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Old 16 Nov 2017, 03:50 (Ref:3780674)   #5260
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Originally Posted by broadrun96 View Post
No, you would in fact be wrong. If you would like to be pedantic the correct turn of phrase would be they have tied their record low. But they are in fact at their record low level, a record can be ESTABLISHED only once but any time to you return to that point you would be at your record lows.
Matching the record does not make it "the record" the way Akrapovic states it. His wording implied it was either setting the record or that it the series is just about dead(the latter point was also directly inferred) as a direct result of tying the record. Neither is accurate. Pedantic? Sure. But what a comment implies is very important.

Case in point, his claim that DTM is at death's door because of this is undone by the mere fact that two manufacturers is what they had when they relaunched the series - and they certainly weren't at death's door then, or after Opel left them with two manufacturers a second time.

Sure there are other questions hovering around, but DTM still has two manufacturers ready and willing to hop in if they make one specific change(three if they make a second change) to the regulations. DTM really can't be said to be at death's door under the current circumstances.

But that's enough of a divergence, I think - to be talking about DTM outside of Class One's relevance to new LMP1 rules is a bit off-topic.
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