Nissan LMP1 Discussion

[carbsmith]

Don't misunderstand. I pray for the sake of the employees that they have a long and competitive run in sports car racing.

But to claim you finished the race when the ACO says you didn't finish the race and you spent an hour in the garage for every two hours on the track is such a bald faced PR lie that it annihilates any faith or trust I have in the management above them. I don't hate the car because it's different, I dislike the program because I feel it's far more likely they'll be gone as soon as they've finished fishing for attention and we'll hear horror stories from the people left unemployed than they'll become a serious contender. How can you believe in people that treat everyone like idiots? The last time I saw this kind of used car salesman act in racing was USF1.

The confrontational nature of discussion about this is because nobody has ever come into sports car racing and acted so ridiculously before. It would be great if the cars ran well enough to actually race something at the Nurburgring so that's the main topic of discussion instead of what excuse they came up with this week.


I don't feel they're doing anyone a favour by turning up with what is the least technologically advanced car in the class and telling us how lazy and boring the most incredible, complex cars ever built are because they stuck the drivetrain at the other end and ran a variation of an aero concept we've seen attempted multiple times over the last 30 years.