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Originally Posted by dd74
Dead? No. But it's too bad ALMS doesn't have anything close to the notoriety of NASCAR. Some of the ALMS cars are much closer to what we drive every day than NASCAR machines.
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Oh, I agree, it's been my favorite series with F1 and WRC for years, with incredible access to the pits - I was chatting with Pat Long this friday, and last year I was touching the porsche Spyder and chatting with Romain Dumas...
But how long can they keep going with 17 cars ? And that is 3+3+11 when you add up different classes... Would you watch a series featuring 3 cars? That's essentially what this is right now if you break them down by class... The 3rd P1 car is 2 seconds a lap slower than the others but is guaranteed of podium all year, how lame is that?
Last 2 years corvette raced themselves in GT1, it was nice to see and hear them, but that was pretty lame too ! If I were Scott Atherton, I would literally beg Audi and Porsche (and Peugeot but that'd be harder) to come back, offer them money, break the bond with the ACO (Le Mans) rules, whatever it takes to get the prototypes back and /or reduce costs for GT2s... If you think about it, the guarantee spot for the 24h of lemans makes no sense for whoever's left.. Acura is not going, Audi was gonna be accepted anyway, they should do whatever the manufacturers want to keep them "in"... If you were Acura, would you return next year ? To fight against themselves, corvette style ? I wouldn't !
I hate seing this series go down the tubes, but it's circling the drain! I remember when it was the feature sunday race and saturday was SpeedGT etc...now it's second fiddle to the crapwagons series (man are those IRL cars fugly). This recession bites !