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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
The gap should close, but at the Roar test, the Riley was 2 seconds off the best Oreca and Ligiers during a good session, and 4-5 in a bad. It should be better for sure, but right now there's nothing to suggest the gap is closed.
Whether or not the car gets in depends on what you want to see. Variety, or quality. For sure it'll be another different car on the grid, but the reverse argument is it'll just run around the back and not add anything. Hence why it's entry is not guaranteed. "Just another Oreca" is a valuable thing to a series organiser who want good strong car counts. Business side of it may come into it too. ELMS teams building entries and models around getting a Le Mans entry may give them an entry over a US entry with an underdeveloped car that doesn't need the entry. Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying it'll have an effect.
What car Keating uses may be more interesting. Presumably there's a Corvette somewhere that Larbre isn't using. That'd be cool.
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The bop aero configurations for Daytona are different than for LM, notice 'sprint'
https://cdn.theapexracing.co/wp-cont...erformance.pdf
+ Riley run without most of it's EVO and components are still missing
http://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/da...ay-notebook-6/
The entry process at LM has never been based on fairness, it's always been bit shaky-shaky. Even the most loyal teams (and in fact factory entries) have been let to rot in favor of something that the ACO just wanted there, whether it's football star's team or whoever. Like it or not, the ELMS have most often be the ones getting the worst deal out of this, and this year looks to be another bad year for them I think (as whole). But you can partly lay the blame on there being far too many series now within the 'pyramid of endurance' thing as they call it