News: Corvette C6.R GT2 to lose Direct Injection for rest of year

[Tuna]

The Autoextremist is reporting that Corvette Racing will have to remove their "Direct Injection" package for the rest of this year.

The ALMS allowed Corvette Racing to install Direct Injection on their GT2 cars for this season and it will be legal in 2010 World GT, but it seems that rival Porsche and Ferrari took offense at the system after losing to the C6.R at the most recent race.

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[Mike G]

Alpha Vette

I can't beleive the Vettes are being nuetered again after kicking a$$ just like a few seasons ago in GT1 when they smoked Astin Martin and then lost fuel capacity, intake size and had weight added! ad

Talk about racing form Vs. production? The BMW cars run a transaxle and duel-wishbone suspension that have NOTHING to do with any production 3-series!! Is anyone saying anything about that? What is it with ALMS, can't have the Vette Team doing what they do?

Where can one find a copy of ALMS GT-class rules? I'd love to review that.
Thanks!

BTW - I'm a huge BMW fan ( I have a 1990 325 that HAS the small block Chevy of German engines ), but damm....what's with this?.....

 

[NORTY]

Last year, when SCCA mandated Corvette to add weight to their cars (so the competition could catch up,) I thought it would have been the perfect opportunity to have a passenger ride along, during the races. If memory serves, they were forced to add 50-55 kilos. About the weight of Danica Patrick.

Absurd? Absolutely! Just illustrating absurdity by being absurd. The SCCA must be run by liberals or something...

 

[Mike G]

I'm not sure where the real power lays in ALMS but the Vette team has to stop getting burned for winning. I really need to read the rule-set.

I truly love their destruction of the Yates Ford in this GT2, "The pinnacle of Ford technology". Fitting retribution to the cobra problem, which I consider to be the true enemy of Corvette, Zora Duntov and small block Chevy enthusiasts of the world.

 

[NORTY]

I'm not sure where the real power lays in ALMS but the Vette team has to stop getting burned for winning. I really need to read the rule-set.

I truly love their destruction of the Yates Ford in this GT2, "The pinnacle of Ford technology". Fitting retribution to the cobra problem, which I consider to be the true enemy of Corvette, Zora Duntov and small block Chevy enthusiasts of the world.

I wouldn't say Ford is an "enemy" of Corvette or Chevy. Maybe competition would be a better word. If it weren't for Ford building & developing their cars, Chevy wouldn't have developed their cars as much. During the last hundred years or so, Ford and Chevy in competition and the consumer wins by getting a more durable product.:J

 

[93Rubie]

Aww, poor Ferrari and Porsche, just because your sports cars are getting there butts handed to them by a car costing tens of thousands less if not hundreds, and is more technologically advanced doesn't mean you have to Bi*** about it.

Corvette, as it should be, Ferrari, Porcshe, and etc...killing at a 1/4 of the price since 1953!!!

 

[redvett]

Same thing happened in the 80's sounds like a bunch of sore loser's to me.

 

[Tuna]

The ALMS rules appear to allow for adjustments during the season to keep the playing field level. If Porsche and Ferrari can convince the ACO and ALMS (and apparently they did) that Corvette has an advantage, the ACO will change something to slow down the Corvettes.

Corvette racing isn't a new comer to the ALMS and full well knows the rules and how the ACO plays them. The fact that the GT2 Corvettes are pretty fast out of the box should not be a surprise to the other GT2 racers. The win at the last race was mostly based on a great pit stop and determined driving by Jan and the Ferrari was right behind them for the last 24 minutes of the race.

It's just annoying that it happens.