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Based on the events of this race, it'll be an all Audi/Peugeot show in the ILMC. A Rebellion Lola got to within .3 of a second in qualifying, but the gasers have a way to go to match the diesels in race pace.
Granted, both Lolas have to start in the back didn't help matters, but a 5 lap lead for the Oreca Pug at the checkered flag signifies that with such breaks, perhaps only a factory team can take advantage. Just look at Acura at Sebring in '09. On a flying lap, they matched what the diesels could do, but come race time, a combination of a lack of straightline speed and not being able to work traffic cost them.
Is that's what's being seen here? Even Highcroft went to the narrow ACO wing on their Acura/HPD machine to eek out some straightline speed, because as Duncan Dayton said last week, if those LMP1s get out in front on straightline speed, you're pretty much screwed.
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