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3 Apr 2021, 12:15 (Ref:4044462) | #7926 | ||
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Stop sitting on the fence, truebeliever. What do you really think about the ACO?
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3 Apr 2021, 19:24 (Ref:4044500) | #7927 | ||
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I suppose I should just see the French logic, that says you screw up a successful, well supported class (LMP2), in order to support a new ''Premier'' class with a few OEM supporters! Wouldn't the logical path have been to make the Hypercars quicker, and leave P2 as it was? But I suppose that logic has never been an ACO hallmark. They could have made a new regulation = no P2 can ever lead a lap over a Hypercar, you get a 1/2/3 minute stop and go for that! I am sure the OEM's would be in favor. |
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3 Apr 2021, 23:15 (Ref:4044512) | #7928 | ||
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Well, this is what happens when the ACO uses the Hypercar rules to revive their not significantly under 3:30 laptime obsession for the top class.
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4 Apr 2021, 00:39 (Ref:4044519) | #7929 | |
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4 Apr 2021, 01:43 (Ref:4044523) | #7931 | ||
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I don't think most fans want to see the top class restricted to 3:30 at LM. The ACO have been pushing for it since at least 2007.
Whatever the reason, or the ACO making the Hypercars that much slower by default by making them so overweight, it's caused a stack up that might even see GTE nerfed. Which GTE got aero and power boost because GT3 got GT1 influenced aero on them a few years back. Granted, making the LMP1/LMH cars so portly will reduce costs by default, but wanna know what would've done that too? Reducing the reliance on hybrid systems for power, and reducing their urge to kiss up to OEMs in exchange for cash. Last edited by chernaudi; 4 Apr 2021 at 01:48. |
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4 Apr 2021, 01:46 (Ref:4044524) | #7932 | ||
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I do not understand why there is so much obsession to protect LMP2 in this forum.
LMP2 is a spec category, ORECA-Gibson Spec category!!!!!!! Sports car lovers hate Spec categories like me!!!! The ACO killed the real LMP2, when was Porsche RS spyder vs Acura ARX. Hypercars allows again the variety and I love this variety I HATE the SPEC category like LMP2!!!! |
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4 Apr 2021, 07:45 (Ref:4044540) | #7933 | ||
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I don't know if 3:30 is the right level to aim at for the top class but the Circuit de la Sarthe is a Grade 2 street track. If the cars just keep getting faster, at some point the FIA will step in due to safety concerns. Or we end up with more tarmac runoff, barriers moved back etc etc.
Who cares if the top class runs 3:15 or 3:30, the issue here is the mess the ACO have made of the relative speeds of the classes. The latest knee jerk reaction of more weight, less downforce and less power could have been mandated months ago, or even announced at the same time as the unified LMH/LMDh regs. |
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4 Apr 2021, 09:31 (Ref:4044564) | #7934 | ||
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4 Apr 2021, 14:49 (Ref:4044595) | #7935 | ||
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6 Apr 2021, 13:25 (Ref:4044824) | #7936 | ||
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ACO wanted faster Hypercars, but the merger with imsa's LMDh has forced the Hypercar category to slow down.
So, you don't want the ACO / IMSA merging? |
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6 Apr 2021, 14:52 (Ref:4044836) | #7937 | |
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6 Apr 2021, 15:17 (Ref:4044838) | #7938 | |
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Pretty sure the ACO always said that they wanted Hypercars to be targeting 3:30 at Le Mans, and being BOPped to that lap time. As I recall, that was before proper talks began to have a class which would be eligible in both IMSA and ACO series.
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6 Apr 2021, 15:23 (Ref:4044839) | #7939 | |
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I don’t think laptime should be that important and BoP will always be tough to implement. Anyway I look forward to how the Hypercars go. And with IMSA having an uncertain future and ACO having their own problems to deal with, I can’t see them having IMSA cars joining in at Le Mans
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6 Apr 2021, 15:28 (Ref:4044840) | #7940 | ||
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The ACO and IMSA definitely want convergence to work and I think they will work together to make that happen. |
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6 Apr 2021, 16:52 (Ref:4044852) | #7941 | ||
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Once the convergence is completed, who knows - they might "up the power" slowly through evolutions of the rules.
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7 Apr 2021, 09:47 (Ref:4044919) | #7942 | |||
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In the mid-2000s, the top class were doing 3:30s and then with development, the lap times came tumbling down. Obviously LMHs are homologated, but new, quicker cars will join and the BOP will be made faster, as well as advances in set-up and understanding of any track changes. I'm also finding the criticism of slowing down LMP2 slightly odd, I can remember all the way back to - checks notes - 4 years ago when people complained about the new P2 regs. I, for one, actually agree with everything said in criticism of the time and I would be perfectly happy for that category to die. I hate spec racing. I just find it odd that so many are now defending it ! |
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7 Apr 2021, 10:14 (Ref:4044929) | #7943 | ||
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I think the criticism is more that slowing them down is actually necessary due to completely foreseeable changes to the top class, and those changes have been clumsily executed.
Not sure anyone is actually defending LMPOreca in its current form. |
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7 Apr 2021, 11:11 (Ref:4044942) | #7944 | |||
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I therefore deduce that the problem would not have arisen without the convergence. https://www.endurance-info.com/fr/to...ires-lmh-lmdh/ |
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8 Apr 2021, 04:25 (Ref:4045042) | #7945 | ||
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8 Apr 2021, 08:03 (Ref:4045058) | #7946 | |||
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I agree with you and I do not complain about the convergence. But it seems unfair to me to say that it has no impact on the current BOP problems. |
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9 Apr 2021, 05:15 (Ref:4045254) | #7947 | |
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I think if imsa put its foot down and said hybrids need to make more power, the 800+hp would have stayed. Im hopeful in a years time they at least consider dropping minimum weight to 950kg or thereabouts.
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9 Apr 2021, 18:03 (Ref:4045333) | #7948 | ||
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It's an impressive driver line up developing this hydrogen car - Vandoorne, Nato and Richelmi.
And they are getting even further ahead of the game than all the GT drivers jumping into LMP2. http://www.dailysportscar.com/2021/0...r-for-h24.html |
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16 Apr 2021, 11:00 (Ref:4046208) | #7950 | ||
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If only someone had written this all down while it was happening...
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