Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31534476-20190529055741/@comment-38956928-20190603121815

DecadeHansen wrote: I mean, just imagine you being in the very lead of the pack, leading very far behind the rest of the competition, only for your gearbox to go awry mid-race. You will lose momentum due to your inability to shift, thus dropping you below 1st, if you do manage to finish the race. That, or your gearbox problem became too serious forcing you to retire mid-race, giving you a DNF. Just look at what happened to Toyota at Le Mans 2016. Their car broke down with 3 minutes left on the clock. They only had to drive one more lap. And it wasn't a significant part like the gearbox that caused them to stop, it was a simple compressed air line connector.

If you want to finish first you have to finish first... That's especially important for endurance race cars. The Lancia LC2 was fast, but it was notoriously unreliable.

That being said, in 1984 the Lancia did a qualifying time of 3:17:110. That year that was by far the fastest time, the fastest Porsche that year did 3:26:100. You can't compare that time to todays times though. At that time they didn't have the chicanes on the Hunaudiere straight yet. So the PR for the Lancia seems a bit out of sorts to me too. It shouldn't be higher than that of the modern LMP cars. The Porsche was able to beat the LC2's qualifying time in 2015 (3:16:887). But they did so being slowed down by the two chicanes. So the LMP1s should be quite a bit faster. That should reflect on the PR rating.