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Originally Posted by Pandamasque
I think ACO shouldn't bother with benchmarks. Even the team doesn't believe DW has a chance finishing the race, so let it go all out. Otherwise why should anyone be impressed by something that achieves mediocre results by ignoring all the regulations? They could as well bring a detuned F1 car and achieve much better laptimes with similar fuel economy.
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A detuned F1 car wouldn't achieve nearly the same fuel economy because an F1 car has a drag coefficient worse than a brick. It's doing slowish P2 times and has 2/3 the power of a P2, which is nice, but not hugely impressive. It's doing P1 top speeds with about 60% of the horsepower which is a bit better.
Hopefully they will be very public about the fuel consumption so it will be possible to evaluate how successful it is, or not.