Now that Grand-am is part of NASCAR holdings, what if ALMS was adopted into grand am? Granted, grand-am racing is far and away better than nascar racing right now.
I was thinking if LMP1 and LMP2 stayed as their own classes while all of GT was merged, and merge the schedules. Adopt the ALMS/FIA pit method (i think?) where team cars share a single pit stall (2 cars to a stall), and denounce the grand-am pit method where prototypes first, then GT.
So you'd have 20 LMP's, 20 DP's, and 20 GT's (except endurances...then could be larger field). But since team cars will be sharing stalls, there's still 40 or less stalls, and the team managers decide which car pits first (whether the leading team car, or the one that needs to stop first). And have a 2 car per team cap with exception to endurance races, where 4 GT's are allowed per team.
That's give you no less than 10 teams per class, and make action interesting, as well as the traffic issue.
again, probably wouldnt work, but it'd be interesting.....I count 15 combined GT and 12 combined LMP teams and 60 total grand-am teams.
I was thinking if LMP1 and LMP2 stayed as their own classes while all of GT was merged, and merge the schedules. Adopt the ALMS/FIA pit method (i think?) where team cars share a single pit stall (2 cars to a stall), and denounce the grand-am pit method where prototypes first, then GT.
So you'd have 20 LMP's, 20 DP's, and 20 GT's (except endurances...then could be larger field). But since team cars will be sharing stalls, there's still 40 or less stalls, and the team managers decide which car pits first (whether the leading team car, or the one that needs to stop first). And have a 2 car per team cap with exception to endurance races, where 4 GT's are allowed per team.
That's give you no less than 10 teams per class, and make action interesting, as well as the traffic issue.
again, probably wouldnt work, but it'd be interesting.....I count 15 combined GT and 12 combined LMP teams and 60 total grand-am teams.