Renault supplying the Indy Lights Series? Are they back in North America, in the car market?
I'll replace the Renault with Infinit.
Renault supplying the Indy Lights Series? Are they back in North America, in the car market?
That's where I was going with that, too. ATCC is much less technologically advanced, and Trans Am as Screiver has made it is closer to the street stock series (which makes sense because that is where Trans Am came from in the first place) than the tube-framed, 700-horsepower brutes that run TA today. I personally do agree with Al Bundy - it would be too much, and as a result the series would not catch on, with all of the competition. Fans of tin-top racing would in this world have a big fill with the ATCC. But if you ran a Super Touring class within the IMSA GT Championship (possible - the ALMS tried to suck in Cadillac and Lexus with such an idea a few years back) with DTM rules, or limited the DTM in America to two or three rounds in markets not already saturated with racing (the Pacific Northwest, for example), you could make it work, but that doesn't really constitute a North American DTM.
I also think three ladder series to Indycars might be pushing it a bit, especially if USAC's sprint car drivers still have Indycar on their radar. With the successes of Stewart, Gordon, Stanley and Irwin in the 90s, you'd surely have the best sprint car drivers paying more attention to Indianapolis and Indycar Racing in general, which along with the ladder series, is going to make for a LOT of guys looking for Indycar rides, clogging the ladders somewhat. This can be a benefit, though, as with all of this talent, guys landing in the big series directly from Europe or South America (Champ Car had lots of these in its later years) are going to be exceedingly rare, and not many drivers are gonna arrive at this point unknown. That ITTL means we might not see guys like Tomas Schekter, Ryan Briscoe or Justin Wilson, but guys who ran in ladder series here before moving up from outside of North America (Wheldon, Kanaan, de Silvestro, Dixon, Castroneves) will be just as common as now, I would think.
I'll replace the Renault with Infinit.
I'll add Super Touring class within the IMSA GT Championship useing DTM rules.
I think you're close. The only change to the teams I'd make is to leave Turner out. In this world, Turner Motorsport would probably be dedicated to winning the USTCC for BMW. So, I'm guessing the overall entries and cars would be:
LMP1 (19 cars)
- Audi Sport Team Champion (2 Audi R18 TDI)
- Peugeot Talbot Sport (2 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP)
- Team Cadillac (2 Cadillac LMP11)
- Mopar Performance (2 Dallara-Chrysler LMP-4)
- Ford Racing / Elan Motorsport Technologies (2 Panoz LMP10-Ford)
- Andretti Autosport (1 Acura ARX-01E)
- Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (1 Lola B11/60-Chrysler)
- Dyson Racing Team (2 Lola B09/86-Mazda Rotary)
- Muscle Milk Aston Martin Racing (1 Lola B09/62-Aston Martin V12)
- DHL Team Penske (2 Porsche RS Spyder Evo II)
- Roush Racing (2 Panoz LMP07 Evo IV-Ford)
I can see a problem here as well - you'd have to get IMSA to keep the diesels down to size or crank up the gasoline-fueled cars to keep up with them. If Audi and Peugeot consistently run away with the series, then the other factory teams aren't gonna stick around long.
