r/Sportscar_Racing • u/davidwholt • Sep 13 '24

Intercontinental GT Challenge 25 Entries For Indianapolis 8 Hour

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/09/13/25-entries-for-indy-8-hour.html
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u/donutsnail Sep 13 '24

With the season they’ve had, I’m hoping the #63 DXDT car will be up there dicing with the factory BMWs and AMGs for an overall podium

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u/agoia Sep 13 '24

I wonder who their third driver will be in 63. That might make things realllly interesting. Also gonna be a rough 2 weeks for a lot of drivers doing indy 8 and petit 10 back to back.

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u/Historical-Mark-6616 Sep 13 '24

Based on Milner's interview at the end of the Barber weekend, a factory Corvette driver is joining them at Indy, unclear as to who it is, but that narrows it down

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u/agoia Sep 13 '24

Wonder if it'll be Varrone since he lost a lot of seat time after that crybaby from the GTD team fucked off and Nico was supposed to be their pro driver.

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u/prostcfc Sep 13 '24

More than last year, so not bad considering normal GTWC grids in the US are smaller than last year.

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u/Key_Independence_103 Sep 14 '24

I hope this event does well

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u/Probably_Not_Sir Sep 13 '24

Theres 25 cars in total?? That's less than half of what started at Paul Ricard. What happened?

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u/donutsnail Sep 13 '24

GTWC America has far fewer entrants than GTWC Europe, typically just 15 or 16 cars, so 25 GT3s isn’t so bad. In the US, GT3 teams are much more focused on IMSA than SRO, and GTWC America is seen more as a playground just for gentleman drivers and more inexperienced youngsters

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u/Tonoigtonbawtumgaer Sep 13 '24

Paul Ricard was a GTWC Europe race. This is GTWC America/IGTC, usually gets way smaller grids

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u/coachfortner Sep 13 '24

to be honest, that’s an impressive number of competitors for a race that nearly no one will watch in person

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u/Burial44 Sep 18 '24

It's also at Indy the literal week right after IMSA is there. I love racing but that would be a tough sell back to back for similar class cars.