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Originally Posted by JAG
Group C cars were fast over a single qualifying lap, but current cars are much, much quicker during the race, particularly over 12hr/24hr.
Even when you look at the 3.5l cars, it was only the last generation 905 that was significantly quicker, the 92/93 Toyota TS010 lapped around 3.37/7 in qualifying.
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i don't know about all the laps of the group c cars during a race or the current lmp1 times during the whole race, if anybody does (about all their laps in a race - or their general pace, please correct me), only about the best laps of every race. and basically it seems to me that there wasn't a great difference... the current lmp1's don't seem much, much faster... let's take a look at the statistics (these are the fastest RACE laps for each year):
2006 - best lap - audi r10 tdi - 3:31.211
2005 - best lap - pescarolo c60 - 3:34.968
2004 - best lap - audi r8 - 3:34.264
2003 - best lap - bentley speed 8 - 3:35.529
2002 - best lap - audi r8 - 3:33.483
2001 - best lap - audi r8 - 3:32.429
2000 - best lap - audi r8 - 3:37.359
1999 - best lap - toyota gt-one - 3:35.052
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1993 - best lap - toyota ts010 - 3:27.470
1992 - best lap - toyota ts010 - 3:32.295
1991 - best lap - sauber mercedes c11 - 3:35.564
1990 - best lap - nissan r90ck - 3:40.030
it was 3:27 for the toyota ts010 in 1993, not 3:37. so it was in fact much quicker than today's lmp1 cars even on race pace. audi r10 and peugeot 908 only lapped 3:27's on the new 2007 track configuration...which is about 3 seconds faster.