Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the USCR

With 5 months until the Daytona 24 and the debut of the new American Sportscar championship, the. USCR. We still know very little about schedule and tv rights but the class structure is beginning to take shape for the most part. Some areas the USCR has done quite well but in others not so much.

The Good
- Allowing GT3 spec cars into the GTD class is a win but these are not the same exact cars that run in the Blancplain and FIA GT series but somewhat modified but not to the extent that Grand-Am was running where brands like Aston Martin essentially had to build an entirely different car compared to a normal GT3 car just to fit GA's regs .
- Speeding up the Daytona Prototypes instead of slowing down the LMP2 cars in order to create a level playing field. Slowing down the P2 would have allowed the potential of a GTLM car to fight for the overall victory.
-Leaving GTLM to ACO spec and not tweaking it to hurt what they wanted to keep which is a tie to Le Mans.

The Bad
- I have nothing against Continental Tires but having a spec tire for every class besides GTLM is not what is good for the series however with that said I hope that any P2 team who wants to go to Le Mans could use Conti's and not lose out to the massive Dunlop contingent there

The Ugly
- Getting Rid of P1 was a TERRIBLE idea even though it is a privateers driven effort in the US and costs do get expensive but that means that if brands like an Audi, Toyota, Nissan, Porsche, and Ferrari all of which have 2014 reg LMP1's Confirmed or Rumored to build or supply either a DP or a P2 to fight for an overall win at two of the biggest Sportscar races in the world, Daytona and Sebring.

- The lack of news coming out of the Series officials is the worst thing about the series thusfar and it is a crying shame that we have no news about schedule, tv rights, balence of performance rules, and so on and so forth.

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