I think what he's saying is the non-lead GTs were running faster than the lead car, presumably to catch up. Just because the car is in the lead, doesn't mean it's turning the fastest laps.

I’m all for building a better car and running away with the race, if that’s how the series is setup, but that’s not how the WEC is set up.

There’s no point of class divisions at all if they all just make the fastest car they can. 7% likely is arbitrary, but there needs to be a distinction between or definition of each class. If the only distinction is that one’s a road car and the other isn’t, you’d see some pretty crazy homologation specials as…

I didn’t mean YOU hurt my feelings specifically, just pointing out that i have feelings and they were hurt. Now where’s my blue kool-aid...F.O.R.D. First On Race Day! Rah Rah Rah!

Agreed, if anything all that Le Man really showed us was that the GTs can be very quick (maybe already knew that) and can hold up for 24 hours, which we hadn’t seen yet. It definitely doesn’t hurt that the GTs arguably had the most star studded cast of the GTE field which nobody seems to be mentioning.

Your post prompted me to go out and try and figure out the GTE and LMP2 rules. I quickly realized that doing so would be extremely boring and unfulfilling and would require me to exercise a whole bunch of skills that seem suspiciously similar to what I do at work. So, I’m not going to bother. I’ll take your word for…

My thoughts exactly. Ford obviously sandbagging during test day to gain a BoP advantage. ACO I think was in on the whole thing, hence the weight break before the test day happened.

Stef are you seeing these penalties and complaints between Ford / Ferrari?

The last thing FCA wants is a high profile death.

The Jalopnik bump lives! Recent Q&A feature Jeff Segal’s Scuderia Corsa team cruised to a 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in the LM GTE Am class. Congrats to the No. 62 team for taking their Ferrari 458 Italia to the top of the podium!

Definitely when he taught me how to drive a manual.

Nothing better as a kid! When my mom and stepfather first married, she had a Datsun 510 wagon and he had a 280Z, which I thought was just the coolest thing on the planet. One time when I was about 13 the 510 broke down on the other side of town, me and him went in the Z to go have a look. He was able to make a “limp…

None. My dad wasn’t there. All my car memories belong to my mom. She taught me how to work a manual transmission, she taught me how to change my oil, how to change my brakes, how to avoid trusting franchise mechanics, how to knife fight, how to get information from a prison, you know... basic adult stuff.

It all revolves around a ‘66 GTO for me. He picked me up at school with it. He drove the family on vacations with it. He taught me to drive stick with it. He taught me how to work on cars with it...

All of them.

My dad taught me how to drive on his British Racing Green 240Z, 05 Mustang GT, and his SHO. Even let me slide a few of them around empty parking lots.

My dad taught me how to drive manual in his 1993 Ruby Red ZR-1 when I was 17.

Yeah, it makes no sense for the Ferrari and Ford to receive increased restrictions (weight penalty and boost/rpm reduction) and STILL be faster than they were in final qualifying. It may as well have been a different classification between the turbo cars and the naturally aspirated cars.

So the Chevy car being more detuned means they built a worse car than Ford? Your argument is shit. Just the fact that Ford was allowed to bring four cars should be indication enough of a unbalanced field even if you forget the BOP.

its called sandbagging, Noob. Congrats to Ford for doing it better than Ferrari.!