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Originally Posted by jhansen
I don't know if I buy into this premise. If Peugeot wins Le Mans this year and then promptly markets the victory, the mainstream media will not chastise them for taking advantage of a perceived rule loophole. And if diesel technology is a loophole will it really matter? How many manufacturers have taken advantage of rule loopholes over the years? Yet Le Mans continues on.
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This is not a loophole. It is a calculated dispensation by the ACO designed to generate a known outcome--in terms of the fact that an oiler will win it. Le Mans 2007, in fact, is not a race at all...at least between the two technologies.