Racing Discussion Thread

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:11 pm

Dr. Don Panoz and Highcroft Racing has said that the new ALMS/Grand-Am Series will combine Le Mans Prototypes, Daytona Prototypes, and Delta Wing.

I seriously do not like where this is headed. It looks like they will kill off LMP1 and merge the LMP2 and DP classes. It looks almost certain that NASCAR does not want their classes to be upstaged and on the board of directors NASCAR/Grand-Am has 4 votes, ALMS has 2. Pretty much every single ALMS prototype owner has said they do not want to race with DPs. Muscle Milk has pretty much said if this doesnt go how they want they are going to the WEC. We know Level 5 will go WEC at any time if things don't go there way. Dyson Sr has stated that he doesn't like the DP Class even though he owns a gen-2 DP.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:05 pm

I'm stoked to see the Trucks schedule next year. I'm guessing Gresham, Mosport, Salem get added.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:18 am

Stadium Super Trucks PR/NBC Sports PR wrote:: Robby Gordon’s Stadium SUPER Trucks and NBC Sports Group have reached an agreement to televise the 2013 Inaugural Stadium SUPER Trucks Season on NBC and NBC Sports Network. Starting in April of 2013, NBC and NBC Sports Network will televise 12 races (11 domestic and one international).

Capitalizing on what was once known as Mickey Thompson’s Off-Road Racing, Robby Gordon’s Stadium SUPER Trucks will feature high-flying off-road action motorsports fans have been asking for. The entire championship season will be broadcasted on NBC and NBC Sports Network, with the series awarding $500,000 to the Champion driver of Stadium SUPER Trucks.

“It has always been my dream to bring back stadium racing to the masses. I started my career winning a championship in Mickey’s series and now I want to revive his vision and bring back what the motorsports world needs. NBC Sports understands what kind of excitement and value our show will exhibit. This will be extreme wheel-to-wheel, door-to-door, roof-to-dirt racing action for all ages,” said Robby Gordon, President of Stadium SUPER Trucks.

Sucks that all of the races are on tape delay but at least most are only a day behind! Cool they got a deal with NBC though.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:53 am

AuzGrams wrote:: I'm stoked to see the Trucks schedule next year. I'm guessing Gresham, Mosport, Salem get added.

I will be over 9000 disappoint if they don't add Toledo. Its in the general area as Mansfield, maybe an hour and a half fo the west. It has a much better infastructure around the track, and already has 20,00 seats compared to Mansfield's 25k. They have plenty of space to add seats too, there are none at all on the back stretch.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:13 am

lemonhead75 wrote:

AuzGrams wrote:: I'm stoked to see the Trucks schedule next year. I'm guessing Gresham, Mosport, Salem get added.

I will be over 9000 disappoint if they don't add Toledo. Its in the general area as Mansfield, maybe an hour and a half fo the west. It has a much better infastructure around the track, and already has 20,00 seats compared to Mansfield's 25k. They have plenty of space to add seats too, there are none at all on the back stretch.

Um..... don't they use the back stretch for the pits?(not the main pit, but for hauler parking, both for weekly and ARCA races currently) Racing Discussion Thread - Page 23 Tolaerial07

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Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:09 am

racer612008 wrote:: Not showing on this..... hopefully those reruns are a filler for now if they are broadcasting so they can do a press release a week before or something. inb4 speed2

here's the link to the schedule currently. http://www.speedtv.com/schedule/filter/date/2012-10-6

Update on US TV coverage for this years Bathurst 1000. Tape delay coverage scheduled for October 14th at 11PM ET and Surfers is a nope as well. Although, i can understand no coverage of Surfers with the Monster Energy Cup Motocross event at the same time. As that contract was signed a while ago. Really stupid that they aren't showing it live this year. The only other race i could see SPEED covering live is Abu Dhabi, as it is a support race to F1 this season with either Aussie or the current SPEED F1 commentary but i really doubt that.....

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:18 am

Deccan Herald wrote:: The FIA GT1 Sports Car Championship, which was scheduled to be held at the Buddh International Circuit in December, has been called off after the promoters of the event, Stephane Ratel Organisation (SRO), cancelled the season finale citing economic gloom in Europe.

Askari Zaidi, vice-president of corporate communication at Jaypee Group, said that the race scheduled for December 2 will not take place this year, as Ratel (CEO of SRO) has written to the international automobile federation, FIA, asking them to cancel the event.

“It has been communicated to FIA by the promoters SRO Motorsports Group to cancel the event citing economic slowdown in Europe,” Zaidi said on Monday on the sidelines of the launch of the new MRF Formula 2000 Car and the MRF Challenge 2012 series.

