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It encourages people to actually finish and push hard till the end knowing anything can happen.....
Remember back in (09 i believe) when the Risi ferrari broke the radiator running over the kerbs......And then Guiseppe basically said we have nothing to gain so where just going to reetire the car? yep he said that...
would he have don that if he knew Ferrari would score points for his car running at the 18hr mark. Heck no he wouldnt have.
Im not sure if anyone is afraid of change lol but it actually does sound like a fantastic idea.
Knowing that the teams will be trying to be in the lead at all oparts of the race and not just at the end.
Heres the defacto example of the rule being in place vs the rule not being in place.......
At Lemans: BMW's get punctures etc... and go 2 laps down...They basically give up and run pretty poultry lap times in the 4.03 range compared to the 3.57's they were cracking in qualifying(they resigned)......
At Spa(6 hour rule in place)......The 98 Audi loses second gear and then sits in garage for a while and goes 30 laps down..... Piccini, Rocky,and Fassler come out GUNS BlAZING.....setting race lap records at a 2.20.2(??!!bonkers lol)...and motor there way back from 28th spot up to 14th spot in the end(3-4 retirements helped).
you get where im going right?
Last edited by Audi Racer; 1 Aug 2011 at 17:55.
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