Audi returning to ALMS with LMP and GT Program (update)

[The Outlaw]

The way your posts come off make it sound like Grand-Am is screwing Porsche on purpose, thus making you sound like an elitist.

Really...it's beyond me how you come to that conclusion

Why should Porsche, or better yet the teams who run the GT3's (and who have been around since the start) be bothered to build some tube frame car when Grand-Am could simply allow Porsche to run their GT3's closer to Cup Car spec so they can AT LEAST be competitive? Instead, they've put restrictions on them left and right (running less hp than a production GT3 i.e) and making them use some special spec'd GT3 especially tailored to Grand-Am, which has clearly left them at a disadvantage running a unibody car (meaning the regulations should be looked at a bit...unless of course you have a stubborn attitude like yourself). Whether they are purposely screwing Porsche over is besides the point.

You seem to like the current rules that basically entail that every team in GT must run some generic tube frame chassis to be competitive, which basically makes having marques/manufacturer nameplates in the series pointless. The RX-8 shares little to no DNA with a production RX-8 (so why call it an RX-8?) , it's more like a Riley chassis with some custom built 3 rotor 20B engine. To me having these generic tube frame chassis makes the series rather souless, when they all should be forced to run the production based unibody/chassis if they want to put some RX-8, Camaro, BMW, etc. nameplate on the bodywork (with any type of meaning).

 

[The Outlaw]

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[RACECAR]

Really...it's beyond me how you come to that conclusion

You once again miss what I said:

The way your posts come off make it sound like Grand-Am is screwing Porsche on purpose, thus making you sound like an elitist

The fact that you are just straight out saying Grand-Am are screwing them just because the rules don't favor production based cars is why I say that and I really would wish you just stop it.

Why should Porsche, or better yet the teams who run the GT3's (and who have been around since the start) be bothered to build some tube frame car when Grand-Am could simply allow Porsche to run their GT3's closer to Cup Car spec so they can AT LEAST be competitive? Instead, they've put restrictions on them left and right (running less hp than a production GT3 i.e) and making them use some special spec'd GT3 especially tailored to Grand-Am, which has clearly left them at a disadvantage running a unibody car (meaning the regulations should be looked at a bit...unless of course you have a stubborn attitude like yourself). Whether they are purposely screwing Porsche over is besides the point.

Stubborn Attitude? So because I'm simply saying your posts come off as elistist because you somehow think Grand-Am is out to punish Porsche is me having an Attitude? As for the teams that have been around since the beginning, what teams? TRG is the only one still there (at least that I see)thats been around so I hardly see any founding teams left other then Team Seattle and their usual once a year run for Childrens Hospital. And again, how did they "make" them build a Grand-Am Spec car? Again, you make it appear as if Grand-Am is after Porsche.

You seem to like the current rules that basically entail that every team in GT must run some generic tube frame chassis to be competitive, which basically makes having marques/manufacturer nameplates in the series pointless.

Exactly how do I like the rules? If you've read my posts in the past, I've always said I don't like the GT class because I felt they don't look like race cars, just road cars with rear wings thrown on as an after thought. Nowhere and in no way am I suggesting I like the rules (frankly I'll be glad when the GT3 rules get adopted because we'll actually see a hell of alot more racy looking cars)

The RX-8 shares little to no DNA with a production RX-8 (so why call it an RX-8?) , it's more like a Riley chassis with some custom built 3 rotor 20B engine. To me having these generic tube frame chassis makes the series rather souless, when they all should be forced to run the production based unibody/chassis if they want to put some RX-8, Camaro, BMW, etc. nameplate on the bodywork (with any type of meaning).

Two words: PR. Notice that Mazda of North America Financially support them as well as promote their success in the series. This is the exact same thing we saw with the GTO.Rs and the GXP.Rs from years ago, which were ironically run by the Porsche team TRG, the same people complaining about the rules now (after they ironically enough dominated with a Tube-Framed car).

Now lets just drop this argument right here and get back to talking about the subject with this thread because I'm really growing tired of it.