This would make sense thanks as well.
IforceV8
Well if the Larbre guys are hanging around the garage then this would make sense.

While Corvette Racing remains committed to the TUDOR Championship, Fehan hasn’t hidden the fact that they continue to keep all options open for the future, including having a constant eye on the progress of the FIA World Endurance Championship.


“We always look at opportunities that are out there,” he said. “Do I see any change in the near future? No. But does that mean that we have tunnel vision on what we do? No. We look at everything.


“Right now, for the factory team, it’s not in the cards, in the short term, to compete in the WEC. But we’ll wait and see how that develops. We’ve never turned our back on it and we’ve never closed our eyes on it. It’s always an option for us.”


Fehan said they’ve received customer interest in the Corvette C7.R for the FIA WEC, including potential GTE-Pro entries for 2015.


Larbre Competition was known to have been evaluating a GTE-Am entry for this year but their request to allow the 2014-spec model into the Pro-Am class, reserved for one-year-old models, was denied.


http://sportscar365.com/lemans/lema...ut-the-corvette-c7-r-every-time-on-the-track/
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Yeah I saw this earlier in the year when talking about Labre and trying to get them the cars. But this is a newer interview than the one I was thinking so thanks for that.
hawkeye122
The 991's are last years car...
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No they weren't ask Dempsey
 
They used the 991 Evo at Bahrain and Brazil, per the rules you can have one major update package in your first year.
Porsche started the year with the "original" 991, and then brought out the "Evo" car.

The 991 Evo IS the car Dempsey and Falken have- and are allowed to run it in Am because it was homologated in 2013. They have not abolished the one-year rule.

You can have a brand-new chassis, as long as it is the exact same design as the original homologation.
 
hawkeye122
They used the 991 Evo at Bahrain and Brazil, per the rules you can have one major update package in your first year.
Porsche started the year with the "original" 991, and then brought out the "Evo" car.

The 991 Evo IS the car Dempsey and Falken have- and are allowed to run it in Am because it was homologated in 2013. They have not abolished the one-year rule.

You can have a brand-new chassis, as long as it is the exact same design as the original homologation.
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It was a 2014 chassis though, we went over this on several pages ago during the 24hrs of Le Mans and also in the actual Le Mans thread. Also the rules said in the past that you have to drive a car a year older (or did from what I can see that @Furinkazen and @Tired Tyres said) regardless of homologation. Thus the Corvette Racing team running a 2013 C6.R
and Labre running a 2012 C6.R in 2013.

I mean if you can provide something to the contrary that goes against those two members that'd be great.

Also Falken's Porsche is a Pro car anyways as far as the rules go so of course they are running a 2014 spec car, there is nothing wrong with that.
 
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It was announced by the Radio Le Mans team during the first official WEC race stream of this season. (& pretty much every race since then as well).

AM Teams can use the same car as the Pro teams but they have the choice to use an older car if they think they will get a better BOP deal out of it.

WEC Season Preview First 5 minutes.
 
So if you can have a Pro spec car, why couldn't Labre have a Corvette then?

Also, Ram racing had been running a 2012-spec car even though it was built a year later (2013 ELMS and Le Mans)
 

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