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Originally Posted by Buckterrier
Well that sucks.
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Well, I'm not so sure... Depends how it turns out..
I've been an ALMS fan from day#1. Gone to at least one race per year since forever. You have to admit that of late, the quality of the P1/P2 field has sucked. There's like 2 cars competing for victory in P1, and that's if Muscle milk has bad day because they can apparently make up 4 laps in a race ;-( They brought those spec P2s from europe but nobody seems to care... Same with the GT3 spec series, I'm happy to see more 911s on TV but that reeks of "grid filler"... The series died when Audi left and Peugeot stopped coming to the 2 big ones. The GT class is now the one and only ALMS attraction if you're honest about it. Now say the merged series keep that AS IS: the BMWs, Flying lizards, Ferraris 458s, Viper, etc... and put the current Grand AM GTs one notch under, which I think is where they are anyway. Now you've got a giatn field with 2 cool GT classes to watch...
The Daytona Prototypes which I agree were so ugly in the past are now much much improved, I'd go as far as saying good looking cars, the corvette in particular is gorgeous... Call that P2... And use the series new fame to bring back a couple more P1 cars... Or kill P1 (not many cars to kill) and negociate with the ACO to have the DP spec incorporated at le Mans... It could be the best series in the world... Of course with GRandAm as the governing body they could also eff it up spectacularly... 50-50 chance ? Long term, it was unavoidable.