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World Speed Challenge
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American Le Mans Series
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What motorsport would you like to see Lexus in?

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Old 01-19-12, 12:56 PM
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Default What motorsport would you like to see Lexus in?

Lexus has had some history in motorsports in their 20+ years of existence. What kind of motorsports would you like to see Lexus participate in the future and why?

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DTM and WTCC. The WTCC is the pinnacle of touring car racing and in the DTM Lexus would get to go head to head with Audi, Mercedes and BMW.
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I'd go with DTM as well.
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Old 01-19-12, 01:19 PM
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Make sure to cast your votes on the poll above!
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Originally Posted by flipside909
[Team Lexus Grand Am Cup - IS 300

I remember meeting the team once at BeaveRun (a local club track near Pittsburgh). We were working out some details for an upcoming SCCA event with the track manager, and the team was there testing. Would love to find one of those cars today, and swap some parts around to my 300.
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I wanna see Toyota (hence lexus) back in Formula One
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My vote goes for WTCC!
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ALMS. Lexus would complete against Ferrari, Corvette, BMW, and many other of the other top sports car manufacturers to directly communicate to their largest market (the USA) that Lexus = Performance. Also, with the ALMS's partnership with the ACO and 24 Hours of Lemans, we'd get to see how (presumably) the LFA would perform against the world's best in a variety of settings - street, endurance, and 24 hour endurance.

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I loved reading about the LX in the Toyota Trails magazine that the land cruiser club members get
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Originally Posted by javyLSU
ALMS. Lexus would complete against Ferrari, Corvette, BMW, and many other of the other top sports car manufacturers to directly communicate to their largest market (the USA) that Lexus = Performance. Also, with the ALMS's partnership with the ACO and 24 Hours of Lemans, we'd get to see how (presumably) the LFA would perform against the world's best in a variety of settings - street, endurance, and 24 hour endurance.

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Well said. Thank you Javy!
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Just a reminder, you can vote on multiple choices!
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American Le Mans...WCC, F1
 
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I dunno, but i wanna be on their race team!
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Originally Posted by flipside909
What motorsport would you like to see Lexus in?


For me, Ryan, that would be an easy no-brainer of an answer........NASCAR Super-speedways. To me, anyway, they (and the Indianapolis speedway) are TRUE auto-racing. I am not, and never have been, a fan of F1/Champ-Car road-courses, road-rallies, or NHRA-drag-racing.

Toyota, of course, is already in NASCAR with both the Camrys and Craftsman-series Toyota Tundras.

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Yeah there's no place for Lexus in NASCAR. Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Porsche and etc are not in NASCAR...Lexus has no place in it either.
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