2 of the new one was what i meant...they are as numerous as any car in the class barring Aston.....
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But they were the only proper works team aside from the lonely Aston, weren't they?
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I don't see that being any more of an advantage...the class is performance balanced. Ferrari ran to a different aero rule to the rest for an entire season last year. BMW are given breaks in ALMS all the time, and Corvette is running an engine that had to be downsized from production while Porsche has a bigger motor...
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And the Flying Lizard and Felbermayer are the semi-official Porsches, aren't they?
Anyway, they are not fully factory-backed entries, if there's any difference that is...
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If it looks like a duck, and quack like a duck....
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Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.
(Ted Joans)
IMO he was full of it....as far back as 2007, when the LMP2 FACTORY gas car(RS Spyder and Acura ARXs) were running head to head with R10 in ALMS despite the power deficit, it was showing that with enough development gas car can be competitive. No one has a competitive DI engine on offering for petrol, yet such engine did exist in R8, and also in RS Spyder. The current Toyota we still don't know if it is Direct injection, and even then the race pace could very well match the Audi, and this was a first year program. Looking at the difference between eTron and Ultra, its not hard to see that while hybrid provides some pace, its not nearly as much as you think, and Toyota is already on pace with R18. If the whole time there was a legitimate petrol competitor, I doubt ACO would have been pegging the diesel back as much as they did....
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