GM will have a GT3 corvette next year.

2024 will be the end of the Camaro. I am wondering what they will race in NASCAR 2025 ??

So because the car is so different / superior from everything else, they shouldn't let it race? You cant 'tolerate' it? Good thing nobody thought this way back when Porsche was campaigning the 917...

They plan on grandfathering it.

But in 3 to 5 years the field is going to look very different. They may be a bit worried.

Same for the Ferrari or any other. If it's a car, let it run.

Well you’re asking why they don’t run against each other and I answered.

The bigger difference is Ferrari only sold street cars to subsidize his racing program. Hudson was racing cars to sell street cars.

The only run what you brung races are Saturday night at your local dirt track.


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As promised..

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The Camaro team wins LeMans!!!!

One staple of the NASCAR pit stop that was carried to Circuit de la Sarthe was the manual jack. The Hendrick crew was the only one to utilize the manual jack. All other teams have air jacks at their disposal.

Without an air jack, the Garage 56 car was afforded an extra crew member, the jackman, to lift the car up. Two tire carriers (as opposed to one in NASCAR), and two tire changers swapped the four Goodyear Racing Eagles in 10.364 seconds. It was the crew’s fastest stop of the day.

https://kickinthetires.net/le-mans/nascar-garage-56-lemans-pit-competition/?fbclid=IwAR2Du1dkqqCmUJU5JJbzwpGpmw8QK2ufjXolR0Xz 6UhXXL5BjlHfOPyoLrA

An old story from years ago by a friend, so dunno it's veracity..

A Lemans entrant called NASCAR's woods brothers, asking if they'd be interested in being a pit crew.
They responded they'd crew for anyone, what's the pay? Told the pay, they hung up..

That story might be true, but the Woods Bros. did work the pits for Ford in 1966, and helped Ford beat Ferrari. (1,2,3 sweep) So they must have been satisfied with the pay arrangements that year.

Fifth overall out of 62 teams is good if you ask me.

Chrysler's wing cars got relegated to a small block pretty quick.

Bobby Issac took his car to Bonneville Salt Flats when it got banned from Nascar, 217 two way average in like 1971, set a bunch of records

sorry about the jalopnik link

https://jalopnik.com/how-a-nascar-driver-set-28-speed-records-with-a-banned-5847047

Can you imagine, drifting, at 200 MPH, on the salt :o

Button: "Itttttt's pretty fun to drive."

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Thanks for posting...fun video

Huh?? The 'Cup Car' has 250 more horsepower than GTE cars - of course it's superior :D:D Build it to GTE specs and it's an also-ran. My problem is not that the car is fast (it should be!), it's that this is a blatant Barnum & Bailey type stunt to promote NASCAR in the middle of one of the most important races in the world. As a competitor, the last thing I would want is some clown car in its own class of one mixing it up with serious racing efforts. Hopefully they don't take anyone out or affect the outcome of the race.

How about we take a Porsche 963 - call it, umm, the Garage 56 963 - and enter it at the Tallageda NASCAR race? What is NASCAR afraid of :D

Does anyone know if Pratt & Miller are involved in any way ? I could see this as a data collection effort for the future Corvette GT3 effort .

Any chance Hendricks is looking to get into GT3 racing ? Regardless of the reason/s I look forward to see how they do . Solid team with solid drivers .

Toyota not happy with new safety car rules .

https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/toyota-blasts-americanisation-le-mans-safety-car-rules/10479624/

Curt - NASCAR is a spec series. 24 hours of Le Man’s is not. There are various classes with rules and there is a class for ‘experimental’ cars such as this.

It’s fast, yes, but will it hold together for 24 hours?

I’ve been endurance racing for the last 12 years. The high horsepower cars rarely finish. The key is minimal fast scheduled pit stops, and consistent laps.

