I doubt it. Especially considering not much sponsor money that isn't Tuckers and even that sponsor money I think is a private equity firm that is just his own. What is he advertising with the business?
I don't know what it'd cost to run a ALMS GT car for a season, but it'll run you about $1M for arrive & drive the season in a competitive ALMS GTC class car. -mike
Why a different set of rules on this side of the pond? Why not just keep it simple and run GT3 and GT4 cars? The market for used GT3 and GT$ race cars is pretty deep, but we have to build for our own set of rules here in the US? that's pointless... GT racing is already a pretty tough proposition cost wise, why make it more expensive creating separate standards: GrandAm and ALMS vs. already well proven and documented FiA GTx specs.
Far as I can tell ACO / Le Mans (and thus ALMS) have a set of rules that gives us GT2 class cars. It seems the rest of the GT series in europe are following the GT3 specs for their GT cars. And of course, Rolex seems to be slowly allowing GT3 spec cars (with tweaks) to enter (Audi R8, 458). ALMS is either going to have to permit GT3 spec cars from EU into GTC (and then the Porsche Cup's won't be competitive, so they'll go away) or they're going to have to create a GTE-Am class. Otherwise they'll die, especially with the lack of quality TV coverage. But what do I know, I just do this racing thing for fun.... -mike
I've heard from IMSA that GTE-AM is almost a given for next year. Same driver classification rules as in Europe, and you can only use prior year GTE cars (lower cost and assure AM is slower than Pro). I hope GrandAm becomes defacto GT3 without downgrading the cars that creates an unnecessary hassle of figuring out completely the car setup for the GrandAM specs (like audi had to do this year after having a perfectly good GT3 car in Europe). That will also make cars like the Porsche Cups much better to drive in GT3 spec (paddle shifters, etc.)
