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[blinkwatt]

I think we all should focus on ALMS instead of NASCAR. People who drive Mustangs,Camaros and Corvettes should watch Nascar. People who drive fully balanced cars watch ALMS. Too bad ALMS isnt stopping by the local Infineon Raceway this year,maybe I will head to Laguna Seca.

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by blinkwatt

I think we all should focus on ALMS instead of NASCAR. People who drive Mustangs,Camaros and Corvettes should watch Nascar. People who drive fully balanced cars watch ALMS. Too bad ALMS isnt stopping by the local Infineon Raceway this year,maybe I will head to Laguna Seca.

Actually, the Corvette has dominated the ALMS series from the get, dominating Saleens, Maseratis, Vipers and Aston Martins and anything else they throw at them. These cars among the fastest and finest handling cars in the world.

To my knowledge, they do NOT run NASCAR.

[JackG]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Actually, the Corvette has dominated the ALMS series from the get, dominating Saleens, Maseratis, Vipers and Aston Martins and anything else they throw at them. These cars among the fastest and finest handling cars in the world.

To my knowledge, they do NOT run NASCAR.

True, but a Corvette was used as a pace car for last week's Daytona 500. It joins such lofty company as Mustangs, Camaros, and Trans Ams.

Kidding!!!

Jack

[BuffaloBoxster]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Actually, the Corvette has dominated the ALMS series from the get, dominating Saleens, Maseratis, Vipers and Aston Martins and anything else they throw at them. These cars among the fastest and finest handling cars in the world.

To my knowledge, they do NOT run NASCAR.

Those Vettes are about as close to street cars as the NASCAR Monte Carlo is to its street counterpart. They're tube frame racers with larger displacement motors.

I love ALMS and applaud their fan-friendly attitude, but all is not well there either. The prototype division is fractured in that the Audis had dominated P1, while from this year on you won't have a prayer in P2 if you don't have a Porsche RS Spyder. In GT1 the Corvettes are totally dominant, mostly because nobody is campaigning the Ferrari or Aston Martin cars in the US (I understand Aston will be here this season though). GT2 has been a 911 dominated category forever.

I hope and pray they will consolidate the classes, leaving only one prototype class and a stock-based GT class before the series begins to fall apart due to lack of participation.

[Ronzi]

Ref. ALMS:

... and of course there is a political power struggle brewing between ALMS and the NASCAR-bankrolled Grand Am series. That's why all those NASCAR guys turn up driving in the Daytona 24.

[Brucelee]

"In GT1 the Corvettes are totally dominant, mostly because nobody is campaigning the Ferrari or Aston Martin cars in the US (I understand Aston will be here this season though). "

Actually, Corvette has won at Lemans every year they have raced with the C5s and 6s. They have consistently wasted the AM cars and well, where is Ferrari at Lemans?

Moreover, the current z06 is very much built on the C6R platorm.

Face it, Corvettes (street and race) are the real deal.

[BuffaloBoxster]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

"In GT1 the Corvettes are totally dominant, mostly because nobody is campaigning the Ferrari or Aston Martin cars in the US (I understand Aston will be here this season though). "

Actually, Corvette has won at Lemans every year they have raced with the C5s and 6s. They have consistently wasted the AM cars and well, where is Ferrari at Lemans?

Moreover, the current z06 is very much built on the C6R platorm.

Face it, Corvettes (street and race) are the real deal.

That's not entirely true. Aston won LeMans last year, and two years ago the race was being handily led by a 550 Maranello until it burned to the ground.

And I take back my tube-frame comment - it appears the two do share a chassis and now in the Z06 C6 an engine. This was not the case (the engine) until the C6R.

I don't deny that the Vettes are the real deal, but they do have significant factory baking that the Ferrari and Aston teams lack. It's the same reason why the privateer Ferrari teams couldn't win againt the 911s with a 360 Modena when the street version of the two cars would lead you to believe otherwise. You've got to admit that a manufacturer the size of Saleen has a huge task ahead of him to compete with a GM factory program. It's apples to oranges.

[Brucelee]

"That's not entirely true. Aston won LeMans last year, and two years ago the race was being handily led by a 550 Maranello until it burned to the ground."

Corvette won the LeMans race last year in its class. Aston Martin did not win.
I am not sure about the Maranello but of course, it did not finish so, well, it did not win!


"And I take back my tube-frame comment - it appears the two do share a chassis and now in the Z06 C6 an engine. This was not the case (the engine) until the C6R."

Correct.

"I don't deny that the Vettes are the real deal, but they do have significant factory baking that the Ferrari and Aston teams lack. It's the same reason why the privateer Ferrari teams couldn't win againt the 911s with a 360 Modena when the street version of the two cars would lead you to believe otherwise. You've got to admit that a manufacturer the size of Saleen has a huge task ahead of him to compete with a GM factory program. It's apples to oranges."

I don't agree on the apples to oranges issue. All these cars qualify in the same class. Frankly, the Saleen is a out and out race car that they sell for the street. Moreover, the Aston Martins DO have factory backing as well.

I was simply reacting to lumping the Corvette in with the NASCAR crowd. These C6s handle like world class cars and yet one still sees comments on Corvette handling that stem from the old C3.

Since the C4, a corvette will handle with just about any car out there and they do it pretty cheaply too!

Having said that, I love my Porsches too!