“GT1 was planned but the promoters backed out due to financial problem. Europe is going through an economic crisis. The promoters felt that they would not be able to sustain the cost. It was put in the calendar also but it is unlikely that the race will happen this year. We are hopeful things will be worked out in 2013,” added Zaidi.

Due to the financial crisis, SRO had cancelled the two rounds in China at the Beijing Goldenport circuit in August and Ordos in September and pruned the 10-round series to eight. The series started with a car 22-car grid in 2010 and was reduced to 18 in the subsequent year. Indian racer Armaan Ebrahim had signed a contract to race in the final three races of the FIA GT1 World Championship

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:19 am

Highlights of the Bud Light International Classic at Oswego with the Supers, SBS and TQ Midgets!

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:19 am

NASCAR Integrated Marketing Communications/Jayski.com wrote:: NASCAR has reinstated driver AJ Allmendinger upon his successful completion of NASCAR's Substance Abuse Policy Road to Recovery Program. Allmendinger had been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR on July 24 for violating the sanctioning body's substance abuse policy

Hopefully he can get a good IndyCar or NASCAR ride for next season!

Stefan Bartholomaeus/Speedcafe.com.au wrote:: V8 Supercars will today announce that luxury German car maker Mercedes-Benz is set to join Holden, Ford and Nissan on its 2013 grid.

Orchestrated by Australian GT Championship squad Erebus Racing, the deal will see existing Ford outfit Stone Brothers Racing utilise Mercedes engines and bodywork through the company’s AMG Customer Sports department.

Owned by property tycoon Betty Klimenko, Erebus is understood to have been working on the deal with AMG since early this year.

Although Mercedes-Benz Australia previously made public its disapproval of such a program, it is expected that today’s announcement in Melbourne will come with the blessing of the marque’s local arm.

Its V8 Supercars entry is expected to be based on an updated Mercedes E-Class sedan, not scheduled to be unveiled until the Detroit Auto Show in January.

The news ensures the end of SBR’s 15-year association with Ford, in which time it has won three V8 Supercars Championships (2003-2005) and a single Bathurst 1000 (1998).

Current SBR sponsors IRWIN Tools and SP Tools and drivers Lee Holdsworth, Shane van Gisbergen and Tim Slade have already been locked in by the team for next year.

More details of the new program are set to be revealed at 1300 local time.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:04 am

Hearing that the dates for the V8 Supercar round in Austin, TX will be announced sometime next week according to series chairman Tony Cochrane during the Brebus Motorsports/Mercedes AMG/Stone Brothers Racing announcement. The rumored date currently is the same weekend as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race/Indy500 Pole Weekend.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:52 pm

In really weird news. The Australian GT Series will be doing a 1-hour race within the Bathurst 12 hour. Cars in the Australian GT Series will race the first hour and then pull into the pits.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:38 pm

trbfan wrote:: In really weird news. The Australian GT Series will be doing a 1-hour race within the Bathurst 12 hour. Cars in the Australian GT Series will race the first hour and then pull into the pits.

lolwut.......

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:24 am

Randy Bernard will be releasing the 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series schedule this Sunday on SPEED's Wind Tunnel at 9PM ET.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:02 am

Dallara wrote:: Dallara Automobili Spa, the Italian race car constructor is pleased to announce that, after a detailed tendering process it has won the contract to design and supply all the cars to the new Japanese Championship – Super Formula (SF) for 2014. This new championship will replace Formula Nippon.

Development of the new chassis "SF14 " will focus on going back to the three basics of formula cars: corneringspeed, braking and improving the car’s overall efficiency by achieving an ideal balance between performance and car safety.

The new car should have its first ‘shake down’ test in mid 2013.

Hmmmm........

Rockingham Speedway wrote:: GOOD News coming Wednesday

Please be a Nationwide race. PLEASE!(I can only dream for Cup Sad

Although, i heard if they can get good crowds in the lower series, then it is possible Shocked

) Currently, i am hearing rumors of a Nationwide date, a 2nd Truck date and Lights!

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:07 am

This is very cool looking. With a new series. Called Formula Cross. Very cheap cars. Looks like its the Legends car version of an entry series to Global Rallycross.

http://formula-cross.myshopify.com/collections/vehicles

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:27 am

Furniture Row Racing wrote:: Furniture Row Racing announced today that Kurt Busch has been hired to drive the team’s No. 78 Chevrolet during the 2013 Sprint Cup season.

