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Originally Posted by Pandamasque
I get it. Ligier, Dallara and Multimatic were grossly incompetent not to race and develop a P1 car to later homologate it as a P2 "prototype" with frozen development.
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Your argument is wrong and I'll give you another proof, in 2013 kolles had 2 coupè lmp2 badged as lotus kodewa (or something similiar). Those cars were made by Adess following 2014 lmp1 chassis ruleset, the same which oreca 05 was based on.
Well considering this and following your idea, Adess lmp2 that had even 2 years of "unfair advantage" compared to oreca 05, had to be a beast of car...
how things actually turned? That CLM lmp1 based on adess lmp2 (based on 2014 lmp1 regs) was one of worst lmp1 ever made
at that time dallara wasn't involved at all, multimatic was the spare parts supplier of lola-mazda running in IMSA and ligier coupè lmp2 despite being a competitive car suffered of heavy brakes unstability.
Guess the answer is that oreca was a better chassis manufacturers then as it is now. And as said, none was preventing other manufacturers to release lmp2 with 2014 lmp1 specs, as Adess actually did since 2013.