[WEC Race] WEC Round 7: Bahrain

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Originally Posted by Lagunaseca_4life

A Diesel engine will always be more superior to a petrol engine in any application.it may lose by weight but it's power out put and efficientcy will always be superior.


I tried to watch the race but the links some of you guys gave me (thank you by the way!)kept freezing up and the WEC app kept crashing.i updated my iPad to ios8.1 which took forever so I just went to sleep.i woke up during the last fifteen minutes.looked like a good race,I just missed out.should be able to watch Brazil.

You are forgetting that diesel engine + transmission combo is about 40-50 kg more than a petrol equivalent. I would be more then ok for diesels to have the same amount of energy allowed as petrols (calorific value), and have the same MJ hybrid system as long as the petrol P1s have their minimum weight dropped by as much as the weight advantage they have over the diesel engine + transmission.

The gap would be even bigger than it is now. The diesels would match or may be a bit quicker in a straight line, but would be loose massive amount of time everywhere else.