"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
06/14/2019 at 07:30 • Filed to: Hypercar, WEC, LMP1, Le Mans
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"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
06/14/2019 at 07:30 • Filed to: Hypercar, WEC, LMP1, Le Mans | 4
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It’s real, dawgs.
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This new setup will be based on either new hypercar models or existing road cars, will be hellaciously slower than current/outgoing LMP1 rules, and are still governed by balance patches. Hybrid power, however, still remains.
Which is, admittedly, quite boring as a sport, but with Toyota and Señor Glickenhaus pretty much guaranteed to be part of these new rules and Aston Martin potentially showing up come 2020/2021, I am happy that we finally have this kind of solution.
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daender
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 06:45 |
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I really want to see the Senna, LaFerrari, and other modern hypercars duke it out on track at LeMans. Also, part of me wishes I won a lottery so I could commission Koenigsegg to build a GT Regera like they did for their CC.
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Wheelerguy
> daender
06/14/2019 at 07:48 |
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Well have I got news for you.
They’re all real.
El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 08:10 |
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Aston Martin: Crikey! We’re coming to Le Mans to win with our Valkyrie supercar!
Toyota Le Mans veterans: cute, but you can only taste victory after you've experienced the humiliation of defeat, grasshoppers.
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 08:23 |
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This is exciting. LMP1's are cool and all, but hypercars have so much potential and most owners just park them and wait for them to appreciate. Time to put the rubber to the road!
UserNotFound
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 08:46 |
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Yaaaaassssss
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Wheelerguy
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/14/2019 at 10:14 |
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Also I remember the LAST time you tried going to Le Mans on your own and being in all shambles about it.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 10:32 |
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So they are targeting a 3:30 at Le Mans for the hypercars but are grandfathering in the non hybrid LMP1s that are in the 3:16s this year for 2020-2021 ? Well we know a hypercar isn’t winning in 2021. Nevermind the LMP2s running 3:25.
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Wheelerguy
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/14/2019 at 10:52 |
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They’re probably just underselling the pace—after all, the Valkyrie is theoretically capable of F1-level lap times. But it is still weird to see them gun this low—why? To appease some smaller niches? But damn near every marque wants to be the fastest, and if the P1s don’t get to stay in the same region of pace as the current lap record, no marque would want to go, no matter how advanced the car is compared to Rebellion and SMP.
Like I said, this could just be the floor they’re setting, knowing how high the ceiling can get. Thing is, though, that’s not their wording. Why be this slow when the point of going hypercar is “you finally get to see the fastest road cars in the world prove themselves”? I don’t believe this is the bullseye—at least I don’t think the FIA and ACO are that much of a dolt. Surely they know the Valkyrie is capable of 3:18 consistent pace—fuck, the Vulcan is patently faster than GTE cars round Le Mans, and that exhibition race is short. The Valkyrie is supposed to be a GOD compared to the Vulcan, so why nerf it?
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TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> Wheelerguy
06/14/2019 at 11:48 |
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3:30 has been the target since the Peugeot vs Audi days. In the past it has been about reducing the gap between the LMP1s and LMP2s. Before 2017 you had a situation where the GTs and LMP2s were equally as fast down the straights while the LMP1s would blow the doors off a GT. Mistake an LMP1 for an LMP2 and there's potential for a huge accident. In 2017 they just made the LMP2s faster so that both classes of prototypes blow past the GTs and there is no guessing for the GTs anymore.
bhtooefr
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/14/2019 at 13:34 |
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3:30 is the minimum, not the maximum, at least.
Any grandfathering will, as in every previous rules change that slowed the class down, result in a serious reduction in performance for the older-spec cars. (Sometimes they win anyway - see the 2010-spec 5.5 liter 908 HDi FAP winning Sebring in 2011.)
The LMP2s will apparently see a power reduction, as well.