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Old 11 Oct 2016, 05:26 (Ref:3679205)   #83
BrentJackson
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Originally Posted by TF110 View Post
It's not the ideal thing with only 4 cars to choose from, but they need to promote lmp1 more and give a better package to privateer teams. 750, 800kg and a big tank without fuel flow meters.
Now? Yeah, right.

Folks, we all knew this was coming. It was inevitable, and a direct result of the ACO's desire to support their race and connected French constructors at all costs.

You have two OEMs (one of which is up to its eyeballs in one of the biggest regulation-cheating scandals in the history of the automobile) spending nine-figure sums on LMP1s, and a huge fleet of Michelin-shod, Gibson-powered, Cosworth-controlled Orecas and Ligiers driven by journeyman drivers for everyone else not willing to bankrupt themselves trying to race against the factories they have asbolutely no hope of defeating. In the GTE category, you get the eight-figure OEM programs and everyone else forced to buy their older cars. Get the giant money for the top class and force everyone else to support the OEMs at huge cost (LMGTE-Am) or the chosen ones who have the connections with the ACO (LMP2).

At the same time, the ACO tries a quite transparent attempt to minimize the impact GT3 cars have on their GT categories. And of course, Oreca got the engine contract for LMP3, and as soon as Onroak was making chassis for LMP3s suddenly Ginetta (who built the first category cars) suddenly has big supply issues. Go figure, huh?

IMSA should throw Rebellion a bone and figure out how to include the R-One into DPi (and also SMP to allow the BR01 to race on, preferably with a five-liter Nissan VK to have the power with the new cars) and once the class is established toss open the chassis rules so that HPD, Gibson, Crawford, Coyote or other players on this side of the Atlantic can jump in, and allow cars to use new engines but without the bodywork. Get in league with the PWC guys and Stephane Ratel and start getting connections built up with the SRO. Let the people the ACO is actively trying to screw over come to IMSA. That's the best one can do now, because LMP1-L is now officially dead and since LMP2 is now a class designed by nepotism, sooner or later they will have explaining to do....
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