doh. Had all the fun cars on my brain...
Jesse's right...Cayman would most likely be a GT2 class chassis if ever factory backed by Porsche. Porsche can't stand to outrank it's 911 line by lower market car sales, let alone have them trounced by lower model cars at the track. PCA 911 members get enough of that with the 20 year old 944's chasing and passing all day long :wink:
I'd like to see a new Porsche based chassis in GT2, but as long as the 911 lives it sadly just won't happen. As much as I dislike the 986's, I must say the new SPEC 986 classes that are sprouting up around the country are probably going to be the stake in the ground that shows Porsche the chassis layout is the way to go in racing by the public(consumer) eye. Porsche is well aware of the mid engine layout capability, they've just got dollar signs in their face rather than the wholesome racing heritage they once used to pursue so aggressively. Nothing wrong with that, but if they want their cake and eat it too Porsche has to make a big change in the racing dept.
Oh and Jesse.....Ed Zabinski just called me right after you left. Ferrari F430 Prep 2 test day at VIR is TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Argggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.... .....................! Word is it's going to be tight ship there anyway to keep the car under wraps until race day 1 so it'd be highly unlikely that Scott would let us near the car to begin with.(apparently even Amanda isn't allowed to see it). From what I gather he's got a few things undisclosed that he wants to keep low key right now. Not illegal stuff, but things(that what he says, things) that he doesn't want the comp to know about right yet. He's going to give me a call when he's back from the track to chit chat about some scheduling this year and might work out a few trips for you and myself. Sends his appologies on the matter here, just wanted to relay that....we'll get out to that car one way or another this year.