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Another pretty good point. We will never know if the diesel equivalency rules of prior years were balanced or biased. We do know that this year, the pendulum swung as far to the gasoline side as it ever had, and it proved to be just enough.
One school of thought says that if the equivalency formula is right this year, it must have favored diesels all those other years, because---it favored diesels more all those other years.
Another school of thought says, maybe a serious factory effort would have overcome all that--displacement bonus, rate of fuel fill bonus, fuel tank capacity bonus--which were taken away this year to give us balance.
No way to know. But it is proven on track that the ACO/FIA got the rules right this time.
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