I think this is great and hope to see more of this in years to come. Motorsports as we know it is dying. Read the thread on how old guys are killing Motorsports…

That was an excellent question. It would make perfect sense for P&M to jump on as a partner, right? I had to know, so I found this early article from Racer magazine and it states Action Express Racing and Dallara are helping with the effort - but it also mentions air jacks for pitting, and someone above says that they were using floor jacks in a pit stop challenge on this car.

https://racer.com/2022/03/17/insight-why-a-nascar-is-going-to-le-mans/

https://axracing.com/

My assumption was that NASCAR went looking for a partner and Hendricks had the resources to do it.


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why would that be a bad thing?

thats literally the point of garage 56.

and its already working. its all everyone is talking about re le mans.

Agree. The Deltawing was a Garage 56 car. In 1976 NASCAR was allowed to run 2 stock cars. Throwing something different in the mix is good for the sport.

I hope the G56 car kills it. If a Ford can go 24, then this car can. Will the door open? It should.

100%

garage 56 is a great way to showcase technology and platforms that the rules otherwise restrict and prevent. thats the point. thats what its for.

and it doesnt pervert the racing, because its its own class.

its a win-win IMO.

Garage 56 is a novelty entry

No serious chance of doing anything notable other than an interesting side show to the main event

Isn’t that also how the hybrids came about? This video of the Cadillac leaving the pit box is pretty badass.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81erX7B/


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I can relate better with the Camaro silhouette than all the Prototype space ship shapes.
I will always prefer a 750hp V8 big banger to a science project hybrid ground gripping road rocket.
I'm a renascence racer not a NASA rocket racer. PS Not a Nascar oval race fan either.

Hybrid drivers will loose if they bangs doors and try to get physical with the big Camaro.

I think it's a mistake for anyone to under estimate the potential of this project . I don't follow Nascar but I do know Hendricks has $$$ , talent and expertise . They have 3 talented drivers and a very solid pit crew . They seem to be very focused .

What will be considered a win ? Lasting 24 hours ? Beating half the GT field ? Beating all of the GT field ? Beating back marker hyper cars ? I don't pretend to have the answer but looking forward to how it plays out .

Lemans Camaro, just a few turns.
 

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Not much footage of the stock car but this was nice and close.

I wish this effort well. As rfuerst911sc said, there is a solid team behind this effort. They are in to kick butt. I think a win would be to complete the 24hrs. JJ is my concern in the cockpit.

I look forward to the eventual whining about this car during the race.

Hell, if Dale Jr. can do endurance, JJ can too.

Yep . JJ sucked in Indy car and has sucked in Cup this year. Back in the day he was great. Then he wasn't and still isn't.

I think people make a mistake in underestimating NASCAR. It's not the Smokey Yunick era any more, and as mentioned above Hendricks is a top-shelf team who know how to put together a good entry. This isn't a straight-off-the-banking setup, either. Obviously it's set up for road racing.

Thats pretty cool. Any car that makes engine noises is fine with me. I usually dont watch these sort of races though they are too boring because they just show the leaders the whole time. I really like seeing the oddball cars like I remember when spyker was racing it was really fun to follow but the booring prototypes got all the coverage.

Surprise!- Ferrari on the pole.

To finish first you first have to finish . Congrats to Ferrari getting the pole but let's see where everyone is after 24 hours .

OUCH! That's a cheap shot! But a good one. ;)

(2) points:

Reliability is what kills most new entries in the LeMans (or Daytona) 24 hour race. Speed is good, but keeping it running is even better.

It wasn't all that long ago that a racing-modified version of a US street car won its class at Le Mans 3 years in a row. It was the Viper GTS-R.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-a-le-mans-winning-1996-viper-gts-r-hit-the-track-before-heading-to-auction

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The way it should be done! Ford unveiled their awesome GT3 Mustang yesterday. Ford will compete at Le Mans next year - yes, actually compete in a class and built to the specifications of that class. No hocus-pocus, don't look behind the curtain BS :cool:

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