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By: Marshall Pruett | May 31, 2019 9:14 AM


Launched at the Detroit Auto Show in 2008 by the American Le Mans Series, its modern successors at IMSA have redoubled its commitment to Green Racing initiatives in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and SAE International.

In an announcement made today at Detroit’s Belle Isle, site of IMSA’s Chevy Sports Car Classic race on Saturday, series officials confirmed their intent to seek new low-emission and sustainability initiatives in the future.

“By taking a fresh look at the Green Racing protocols, and IMSA Green, we are taking steps to ensure sports car racing continues to thrive in a rapidly changing mobility landscape which is focused on a reduced carbon emission future,” said IMSA President Scott Atherton (pictured above). “In doing so, IMSA can showcase that racing can be used to develop and validate innovations while remaining exciting and sustainable for decades to come and be attractive to automotive partners, participants, sponsors and most importantly fans.”

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Drawing from the groundwork established by the ALMS and government agencies more than a decade ago, IMSA wants to re-energize Green Racing as a core component of its practices and promotions.

“We are pleased to be working with IMSA to expand the series’ work on sustainability,” said Chris Grundler, Director of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “With this agreement, IMSA is committing to a wide variety of actions that will lead to reduced air pollution, less fuel use, and will move the racing community towards more sustainable practices.”

IMSA outlined some of the possibilities it sees in the months and years ahead for its championship.

“IMSA Green can be a proving ground for manufacturers to showcase advances in these areas through IMSA’s seven sanctioned championships. Its own initiatives include tire usage reductions and the development of alternate-blend fuels. Future programs will go beyond race cars and can envelop an entire event weekend providing the public with information on relevant, advanced technologies that produce clean and efficient production vehicles they might drive in the future.

“Besides introducing a hybrid powertrain in our top racing class with DPi 2022, IMSA’s future plans could include the adoption of ETCR (fully electric TCR platform) combined with an ePrototype platform.

“IMSA has also become an affiliate of the EPA SmartWay Program which assists companies in using more efficient transport modes, equipment and operational strategies. These initiatives help reduce freight transportation-related emissions by accelerating the use of advanced fuel-saving technologies. As a SmartWay Affiliate, IMSA can play a key role in supporting these objectives by improving fuel efficiency, reducing emissions and saving money within its transport sector. IMSA will serve as a high-profile Affiliate, informing its partners about the benefits of the SmartWay program and encouraging the use of its technologies and protocols.

“IMSA is also exploring the implementation of solar energy within the pits and paddock to help offset traditional energy sources. It will also look to showcase manufacturer hybrid and electric powered production cars for hot lap and pace car deployment at its events.”


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senor honda

Liberalism destroys everything that it touches....

If IMSA tried pushing the "green" movement on people eleven years ago and it failed,
it is likely that it will fail again.

Generally, someone pushing an unpopular program by forcing it onto people, is doomed to failure.
The "green" people always promise that "green" is highly popular, and that if you will join the greens
that your income will increase. "Green" is BS. Green only lasts as long as people get paid by govt/taxpayers to take it.
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Liberals think that just by saying what they want you to think and do, ........that you will make it become reality.
Liberals have done this for decades.

Liberals tell us every election that the liberal leftist democrat candidate is ALWAYS leading, ALWAYS ahead, ALWAYS going to win.
The only thing "always" about the liberal "predictions", is that liberal predictions/lies are "ALWAYS" WRONG.
Even though the Fake News media tells us every year that "exit polls are always extremely accurate"......(unless voters have a mind
and think for themselves-those bastards!).
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Hillary (we were told) was winning in 2016, leading in all the polls, etc. etc..........until they actually started counting the votes.
Then hillary just called the voters a bunch of un-educated illiterate, non-college "deplorables" who just didn't "get it" as to who they were supposed to vote for.
....and hillary, very angrily blamed anyone and everyone she could think of, including all the Russians who voted for the racist nazi Russian agent Pres Donald Trump.

(That little democrat BS lie/accusation by 2019, just cost taxpayers $40 million paid to democrat "investigators" ($750/hour) who found
NO EVIDENCE, NO CRIME, NO VIOLATED LAW STATUTE, and NO INDICTMENT FOR A CRIME BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER A CRIME.)
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Probably accurate to blame non-college voters, since enough years in the leftist liberal-controlled education system, will convert almost all college students into leftist liberals.
..........................especially since the college kids are under total control grade-wise of their leftist liberal professors.
There are no cash-back refunds if you fail a course.

The problem is .....there are just not yet enough of the college educated voters who understand what they are "supposed" to be doing.
....accompanied by a large number of non-college independent thinkers who have a strong sense of right and wrong.

The problem will be solved though, since democrats in 2020 are all promising free free free college degrees for everyone.
***No one in Fake News has asked why anyone needs a college degree since liberal leftist democrats are promising $15/hour for working or not working.***
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In the 2018 elections, there was going to be an UNSTOPPABLE "Blue Wave" of democrat victories nationwide. Remember?
We were told that everyone .........EVERYONE loved the liberal leftist democrats and that the blue wave (which never happened) was going to be a nationwide referendum against that racist, nazi, Russian Agent Pres Trump.
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If IMSA has been told some lies about increased incomes because ALL the "right-thinking public" will swarm to buy tickets,
what if the leftist liberals are lieing again? Is IMSA willing to take the chance.....at least until,IMSA realizes that the truth is.....

Anything "green" only lasts as long as the government continues to pay people to take it, and once govt taxpayer-funded
free money stops, the "green" project stops.
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senor honda

So why would this team leave IMSA? Maybe they got tired of getting screwed over.
So why would this team leave IMSA?
Maybe they got tired of getting screwed over.

Changes ahead for Magnus Racing?
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By: Marshall Pruett | 6 hours ago


The most fun team in motor racing is rumored to be pondering its place and continued participation in the sport.

Sources indicate that Magnus Racing, founded by driver/owner John Potter, informed its team of potential changes to its ongoing presence in IMSA’s WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and as a result, has encouraged its staff to search for new opportunities after the October 12 season finale at Petit Le Mans.

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Making its debut at Grand-Am’s Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona in 2010, the Utah-based team made waves with its irreverent approach to public relations and a knack for winning big GT races, including the 2012 Rolex 24, the 2014 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the Rolex 24 in 2016, and the California 8 Hour in 2017.

Potter’s longtime co-driver Andy Lally is among those who could be on the hunt for a new home once the team completes the upcoming GT Daytona races at VIR, Monterey, and Road Atlanta in the No. 44 Lamborghini Huracan GT3.

Reached for comment, a Magnus representative said Potter denies any claims the team is shutting down altogether at the end of the season.

If Potter and Magnus were to exit IMSA after 2019, it would make for the third significant loss of pro-am owner/driver programs, adding to the planned departure of Jon Bennett’s CORE autosport Nissan Onroak DPi entry, and Ben Keating’s Riley Motorsports/Keating Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 effort in GTD.


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