2017 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship - General Season Discussion ThreadSports Cars

[catamount39]

Ben Keating is iron man apparently. The Rolex 24 is definitely a top tier event, and its great to see the entries so abundant. It's a symbol of the strength of North American sports car racing, and specifically GT racing.

 

[IforceV8]

Ben Keating is iron man apparently. The Rolex 24 is definitely a top tier event, and its great to see the entries so abundant. It's a symbol of the strength of North American sports car racing, and specifically GT racing.

1 in 5 chance of getting a new Rolex, why not. Lets hope we dont see a mesage on T&S saying "incident between cars 8 & 33 under investigation.

IMSA updated the Roar entry list. http://competitors.imsa.com/sites/default/files/2017_iwsc_roar_updated_pre-event_entry_list.pdf

 

[Wiz]

Quick photoshop job with the green accents changed to match. Much better. Stupid color rules..

 

[catamount39]

I have a feeling the class color rules will be either changed or nixed in 2018 when we only have DPi, GTLM and GTD. Or at least 3 different colors maybe. It'd be fine if it was just the number plate like the WEC or Blancpan.

 

[twitcher]

Quick photoshop job with the green accents changed to match. Much better. Stupid color rules..

Brilliant, I was hoping someone would do that, thanks!! To me, it looks great

The front end in black screams McLaren/Honda F1 team, which is kind of cool....but interesting at the same time, as the black with Dayglow red is as much a McLaren scheme as it is a Honda. The West McLaren Mercs of the 00s had black with red accents on top of the side pods, same as Hamilton's kart back when he was a kid. I just think it's a little funny that this Honda will be comleting against McLarens, wearing a colour scheme that is shared by the two companies.

 

[mwoodski]

I have a feeling the class color rules will be either changed or nixed in 2018 when we only have DPi, GTLM and GTD. Or at least 3 different colors maybe. It'd be fine if it was just the number plate like the WEC or Blancpan.

Class color has already been eliminated for Prototype.

I dislike the use of orange on the nose of the Shank cars. That's a Realtime thing.

 

[twitcher]

Class color has already been eliminated for Prototype.

I dislike the use of orange on the nose of the Shank cars. That's a Realtime thing.

Is it a Realtime thing, or a Honda thing?

Here's more of it

 

[mwoodski]

Realtime.

PD and co. have been using that dayglo orange and white since the beginning of time. Only time they haven't had it featured on their cars since ~1995 is when he had the Nissan deal in Speed TC.

 

[catamount39]

Class color has already been eliminated for Prototype.

I dislike the use of orange on the nose of the Shank cars. That's a Realtime thing.

Wait since when? The DPi's have to run red numberplates, mirrors and wing end plates don't they?

Realtime.

PD and co. have been using that dayglo orange and white since the beginning of time. Only time they haven't had it featured on their cars since ~1995 is when he had the Nissan deal in Speed TC.

Real Time has come a long way. Its crazy to think I was watching them with (post Nissan) Acura's in TC in the PWC.

 

[twitcher]

Realtime.

PD and co. have been using that dayglo orange and white since the beginning of time. Only time they haven't had it featured on their cars since ~1995 is when he had the Nissan deal in Speed TC.

Fair enough, but I've seen lots of Honda's, outside of Realtime, that have dayglow red accents....the Gathers Drider Civic is one of the older that I can think of.

 

[mwoodski]

Wait since when? The DPi's have to run red numberplates, mirrors and wing end plates don't they?


Real Time has come a long way. Its crazy to think I was watching them with (post Nissan) Acura's in TC in the PWC.

As of this year.

I've been following Realtime since the Integra days, it's super awesome to see a good friend driving for them now.

Fair enough, but I've seen lots of Honda's, outside of Realtime, that have dayglow red accents....the Gathers Drider Civic is one of the older that I can think of.

Dayglow red is Realtimes thing in the USA. Citing cars that one would not know about outside of Gran Turismo doesn't help your case, lol.

An Acura with dayglo red/orange with white was a surefire way to know it was a Realtime car.

 

[GTRacer22]

Wait since when? The DPi's have to run red numberplates, mirrors and wing end plates don't they?

Just numberplates.

 

[IforceV8]

Just numberplates.

Leader lights too must be red in P.

 

[GTRacer22]

Leader lights too must be red in P.

Forgot about those.

 

[catamount39]

Well crap that's new. Maybe we can have that for the other classes next year.

 

[IforceV8]

Well crap that's new. Maybe we can have that for the other classes next year.

Unlikely unless one class goes away.

