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Old 8 Apr 2020, 10:24 (Ref:3969288)   #184
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Originally Posted by Graham Goodwin View Post
The reality is that we had two cars by the end of the season.

If that were the case at the start of this season then there would be no auto-entry for LM (minimum full-season entry is 4 for that) and therefore no class
The regulation which mandated the minimum numbers of cars for auto-entry never made any sense anyway. Let's face it, they could always change that if they really wanted, but they don't. They want the same exact stuff they have for any other championship and (as correctly pointed out) almost all of the teams will be Europeans trying to get easier auto entry than they would anywhere else.

When we think of the "old P2 cars", it would appear that many people seem to see these things as some ancient beings, from another time. Well, in a way it's true, as the age of non-spec and non-bop seems so distant now. However, if we discount the old Lolas, all of these last-gen LMP2 coupes - the ones eligible for ASLMS until now - were built in 2013-2015. 05, JSP2, BR01, ARX-04b, T128, S103. That's just a fraction before the spec regs came to force. Which means you have mere 5 year old cars here being thrown to junkyard as trash. Even less for most of the current generation LMP1 cars, 2 to 3 years! Meanwhile Oreca 07 will probably get a 15 year lifespan to please the pockets of Hughes de Chaunac later on - just as it was with Oreca FLM09 LMPC. Now, remember for example the old Reynard-Zytek-Gibson open tops which kept running year after year for well over a decade with minor modifications to meet the changing regulations? Can one compare the fate of those cars to Oreca 07 and it's rebadged 'cousins'? No, not really, the Zyteks kept evolving through the years and they had different packages available, not being identical year after year for same exact results. The Zyteks, along with the other P2 cars, we're in essence living things capable of change, not stale statues with fake mustaches in some of them.

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