Ran across this interview from the Hilton Head Concours event where Hurley Haywood was the honored guest last weekend. Q. I saw that you retired from racing this year. Is that for good? A. I retired, but our racing team switched directions and we're going to be back into (Porsche) GT racing, which is what made Brumos Racing famous. We'll kind of see how it goes. I missed racing more than I thought. So, Brumos pulling the plug on the DP program. Didn't see this reported anywhere else, that sure takes the DP car count down a couple of notches. Perhaps a bit difficult for the Frances to justify propping up the Brumos DP program when no body is watching, they're laying off staff and closing "The Daytonner Experience". J.C. must be devistated. BHW
interesting.... Action Express (JC France?) keeps the DP team, with Law and Donahue... Brumos scales back to GT with a couple of relative unknowns, but may bring Haywood out of retirement (probably only for the endurance races?) interesting developments.... though as a 911 fan I must say I'm looking forward to a Brumos-liveried #59 GT3 Cup car
Yes, obviously the new drivers bring budget. Haywood runs the risk of losing his status in the Sebring Hall of Fame if he comes back (haha). But, he could argue that if Stuck did it, he could too. This closes the whole embarrassing chapter of Brumos' involvement in DP. Just read elsewhere that the Action Express DPs will be Cayenne V8 powered so there will be no Flat-6s left in DP effectively creating a V8 only category. From the beginning, it was obvious Porsche was uncomfortable with being included in DP. The first season, they made Porsche powered teams remove any headlamp and tail light assemblies resembling Porsche street cars as well as any Porsche signage or logos identifying the cars as such. So, it was fairly obvious Stuttgart was giving it's blessing but very reluctantly. Brumos even changed their famous "Brumos Porsche" logo for "Brumos.com" and Porsche had to do a real PR two step when it was revealed that the Brumos-supported Action Express car was using the Cayenne V8 engine rather than the familiar Flat-6 promoting Porsche shill Andy Schupack to issue his "It's a Porsche but it's not a Porsche" statement when Action Express won the 24 Hours of Daytonner. Order seems a bit more restored with Brumos moving to GT-3 and Peter Gregg may be resting more comfortably now. BHW
