A thought for next year

As the 2008 ALMS season closed in Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca the talk had already switched to the 2009 season. Mainly in what was going on with Acura and Porsche. Yet a side note to all of this was they earlier announcement that after the Le Mans 24 hours Corvette would switch from the GT1 class to GT2. Leaving they part time Bell Motorsport Aston Martin to race alone if they even comeback. It’s kind of sad in a way.

So i was thinking with the 2010-2011 GT rule book up in they air.[will there be one or two GT classes and what will they be upgraded and simplified GT2's or GT2 becoming GT1 and GT3 becoming GT2] Why not take the bold step and bring SuperGT GT500 cars from Acura, Nissan and Lexus. Well what to do with the real GT1’s for three races or the year? Well for Corvette, let them race out like they planned it wasn’t like Bell was real competition anyway. Really just make them an exhibition race class. No points just let them go out on top. As for Bell there unhappy with the way Aston Martin treated them so hook them up with a good GT2 Porsche or Ferrari and them them get to it I guess

So back to GT500 and call them that  please! It’s simple really have Acura, Lexus and Nissan ship over four cars. Three to be handed out to teams and raced and one as a spare. Only use year old chassis and parts to prevent them from having to make large investments in development programs. Ban any new parts and restrict  use only those pieces from the 2008 season.  

There are real benefits to this idea. For the ALMS that brings in two new manufacturers, creating an exciting new  racing class which will take over from GT1 with just two permeant entries and one part time to nine full time cars.that will bring more attention and lots of potential growth for the series. For Nissan this is a win win. They bring over they dominate turn key racing program for there flagship vehicle. For Lexus again it’s a turn key low investment program that puts them on track and up against BMW, Audi and Acura there market rivals. It’s got to have more selling power to the market then the Grand-Am Series. Now for Acura there isn’t as many benefits for them. They already have a race winning program in place with the ALMS. So maybe then they’ve hinted at eventually running a GT program with the NSX once the new model is launched should consider this they walk before you run phase of that.

now they real problem is that this will anger they ACO who allow the ALMS to use the Le Mans moniker. The ALMS has played with the rules before but will be there biggest move away from the ACO they have ever taken! Too bad it’s just my idea the though of a few of those amazing machines on the street of long beach would be amazing oh well then

pure dope

just got a look at they Endless Sponsored BMW from the WTCC races in Monza and Okayama and they up coming race in Macau. i’ll post up a pic soon. that car is so dope it looks better then any other car to wear the Endless Colors. I dont know how but it does.

Taking it to the Factory

Ok the US gets denied a lot of cool cars and with that a lot of crappy boring cars too. For every GTR and Type R we don’t get were saved the 1.2 liter mini hatch city cars. But this hatch doesn’t fall into that category. It’s toyota Auris Hatchback. Basically a Corolla here in the States. This one is very special. It was built  to compete in the German ADAC Procar Series. It was by a German Toyota dealership. One Mechanic at the dealership had the 9-5 job of building this little gem. They went up against cars built by BMW, Mercedes, Opel and Honda. This is a tiny team with a small budget taking on one team that is competing in both Germany and Asia. Not bad! They recently went to the FIA European Touring Car Cup with this baby. I don’t have results with me but it has yet to really match its rivals on pace. I really doubt there are many dealership anywhere in the world that could do this. Drops to Team Geipal and best of luck with the rest of “08 and 2009. The first image in the Auris the second in they old Corolla T-Sport they ran last year

Racing Honda’s

heres a collection of racing hondas from around the world. There all built to the FIA’s S2000 spec.It was only recently that James Thompson won a round of the WTCC in Imola with a Accord run by former Alfa factory Team N-Technology.I’ll be adding the WTCC car soon with the livery they ran in Okayama Japan with a guest japanese driver rocking Yuke’s Sponsorship! Check each car for the flag of their home country. The cars from Switzerland  and the Asian Festival of Speed are built different from the rest. Check out the bubbler fenders on the white afos car and they very different front bumper on the red swiss machine. Most of they accords  were created by the semi factory team JAS Engineering of Italy. I’ll be doing a post on them later

Hello world!

ok so here it is the beginning I”m gonna try to keep this active and not that stupid but will see what happens but my opinion will become evident and may causes issues