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Originally Posted by Lasse
It is a little worrisome when looking forward when more cars will be joining the Hypercar class.
Or am I foreseing things way to negative?
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It seems that way. Some say the Oreca-Gibson LMP1 version used to be a lot faster which is true, but the TS050H also used to be a lot faster!
It would seem unfair to penalise Toyota for building a car to the new, slower set of regulations at considerable expense, by 'adjusting' other cars built to either the old faster regulations or on a much smaller budget to be just as fast or faster.
LMDh vs LMH will likely create many games mind you, especially when the LMDh regulations are theoretically much cheaper.
NB: I am all for LMP2 & LMP1 (both LMH & LMDh) being
one class with straight-forward chassis and engine rules, where the chassis and engines need to be homologated and sold to privateers for a fixed price, where ALL the LMP cars can compete with a chance for outright victory (whether it's a Toyota-Toyota combo being run by the works Toyota team or by a private team, a Multimatic-Mazda combo, a Oreca-Gisbon combo or whatever).
IMSA are not blameless, it's like they don't want privateers with a generic Oreca-Gibson competing with the Oreca-Acura or Dallara-Cadillac for outright victory. But it would be such a rich field if all the prototypes were in the same class IMO!