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Originally posted by GT1
If your slowing another class down to not challenge the prototypes, that sounds like Grand Am.
I realize that they want P1 cars to win it and respect that, but it shoudl be earned. Corvette took fifth overall at Le Mans, most P1 cars would be estatic with that result. They won't ever beat Audi on pace, but in the ALMS all it would take would be one big P1 pill up to see GTS cars win overall.
I do agree with the Maserati. A lot of folks took a look at that in testing and said "Its GT1 all over again". A road car should be a road car. These one off specials like the Dauer, or the later part of the GT1s degenerated the class quite quickly.
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But they are not being slowed down, in order not to challenge the prototypes. You could speed up GTS by 10 seconds a lap and they still would not challenge for a win at LM.
There is a big difference between a GTS car finishing high up due to reliability or a crash taking out the LMP1s, and doing well on pace alone.
Lets put this into perspective. 3 seconds at LM is like 1 second on a regular circuit. Development of the cars will gain at least a second a year.on a regular circuit.
As has been seen in the LMP1 class. Rules are changed to 'slow' the cars, but each year they go quicker than ever. e.g. Audi R8 4 seconds quicker a lap this year than last.
The pegging of the GTS cars to the 3.50 area is reafirming that GTS is for production cars like the 575/DB9 and not specials like the Maserati.
Remember the DB9 project was put on hold because they did not wan to compete against honologation specials.