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Originally Posted by TF110
Good for the show maybe, but imo not good for the future manufacturers looking to enter with their money towards a hypercar program. I think it's sad that they have to do this extra work and investment to barely be faster than a 'cheap' lmp2. That might make for more complaining and that's something that I don't want to see more of.
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The comparison with LMP2 is not really fair. If you tweak the rules you can make a faster car than LMP1-H for even less money than LMP2. But if you allow unlimited constructor competition within those same rules budgets may escalate from sub-LMP2 to sub-F1 levels. Ultimately the pace is dictated by the rules. We're way past the ultimate speeds era. Cars go and look exactly like the rules say they should. Whereas a spec class with a cost cap is naturally cheaper than one with any kind of design freedom.