FLRacingFan
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First test for Acura complete in France. Some sharper angles than the current car has.
IMSA 2022
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FLRacingFan
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Battle on the Bricks announced for next September, standard 2:40 race with an NBC TV window in 2023 and then becomes an endurance event in 2024 and 2025. Looks to be the first IMS race weekend with infield camping available.
Kiante
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FLRacingFan
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Ferrari 296 and Porsche 911 GT3s dropped over the weekend. Ferrari sports car racing director said he expects five or six them on the grid when it makes its global debut at the Rolex next year.
Charlie Spencer
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I misinterpreted 'dropped' to mean the manufacturers discontinued their plans to deploy these cars.
I remember when things were 'dropped' because they were undesirable.
FLRacingFan
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I will do better.
Charlie Spencer
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Nah, just me trying to adjust to how the language is changing, and fighting 60 years of habit and inertia.
FLRacingFan
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Detroit has been dropped from the WeatherTech Championship in favor of Le Mans test day and replaced by an MPC GS-class race there. Mid-Ohio also confirmed off in favor of IMS. No confirmations of which series will be added to NASCAR’s Chicago weekend but it does appear to be coming from the various one-make series.
LMP3 is still around next year in the top series, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why.
LMP3 is still around next year in the top series, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why.
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Charlie Spencer
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I'm not sure if I dislike this more or less than Cup's swap of RA for Chicago, but it's pretty close.
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I’ve read a lot over the past several months that no one in the series likes going there. Honda does tons of manufacturing in Ohio and even they stopped sponsoring the event this year. Facilities are 40 years old and decayed and in the middle of nowhere, it’s not a place where OEMs and sponsors want to be, so bad not even crew members like going there. MO has a lot of work to do. Stark contrast to IMS in that regard.
A race at Indy running into darkness sounds pretty interesting, hope they schedule it that way in 2024.
Charlie Spencer
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Thanks. With the series they host and the apparent turn-outs, you'd think they'd have money to put back into the facility.
And the RA / Chicago swap moves back into first place on the 2023 Dislikes list.
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#10 WTR Acura and Ganassi’s #02 Cadillac on the front row at Road America tomorrow, 11:40 AM ET/Peacock with USA picking up at noon. All five classes in attendance and the penultimate race for the prototypes.
Kiante
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Going to miss the DPis, they have been such a great impact on IMSA and has honestly been awesome to see them in person so many times over the years.
Hopefully, the GTP series will be just as cost effective as time goes on for the series.
Charlie Spencer
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RA - #25 GTD dead on track going into the carousel. Did a computer reset and it refires. Local yellow
Charlie Spencer
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Rain getting heavier in some spots. No one on rain tires yet.
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Rain is well on the way, no lightning expected though.
Great start from Bourdais. Best driver in traffic I think.
Great start from Bourdais. Best driver in traffic I think.
Charlie Spencer
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What's Blomie waiting on, an engraved invitation? Gonna toss a championship away.
Charlie Spencer
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yellow. LMP2 in the gravel off 6.
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P2s three-wide up the front straight. 
Wonder what’s up with BMW and RLL in the Pro class this year. New M4 has been really competitive in customer hands in GTD. I wonder if it isn’t a test mule of sorts.
Charlie Spencer
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Not a bad crowd, considering the forecast.
Charlie Spencer
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I don't know what they're doing to the #60 but they have both ends open and are cranking away on it. Last in class and going nowhere so it can't hurt.
FLRacingFan
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Wow, long caution lap at RA means the 60 can take both front and rear wing pieces off and make massive setup changes. Gearing up for wet maybe.
Charlie Spencer
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Tire strategies really spicing this up.
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DPi machines getting passed by LMP3s…might be time to put the wets on guys.
Charlie Spencer
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Ricky yielding to every thing that comes by.
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Westy already 40 seconds up the road, tough look for everyone who stayed on slicks so far. Pretty sure they have no choice but to come asap.
Charlie Spencer
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And they did. Waited WAY too long. Westy can see them.
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About time Jaminet got around Barnicoat. They were deadlocked for about an hour.
Charlie Spencer
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Yellow. Somebody's ... dive plane? ... in the racing line. Everyone's going to need at least one more stop from this point.
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Back to slicks. Should be a treacherous first few laps on this restart.
Charlie Spencer
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Nobody screwed around on the decision to switch this time either.
Charlie Spencer
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Filipe must have some Japanese blood for that banzai move around the #60
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Really dicey stuff, I thought Bamber was about to turn Albuquerque for a few moments. Not what the 60 team was looking for on the restart.
Charlie Spencer
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NBC doing a nice job with the aerial coverage today. I never realized there was a bluff inside the carousel. Probably a decent view from there.
Charlie Spencer
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Two LMP3 off; looks like turn 3? Yellow. Everyone should be able to finish from here.
Charlie Spencer
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I'm a little disappointed the new schedule has one fewer race.
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They clarified yesterday they intend to go back to Detroit in 2024. Not sure how that works since their stated reason for the move away was Le Mans test day, so maybe Penske plan to move the date in 2024. Dropping Detroit entirely for good doesn’t make much sense to me anyways considering the level of GM investment.
So as long as they add that back and Indy becomes a endurance race in 2024 there should be more racing overall.
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Big pits shakeup for the final stint to the finish. Acuras needed less fuel?