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All of the well-placed sports car sources say that Ford is doing well and enjoying the sports car program, but aren’t planning on extending it past it’s current lifespan. (Makes sense, the GT was a skunkworks project designed to win Le Mans on the anniversary). That was at least part of the discussion last week on MWM, so essentially don’t be too shocked if Ford stay in WEC but move up a class or two eventually.
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MazeOfTzeentch posted:Lincoln to DPi, clearly That’d be pretty awesome, actually.
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Dragonspeed wants to run in P1. http://www.racer.com/wec-le-mans/item/145395-dragonspeed-joins-lmp1-ranks-for-wec-super-season I decided to look up the dude that pays for them since they never have anything on the side of the car, and its a dude who runs "Pan Capital SE", a investment group whose only public footprint seems to be this website (lol) and an SEC filing for a $660k fine for illegal business practices... god bless sportscar racings money laundering abilities.
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Ford's new CEO is expected to cut costs and deliver better dividends, not endurance race wins. I was bullish on them going into prototypes at some point but not now. They might stick around via a customer GT program but I don't see them sticking around long term as a factory.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Ford's new CEO is expected to cut costs and deliver better dividends, not endurance race wins. I was bullish on them going into prototypes at some point but not now. They might stick around via a customer GT program but I don't see them sticking around long term as a factory. Marketing budget getting shrunk? And for as crazy as $100 million a year can sound to a mortal, it has to be stressed that so much can be a rounding error for Ford (gross $36.5 bil in Q3, net income $1.6b). They can afford it. Question is priorities for marketing and, possibly, engineering.
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harperdc posted:Marketing budget getting shrunk? Ford have a chance to push the future of LMGTE - ACO prolly doesn't want to lose Ford immediately after losing Porsche and probably losing Toyota. I don't think Ford cares. The current Ford GT was a "50 years" passion project for one of the ford spawnlings, so I think the project is gonna get nixed as soon as it becomes genuinely noncompetitive.
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orange juche posted:Source on Ford killing off the GT program? I'm honestly curious about this one, because the GT program has done really really well from the outset. Scaled back, sure I'd believe that because running 2 distinct teams on 2 continents is a pain in the rear end, but killing it off? I’d be surprised if it died, they extended road car production for an extra two years after all.
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drgitlin posted:I’d be surprised if it died, they extended road car production for an extra two years after all. They probably underestimated demand and definitely made a "rectifiable" shitstorm with their purchase program.
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http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/mazda-joest-begin-u-s-testing-program-with-revised-dpi/ Mazda Team Joest has begun their US testing program with their revised RT24-P car. Initial driver impressions are the car feels way more confident and planted in the corners, which will definitely help the drivers put down faster times.
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orange juche posted:http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/mazda-joest-begin-u-s-testing-program-with-revised-dpi/ Helps not having a suspension that was straight out of Riley's indycars from 1997. The biggest gain is going to a modern suspension system if I had to guess what Joest changed.
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BMB5150 posted:Helps not having a suspension that was straight out of Riley's indycars from 1997. The biggest gain is going to a modern suspension system if I had to guess what Joest changed. It's almost like modern race cars moved away from that style of suspension for a reason. I'd imagine the weight saving in the nose helped too, that front end mixup couldn't possibly been as light as a couple torsion bars.
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WEC Shanghai was earlier today Toyota #8 gets the race win, but Porsche #2 finishes second and gets enough points to lock up the driver’s title for the #2 and world championship for makes for Porsche. For GTs, kind of a crazy race and the Ford took it, but Ferrari have enough to win the world GT constructor’s title
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Toyota (via Lexus) is apparently looking at DPi.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Toyota (via Lexus) is apparently looking at DPi. Oh poo poo son. 
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Jackie Chan DC Racing also looking at running Daytona and the Patron North American endurance cup.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Toyota (via Lexus) is apparently looking at DPi. can't wait to see what new and interesting ways they find to lose the daytona 24
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financially racist posted:can't wait to see what new and interesting ways they find to lose the daytona 24 Well that's Toyota Gmbh(?) not able to win a 24 hour race. TRD (with the help of AAR and Chip Ganassi/Riley/Dinan) has won Daytona 4 times and a bit more lucky then across the ocean.
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Does anyone know of a decent app or a calendar I can integrate with my phone to alert me when racing sessions for various series' are about to start?
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NtotheTC posted:Does anyone know of a decent app or a calendar I can integrate with my phone to alert me when racing sessions for various series' are about to start? Wunderlist? You can set reminders that will email and a push notification at certain times.
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Human Grand Prix posted:Toyota (via Lexus) is apparently looking at DPi. They can  if they don't run this livery:
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Yes, another livery to remind us of their mediocrity at Le Mans. the '98 cars w/the white streaks were bad rear end
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Fauxhawk Express posted:They can This is a sponsor's wettest of all dreams
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Dear God something other than red, white, and black. ACO and IMSA should ban that livery for a few years. Pick something else, gently caress.
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NtotheTC posted:Does anyone know of a decent app or a calendar I can integrate with my phone to alert me when racing sessions for various series' are about to start? I subscribe to a couple of Google Calendars with race schedules. I know there's an F1 shared calendar floating around somewhere. I'd be more specific, but I have no idea where I stumbled on it.
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The 80s TRD colours are better. Sorry.
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DeltaWing Coupe #001 is for sale, a cool $375,000 http://www.deltawingracing.com/our-news/2017/4/11/for-sale-2013-deltawing-coupe
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The DeltaWing was a cool and good car. Anyone that disagrees with this is a bad and wrong person.
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WindyMan posted:The DeltaWing was a cool and good car. Anyone that disagrees with this is a bad and wrong person.   DW gone too soon
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WindyMan posted:The DeltaWing was a cool and good car. Anyone that disagrees with this is a bad and wrong person. It stank and looked dumb
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