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'10 LMS Round 3 • Portimão • July 16th - 17th
’10 LMS Round 3 • Portimão Algarve - Portugal
........ . . Schedule . Entry List . Track Map . Timing & Scoring . RLM . LMS Site . Spotters Guide . Ten-Tenths Chat . Satellite . Weather . World Times Qualifying begins Saturday July 17th at 09:50 WEST (GMT +1) L.P. |
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12 Jul 2010, 06:42 (Ref:2725244) | #2 | ||
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Eurosport will give us 30 mins of live coverage at 22:30 british time on Saturday night! Why do they bother?
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13 Jul 2010, 15:10 (Ref:2726142) | #3 | ||
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Mansell on the poster, oh well...
With only 4 LMP1 and a lot of Formula Le Mans on the entry, people will have to stop ALMS bashing :-p Ben |
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13 Jul 2010, 18:35 (Ref:2726231) | #4 | ||
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No BMW's?
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13 Jul 2010, 18:54 (Ref:2726237) | #5 | ||
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Guess they want to save the cars for the 24 hours at Spa...
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I don't even see why they bother either. For you guys in Europe its likely Europlayer will be available. Considering how much they ask for entry feeds into the 24h race, I know MONEY is not an issue. |
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14 Jul 2010, 04:13 (Ref:2726385) | #8 | |
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Endurance-Info reporting that ACO has given Petrol-powered LMP1s a 4% larger restrictor starting this weekend.. It could spice things up, especially at ILMC races later this year!
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14 Jul 2010, 19:21 (Ref:2726722) | #9 | |
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The ILMC races will be interesting but so to the 2011 P1 restrictors.
A 4% increase is more than just a tweak. |
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14 Jul 2010, 21:04 (Ref:2726786) | #10 | ||
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Anyone think that the air restrictor increase is due to the LMP2 cars showing up the gasoline LMP1s at Spa as much as the diesel dominance?
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14 Jul 2010, 21:06 (Ref:2726787) | #11 | ||
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Possible, and with a HPD in the field, if any tracks can throw up a surprise result i.e. a potential shock LMP2 win, it's the twisty ones at Portimao and the Hungaroring.
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The Strakka car barring somebody from putting in it off course somehow, I don't see them being headed. 4% was put there to help The Lolas.... |
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Huh? It's not like there was no adjustments made, what short memories some have! The ACO gave the petrol cars a total of 7.1% restrictor adjustment compared to the diesels and the diesels also got a 5.8% reduction in boost this year. Here L.P. |
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Proof positive of the potential of a factory funded engine programme. |
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It's a tough situation. Obviously if you only have 4 LMP1 cars at Portimao and one is a diesel, you either do something or risk a race for second place only.
I firmly believe that the advantage in the regs is minimal now even before this adjustment. What we're simply seeing is the difference between factory and privateer efforts. I class Aston Martin as non-factory because it's a customer programme that needs to break even or run at a minimal loss, whereas Audi and Peugeot are marketing driven projects with massive budgets. Lets not forget that Audi/Bentley dominated with a petrol car. The worry is that if we get further petrol breaks, a decent full factory petrol programme comes in (Toyota?) and utterly dominates - could happen... Ben |
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15 Jul 2010, 08:49 (Ref:2726996) | #18 | ||
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Or factory funded chassis, aero, team and drivers programmes!! Did not see many petrol cars quicker through the Porsche corners than the factory diesels either. |
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15 Jul 2010, 16:07 (Ref:2727175) | #19 | ||
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As for BMW...mind you that the race weekend at Spa starts early with the parade on Wednesday. So basically your cars have to be at Spa during the weekend prior to the race-weekend.
