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Originally Posted by Speed-King
It might be a political exercise: Give the engine to a top-running private team and let them race against the diesel juggernauts. Of course they are gonna have a really hard time, so AM can claim that the rules for production based engines are not fair when they enter P1 by themselves, and with a little luck get some breaks by the ACO.
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While I can understand the logic in this, if correct, I really don’t thing this will achieve anything that we don’t already know........ the front running Judd V10 engined cars have already proven the huge gap between gas and diesel regs……..and the V12 AM engine is a pretty poor engine design for a race motor, it has an included valve angle of about 40 degrees (bad news), and is quite a tall and heavy motor……its not even comparable to a Judd…….ok, it will be a good basis to get AM started in LMP1………. but long term, if AM want to stick with the gasoline route with hope of taking on Audi & Pug, they will need a clean sheet design for sure.