Busch, a former NASCAR Cup champion, will replace Regan Smith, who joined Furniture Row Racing at the beginning of the 2009 season.

“Though we have made strides as a resourceful single-car Sprint Cup team, we are not where we want to be, which led us to the difficult decision of making a driver change as we move forward,” said Furniture Row Racing's general manager Joe Garone. “Kurt’s exceptional driving talent has the capacity to take a team to another level. We look forward to having Kurt join our Denver-based organization and feel his racing experience will play an important role as we plan ahead to 2013.”

Garone added, “As our team driver the past four years, Regan has represented Furniture Row Racing with both class and competitiveness. His win at Darlington in 2011 – the first for Furniture Row Racing – will be a memory forever etched in our organization’s history. He is a friend, and will always be a friend of Furniture Row Racing. We wish him all the best.”

Busch, a 34 year-old native of Las Vegas, has been a full time driver in the Sprint Cup Series since 2001. He has 427 Cup starts and has scored 24 wins, 89 top-fives, 171 top-10s and 15 poles. He has qualified for the Chase six times in the past nine years and won the 2004 inaugural Chase season championship in only his third full season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series.

“Furniture Row Racing has the commitment, talent and resources to compete at a high level in the Sprint Cup Series,” said Busch. "I have watched with admiration on how this team has grown over the years and that is why I am excited about the opportunity as I eagerly look forward to a new chapter in my racing career."

Since the beginning of the 2012 season, Busch has driven the No. 51 Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing. His previous two teams in the Sprint Cup Series were at Penske Racing and Roush Fenway Racing.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:17 am

well, now kurt can drive another team into the ground

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:42 am

NASCAR has released the 2013 Sprint Cup schedule.

2/16 Daytona International Speedway (Shootout)
2/17 Daytona International Speedway (Daytona 500 Qualifying)
2/21 Daytona International Speedway (Duel)
2/24 Daytona 500
3/3 Phoenix International Raceway
3/10 Las Vegas Motor Speedway
3/17 Bristol Motor Speedway
3/24 Auto Club Speedway
4/7 Martinsville Speedway
4/13 Texas Motor Speedway
4/21 Kansas Speedway
4/27 Richmond International Raceway
5/5 Talladega Superspeedway
5/11 Darlington Raceway
5/18 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (Charlotte Motor Speedway)
5/26 Charlotte Motor Speedway
6/2 Dover International Speedway
6/9 Pocono Raceway
6/16 Michigan International Speedway
6/23 Sonoma
6/29 Kentucky Speedway
7/6 Daytona International Speedway
7/14 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
7/28 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
8/4 Pocono Raceway
8/11 Watkins Glen International
8/18 Michigan International Speedway
8/24 Bristol Motor Speedway
9/1 Atlanta Motor Speedway
9/7 Richmond International Raceway
9/15 Chicagoland Speedway
9/22 New Hampshire Motor Speedway
9/29 Dover International Speedway
10/6 Kansas Speedway
10/12 Charlotte Motor Speedway
10/20 Talladega Superspeedway
10/27 Martinsville Speedway
11/3 Texas Motor Speedway
11/10 Phoenix International Raceway
11/17 Homestead-Miami Speedway

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:48 am

Motorsports Magazine/Gordon Kirby wrote:: “We’ve heard something has been signed with another tyre company,” Speyer told us. “I don’t know that for a fact, but if that’s the case it really makes it uncertain of where we’re going and may preclude us. But I don’t have all the facts.

I want to stress that we want to extend our relationship with IndyCar. A couple of years ago we went through a period when we were trying to adjust our investment, but that’s all behind us. Right now, we want to very much continue. Since May of last year we’ve been telling IndyCar that we’d like to extend our relationship, which goes through 2014, through as far as 2020. We wanted to make a long term extension that would give both of us stability.

“But it’s not at all certain that we’ll get an extension. We’re very deeply concerned about that and there may be little more that we can do from our side. It does appear that IndyCar wants to go in another direction for tyres. That’s become clear to us. Even though we thought they wanted to extend with us, all of a sudden we learned that they want to go in a different direction. It’s clear to us the current IndyCar management is not interested in working with us.”

Speyer said Bridgestone/Firestone has confidence that IndyCar can rebuild its flagging crowds and television ratings. “We see upside potential to IndyCar,” Speyer emphasised. “We see some growth possibilities and we don’t want to do anything that devalues that. We want to continue to promote it to make it bigger for ourselves and IndyCar. It’s in our best interests to grow that. The sport has had its ups and downs over history and were hoping it can rise up again. The product is really good and we believe in it.”

