[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by carbsmith

It's about 100x harder to take the roof off the modern integral carbon rollover structure cars than the old steel roll cage on a tub Group C chassis.

DPi having any kind of future is pretty highly optimistic. The only manufacturer that even seems likely that they might stay in that category is Mazda. LMP2 is basically the max for prototypes. Even that might need LMP3 to prop it up, and GT3 has finally found the event that will make all of the growing costs and other problems no longer background concerns that can be swept under the rug, so you might even need to move GT4 up a tier to fill grids.

As is there aren't a ton of cost effective engines that can replace a Gibson in an LMP2 chassis without completely obliterating the cost effectiveness of the car as a whole. They were never designed to be that flexible.

Originally Posted by Speed-King

My sarcasm-detector might be broken, but: How does that help with anything? Modern prototypes, especially those built by factories are designed from the ground up as one integrated system. By chopping off roofs and switching out engines, all one will achieve is to mess up their aero and weight-balance.

You're both being called into pitlane at the end of this lap, you're going behind the wall to have your sarcasm detector looked at.