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Originally Posted by canaglia
Qualifying is not the race, there were 2 saleen s7r in 2010 LMS that in qualifying were as fast or a bit faster than gt2 but basically had no pace in race finishing several laps behind.
I still remember that before the 2010 LM saturday night, risi 430 and corvete c6r were the overall fastest gt in grid with no match for 2010specs gt1
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It's true that the regulations had completely neutered the GT1 cars for 2009 and most especially 2010 season. But of those two 2010 LMS Saleens, one was a complete joke of a team - Atlas efx - which was always going to end up terrible, and the other one - Larbre - was competing against no-one (outside Spa 1000km) and having no reason to do but the minimum to sort of circulate within acceptable classified finish...
At LM, the Marc VDS Ford crashed very early on, the female Matech Ford burned down, JLOC was a joke (albeit not quite as joke as 2007 and 2009) much like Atlas efx in LMS, and all the rest got stuck in the garage or retired for mechanical problems elsewhere thanks to the infamous ECU debacle and other issues, so it was rather easy for GT2 to win, with or without speed
JLOC did top qualifying at Zhuhai 1000km, mildly ahead of the GT3 Porsche Hybrid and the GT2 cars, so even terrible teams with terrible cars were sort of capable to do something on one lap pace
I always remember how the Minardi "legend" Zsolt Baumgartner of all people was entered for the terrible Atlas efx Saleen late in the season, but it never ended up happening, nor did the Saleen entry for Petit Le Mans despite being on the initial entry list