2015 United SportsCar Championship

Fish88 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:20 pm

What a mess over there. Another blow for USC also.

westracing01 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:34 pm

Now, if PWC would just get live TV coverage then who gives a shit about TUMOR, er... TUSC.

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:53 pm

2017 Global Prototype Regulations Taking Shape (read: new LMP2)

http://sportscar365.com/industry/2017-g ... gulations/

fede999 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:02 pm

deggis wrote:

2017 Global Prototype Regulations Taking Shape (read: new LMP2)

http://sportscar365.com/industry/2017-g ... gulations/

Isn't 2017 a bit too early to change the rules?
Either it's based on the current LMP2 rules, or the Ligier and the forthcoming projects (new Oreca and Zytek) will have a 2-3 years lifespan.

Quite frankly, I'm pretty tired of the FIA/ACO continuously rushing to help IMSA just to have 3 or 4 prototypes competing there (and often BoPed to hell). Just let them run whatever they want in the top tier class for the time being, when DPs will be history and LMP2s will be the only way to go we'll see if it still makes sense to run an entire sportscar championship based on prototypes just to have the Daytona 24h and Sebring 12h.

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:20 am

westracing01 wrote:

Now, if PWC would just get live TV coverage then who gives a shit about TUMOR, er... TUSC.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldChallengeTV/videos

their youtube channel has the full races. several rounds are in their full raw format, it's pretty nice. nbc and mavtv have broadcasted condensed highlights of the races, which are also posted on their channel.

Tommy Vercetti · PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:25 am

Which is good for those who don't have either NBCSN, MAVtv, or both.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:26 pm

OT (or not):

So Randy Lanier is being released from prison, after serving 27 years of a "life without parole" sentence after being an integral part in the "International Marijuana Smugglers Association" during the 80's. The life without parole came from refusal to cooperate with the prosecution. He had been convicted, but disapperaed before being sentenced.

Wikipedia says this about his release:

Quote:

Otherwise serving a life sentence, reasons unbeknownst, Randy Lanier is scheduled to be released from prison. Discharge date 15 Oct., 2014 was reportedly confirmed to Autoweek Magazine insiders by Jim Porter, 1st assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Apparently, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website also confirms Lanier's date of discharge conditional to requirement (1) he spend a six month duration in a halfway house before (2) entering a three-year long supervised release into society where (3) he will be disallowed alcohol and/or firearms. Apparently, Lanier is reported to have a job awaiting him, at a classic-car museum somewhere in Florida.[21]

Anyone have any other info?

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:37 pm

http://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/ ... a-free-man

Well according this this, freedom for information.

dr dog · PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:44 pm

He was probably safer in prison if it is known that he was released in exchange for information on fellow criminals. He'll have one eye over his shoulder for years.

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:50 pm

dr dog wrote:

He was probably safer in prison if it is known that he was released in exchange for information on fellow criminals. He'll have one eye over his shoulder for years.

That's interesting. I too have read, somewhere in the depths of the internet, that it would preferable for him to stay locked in.

Speaking of, does anyone believe that John Paul Sr is still alive somewhere? He's the sketchiest of the lot.

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:07 pm

Most likely doing drugs with Thai hookers.

deggis · PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:54 am

dr dog wrote:

He was probably safer in prison if it is known that he was released in exchange for information on fellow criminals. He'll have one eye over his shoulder for years.

It probably isn't like in the movies...

dr dog · PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:26 am

I didn't mean to sound all sensationalist or anything. Just look at the John Paul Sr case... read about that guy's life. It literally sounds like a movie. That shit does happen.

deggis · PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:45 am

Not sure which one of us misunderstood, I meant that in real life it seems to be easier to stay alive and undercover than in the movies.

Woodski · PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:15 am

his first call after getting out was to stuggart to purchase a 962 to compete in the 2015 season with

Hank Hill · PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:18 pm

Turner BMW switching to Pirelli World Challenge with 2 cars:
http://sportscar365.com/world-challenge ... -for-2015/

NGT Motorsports switches to Pirelli World Challenge:
http://racer.com/pwc/item/110028-ngt-mo ... -challenge

RG Racing has bought Mike Shank's DP and put a Dinan BMW motor in it for the NAEC races:
http://sportscar365.com/imsa/tusc/rg-ra ... ley-dinan/

Vita4One is likely to enter GTD with a BMW for Daytona and Sebring.

westracing01 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:11 pm

So much promise... Destroyed so quickly.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:21 pm

Pirelli World Challenge: the next american united sportscar series

Just add a P2 class to the front of it and it'd be perfect.

StanV · PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:48 pm

Dorsey Schroeder has been fired by FOX for "no reason given". Re: his facebook

SecretAgentHarvick · PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:20 pm

StanV wrote:

Dorsey Schroeder has been fired by FOX for "no reason given". Re: his facebook

Fuck. Probably wanted to hire another ugly monkey girl like Jamie Little, I guess.

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