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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
They win because they built the best car, with the best technology, have the most resources, the best team, and are immune from half of the pit stop regulations.
You say Rebellion were slower because they expected colder temps etc, etc. You're right. And why are Rebellion worse than Toyota? Because they don't have the resources to pull things off like Toyota do. They'll make more intelligence and race craft mistakes than Toyota, Porsche, Peugeot and Audi do/did. The manufacturers throw money and resources at this, whilst privateers can't.
You're right. Privateers aren't executing as well. But expecting Rebellion, who can't afford to run a second car, to execute as well as, quite literally, the largest car company in the world, is an *insane* thing to expect.
We've tried not jumping to conclusions for 2 years now. Adding weight doesn't offset engineering resources, hybrid boost and pit stop regulations. Toyota might "only" be 1-2 seconds quicker a lap, but the quality difference required to do achieve that is insane. Toyota are THAT good.
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It wasn't like they made huge mistakes. They chose the wrong tire compound and that made most of the difference, at least from what they said. You go and look at the timing results from the race and look at the last hour or two when the light rain came and went, then the temps dropped. The Rebellion's times were equal to the Toyota's. Mostly 1:28's with a few laps a second higher and lower. Seems the soft tires worked better then. They held off the #7 Toyota for a while in the beginning too.
I wonder if they ever got those different Michelin's for designed for their non-hybrid cars?