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| ALMS - Grand-Am Merger: The Classes | |
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|  | | January 07 2013 05:56:40 PM EST | |
| Over the weekend, at Daytona, the class structure for the 2014 ALMS / Grand-Am sportscar racing merger where announced, so lets get straight to the point.
Class 1: Daytona Prototype vs LMP2 vs Delta Wing
-Intention is to keep P2 as close to ACO spec as possible while increasing performance of the DP.
-P2 is currently Pro-Am globally, most likely will be Pro-Pro in USA.
-The Delta Wing will be performance balanced to compete in this class.
-LMP1 cars are gone as we know it, but the cars will still be eligible to compete with a smaller engine and modified aero and will be balanced with the group.
Class 2: LMPC
-Unchanged from current
Class 3: GTE
-Unchanged from current
Class 4: Grand-Am GT + ALMS GTC + Grand-Am GX?
-This bottom tier GT class will be for Pro-Am driver teams only.
-The newly introduced Grand-Am GX class may be combined with this group or could be a 5th class.
The official class names, and technical regulations are still not decided yet.
The new series will keep ties with the ACO with the intention to continue to send cars to Le Mans with automatic entries as in the past.
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