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After today's announcement in a change to the BoP for, at least, the test day here is the development of the three parameters for the three cars.
Weight (Kg)
Energy Allocation (MJ)
Max Power (kW)
It's listed by all the bulletins. Latest one I used the info in the DailySportscar and Autosport article. Main takeaways
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2021/0...or-alpine.html https://www.autosport.com/le-mans/ne...-back/6642034/ Last edited by Adam43; 7 Aug 2021 at 13:46. Reason: Changes bolded |
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Toyota and Glickenhaus also think it’s worth around 1.6s per lap.
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So basically that really makes up the bulk of the difference between LMH and P2.
I find the parity between these classes mindboggling, considering the vast power/weight advantage of LMH. Which brings me back to what I was saying all along, if the aero package is required to be THAT inefficient, how come they still look like LMP cars with a facelift? I hope Stellantis makes a 9X8 derived Dodge Ram pickup truck just to upset everyone |
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It was never likely that Glickenhaus would do the races after LM but is this official now?
https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/...re-manche.html |
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It's a shame but not a surprise. Jim's been open about them not running there from the start.
They need track time more than any other Hypercar team and this would have been a double bill of running heading into the new season. |
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Agreed. I'm a huge fan of the team and the car, but it's hard not to feel a little aggrieved by this from a fan perspective.
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24 Sep 2021, 23:01 (Ref:4075332) | #535 | |
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We have been transparent, public, and clear about our thoughts on the fairness of the BOP in the Hypercar class.
We designed, engineered, and built a LMH that met the LMH homologation requirements and performed better than the desired/predicted Le Mans lap time of 3:30. We feel that the BOP between us and Alpine was fair, resulted in great racing and left an acceptable gap to the P2's. We also feel that the BOP of the Toyota's was unfair as evidenced by the very excessive gap to Alpine and us during the Hyperpole and the fact that even though both Toyota's had serious problems during the race they were still able to beat both Alpine and us by a large margin. We are in cordial communication with the WEC and The ACO to address this issue and are hopeful that we can reach a solution, but we have no interest in participating in a perpetual Toyota Victory Parade and showing up to race when we don't have a fair chance to win. |
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To be honest, I am afraid that the BoP will not be advantageous to you if you don't show up.
Through history it seems to me cars get fairly balanced out if they race against each other at different tracks / different circumstances etc... Cars that show up rather infrequently are harder to balance correctly, and I believe those doing the BOP regulations are rather cautious: i.e. the unkown car tends to get a disadvantage rather than an advantage. See: Risi in IMSA. To be fair: that's probably also what I would do. I would make a nice and fair balance with the cars I know. If one shows up for just the races it wants to run and I have not enough information I'd rather have it running at the back instead of running away at the front. (Of course, having it running with the pack would be my preferred option but given the lack of data, that may not be an option) |
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25 Sep 2021, 10:41 (Ref:4075384) | #537 | |
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My fair opinion is this: as far bop can be improved to make things more "balanced", toyota dropped about 2.5s from nowhere during hyperpole and then kept on running again on a planned slower pace both in late FP sessions and race. And I don't even think hyperpole times is 100% of toyota potential.
I honestly think that a power increase for 007 will make the car faster for sure, but toyota will remain on a different league anyhow because of awd and in general because of a better overall package that a private team/small manufacturer won't be able to match. The only way to realistically give chances to let everyone win is to step back to bop/success ballast system of 2019-2020 with toyotas artificially made unable to win due considerable weight increase and cut of hybrd/ICE power. But at that point it shouldn't even be called motorsport anymore to me... Real culprit to me is ACO that afraid to lose appeal, idolized and still idolizes last or few manufacturer standing, giving it/them full power and influence about regulamentations, despite that influence will likely be the reason of failures (hypercar class was made because in late 10's a 8MJ hybrid lmp1 class wasn't sustainable anymore for toyota and other manufacturers... the same technical regs that ACO decided surrendering to audi/porsche/toyota technical diktat for advanced hybrid cars in early '10s). It happened with audi in '00, it is still happening with toyota since 2017. When politics and economic struggles are more important than motorsport, forget to see a fair competition between manufacturers and private teams. AWD-RWD hypercar bop is just the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper structual problem. |
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25 Sep 2021, 13:16 (Ref:4075399) | #538 | |
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There is more than enough data to make a fair BOP.
The only structural problem that has to change is when AWD is allowed. AWD should only be allowed when the track is dry not when AWD cars can run on slicks on a wet track. Without this change RWD cars including Alpine, us and LMDh have no chance. The rest is simple tweaking. |
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25 Sep 2021, 14:59 (Ref:4075409) | #539 | |
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ok, given that to me is unlikely awd will be restricted further because of influence of toyota and peugeot/ferrari that will likely grid awd cars as well,
it seems you're considering only wet conditions, but it didn't rain for the whole 24H and toyota shown to be faster also in dry condition (not to consider how fast was during hyperpole that was dry as well). Considering best 007 qualified in 3.25.6, in your opinion or according to simulations that your team has surely made, what's the expected improvement performance window if 007 would get more power? |
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You should remember the old adage......''He who pays the piper, calls the tune.'' So expecting anything to change in regards the balance of performance tipped in Toyota's favor, to change, would be wishful thinking. |
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As amazing a job as you have done i still don't believe that privateer teams will be able to compete with the likes of Toyota, they have the people, facilities and money. Not only that but if Toyota are spending €20m on their team do you really think that they & ACO are going to let them be beat?
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Budget, facilities and people aside, to me toyota real power is how can easily influence present and future ACO decisions... but anyway, I can understand Glickenhaus point of view, me too at his place would make pressure to have a better treatment, none is happy to spend lot of money to join someone else's parade |
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On the other hand, MJ per stint and allowed KW is equalled out. What else do you want? AWD has to bring advantage and so it should be. |
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guess that's the big problem, ACO said that HYP was going to be a bop class, toyota disagreed.
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I think we all appreciate that there are a lot of factors at play here, but it's easy to see how a new privateer team who we have all been very excited by threatening to take their ball home after half a season when the only real opposition is a giant in the category leaves a slightly sour taste.
Obviously it's different from a team owners point of view, but for the spectator I think we'd all rather see you finishing second than not finishing (or starting) at all. edit: I should add that we all want a fair class too, and that I'm sure we all want to see the Glick around for years to come when the competition is more varied Last edited by GingerPixel; 28 Sep 2021 at 08:49. |
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