Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31433854-20170602184330/@comment-31136517-20170619114219

The other 911 RSR (#91) ended P4 after having to make an extra pit stop (26 pit stops in total for the P4 Porsche vs. 25 for P3 Corvette and P2 Ford, and 24 for the winning Aston Martin); 3 GTE Pro in front and 6 others behind, on a 24-hour race. Let's also be careful not to talk about "back of the pack", since the worst-classified Porsche GTE Am (a 2016) still had five GTE Am behind it (4xFerrari, 1xCorvette), and the best classified 991 RSR was 6th in its category.

We could also conclude that because the best Ferrari GTE Pro finished P5, Ferraris are slow as hell (in other words, slower than pathetically slow), but we know that the same car was fighting for victory last year.

Was the TS050 so utterly slow that the best one of them (well, the only of the three Toyotas that made it to the checkered flag) was lapped 8 times by the best LMP2 and had as many as 7 LMP2 in front by the 24th hour? No, it was fast but unreliable... This is endurance and teams have to strike a fine balance between speed, fuel efficiency and reliability –not to talk about the ballast that, sometimes quite arbitrarily, turns everything upside-down.

LMP1, yes, it's a pity it's down to just two teams (let's forget about the private Nismo, retiring after 7 laps...) McLaren has not ruled out coming back, and I'd love to see them both on LMP1 and GTE Pro. Not in vain McLaren already supplies critical components to Formula E and they know how to make Le Mans-winning cars. I share your feeling that LPM1's future doesn't look bright at present, but I still have hope since thoe are impressive machines.

Hey, Aaryesh G., it's a pleasure to debate about real-real racing.