ALMS fans are celebrating right now at the wicked race at Sears Point and the come-from-behind win by Dyson Racing. It's great Dyson won, as it shows a determined private team can win an ALMS race, and can do it in a LMP675 car. After that, many IMSA fans make comments about IMSA's racing being the best teams and GA's being manufactured. That fact is that assumption is bull**** and nothing less than that - how is it possible for Grand-Am to manufacture racing? Its a double standard, and I personally think this sort of favorites is crap. My point of them being biased was the ALMS event at Trois-Rivieres, a race that drew 31 cars, of which 29 started and only 16 finished. And the two Audis finished five laps up on everyone else, which after JJ Lehto lost a lap in the Champion car, ceased to be a race. We will know if GA can keep the racing going - the Bully Hill Vineyards 250 at Watkins Glen (boy is that a mouthful) is this coming weekend. And it runs alongside the NASCAR Winston Cup race there - GA's task may be to outstage them, which knowing this year may not as difficult as it seems.

As for GAs new GT class rules, I have begun to see a few problems - first, GT cars based on everyday cars on the street just doesn't get hearts racing anything like the thought of Ferraris, Porsches, Moslers and Saleens racing at a sportscar race. It might be a way to connect sportscar racing to the average fan, but that is unlikely to help GA, as NASCAR does exactly the same thing and NASCAR has the benefit of nearly every fan having a driver they love and a driver they hate. (I'm one of those fans, but i'll keep my choices to myself.) One idea many GA board guys came up with is to have a mix of Speed GT cars, modified Ferrari Challenge and Porsche Supercup cars, some of the tube-frame or clipped (part tube-frame) GT cars based on one car or another and some FIA/ACO GT class cars. It might work, but the Speed WC rules have several altercations with GAs proposed 2005 rules. Grand-Am seems to me to be trying to distance itself from ACO/FIA rules, and in my opinion in the GT class it will be to its detriment - most GT cars built in the last decade have been to FIA/ACO rules, and GA cannot expect there to be a lot of GT runners, and even if 2005 DP fields are strong, which they likely will be, GA will again look a little bare - something they should try to avoid.