For sure, Wally, as the rules stand now. I am suggesting they revamp the rules for GT1 for these type cars. ALMS is meant to be cutting edge technology for sportscars, and these cars are much more "cutting edge" than the past GT1 class.

hugewally - 19 November 2009 01:01 PM

These cars are way above GT1.

Yup. Carbon-fibre monocoques with Formula Nippon V8's and DTM aerodynamics mean these cars are a fair bit beyond GT1...

SuperGT cars are the top level racing series in Japan. Unfortunately since we have Speed, unless its NASCAR, they pretty much ignore it. Unfortunately, SuperGT like all other series around the world are facing the realities of the economic recession. They had to cut the distance of the 1000km race at Suzuka this year to 700km. I had a chance to watch these cars in person at Fontana when they had their one and only exhibition race in the US back in 2004.

_Tommyboy_ - 19 November 2009 02:02 PM

For sure, Wally, as the rules stand now. I am suggesting they revamp the rules for GT1 for these type cars. ALMS is meant to be cutting edge technology for sportscars, and these cars are much more "cutting edge" than the past GT1 class.

If thats what you want, then you're not really understanding the concept of the current ACO rules package. The SuperGT cars are not and have never been GT1 style cars.

You can allow all the DTM or Super Gt style cars you want, but if nobody could justify spending what it took to do GT1, and I did mean nobody: Not GM, Dodge, Ferrari, Aston Martin, then how in the bloody hell do you expect them to spend twice that?

^^I know. I agree with you both. Won't happen. As long as you conform to ACO rules, and the auto-economy is so bad, forget it.

In reality, Super GT cars share only the center monocoque/unitbody with the road cars, much like FIA/ACO GT1 cars. However, the FIA/ACO try much harder to make the GT1s look like the road cars, unlike the Super GT cars, which look like old Group 5 sports cars(Porsche 935, Lancia Beta Montecarlo, et al) and NASCAR Nationwide cars.

And would you rather listen to 3.4 liter flatcrank V8s or 6-7 liter V8s and 6.0 V12s?