Sad to see Audi go they've been a great support to sportscar racing in general in the last few decades. I would have liked to have seen them one last time at Silverstone next year.
I really like the current LMP1-H cars they are amazing pieces of technology and the racing between them has been pretty good in the last few years. Toyota lost their way a little but are now getting their pace back again. So fingers crossed for an epic final few rounds
When you watch the cars at the race track their rate of acceleration is incredible out of the corners, they are certainly something special (and they sound hell of a lot better than an F1 engine!)
All the classes provide top racing at the moment
You will never get back to Group C, the main car manufacturers want clean burning, electric driven marketing at the moment. They all want to promote "clean" racing and for that reason I can see more and more manufacturers going over to Formula E (whether you love it or hate it). That's why you have hybrid engines in F1 because of the way they wish to promote their brands around the world.
Mind you being a Mazda fan if they want to allow rotary hybrids that would be cool!
I'm wondering if a good cost cutting measure would be to copy the GT3 rules slightly and make the teams run the same car (with certain modifications allowed) for at least three to four years, Audi were literary building an all new car every year and then developing it so that must have cost millions (to put it mildly) and of course the teams were doing 100's of hours of testing at places like Paul Ricard.
Yes from an enthusiast point of view it would be better to get back to a "normal" set of engine rules, this might allow the manufacturers to sell privateer cars again, you could even make this a requirement. As it stands at the moment the cars are too expensive and too complex to sell to customer teams and that is a shame I will admit.
The ACO are also partly to blame as well. Yes it's ok to make changes to the cars to improve safety but sometimes their regulation changes do make me wonder. The racing is good, leave the cars alone.
I'll still make the trip to Silverstone next year though, with GT3 this is still my favourite form of racing.
I really like the current LMP1-H cars they are amazing pieces of technology and the racing between them has been pretty good in the last few years. Toyota lost their way a little but are now getting their pace back again. So fingers crossed for an epic final few rounds
When you watch the cars at the race track their rate of acceleration is incredible out of the corners, they are certainly something special (and they sound hell of a lot better than an F1 engine!
)All the classes provide top racing at the moment
You will never get back to Group C, the main car manufacturers want clean burning, electric driven marketing at the moment. They all want to promote "clean" racing and for that reason I can see more and more manufacturers going over to Formula E (whether you love it or hate it). That's why you have hybrid engines in F1 because of the way they wish to promote their brands around the world.
Mind you being a Mazda fan if they want to allow rotary hybrids that would be cool!
I'm wondering if a good cost cutting measure would be to copy the GT3 rules slightly and make the teams run the same car (with certain modifications allowed) for at least three to four years, Audi were literary building an all new car every year and then developing it so that must have cost millions (to put it mildly) and of course the teams were doing 100's of hours of testing at places like Paul Ricard.
Yes from an enthusiast point of view it would be better to get back to a "normal" set of engine rules, this might allow the manufacturers to sell privateer cars again, you could even make this a requirement. As it stands at the moment the cars are too expensive and too complex to sell to customer teams and that is a shame I will admit.
The ACO are also partly to blame as well. Yes it's ok to make changes to the cars to improve safety but sometimes their regulation changes do make me wonder. The racing is good, leave the cars alone.
I'll still make the trip to Silverstone next year though, with GT3 this is still my favourite form of racing.
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