IMSA Flips BOP Upside Down For Long Beach Grand Prix

It what was far and away the biggest news of the day anywhere on the planet on Thursday, IMSA revealed a wildly revamped Balance of Power shuffling that will lead into next week's Long Beach Grand Prix. Quite literally every manufacturer in both the GTP and GTD classes received some short of adjustment to weight, power or energy output, with the biggest alterations coming to Porsche and Cadillac in the prototype class and Corvette, Ferrari and Lexus in the GT ranks. Both Porsche and Cadillac received a weight reduction of 9 kgs - which is roughly 20 pounds of reduced weight via ballast. Additionally the Aston Martin Valkyire, which many felt was balanced out way too harshly in their debut at Sebring, will see a huge 10 kgs weight reduction for the race. For the Corvette Z06 GT3.R, they'll see a MASSIVE weight reduction - 31 kg!!! - which will surely correct the race pace issues that the Pratt Miller Motorsports suffered from at Sebring. Right behind them are the Ferrari's ...