Coulomb now! Enough with the puns everbody. I’m diode laughing over herr.
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Unfortunately cost. You pay more up front in development but less in parts and manufacturing for some wiring, switches, etc... cheaper than mechanical, easier to assemble, less parts bin space, lower shipping costs, allows for automation...
Yeh. The other GTE teams also let them in in the spirit Iit competition. Oddly Ford didn’t have an issue getting close to the 107% limit until LeMans... otherwise the BOP would have been accurate for all. If you can build a car to run at the limit lap after lap then you should do so honestly and not just magically…
Fastest lap with traffic? Is that what you mean. Look at the math... tell me that wasn’t calculated delta’s. They could’ve run faster if they needed.
The Ford GT did not meet GTE rules. It was OK’s by the other GTE teams in good will. The design and shape of the other cars can be mass produced and used daily. Read about the Ford. They are unable to mass produce it due to issues stamping and forming the shapes, it can’t be done with normal manufacturing processes or…
Townsend Bell on this team I believe... impressive driver. Almost winning indy iirc then winning LeMan as an AM - that’s impressive.
Yeh. I mean I get people’s points about homologation specials but the Ford GT is in another league and didn’t even meet homologation. Its unlike every other car in the GTE class. Then sandbagging all season to avoid an accurate BOP... any other team doing that would “peeve” me just the same.
if anyone questions wether Ford calculated their performance just to stay meet the 107% rule from LMP2 to be legit GTE here’s the numbers: the winning GT was only 0.2 from the limit. The other GT’s, trying to catch up I presume, fail the 107% of LMP2 performance rule... Oddly?!?
Ford did not meet GTE requirements... read the rules. They were allowed to race due to the good graces of the other GTE teams. They then sandbagged all season to not receive an accurate BOP. If Ford and other teams for that matter don’t like BOP or the 7% rule, which existed before they entered the class, then they…
Yeh. Top of the line cars today are no joke. Vettes, Ferraris, Astons, Audis, Porsche, BMWs, Focus RSs... it’s telling when Honda can take a Civic econo box make a type R version and run the ring faster than a Ferrari F430. I’m ok with moving the GTE class up or even shaking it up... but not “mid stride” a couple of…
Yeah IDK. Their return was announced at LeMan. The entire hype build up was about LeMan and their anniversary. The anouncement was about returning to LeMan not so much WEC. It’s also one of the most prestigious races on earth. There are still races on the WEC calendar though. I’m not sure how they’ll play out and what…
Sorry. I’ll curl up in a ball, suck my thumb, and cry uncontrollably for a few days... Then I’ll be over it. Now though I’m a little “peeved.” Carry on as you were, I’m just a two bit know it all not wit voicing frustrations on a web forum. Long live the honest race team who works with integrity and values the…
Ferrari is turbo. The GT was fast enough to pit 2 more times than Ferrari though and come out on top, but pit times can be deceiving. The Ferrari trough was fastest on outright pace all year, they would have got a good BOP before the race. With Ford magically finding 5 seconds two days before the race it complicated…
Agreed on the rules... I would say though that if teams didn’t try to exploit every loop hole it wouldn’t take a lawyer to write them and interpret them.
Growing up poor we always had beaters. We wrenched on them every weekend to keep them going. We had at one point a 1970 chevelle as our daily driver. The driver side rear shock would break into the trunk at least every other month so we’d weld it every other month. On one such occasion the rear seat foam caught on…
Yeh. I didn’t have a horse in this race but was rooting for Porsce as my wife and son are fans... all 3 of our hearts sank for Toyota though; we felt bad for them. In a way you could say they deserved it. But, you could also say it’s an endurance race and they didn’t finish. Still heart breaking either way. It was…
Ford GT does not comply with the GTE rules - fact; it got in based on the good will of the other GTE teams. I’m not going to get into the similarities dictated by the rules between the road going and racing versions of the cars... I’ve done it many times here. If I throw the most advanced racing parts into a 70's era…
Nice... if anyone questions wether Ford calculated their performance just to stay within the 107% rule from LMP2 to be legit GTE here’s the numbers: the winning GT was only 0.2 from the limit. The other GT’ s were closer than 107% of LMP2... Oddly?!?