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Originally Posted by Purist
I'm not sure what you think is so terrible about the regs in their entirety. The "balancing" in LMP1 is out of hand, and I might have preferred they try to figure out how to uprate the LMP2s alongside the DPIs, but I'm not going to throw the whole thing out.
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The famous three letter word is what is wrong with Hypercar, the one Vincent Beaumesnil has thrown around as the operating word and basis for the 'regulations'. Regulations should never _center_ around that word, and in fact they didn't here either until Sebring press conference last year. Technological leaps, hybrids and so on will only become a marketing tool, nothing more, nothing less. So that there, as well as multiple ideologies jammed into one cake as response to lobbying... it's going to be IMSA 2014 all over again. You will also have a lots more fake-rebranded-OEMs joining in with sticker-engineering through privateer ranks, as ACO is directly encouraging it, akin to "Alpine" and "Aurus".
Add into it that LMP2 is staying stale, is going to be slower and have mandated spec tires - not only in WEC but the regional championships. There's talk of mandated bronze driver too. And GTE is what is has been for better part of the last decade
Now, it is true that the current eot-success-penalty in P1 is out of hand and awful too, however that does not come into force at Le Mans next year. And at the very least, as horrible as the system has been in the sprint races, you can still politically manipulate it less, as it is more or less automatic. The system is only in place because of the lack of factories anyway, if someone else was involved they wouldn't have artificially closed the gap between hybrid and nonhybrid in the first place, not properly