Over the years Firestone has developed strong domestic TV and print media advertising campaigns featuring Indy car racing. Speyer said the company has plans to expand on that theme if IndyCar agreed to its proposed contract extension through 2020.

“Firestone has been supporting Indy car racing for a hundred years,” Speyer remarked. “Harvey Firestone was there at the start and over the years Firestone has promoted the sport in the major national media of the times. The history makes it a natural for the Firestone brand. It’s a very good fit for the Firestone brand and we’ve done a lot of marketing and TV advertising. We’ve worked long and hard and poured a ton of blood, sweat and tears and money into the sport and to be told they want to do something else is hard to swallow.

“So it’s a sticky wicket right now. We want to stay. We’ve got certain rights and we want to stay. This new direction caught us by surprise. We had no idea it was coming.”

Speyer said the vast majority of drivers and teams have expressed to him their wish that Bridgestone/Firestone continue on a longterm basis as IndyCar’s tyre supplier. “We believe based on what we continue to hear that the drivers and owners would like to see us stay. There certainly is no undercurrent of people wanting to kick us out. They want us to stay very much. We’ve got the support of the drivers and teams. Even some of the fans are behind us. We don’t feel like we’ve done anything wrong.

“We’re very proud of the relationship we have with 99 per cent of the IndyCar community and the support from the team owners and drivers is just outstanding. They very much support us and want us to continue and that makes it almost doubly hard to swallow. They have been unbelievable in their support of us and we think it’s an earned position.”

Michael Andretti’s team won its fourth IndyCar championship and first with Ryan Hunter-Reay this year. Andretti hopes to field four cars in next year’s IndyCar series plus a fifth car at Indianapolis. Michael said he hopes IndyCar will see the light and extend its agreement with Firestone.

“Firestone has been such a great supporter of IndyCar racing,” Andretti said. “I don’t know all the facts but it sounds like they’re not being treated like the way they should be treated. It’s a little disappointing. The biggest thing with Firestone is you know you have a safe product. Tyres are really important, especially on the superspeedways so it’s not a lottery where you know one or two tyres are going to blow up. With Firestone, you don’t have that worry and that really puts your mind at ease as a driver and a team owner.

“That’s the biggest thing Firestone brings to the table and they’ve done a fantastic job that way. If IndyCar is getting somebody else I’m just hoping that it’s going to be a quality product. If not, it could be disastrous. It could be very expensive and very dangerous. We don’t want our talent getting hurt.”

On Monday morning we asked IndyCar’s CEO Randy Bernard for his view of this matter, but by the end of the day he had not replied to our request for a comment.

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Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:51 am

those damn Talladega races are never on the same week year to year

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Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:54 am

still think the chase should have a roadie in it

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:19 am

Rockingham announced that the Truck Series will be returning on April 12-14! Tickets around $20 to $35 bucks! I got to go to this race! I could see them add a Nationwide date for the fall still though Razz

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:09 pm

JUST breaking news:

Sergio Perez to McLaren F1.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:15 am

R.I.P. Chris Economaki 1920-2012.

Subject: Re: Racing Discussion Thread Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:44 am

2013 GRAND-AM Rolex Series Schedule
Jan. 26-27 Daytona International Speedway
March 2 Circuit of the Americas
April 6 Barber Motorsports Park
April 20 Road Atlanta
June 1 Detroit Belle Isle
June 15 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
June 30 Watkins Glen International
July 26 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Aug. 10 * Road America
Aug. 17 Kansas Speedway
Sept. 8 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Sept. 28 Lime Rock Park
*Combination event with American Le Mans Series

2013 GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Schedule
Jan. 25 Daytona International Speedway
March 2 Circuit of the Americas
April 6 Barber Motorsports Park
April 20 Road Atlanta
June 15 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
June 29 Watkins Glen International
July 26 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Aug. 10 * Road America
Aug. 17 Kansas Speedway
Sept. 8 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Sept. 27-28 Lime Rock Park
*Combination event with American Le Mans Series

2013 FIA World Endurance Championship Schedule
14 April - Round 1 - 6 Hours of Silverstone GBR
04 May - Round 2 - WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps BEL
22/23 June - Round 3 - 24 Heures du Mans FRA
24 August - Round 4 - 6 Hours of Sao Paulo BRA
22 September - Round 5 - 6 Hours of Austin * USA
20 October - Round 6 - 6 Hours of Fuji JPN
10 November - Round 7 - 6 Hours of Shanghai * CHN
30 November - Round 8 - 6 Hours of Bahrain BAH

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