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Originally Posted by Audi Racer
What kind of engines do you think are powering these pescarolos and rebellions and zyteks and amr-ones??
1. An ANCIENT decrepit Judd V8.
2. A Toyota super gt engine which wasnt even designed for Lemans style top speed(whichin my opinion is a devious plot by toyota to get the diesels slowed). Those sgt cars dont reach nearly the top end of the lmp cars. And the sgt petrols dont have nearly the amount of torque.
3. An outdated Zytek engine
(outdated Unfit engines and unfit Chassis) = Petrols
(multimillion dollar state of the art engine and multimillion dollar state of the art chassis) = Diesels
Thats why the diesels are crushing the competition.
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When they play from balanced rules, decent air restricted engines don't gain much of a performance advantage. The AMR V12 was better because special rules were written for it. Diesels are better because special rules were written (and joke-rewritten multiple times) for them.
Your logic doesn't make any sense. In no way should a restricted race engine have to be ultra-recent to compete at the front. Jaguar won with an antic V12, Porsche won way too many times with their ultra-traditional H6 design, BMW won with a big V12 that was getting old. And they were all road-car derived. Audi even kept winning with an engine that was 7 years old at the end! That's older than the Judd, Zytek and Toyota V8 designs are (check your facts!)!
How much do you seriously think you can gain from a bleeding edge engine? How big was the performance advantage provided by Porsche's DFI or Peugeot's aggressive engine development strategy from the last few years? Can the performance benefits we've seen from committed manufacturers over an average engine really bridge the current gap between the two P1 classes?
Run the numbers, what non-diesel engines need to compete is not anywhere near being possibly available with the current restrictors. Do you really want rules that deny privateers a competing chance unless they find engines that are much better than what is achievable within the rules?