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@rolux4853 Ferrari didn't win a single race this season before LM24h, yet it has arguably the worst BOP (other than what's shown here, they have the least energy for stint, and the longest refueling time). The organizers know exactly how much power the car is using in any moment. There's little room to sandbag.
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@cloudupload3394 What? It was so "illegal" that FIA had to change the rule mid year to favor Mercedes and Red Bull.
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Well, Le Mans is the only 24h race. For the rest of the WEC season, the engines are probably durable enough. It's not the first time a manufacturer performs this stunt. Build a car that's hopeless for LeMans, but has good performances for the other tracks.
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@kevinwho. Completely different set of rules. There the performances DECLARED had allegedly been different from those MEASURED. In LMH you don't declare anything. Everything is measured.
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Because without BOP you have the last 20 years of Le Mans. The possibilities to botch the project, in respect to the money needed to compete, are so high that only one manufacturer at a time takes the challenge seriously, and wins until it has enough. The unfavorable aerodynamic and downforce rules and the BOP makes so that you can run on relatively little budget (as with the LMdH cars) and still being competitive. With the competition between manufacturers more viewers arrived, and with the viewers, more manufacturers got interested.
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@budthecyborg4575 BOP is based on performances. A too fast car on the straight has reduced power, a too efficient one has reduced energy, a too fast on corners has added weight and so on. You'll NEVER have a completely balanced race because: a) BOP is made to reduce the advantage of the better designed cars, not to obliterate it. b) Cars are different, and any of them reacts differently to different tracks. Perfectly balanced cars at Spa would not be perfectly balanced at Le Mans.
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@petouser Yeah. Since the car was new, it had been BOPed heavily. The organizers didn't want someone to bring a "magic" car just to win Le Mans. Ironically, the old "wingless" car was pretty good under the rain.
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Ferrari didn't win a single race this season before LM24h, yet it has arguably the worst BOP (other than what's shown here, they have the least energy for stint, and the longest refueling time). The organizers know exactly how much power the car is using in any moment. There's little room to sandbag.
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Ferrari had been weighted as well, but that didn't "artificially level the field" with Porsche and Cadillac. They seemed to have gained performances over the competition instead. Maybe Le Mans is a different race than the three before (you know, 24hours, night, rain, more cars on the track, most important race of the calendar...), and maybe, maybe, that a constructor freshly arrived on a serie has more to learn than one that had competed for years, and so progresses faster. Compared to Ferrari, Toyota gained 12 kg more on over a ton of car, and 2mjoules for stint more than Ferrari to balance that. The BoP was known before the start of the season. If they designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight it's their fault. And you didn't wonder why "Is not the same as last years where the only big team was Toyota"? You didn't wonder why other big teams, like BMW, want to enter? Maybe, maybe, it' has something to do with the rules?
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@km6832 Max speed for both the Toyota had been 344.5km/h. For the fastest Ferrari (N.50) 343.4km/h.
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Last year Ferrari won LM also due to luck. They hadn't the best car. This year Ferrari had not won at Imola and Spa already due to bad luck, and almost lost Le Mans due to the weather. They have the best car.
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@budthecyborg4575 Yeah, yeah. 24 hours of race don't count. The 50 Ferrari had been penalized 20 seconds AND had to do a forced pit-stop, otherwise, even with the rain and the safety-car, and without the Toyota n.8 spinning, it would have won by over a minute.
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Isotta Fraschini should debut at Monza.
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@km6832 The two Toyota were the fastest on the straight.
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Toyota gained 12 kg more than Ferrari on over a ton of car, and 2mjoules for stint more than Ferrari to balance that. The BoP was known before the start of the season. If they designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight is their fault.
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@belhaddim5116 Ferrari had been weighted as well, but that didn't "artificially level the field" with Porsche and Cadillac. They seemed to have gained performances over the competition instead. Maybe Le Mans is a different race than the three before (you know, 24hours, night, rain, more cars on the track, most important race of the calendar...), and maybe, maybe, that a constructor freshly arrived on a serie has more to learn than one that had competed for years, and so progresses faster. Compared to Ferrari, Toyota gained 12 kg more on over a ton of car, and 2mjoules for stint more than Ferrari to balance that. The BoP was known before the start of the season. If they designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight it's their fault. And you didn't wonder why "Is not the same as last years where the only big team was Toyota"? You didn't wonder why other big teams, like BMW, want to enter? Maybe, maybe, it' has something to do with the rules?
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It's known as "test ban". If you can't test your car on the track, who has the better simulators win and, since who has the best simulators at the start of the season has them at the end as well, you know who is going to win the championship at the end of the first race of the season.
