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Originally Posted by Napolis
Hi
Both Toyota and us are building to LMH Prototype rules. We are not required to build any road going examples. Therefore we looked at the rules and moved towards what we felt would be the fastest LMH under those rules. We may make road examples but they will come later. Looking at everything we feel our ICE only design will be very competitive and have lower running costs and complexity than a hybrid LMH. We don't believe that because of use restriction, even though FWD, a LMH hybrid system will be an advantage. Our design is being sculpted in the the wind tunnel and our engineering and aero team are quite accomplished. We remain hopeful. It's now looking like we will have at least a two car team.
As an aside we also believe our LMH will be much less expensive to race than LMDh and that LMDh will need a LOT of BOP help to run with LMH. Finally we believe that the massive economic changes that COVID 19 will bring to our world will have a huge effect on all racing and think there is a lot of pipe dreaming going on. We're very glad that we only need to sell 10 cars a year to continue and go into this new world with a firm backorder of at least 40 road 004's and Boots.
Best
Jim
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Thanks, Jim - its interesting that you think LMH will be cheaper to run than an LMDh - is that principally because of the lack of a Hybrid or are there other reasons?