[LM24] 2007 Le Mans entry list

[old man]

Originally Posted by Hammerdown

But now the performance of the MC12 is a known quantity surely it could be allowed to race with appropriate restrictions so that it doesn't upset the apple cart. Besides the ACO has constantly tweaked the regs as and when it saw fit. If they want you to race, they'll give you a break. They could always invent another class for it if they wanted to.

OK but where do you stop "giving (teams) a break"? The engineering wizards are brilliant at stepping slightly outside the box to gain a small advantage and what you do for one team you have to do for others, it simply leads to chaos. If Fiat want to race the MC12 they must make it legal or offer it for a class where it fits.

The acknowledgement of the value of the FIA series by the addition of these two places is a real incentive to win the championship in 2007 but what about the teams that came second to the MC12 with a legal ACO spec car? Could they not argue that "if" they had been allowed to run with certain small mods they could have beaten the Vitaphone cars and so gained the entry?

I believe that giving small concessions is not possible for any organisers without problems later, we have it in ALMS where "performance balancing" has been done and it is not the best way to run the railway