Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who didn’t agree with allowing them to run the 09 K plus K car hey Larbre?

ya, so what it really means to say was “the only other car in the series who would care if he had a bigger engine and who has already won the championship and who would still probably win the race anyway and who has no other competition, said no.”… wow…

Wow if i was a driver of the Larbre team i would totally say yes allow them to. I would rather have a fun competitive race than just be a push over race where your gonna win as long as you finish 70% of the race…

But we all know its not the drivers decision, the manager and team owners get to do all that.

I actually doubt it was Larbre at all, as said they already won the championship and they’re not fighting for any ILMC honours either.

Might as well be one of the proto’s or GT2 contendors that said no.

The 2nd car will be faster. They never finished converting it to a 2010 spec GT1 car, since the FIA didn’t invite the Saleens in the GT1 championship. So it’s close to a proper GT1 saleen.

Even though it’s only 2 of them, they still have sponsors to please. How would you like having to explain to your sponsors that your competitor won because you allowed them to run with a faster car…

i would rather that than be the only car out there…

@Brett: The only way a driver would have ANY say in the matter would be if he had a very large sponsorship agreement attached to his driving for the team. A surgeon does not ask the scapel if this is the correct place to cut, nor does a Team Principle employ drivers to listen to their wants.

But the SERIES officials should have gently suggested the fans would benefit from such an accommodation and thus EVERYONE would benefit.

It’s disappointing for the team and the fans that Atlas eFX is unable to enter Silverstone with an eligible car, but if their ’spare’ does not adhere to the regulations what other decision were the teams and the ACO to make ?

In a well managed series the regulations have to be applied. BMW has to run with the less effecive ACO homolgated rear suspension set up in LMS, and Highcroft have had to manage with the low down force set up in ALMS after they used it at Le Mans.

The Saleens have been slower than many ACO spec GT2 entries this year. The new generation of GT1s are not developed for endurance racing and the teams are understandably focused on the FIA GT1 title. GT2s put on excellent races, unless a varied field of reliable and competitive GT1s can be attracted to the LMS it seems GT1 endurance racing may become history as in the ALMS and at Le Mans. A pity, but perhaps an inevitability in hard times ?

GT1 is only slower because it’s all ran by privateers teams. Not being involved themselves doesn’t give the factories any incentive to refine the parts they make for the new spec GT1 cars.

Agree, still a pity that GT1 has come to this state of affairs. The class is near redundant outside the FIA series.

Part of M. Ratel’s business strategy perhaps ? Develop a vehicle specification and series that attracts FIA WC status, and protect the business by tying a sufficient number of teams in so tightly that no other can afford to run a competitive GT1 outside the FIA series. Good for SRO business but not good for GT1 endurance racing ?

Yeah GT1 endurance racing is unfortunally dead pretty much, maybe later on when the world market is able to recover we might see a return, but doubt it for now.

It’s all how you look at it. With no GT1 accepted in LeMans next year and not recognized in the ALMS or LMS as well that gives SRO the green light to make GT1 whatever they want it to be.

They could even use (yikes)……tube frame cars. They won’t have to rely on the manufacturers to manufacture authentic parts which are in line with the road models (chassis, engine, suspension, etc)

And to increase the fun factor for fans and drivers they can make them as fast as a P2 car.

With those rules sure a corvette won’t be a real corvette, or a maserati a real maserati, just a vehicle with a corvette or maserati body panels on it, but that formula seems to be working for Grand Am and SuperGT.

I think the fact that they have 2 races in 2 weeks on 2 different continents is too much for a team like Full Speed!