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Originally Posted by Speed-King
(Un)fortunately the ACO is obsessed, with keeping the cars above a lap time of 3.30 at Le Mans. If they can do this by doing away with the F1 noses, they could kill two birds with one stone...
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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.
I don't think there's any doubt the current R10 and 908 would pummel any previous generatation sportscar, even if it's the ultimate Mercedes C11, Peugeot 905 or IMSA GTP Toyota or Nissan.
They may be competitive during qulaifying, but they'd be way behind on race pace.
Back to the original point, I reckon we'll see rear wings slashed in size/complexity, with much fewer aero bits and bobs on the bodywork of the next generation coupes.
We could see a cleaner Group C type look.