Football teams start own racing championship

It looks ok from a better angle but I am really excited, we may have Gualter Salles Jr. driving for us :D

That looks stupid.

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Looks out of proportion... looks ok though. quite like it.
But it will still fail :p

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That paint job on the nose doesn't flatter the shape too much, but it isn't that bad. I hope they change the car parts because the sand and salt from the sea really screw things up :p

That's clearly not made by Panoz btw. Anyone who's seen the DP01 and Panoz IRL Chassis will know Panoz make fat, overweight inefficient cars, not slim ones. Who made that?

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I'm just trying to find out, but what's staggering me is the process for making the chassis. They're essentially making the top and bottom halves of the chassis separately. I don't know about anyone else, but this is screaming 'fatality' to me. Looking at some bare tubs I'm dreading to think how this thing will cope in a head on crash or a Sato-Heidfeld sort of scenario.

Apparently it's Élan Motorsport Technologies who's making it anyway. No idea if that means anything to anyone, but I can't say I've heard of them. I suspect they're involved in the American motorsport scene quite heavily given their location in Atlanta, Georgia?

cut n shut race car, thatl do well in a big crash lol

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Apparently it's Élan Motorsport Technologies who's making it anyway. No idea if that means anything to anyone, but I can't say I've heard of them.

Élan Motorsport Technologies is the branch of Panoz which build the single seater cars for Champ Car and IRL. Anyone who knows anything about the Panoz IRL and CCWS entries would be horrified at Panoz taking on yet another single seater project.

Almost all of the IRL injuries came from the Panoz chassis. The DP01 was proven not only to be seriously broken in every way, but majorly unsafe with several injuries occurring in low speed accidents this year.

Panoz struggle to prepare the Le Mans GT2 cars correctly, having countless failures in those with private teams often having better reliability and speed than the works outfits. The single seaters have been death traps, and now they want more?

Oh, and they have been struggling to keep up with demand on the DP01 production. Partly because the CCWS n00bs have been crashing them lots, and partly because when they don't crash, they fall apart anyway. See Long Beach, Las Vegas and Assen.

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What a stupid idea. Football should stick to football.

My favourite team, Corinthians, has also confirmed presence in the superleague: [superleagueformula.net]


Well, even if the competition doesn't take off, it's still good publicity, right? =p



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just out of curiosity, how well do you europeans know the Brazilian football (I mean clubs and competitions, not the national team)?

well I'm not actually european but I live in europe.

lets see... I know that certain Branco played at 94 mundial (I know it because if you take out letter a you get Brnco), I know that Sao Paolo hate Corinthians, I know that the best Corinthian player ever was some fried Argentinian, and I know that Ronaldo grew his hair. And that ronaldinho looks like that guy from Apocalypse movie, and that you national team is called cariocas. And that Dunga neans dolphin, And that when they won 94 world cup they waved some ribbon with something about Ayrton Senna being written on it. And that Gene Hackman was the coach of national team at 2002 world cup.

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Corinthians had many players who were far better than Tévez, last great one was Marcelinho Carioca (started at Flamengo, like many stars ).

It's a bit disappointing to see another Brazilian team in this league, I imagine 2 European clubs gave up on the idea which opened up the spot for Corinthians, oh well.

"It's a bit disappointing to see another Brazilian team in this league, I imagine 2 European clubs gave up on the idea which opened up the spot for Corinthians, oh well."

You are so stupid!


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yeah, Marcelinho Carioca was probably the best player i've seen playing for Corinthians (I'm 17). Thanks Flamengo :D

And I think Corinthians was already in the initial plans for the superleague, seeing the Brazilian tradition and passion in both sports... together, Flamengo and Corinthians correspond to more than 60 million potential viewers

As long as Flamengo get Gualter Salles to drive Corinthians can be in the series as they'll get trashed

¬¬ you wish :P

But I gotta say, this thing is starting to look like it can actually take off, lots of signed teams, and some respectable companys floating about... I really hope it works, the Corinthians livery would look sweet on track =]

Reynard + Honda.

1998 anyone?

The only thing that this makes me think of is that guy who had the Lister Storm in Newcastle United colours and logos that used to be in a GT championship.

If its in Newcastle colours, it must be bad.

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this idea is so *beepin* rubbish wat a stupid idea