Quote:
Originally Posted by TF110
Imo, the fact that hypercar is open to makers without having to sell like lmp2 is a huge deal.
|
But is it? It may still have been in the 2018 sketches but the fact that rules were altered so that you can win Le Mans with mildly altered LMP2 car just as easily / "rightfully" as with from-scratch-constructed Hypercar means that eventually no-one's going to bother with their own design. Well until perhaps the hydrogen cars come out, but even there, if they still continue to insist that Oreca 07 with Peugeot headlight shades should be able to win the 24 Hours just as rightfully as say Audi with 80 million dollar zero emission vehicle, well... that too will dry out eventually. It's a hole of their own digging. And just as with their cheap LMDh spec hybrid system, if hydrogen or zero emission becomes trendy in the realm of motor racing / automotive industry, the DPi-teams probably might insist in having some sort of very light spec alternative fueling implementation on their cars as well, just to be able to say in their marketing that "hey we're cool guys as well"
Anyway, not to go all gloom and doom, I'd like to again mention the Road America IPC replay which I watched today, it wa nice. You can see the performance differences between the chassis clearer on the lower df tracks where Norma is just superior (probably because it was designed for LM). Will be somewhat interesting to see if that changes next year when the updates roll over to NA. Can't really judge too much on the European results but looking at Spa it seems Oak has catch up on that ldf front. At least it's not done via lame balance of performance but EVO of sorts, even if it took years to be allowed