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Originally Posted by Adam43
If you get the BoP right, which it appears they broadly did this year, then what's the point in having a fancy new GT car like Ford? The only advantage is if you can fool the BoPpers and then unleash. If their not fooled save your money. Well done Aston.
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The advantages of a new car are limited, but you can introduce better reliability, easier servicing, ability to follow cars better etc. Your overall lap performance is still going to be dictated by the BoP, but you can gain advantages elsewhere.
But you're pretty spot on with BoP racing. The whole point in GT3 is you could pick up an old car and go and race it because it's balanced. It hasn't really worked out like that, as the cars have gotten faster and faster and more expensive. The BoP isn't bringing the new cars down to the old cars speed. The original idea was that one driver was going to have them balanced too (Heinz Harold Frentzen!), but that was dropped and isn't really possible on a scale of this size.
Whether we like it or not, GTE is now a BoP class. And given that all the cars were within 1 lap of the GTE leader (Porsche and Ferrari only got overtaken by the 919 on the last lap, but they were within 1 lap of the Aston), the BoP was spot on. Nobody had a bad BoP. They all were within touching distance.