As a Brit, born in the early 90's for my entire life so far Vauxhall’s/Opel’s have always been poorly handling turds, you’d always be better off with Ford Europe’s equivalent at that price point.

Was supporting Porsche in LMP1, but really feel for the toyota team, they had done the better job and deserved the win. Motorsport is a cruel and fickle mistress.

In which case, I don’t know what I’m doing! I’m not sure why the ACO and FIA don’t like the BMW’s. It was on Radio LeMans at some point early in the race that they were discussing how Ford had effectively entered a car completely optimised to the rules + an exemption on their gte car having a road going model out in…

Would explain why we’re not all ‘Murica’ then....

Porsche beat the prototypes in IMSA last year..... Petit Le-Man anyone.... (Sorry, couldn’t resist :P)

Look at the current IMSA-ACO-FIA fiasco over DPI, similar regs, not the same, although close enough that most people don’t need to care.

Throttle response, poorer (physics is against you on that one). Exhaust note, whilst subjective, worse and quieter (again physics is against you on that one) although I will concede wastegates can make nice cooing noises and group B cars sound amazing. Low Engine speed pickup, worse (gotta spool those turbo’s up). All…

Whilst I see your point for racing. Faster does not always better, fun is more important than speed away from the track.

It’s alright, I was supporting the Aston Martin’s, but I’m from across the pond, and Prodrive Racing (who run the Aston’s) are only 25 miles up the road from me.

BMW were denied entry at le-mans as the ACO deemed that their M6 GTE was just a GT3 car with a different engine map and some small diveplanes on the front....

As a Brit, I’m backing the no.95 Aston Martin, although it doesn’t appear to have a hope, 2nd pick is the no.91 porsche, which might have a very real shot in a rain affected race with Tandy and Co at the wheel. Unfortunately it seems BOP has not favoured the naturally aspirated cars at all.

You see, the Americans are complaining about why they couldn’t have one of these. Here in jolly old England I’m complaining that we couldn’t have it with a manual gearbox (since the manual wasn’t offered in europe, which is novel given that it’s the general driving preference over here). Put the two complaints…

WRC cars don’t have that much aero, the reason the body looks flat is the damping is just that good. Running high ground clearance with a stiff shock setup to deal with the ruts without bottoming out won’t have helped. Top-mount/strut failures are pretty common in rallying, there’s only so much strength you can…