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Originally Posted by gaaaazFR
When you see the involvement of manufacturers to build a "decent" LMP1 program (Porsche took more than 2 years of preparation), I really doubt Ferrari would be able to decide a LeMans program just with 18 month of anticipation.
Running a GTE program depends of the Competicion Clienti department, an LMP1 wouldn't... It would require a proper design team and a lot of wind tunnel work...
When you think that in the same time, Ferrari HAS TO build a winning car for F1 in 2014 and if you remember that they still have troubles with their wind tunnel (they use Toyota's one since one year). It really seems difficult they put together an LMP1 program in the same time.
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I dont see it happening .... but why would it be so difficult?
They are already designing a P1 legal engine, they have plenty of young designers who they could let loose on a design and they could sun the chassis build out to Dallara or someone similar and they could get plenty of funding from sponsors.
The reason the ACO would jump through hoops to get a works Ferrari into WEC and Le Mans is that it would do more to put the show on the global media map than anything else - simple business sense imo.
This is all conjecture of course, but it is nice to talk about it. More than likely this is more posturing over F1 rules as it usually is.