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Old 6 Apr 2019, 19:35 (Ref:3895779)   #155
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LMP2 is much cheaper because of spec engines and fewer chassis choices.
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More customers = fewer construction costs. Not that hard to understand, surely
There's too many unrelated details here which are being linked together.

LMP2 is "cheap" because it is cost-capped, not because of spec engines and fewer chassis.

LMP2 has more customers due to that cost cap.

Construction costs are lower because when you cannot raise the price (due to the cap), the only way to extend the profit margin is lower the construction (and design, etc) phase. So more resources go into this phase than otherwise would have.

And as Chiana correctly points out, the cost cap for these chassis is higher than previous chassis costs. That's because with only 4 chassis (3 realistically, because 1 is garbage, and arguably 1 because the ORECA is miles ahead), you can charge the full cost cap for it.

When LMP2 was an open formula and constructors could update the chassis, market forces kept the prices lower as nobody would sell a car for $500k because other cars were $350k. It wasn't worth extra because nobody had a huge performance advantage because the cars could be updated by the constructors. Now they can't do that.

LMP2 isn't cheaper than it used to be. It's now more expensive than it was because of the limited number of chassis available.
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