WalkerInTN

Looks like Pontiac is bringing back their made up GXP race car.

I don't understand how they can take a front wheel drive V6 car & make it a rear wheel drive V8 racer.

bgiere

Pontiac should be ashamed to race the GXP...Is there a single part on that car that is production based?? Imagine all the casual observers who watch and think Pontiacs are runnin' with the Porsches and sometimes winning!

Circuit Motorsports

Same thing can be said for the BMW M6 that is running as well.

hacker-pschorr

Didn't that project start out as a GTO, once the goat was dropped they were allowed to keep the car with different body work?

Remember, this race is run by the same people who own NASCAR.

bgiere

What is this "NASCAR" thing you speak of?

Sam N

If I'm not mistaken, there may be a CF M6 body/chassis? for sale by the team in the classified section of the latest Autoweek. $300K

srf506

Grand Am is under the aspices of NASCAR. Its a minor deal to them, I think they did just to give ALMS problems ala the Tony George/CART scenario back when U.S. sportscar racing almost self-destructuded under Andy Evans' idiocy. Since NASCAR relies so heavily on GM for keeping the "Nastycar Nextel Cup" spec series alive, they aren't going to do anything to **** of the 1,000-lb gorilla. So Pontiac, Ford and Dodge would probably get a free pass to run about anything they brought to the track w/o much question being posed.

bgiere

...and yet they still can't sell a car. That type of "free pass" mentatlity has probably done more to harm than help domestic automakers...If they were forced to compete on a level field maybe the products would be better,they'd sell more cars, the car drivers would be happy, and the companies wouldn't be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy! Rant over.

ZAPmobile

This is partially correct the GTO and GXP are totally tube frame race cars; but the GXT has a shorter wheel base. They are both designed with the C5R and C6R Corvette technology which should make them unbeatable.

Ah, but this just shows you how great the GT3 Cups really are, they can beat the best GM, Ford. Mazda and others throw at them in the Grand-Am.

I love it.

daigo

Its not just the American Iron folks. There are Mazda R8s Hauling A__ here at Daytona that are full tube frame, and triple rotors. And yes, full tube framed BMW. Doesn't look like like a stock tub.

Bill L Seifert

I was walking my dog at the dog beach at Ponce Inlet, and heard the roar of the cars. Thought it was that other unmentionable series, so I didn't go out there. What a mistake. Back in Tennessee now.

Bill Seifert

1987 944S Race Car

kingleh

new tires are really gud!

ZAPmobile

Leh,

How do you think the race will go and who will be your toughest competition ?

stuttgart46

The talent that is in the race this year is outstanding. What a way to start off the new year.

mark kibort

looks like a stock BMW chassis to me