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From press release
Surrounded by the atmosphere of the 52nd running of the 24h at Daytona, the season kick-off of the United SportsCar Championship, the steering committee of DTM, SUPER GT and IMSA, held a collaborative meeting to discuss the likelihood of holding a first joint event of DTM and SUPER GT in 2015 in Japan or China.
This was actually the second meeting. The first one was held July 2013 at the Norisring DTM round and included the same representatives. In this meeting, the committee members from the three nations involved began to work - inter alia - on planning first joint events.
Since then, the joint steering committee and technical working group has been pursuing the goal to establish common technical regulations to make it possible to use the same cars for contesting touring car races on the highest level in Europe, Japan as well as North America.
Furthermore, the committee also discussed a stand-alone American event in 2016 as a precursor to a potential launch of a new touring car series in 2017 based on the same technical regulations.
“We continue to have good dialogue between the parties and consider this a future opportunity for the North American motorsports landscape, though we're still very much in the educational process,” said Ed Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of IMSA and host the meeting in Daytona Beach.
“As our stakeholders would expect, our primary focus at IMSA for the past 18 months has been on the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and this weekend's 52nd running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. We believe the opportunity to compete on three different continents using the same race cars under common technical regulations is an attractive opportunity for automotive manufacturers.”
Surrounded by the atmosphere of the 52nd running of the 24h at Daytona, the season kick-off of the United SportsCar Championship, the steering committee of DTM, SUPER GT and IMSA, held a collaborative meeting to discuss the likelihood of holding a first joint event of DTM and SUPER GT in 2015 in Japan or China.
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| DTM (Photo: DTM.com) |
This was actually the second meeting. The first one was held July 2013 at the Norisring DTM round and included the same representatives. In this meeting, the committee members from the three nations involved began to work - inter alia - on planning first joint events.
Since then, the joint steering committee and technical working group has been pursuing the goal to establish common technical regulations to make it possible to use the same cars for contesting touring car races on the highest level in Europe, Japan as well as North America.
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| Super GT (Photo: SuperGT.net) |
Furthermore, the committee also discussed a stand-alone American event in 2016 as a precursor to a potential launch of a new touring car series in 2017 based on the same technical regulations.
“We continue to have good dialogue between the parties and consider this a future opportunity for the North American motorsports landscape, though we're still very much in the educational process,” said Ed Bennett, Chief Executive Officer of IMSA and host the meeting in Daytona Beach.
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| USCC (Photo: IMSA.com) |
“As our stakeholders would expect, our primary focus at IMSA for the past 18 months has been on the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and this weekend's 52nd running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. We believe the opportunity to compete on three different continents using the same race cars under common technical regulations is an attractive opportunity for automotive manufacturers.”