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For what shown in the first hours of the race, had the race been completely dry, the Ferrari would have lapped everyone.
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@Cyco2k5 I thought we learnt the true race are the friends we made along the way.
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"already ahead", the bodywork is practically last year's car with some fin less.
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@bsport320 Maybe, but I remember the Ferrari F1 2009, that was the successful 2008 bodywork, without the fins, banned by the new rules. Unfortunately, the fins were the thing that made that bodywork successful. More, if someone wanted to copy the Mercedes 2021, the car was there for all to see. Someone chose a similar approach, someone else didn't, but the ones that didn't, took another approach because they thought to have some advantage in going another direction, not because they didn't know they could make a car like the Mercedes 2021. They may be right, they may be wrong, but it seems a little off to say that the car that least changed since last year is "one step ahead".
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@cloudupload3394 FIA changed the rules mid-year introducing technical regulation 39. "illegal plank" is just an invention of you. I know they won't. As long as track tests remain banned, who has the best simulator is going to win, and the name of the winner of the championship is known at the end of the first race of the season.
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The Ferrari is more aerodinamically efficient. Since it's so efficient, the BOP limited it's power (and thus having the least power over 250 km/h, the Ferrari still was the second fastest car on the straight at Le Mans). Having less power means to use less of it, and for that, thus being the car that can embark less energy for stint, the Ferrari, at the end, did a lap more than the Toyota at every refueling.
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LMdH rules allow to compete at a greatly reduced cost and still be competitive due to the BOP. The Cadillac was still in the leading group at 1 hour from the end.
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The "Communist regime" was a set of rules known and agreed by anyone. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight, so much that even 2mjoules of energy for stint is not enough to level it, it's their fault. Ferrari doesn't seem to have suffered to be weighted compared to the other teams at all.
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@dnuno75 Whatever you think of the infringement, it would have been applied to car 51, not 50.
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@grimm6jack So why Ferrari didn't suffer the weight gain over the others? Ducati WSBK 2012 was weighted 6kg (on 150kg bike, not on a ton car) because it was winning too much,and kept on winning. BTW, to balance the fuel consumption, Toyota had been allowed 2mjoules more than Ferrari per stint, that's a percentage of the total available energy higher than the weight gain.
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@WeakestWaterEnjoyer Nor did Ferrari. They had been weighted with the same decision. But the BoP rule was known and agreed by all before the start of the season. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight it's their fault, not anynone else's, and complaining doesn't change this fact.
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@WeakestWaterEnjoyer Ferrari had 24 kg added without any problem. It not only didn't lose performances in respect to those that had not been penalised, but gained advantage. The BoP rule was known and agreed by anyone before the start of the season. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight more it's their fault, not anyone else's, and complaining doesn't change this fact.
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@WeakestWaterEnjoyer The BoP rule was known and agreed by anyone before the start of the season. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight more it's their fault, not anyone else's, and complaining doesn't change this fact.
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@WeakestWaterEnjoyer "They weren't nerfed fairly" because you say so? Ferrari didn't seem to suffer at all its 24 kg ballast. Corvette was racing with 69kg more in respect to the start of the season. The BoP rule was known and agreed by anyone before the start of the season. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight more it's their fault, not anyone else's, and complaining doesn't change this fact.
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@WeakestWaterEnjoyer The BoP not be changed before Le Mans was NOT in the rulebook. If Toyota designed a car whose balance is completely ruined by 12 kg of weight more, because they just wanted to win at Le Mans, and fuçk with the rest of the season, too bad. It's their fault, not anyone else's, and complaining doesn't change this fact.
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The two Toyota were the fastest cars on the straight, both at 344.5 km/h. The 50 Ferrari was only 3rd at 343.6 km/h.
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@TassieLorenzo It became like that with the advent of TV. A 2 hours event is perfect size for TV, a 6 to 24 one isn't. Endurance was perfect for newspapers, or cinema, not for TV. Streaming started to change that, but you need people to change their habits, and to do so you need good races, and to have good races you need competition. Hence the BOP.
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@testtset5558 That the change would have been after Le Mans was not in the rule book. Toyota build a car so affected by an eventual ballast because they wanted to win exclusively at Le Mans, and fuçk the rest of the season? Too bad.
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@kevinwho. IMSA’s GTD Balance of Performance (BoP) system put it on the manufacturers to declare their own performance levels. Then the limitations are applied to limit them. Just check before shaming yourself.
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Copying successful solutions had been F1 for 60 years. Since when the Federation made copying more difficult, and introduced restrictions on development, you know the name of the winner since the first qualifying of the first GP of the season.
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For the Ferrari 83 it seems it had been the good old brake induced fire.
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