Bob Barnard Track Engineering

So the worst kept secret from the weekend, and no it is not Kenseth going to Joe Gibbs, is the "merger" of ALMS and Grand Am to be announced this morning. It is no merger, Don Panoz is selling the series with Road Atlanta and the Sebring lease to Jim France and Co. down in Daytona. Jim is the Chairman of the new company to manage the new series starting in 2014, with Don as the Vice Chairman, and good old Scott Atherton as the President. What did we say about Baltimore on the weekend? Quoting Einstein, doing the same thing and expecting a different result is stupid. Who ran ALMS to a point it could not survive, and now you put them in charge of the new series?

Check out the latest from Peter De Lorenzo:

http://www.sportscarinsider.com/the-edge/2012/9/4/grand-am-alms-pt-ii-de-lorenzo-goes-deep.html

Peter asks a lot of good questions, and I for one am afraid of the answers. As I have suggested before, perhaps the only really sustainable sports car racing in the US is the GT class as run in the ALMS. If Grand Am manages to neuter that class with its tube frame cars someone might just start their own. We can only hope.