The new ILMC schedule drops Petit. Murphy’s sources said immediately that Petit is NOT “in contention” for the vacant October round. Some now think it there might in fact be a “date squeeze” in which the ALMS is asked to change its PLM date a second time. Most however – including those best placed to know – believe that PLM is truly dead as an Intercontinental Le Mans Cup stop in 2011. Was it a dispute over TV rights? (That’s not certain given the story about the new TV schedule below.) Does the ACO want a monster sanction fee, beyond what’s in the current ACO/ALMS contract? Something else? (more…)
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178. GT Grid. Television. Favorite Liveries. (Revised)
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Tags: ABC, Abruzzi, ACS Express Robertson Racing, Arrows F1, Baron Drayson, BMW, Chip Ganassi, Corvette, Cytosport Racing, ESPN3, Extreme Speed Motorsports, Ferrari, Flying Lizard Motorsports, Ford, GT3, Lamborghini, Porsche, Rahal Letterman Racing, Risi Competizione, Team Falken, Versus, West Racing
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161. Selling Booze – or Not. Scoring Murphy. The Tucker Rule. Corvette Pilots.
Friday, March 26th, 2010Sebring – Screwing on your Wheels
Falken sent three wheels bounding down the track. One took out the Flying Lizard’s defending champions. Does that trifecta wipe out a previous Robertson Racing record of two stray wheels in a single race?
Sebring – Competence (continued)
All excuses (and resigned shrugs) aside. The fact that the GT2 race was ended nearly five hours before the checkered flag by IMSA rules (or the sloppy implementation of same) is stupid. Murphy thinks the ALMS is in the entertainment business, not just for the ticket-buying public, but for the sponsors of Flying Lizards Motorsports and Rahal Letterman Racing, and the rest, struggling for sponsors, all of them. The Braselburg puzzle palace better figure out how to keep those competitors in the show until they lose (or win) the race through their own efforts. (more…)
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149. Murphy’s Expected Sebring Entry.
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010It’s time – after much procrastination and with a healthy dose of prevarication – for the Bear to make his first prognostication of the likely Sebring grid. (more…)
Tags: ACO, Acura, ALMS, Black Swan, BMW, Comprent, Corvette, Creation, Cytosport, Dyson Racing, Falken, Ferrari, Flying Lizard Motorsports, Genoa, Gunnar Racing, Highcroft, IMSA, Intercontinental Cup, Intersport, Kolles, LMS, Mazda, Oreca, Peugeot, Porsche, Rahal Letterman Racing, Richard Berry, Risi Competizione, Robertson Racing, Rolex 24, Sebring
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