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Originally Posted by smokin'joe
hi Mark, can you please give us a breakdown of where the "7000km" comes from??
i don't believe the cars are doing close to 1000km per round, are they ????
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It probably wouldn't be too far away from 7,000km for
some of the cars. The first 8 rounds (4 sprint and 3 endurance last year) plus HD sprint to open this season would total well over 4,000 km of race, practice and qualifying.
I don't know what the rules say about testing, but I've seen/heard heaps of them at HD over the last 15 months, so it must be fairly open. I wouldn't be surprised if some cars have 10-15 test days under their belts, a very conservative 100 laps per day, and suddenly you have over 7k on the clock.
Maybe Mark or one of the teams can confirm this sort of total. They probably monitor time, rather than km, so we're only talking about 50 or 60 hours of "hot" running.