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11 Apr 2019, 19:43 (Ref:3896881) | #6526 | |
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It's rare when I agree with someone on everything but I couldn't find a single flaw in any of Vasselon's answers in that article. Well done sir!
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That's good stuff from Vasselon.
BoP, or success ballast or whatever, has a place in a series which takes existing cars with differing layouts and turns them into racing cars. Even if it is a repulsive concept to purists like us, brothers and sisters. But a formula is different. A formula says here are the rules, build your car to these rules and may the best one win. That's the point of a formula. I would rather watch Rebellion, SMP, ByKolles and Dragonspeed fight it out with their current cars than some lardy, glorified road car lumbering around LM at 3 minutes 30. |
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11 Apr 2019, 21:12 (Ref:3896891) | #6528 | |
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I agree with Vasseleon. WEC is supposed to be the F1 of sportscar series, so BoP has no place at the top of the tree in my book
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11 Apr 2019, 22:09 (Ref:3896904) | #6529 | ||
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Gotta agree with M. Vasselon's sentiments about TMG preferring to run prototypes (or at least road car influenced, prototype based cars) in preference to what the ACO seems to be pushing for.
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12 Apr 2019, 13:24 (Ref:3897003) | #6531 | |
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Don't wry there's still one non-BoP class at LM. Too bad it's a spec proam class with fake sticker rebrandings but you know... Better than nothing I guess
Anyway, this will be the first time since the beginning of LM where the tech incentive for overall win will be irrelevant... Which in turn makes the PR about Zero Emission look pretty funny when right now they don't care rats ass about technology, only OEM money |
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12 Apr 2019, 15:15 (Ref:3897023) | #6534 | |
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The fact that Toyota says it's cheaper to do a prototype should say something about who is influencing these rules. It has to be someone with a car already made that can be adapted and ran a little bit slower than lmp2s right now. Is that Ford? Aston Martin? McLaren? Whoever it is, I don't think it's worth it unless they're bringing other big names along. And even then it's basically glorified GTE, which I thought was going to end up happening. Shame...
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12 Apr 2019, 15:23 (Ref:3897025) | #6535 | |
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While Aston Martin is obviously going to be at the head of any lobbying list, they're not particularly hyper big name or provider of OEM cashflow / bribes, so it's either Ferrari or McLaren I reckon. Ford seems to be more on the "whatever we'll do it if it's cheap to transform our GTE into it" line
Now then, in the past when ACO slowed down cars, the target lap times never really materialized. Even the pace of 2011 was much quicker than the ACO projected thanks to Audi and Pug pushing the envelope. However, in a boring old BoP class they can do whatever they want to control it, even order FIA test driver to bop-test all the cars at Paul Ricard or something. And if/when it's spec tires for all there's not going to be any point for tire development either |
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Toyota wants to win on merit, not by luck/politics/wrestling. You can also control your destiny better if it's a competition of superior engineering rather than lottery draw.
I imagine they'd also rather spend money on actual cars rather than wasting it on nonsensical marketing and bribing the bop committee like everyone else BoP also means they won't be allowed to win LM two years in a row because that's "boring" by the said ideology. So 2021 should already be wasted Last edited by Deleted; 12 Apr 2019 at 18:32. |
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12 Apr 2019, 19:32 (Ref:3897080) | #6538 | |
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I don't know how this is going to work out but if Toyota has a plan to use a prototype, it'll be weird to see it vs something like the Ford GT which is a... GT. I know people say that it's a prototype but it's mostly because it raced before it sold. Same thing as the M8 which I have yet to see a production model of. Ford brought an actual sportscar though while BMW brought a big bodied 'coupe' if you can call it that. I guess it'll be something like the TS020 racing against the McLaren F1 just fast forwarded 20 years in the future!
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Why not just make a cost capped P1 instead? It worked very well on P2 (I mean before the Spec regulations). Do wathever you like with a small amount of money and sale it to the teams without any money losses.
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Whatever happened to that supposed announcement of interest/intent within a week of Sebring? Guess that never really was on?
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Hopefully nothing's happening and they reverse their plans (again)
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16 Apr 2019, 05:27 (Ref:3897869) | #6543 | |
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Well maybe they've hit a dead end and have been forced to make a u turn
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What exactly is the sticking point for the regulations?
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Aston wants to run a Valkyrie.
BMW wants to use hydrogen. Toyota wants to run a prototype. Ferrari wants to turn up to the meetings to appear interested but never commit to anything. Ford wants to switch to DPi unless they might be interested in running a version of the GT as a hypercar. Maybe. McLaren wants to run a Senna, or maybe a prototype that looks kinda like a 720S. Glickenhaus wants to run a prototype that looks like a hypercar that they can sell as a road car. Rebellio/SMP/ByKolles/Dragonspeed (maybe even Ginetta) don't want to throw away the very recent investment in their prototypes. Besides that it's plain sailing... |
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I wouldn't be supremely confident about the roof, I've heard rumours that Ferrari want to go open-top, so they can save money by using their F1 tub (along with almost everything else from the car).
Four wheels should be agreed by all interested parties - as long as they all want the wheels to be the same size. |
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