PC keeps their green endplates, but wouldnt yellow be a better color for that class?

 

[catamount39]

Unlikely unless one class goes away.

PC keeps their green endplates, but wouldnt yellow be a better color for that class?

Well we're losing PC next year so...sweet.

 

[twitcher]

As of this year.

I've been following Realtime since the Integra days, it's super awesome to see a good friend driving for them now.


Dayglow red is Realtimes thing in the USA. Citing cars that one would not know about outside of Gran Turismo doesn't help your case, lol.

An Acura with dayglo red/orange with white was a surefire way to know it was a Realtime car.

A Dayglow red and white car was a sure fire way to know it was a Realtime Honda....when they didn't run Honda, they didn't run Dayglow red, as you pointed out.

Here's some Honda's I know nothing about, save for the Gathers, because it's in GT















Just trying to have a friendly discussion here, maybe cool it with the "you only know that because of Gran Turismo lolololololololol I'm so superior" BS....after all, this is Gran Turismo Planet, I wasn't aware that referring to cars that happen to be in a GT game was looked down upon.

Edit: added a couple more pictures.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I've been following Realtime since the Integra days

Same, and the NSX's.

Ah, the good old days of PWC.

 

[mwoodski]

Well we're losing PC next year so...sweet.

Which is exactly why the P class doesn't need the colored bits anymore.

 

[twitcher]

Same, and the NSX's.

Ah, the good old days of PWC.

What was the first year Realtime ran that NSX with that paint scheme? That was their first car in those colours, correct?

And if you know off the top, what year did Spice compete in IMSA with that #49 Acura prototype (had an NSX motor in it)?

 

[Kingofweasles]

What was the first year Realtime ran that NSX with that paint scheme? That was their first car in those colours, correct?

And if you know off the top, what year did Spice compete in IMSA with that #49 Acura prototype (had an NSX motor in it)?

I believe the Spice-Acura GTP Lights car was run in 1993, but by Comptech rather than RTR.

 

[mwoodski]

...and Comptech and Realtime worked very closely in those early years.

 

[Northstar]

...and Comptech and Realtime worked very closely in those early years.

Comptech was even a part of the name for a period so it doesn't seem all that surprising that they'd have similar colors.

 

[twitcher]

So 2 companies use the same dayglow red livery when they run Hondas, and we saw the imergence of these liveries right after Honda dominated F1 with a dayglow red on white livery. When one of those companies (RT) uses equipment other than Honda, they use a colour scheme different from dayglow red. Dayglow red on black is also the current colour scheme of Honda's F1 team.

Yet we're to belive that dayglow red on white, or just dayglow red accents, are a Realtime original colour scheme (despite examples of non-Realtime Hondas using dayglow red accents).

Quick, someone tell Honda they're using Realtime colours!

 

[trustjab]

Looks like dpi's are getting a little more power http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/dpis-given-power-increase-ahead-of-roar/

 

[CodeRedR51]

Yet we're to belive that dayglow red on white, or just dayglow red accents, are a Realtime original colour scheme (despite examples of non-Realtime Hondas using dayglow red accents).

Those of us that grew up on Realtime dominating PWC for years, that grew up with that color scheme, find it nice that they decided to bring some of that history to their new cars. I don't really see what the problem is.

 

[twitcher]

Those of us that grew up on Realtime dominating PWC for years, that grew up with that color scheme, find it nice that they decided to bring some of that history to their new cars. I don't really see what the problem is.

I love those cars too. I was a kid, but I remeber watching them on Speed. The issue started I guess because @FireEmblem62 said he didn't like the red accents on the Shank livery, as those colours "belong to Realtime" (paraphrased). I replied with, "the red accents aren't just a Realtime thing, they're a Honda thing" - implying that it was more than good for Shank to use the theme on their cars.

I gave examples of Honda's with Dayglow red accents and colour schemes to emphasis my point that it's a Honda thing, not unique to Realtime. However, at least one of those examples counts for nothing, as it appeared in Gran Turismo, and that makes it void...or something.

 

[mwoodski]

Dayglo red and white is a Realtime ACURA thing.

It's not a Honda thing, it's a RTR Acura thing.

The people I know in the RTR programme are also not too pleased with Shank using "their" colors in their scheme as well.

 

[IforceV8]

Dayglo red and white is a Realtime ACURA thing.

It's not a Honda thing, it's a RTR Acura thing.

The people I know in the RTR programme are also not too pleased with Shank using "their" colors in their scheme as well.

As if Shank had any say it that, get real. HPD is paying the bills and you can be sure they are in charge of the livery.