I would imagine that in this world only Krohn, SunTrust and Brumos would have two cars each, and Brumos would probably work with Fabcar build their chassis. (Cheever would probably do that, too.) Risi Competitzione in this world would probably stick to Ferrari F430s in the GT catgory. With that, and assuming most of the chassis of the Grand-Am series come to P2 in IMSA, you get:
LMP2 (14 cars)
- Alex Job Racing (1 Lola B11/40-Porsche V8)
- Brumos Fabcar Racing (2 Fabcar FDSC10-Porsche V8)
- Cheever Coyote Racing (1 Coyote SC11-Pontiac I4 turbo)
- Childress-Howard Motorsports (1 Riley and Scott Mk VII-Pontiac I4 turbo)
- Dale Earnhardt Inc. (1 Riley and Scott Mk VII-Pontiac I4 turbo)
- Derhaag Motorsports (1 Lola B11/40-Nissan V8)
- Fernandez Racing (1 Acura ARX-01C)
- Gainsco / Bob Stallings Racing (1 Acura ARX-01C)
- Krohn Racing (2 Lola B11/40-Ferrari V8)
- Spirit of Daytona Racing (1 Fabcar FDSC10-Porsche V8)
- SunTrust Racing (2 Zytek Z11SN-Pontiac I4 turbo)
What I'm figuring is:
GT (14 cars)
- Corvette Racing (2 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.R)
- Risi Competitzione (2 Ferrari 599 GT1)
- Veloqx Prodrive Racing (2 Ferrari 599 GT1)
- Aston Martin Racing (2 Aston Martin DBR9)
- Sumo Power GT (1 Nissan GT-R GT1)
- Team Yokohama Advan (1 Nissan GT-R GT1)
- Doran-Lista Racing (1 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV)
- Reiter Engineering North America (1 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV)
- Luc Alphand Adventures (1 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R)
- Robinson Racing Team (1 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R)
GT Challenge (26 cars)
- BMW Motorsport (2 BMW M3 GT2)
- Risi Competitzione (2 Ferrari 458 Italia GTC)
- Extreme Speed Motorsports (2 Ferrari 458 Italia GTC)
- Flying Lizard Motorsports (2 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR)
- Alex Job Racing (2 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR)
- KVRT Lotus Jetalliance (2 Lotus Evora GTE)
- Nissan Motorsport North America (2 Nissan 370Z GTC)
- AF Corse (1 Ferrari 458 Italia GTC)
- Hankook Team Farnbacher (1 Ferrari 458 Italia GTC)
- Robertson Racing (2 Ford GT-R Mark VII)
- Conquest Racing (1 Ford Mustang FR500GT)
- Jaguar Rocketsports (2 Jaguar XKR GT2)
- Paul Miller Racing (1 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR)
- Team Felbermayr-Proton (1 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR)
- Gulf AMR Middle East (1 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT)
- Drayson-Barwell Racing (1 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT)
- Larbre Competition (1 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR)
Now, its worth pointing out that with 33 LMP cars and 40 GT cars, you'll need to split up the races at all but the biggest of racetracks. Daytona, Sebring, Indianapolis, Road America and (maybe) Road Atlanta would be able to host combined races. If you built the pits big enough, Riverside and Bridgehampton could also hold combined races. The others would have to break 'em up, and even then a place like Barber Park, Laguna Seca and Mosport are gonna have traffic something awful. But 33 LMPs tearing down into the first turn at Mosport (my home track) would be something worthy of many dreams, my man. Or for that matter a 40 car GT field, led off by ground-shaking Corvettes and the wail of Ferrari and Lamborghini V12s......![]()
Would having five class be too much for IMSA GT Championship in one race. Maybe you can have the LMP1, LMP2, GT, and the Super Touring class using DTM rules than have GT Challenge, LMP Challenge and Daytona Prototype in there own races. Or maybe have Daytona Prototypes replace the LMP Challenge in North America. The having the Daytona Prototypes it may help set the IMSA GT Championship apart from European series.
Keeping fields of LMP1(19 cars), LMP2(14 cars), GT(14 cars) the same. How may cars would be in the Super Touring class using DTM rules. GT Challenge(26 cars) join by 15 to 20 LMP Challenge or Daytona Prototype.
Indycar Incorporated: Chicago Motor, Ontario, Riverside, Texas World, and Watkins Glen. 5 tracks
Dover Motorsports, Inc.: Dover, Gateway, and Memphis. 3 tracks
International Speedway Corporation (ISC): Bridgehampton, Chicagoland, Darlington, Daytona, Kansas, Martinsville, Nashville, North Wilkesboro, Phoenix, Richmond, and Talladega. 11 tracks
Penske Motorsports: Iowa, Michigan, Nazareth, Pikes Peak, and Rockingham. 5 tracks
Speedway Motorsports, Inc.: Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Infineon, Kentucky, Las Vegas, and New Hampshire. 7 tracks