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Comments on: To Dance Or Not To Dance https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388 The Right Stuff, The Wrong Way Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:34:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Joe https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4456 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:34:15 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4456 In reply to Jake.

Historically…true, but isn’t the owner of Sebring and the owner of the ALMS one in the same?

]]> By: Jake https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4409 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:29:52 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4409 My understanding is if pushed into a corner Sebring would side with the World Championship, histortically Sebring isn’t associated with any one series.

]]> By: Joe https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4384 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:15:11 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4384 I have heard conflicting reports. One version is as your report concludes, the other stipulates that “They are not in our race” the essence of the FIA’s verbiage regarding GTC, is a technicality only, and the “dual” event as you mentioned highlights that. In other words, no, the GTC is not in the FIA’s race at Sebring, but it is in the ALMS’ race, which just happens to be conducted on the same track at the same time.

On a far less obtrusive note, this is how the points systems work, too. A 2nd place overall from an ALMS car not entered in the FIA WEC (yea, I know, humor me for a moment) scores 1st place ALMS points, as if the FIA WEC race didn’t happen, since in the ALMS’ eyes, it didn’t.

So, the bottom line is, is your info new? Or is this the continuation of the two versions of the story that has not yet been clarified?

]]> By: John Brooks https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4343 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:20:42 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4343 Tom

your observation is spot on………..of course that might have involved an ACO series recognising that Ratel’s GT3 concept was valid………….but the ALMS have left an open goal for GrandAm…………will they put the ball in the back of the net or hoof it into the stands?

]]> By: Tom Kjos https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4327 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:14:36 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4327 Bill, excellent analysis of the main issues. However, had the ALMS not continued to maintain GTC as an exclusively Porsche spec. class – after saying at its introduction they would not – they could well have morphed it into a “real” GT3-like class under GT(E/2). Had they done that, would they really be in this “fix?”

John, your blog is quickly becoming required reading.

]]> By: David Soares https://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4314 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:10:13 +0000 http://www.doubledeclutch.com/?p=2388#comment-4314 The ACO needs Sebring. The circuit is long enough to accommodate passing the slower GTC’s. Not so at Road Atlanta. The solution is obvious: let them run at Sebring, but not at Petit Le Mans. The ACO would need years to court the rival France NA$CAR series, so ALMS has the leverage to tell the ACO/FIA to fuhgettabout North America and any sort of credible World Championship if important clients (and Le Mans class winners) like Kevin Buckler and Alex Job can’t bring their sponsors to the most important race of the season.

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