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Originally Posted by tomerswayler
The changes mentioned for the fuel flow and consumption should bring the Toyotas and Privateer very close together. The 2017 figures are from https://www.fia.com/file/58905/downl...token=eNkmOZrc
Let's see:
LMP1H 8MJ
2017 878kg___124,9MJ/lap fuel___80,2kg/h fuel___44,1kg/stint fuel
2018 878kg___124,9MJ/lap fuel___80,2kg/h fuel___35,2kg/stint fuel
LMP1
2017 833kg___157,2MJ/lap fuel___100,9kg/h fuel___53,0kg/stint fuel
2018 833kg___210,9MJ/lap fuel___110,0kg/h fuel___52,9kg/stint fuel
The LMP1H will see a drop in the average stint length as the fuel per stint decreases by 20%. A normal stint will be 10 or 11 laps instead of 13 laps, so LMP1H and LMP1 could be forced on the same stint lengths/strategy.
The LMP1 class gets 34% more fuel per lap and will have 9% more power. Is that a jump in power (and laptime) similar to what LMP2 did from 2016 to 2017? LMP2 improved the laptime from a 3:36 to a 3:25.
The best ByKolles did a 3:24 in 2017, the best LMP1H was 3:14.
Looks like it'll be a close competition!  |
There is one thing I'missed out completely - Energy per lap. The difference seems really high, this means a lot more dangerous coasting for hybrids.
Lets evaluate the difference including 8 MJ of hybrid energy:
Hybrid: 124,9 MJ burned with 43% efficiency = 53,7MJ + 8 MJ = ~62MJ/lap kinetic energy
Non-Hybrid: 210 * 0.43 = 90 MJ/lap kinetic energy
Non-hybrid will have 45% more kinetic energy to work with.
This is not normal to me, non-hybrids will be burning gas till the end of the straight with very late braking, hybrids will boost out of the corner faster but will be saving fuel at high speed.
This will most certainly make races interesting with multiple overtaking in one lap, but IMO this very dangerous, we have seen multiple collisions between LMP1 and LPM2 because of this fact, making non-hybrid even faster this will be even more dangerous for LMP1H.