Cory M

Things don't look too different than last year. Stevenson's Pontiacs have been converted to Camaros. A bunch of the Flying Lizards were driving a TRG cupcar. The DP's are still ugly Link to the pictures is below, check it out if you like bare carbon and primer like I do:

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/sel...sday_session_1

Rassel

Do you have more spec. on that car?

early_grayce

Those Camaros are a bit too NASCAR for me.

BlueRiver86

It's the same underneath as the GXP.R I believe.

Cory M

From what I understand it is the Pratt and Miller chassis that was a Pontiac GXP last year, Pontiac is dead so they updated the body to the new Camaro. Not sure if there is any GM money there, hopefully there is. I wonder how the aero compares, seems a lot less slippery than the Pontiac was. The size of the body (on race and street cars) just makes the wheels look tiny... There are a bunch of pictures of it in the link above.

Potomac-Greg

Wasn't the GXP-R itself just a re-skinning of the Pontiac GTO-R?

Rassel

I'm afraid, I'm not familiar with GXP.R. But please tell me more.

This car was developed in the states recently. With the help of Nic Johnsson (Grand-Am) and GM. Mostly wondering if there would have been similarities.

ajcjr

Cory M

I believe it is the same chassis as the GTO too. Why reinvent the wheel when you have a winning car?

Here is the Banner Racing GXP.R (yellow/black) and The Racer's Group GTO (blue). One of the TRG GTO's is run by MCM now and is painted black, don't know what the age limit is in GrandAM, we might see it again in 2010.

The GTO definitely gets my vote for best looking of the 3 bodies, I heard it had better aero (less drag) than the GXP.R too.

BlueRiver86

Well the GXP.R is derived from the old P&M chassis that was underneath the Rolex GTOs and Corvettes. I don't know what changes were made, if any, but like Cory pointed out, the Camaro is the same chassis as the GXP.R. They just made the change because Pontiac is dead.

Interestingly, the same chassis is bodied as a BMW M6 and run by PR1 & Turner Motorsports...



Next year you'll be seeing a Camaro racing an M6 and they'll be the same car, albeit with different engines.

Rassel

Now that feels a bit weird somehow..

Cory M

and hopefully they with both be losing to a Porsche with a production chassis

Racin44

See this is why I'm not a fan of Prep 2. The GT cars should be standard OEM chassis cars.

Veloce Raptor

That Camaro is a HUGE bitch!






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wanna911

That camaro looks aweful.