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Old Jul 7, 2011 | 12:08 PM
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Default Grand AM 2012 at The Brickyard!

Here it 'tis

http://www.grand-am.com/news/index.c...es=r&cid=43869
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Old Jul 7, 2011 | 12:15 PM
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I think its great news.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:54 PM
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Why would Grand AM want to do an oval track? This would mean either two sets of cars for each team, or change everything suspension wise for just one race. The whole NASCAR essentially owning Grand AM is why I prefer ALMS.

And how the hell are they going to get prototypes and GT cars all on an oval without killing each other?
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 07:32 PM
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they are racing the road course...
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 08:03 PM
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they are racing the road course...
Yes....and they just completed repaving the infield section. This is really going to be an outstanding venue for sure. Def looking forward to.
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Old Jul 10, 2011 | 05:05 AM
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Im really hoping that that adds a 3rd road course race for the Nationwide cars and not gettting rid of one. They need to run more road course and less ovals. I wish NASCAR would run this track as well. Makes a lot more sense to me if they are going to run at a track more than once a year, why not run both courses that track has to offer.
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Old Jul 10, 2011 | 06:38 AM
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they are racing the road course...
Ahh...
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Old Jul 11, 2011 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by luder_5555
Why would Grand AM want to do an oval track?
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 6, 2011) - GRAND-AM Road Racing has added a long-anticipated
Indianapolis Motor Speedway date to its 2012 schedules for both the Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, with races set for Friday, July 27 on IMS' road course.
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Old Jul 11, 2011 | 09:37 AM
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I think this is awesome news, but what i want to know is what direction will they run in
The current MotoGP runs in the opposite direction F1 ran in
As much as I would like to see GrandAm do the F1 direction which I saw in person so many times, I suspect they will go in the MotoGP direction

T16 is this MotoGP map was F1's T1
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Old Jul 11, 2011 | 10:29 PM
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As a driver it would be more fun to go CW, but since most of the cars are left hand drive, I would guess that they would go CCW.
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