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Originally Posted by Matt
I mean let's not forget that Global spec cars finished P3-8 at Daytona, with the CORE car on the same lap as the two Cadillac's in front of it, and United Autosport was 4th, 4 laps back.
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Yeah, there was three cars that ran mostly trouble free and the LMP2 was last among them by a significant margin. The #32 finished 4 laps back because of a clutch problem, otherwise UA was the best running LMP2 car much of the race despite their car not even having the pace of the ORECAs at Daytona. At Sebring CORE and United both ran trouble free and couldn't make the podium even with most of the DPis breaking or crashing.
Pace-wise LMP2 was nowhere at Daytona either.
http://results.imsa.com/Results/18_2...test%20Lap.PDF
Frankly the LMP2s being "okay" the rest of the year doesn't even matter. The races that count for having an international spec car are over and they made a mockery of said international spec. It's abundantly clear that any hope of a common top class between IMSA and WEC in 2022 to allow teams a chance at the major American enduros along with Le Mans is an utter pipe dream on the behalf of the ACO given the protectionist attitude that's been shown. That the boss of one of the manufacturers that has expressed interest in a common prototype platform (along with other possible manufacturer participation in the series)in the future is the owner of a team that's being run off here is incredible. They're being so vocal now because they came to Sebring expecting the BoP issues they'd stayed largely quiet about at Daytona would be rectified, not amplified.
One LMP2 car being fast one lap in practice doesn't invalidate the entire weekend of evidence to the contrary either.