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Originally Posted by carbsmith
The torque sensors were supposed to outright replace air restrictors, which would basically leave us with the sanctioning body controlling the performance of the engine directly. That fits with the (often forgotten) intent of GT3 to have heavily production based spec cars running together but it's not something the manufacturers were ever going to accept in GTE even with the homologated engines and constant restrictor tweaks to try to neutralize any performance improvements.
Homologation specials tend to be a failing of the homologation requirements. There's no way an ultra limited production hypercar like the Ford GT should be racing 911s and Corvettes to start with but somehow it's supposed to be a great idea because BoP will fix it. (just like it fixed the MC12 to 5 straight FIA GT championships)
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That has always been an issue... not just in gtlm. In old good GT1 days there were "not so rare and expensive" dbr9 and c6r in grid with saleen s7 and maserati mc12, that basically were supercars.
Just forget about to find a logic in that.
Anyway, now that vantage shall use amg engines next year, why just don't use a 80/90kg/h fuel flow for GTLM cars too?
no need to tune the engine for restrictors or turbo pressure cut, just need to improve efficiency. The same goal of street cars which GTLM come from.
Anyway, speaking about bop, I've read on the lmp1/2 tech sheet, that there is some kind of bop for lmp2 too, with a possible 20kg ballast. Question is: WEC lmp2 weight is 900kg or 930kg?