That is next weekend, which would leave the team with the problem of getting its cars back to Germany and preparing it for Spa in just a matter of days. Taking into consideration that in France lorries are banned from using the roads from Saturday 7 a.m. to Sunday 10 p.m. in July and August. |
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Why does it take so long to balance it out ? |
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If the Pugs hadnt have had their woes , and who could have guessed at what would have happened , the best petrol car would have been in 8th position , and not 4th . So, Lane , no ..... the balance is not there . You may argue till you turn blue , but the fact is that there never has been a balance with respect to fuel type . for god sake , they dont even know how to balance a hybrid yet !!! |
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I did state that the ACO made a rather large stab at it, and gave reference, in response to your insinuation that nothing had been done towards that end! Secondly: As has been pointed out by others, and I agree, there is not a Full On Werks Petrol program to be judged against the Full Werks Diesel programs. For a long time now (the last couple of years written in the rules) it has been known that P-1 was for Werks programs and P-2 for privateers, per the ACO. As to the opinion that there is not a balance, that is rather subjective, as there is no comparison to judge it by!!! And nobody knows how to balance a hybrid yet for the simple fact that one has not been run in anger with the rest of the field yet! And you can argue till you are blue in the face, but, it is apples and oranges until a Full Werks Petrol program comes along! L.P. |
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I'm only basing this on watching the races but HPD (albeit in P2) have shown up what a poor job everyone else has been doing particualrly on the engine front. In 2011 who would touch a P1 Judd or AER Mazda motor unless they improve significantly? Zytek have been equally poor but their hybrid system is a potential plus point. If you can't get your hands on a Peugeot, Audi or Aston Martin I'd only consider an ORECA Peugeot or Lola HPD for P1. *Assuming HPD and Wirth don't have 2011 P1 chassis. Last edited by JAG; 15 Jul 2010 at 20:37. |
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Thats because the engine , gearbox , electrics , suspension are all mated together when you buy a HPD , same with an RS Spyder . I think it will alyway stay the same in that respect . Its difficult to beat a manufacturer turn key effort . I cant understand how Rebellion had such a crap time of Le Mans . Previously nothing wrong with the engine , or the chassis . Possibily the auld Judd is showing its age ? I still reckon a P2 HPD , for 2011 P1 , or an Oreca will be the car to beat with respect to the privateers . not sure what AMR intend yet , but I bet it will be good !!! |
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Well, that proves the point, as well as the fact that you need factory support to run a factory built car-look at how much Kolles has struggled with their R10s, as well as the fact that Kolles hired pay drivers and gentleman drivers for his cars(though the phrase pay driver shouldn't be used so loosely-even Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen bring personal endorsement sponsors to Audi, and last year Sebastian Bourdais brought Red Bull money with him to Peugeot).
The private Audi R8 teams, namely Champion were de-facto factory teams, like de Ferran and Highcroft were with Acura last years(listed as privateer teams by IMSA, but basically factory teams in all but name), and Highcroft is a Honda Racing/HPD factory team in all but name now. The Judd V10 is now about 20 years old, and so is Kristen Stewart. While Kristen is 20 years old literally and metaphorically, the Judd V10 in engine terms compared to Audi's V10-be it gas or diesel-dates back to the industrial revolution in technical terms. And add to that there are no serious factory or privateer turbocharged gasoline engined efforts aside from the AER V8 that's only used in the ALMS. You can't beat a factory teams' cubic dollars and research-Audi and Peugeot are able to claim 2008-esque power and torque figures in 2010 inspite of a 12% smaller air restrctor and about 10% less turbo boost. That's factory R&D right there, something that the likes of John Judd can't afford and other factories aren't willing/able to spend. And all we have to do is look at the Audi R8-within a year of a 10% air restrictor cut, they were nearly as fast as in 2002, and set a new disance record in 2004(which the Audi R10(twice), Peugeot 908, and the Audi R15 shattered in '06, '08, '09, and '10). This is factory vs privateer, pure and simple, as we all know that if Audi and Peugeot ran gasoline engined cars(a la the Audi R8 and Bentley Speed 8), they'd dominate just as much. Simply put, you can't keep up with a car who's chassis and engine was designed in 2008 with a car that was designed in 2008 and has an engine that aside from displacment bumps hasn't really been updated in nearly 20 years. |
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