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Old 27 Jul 2017, 18:14 (Ref:3754806)   #12
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Originally Posted by FĂ©lix View Post
Do you know of any other sport where a 10% equipment performance advantage is deemed acceptable? I know we're discussing a sport where that advantage can be bought for 30 to 200 million dollars, so theoretically it's not unfair... but come on! What we get is a house of cards that crumbles at least once a decade, when the manufacturers who have spent enough have had their turn at a win and leave without a care for what's left behind them except their "credible" win.

That's very far from a sport where the best athletes who have put the most effort into their preparation and done a good job on the day of the actual competition stand a realistic chance, with room for unpredictability, upsets and great (and believable) underdog stories.
I'm still confused what is the thing you want. So that athletes (+team) makes most of the performance or engineers? Only way to achieve that is a spec class. At the same time you want it to be more genuine "sport" and best to win. With aggressive balance of performance the best usually isn't the best and rarely things are 100% equal unless the balancing is purely scientific based (like the EoT in LMP1-H), instead someone always has an advantage, but it is not advantage they necessarily deserve because of better engineering.
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