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Originally Posted by JAG
This is often repeated but is simply not correct.
The ACO are happy for cars to lap well below 3.30 during qualifying, which only a handful of cars have come close to doing in the past two decade's, even during the Group C days.
Last year they also took into account track changes which lowered lap times by a second or so.
What they don't want is to see are car's lapping significantly below 3.30, consistently, during the race. When you consider the FASTEST petrol P1 laptime was only a 3.33, it's only the diesels that are currently a 'worry', they were poting regular 3.26-30 laptimes.
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Umm, yeah ,but take a look at todays LMS test day results and Audi being 3 seconds faster than Peugeot last year on a relatively short, though fast track. What will this mean at Le Mans? While I don't think that the 3.20 barrier will fall, the Audis and Peugeots might come very close in qualifying...
For the first time in almost 10 years we have an arms race between two big factories, it's only natural that these factories will push the envelope quite a bit.
And the evolution of the petrol cars -while being admittedly slower - doesn't stand still either. I wouldn't be surprised if the Aston-Lola or Oreca went below 3.30.