Fed up with LMP1 of late.

[chernaudi]

Originally Posted by GTfour

It's funny to see how many of you are blinded by the fact that the FIA, their inside friends at the ACO and fossil fuel hating greenies have reduced the so called top of sportscars to wheezy whisperers that could do so much better if, like in F1, the combustion engines were to be allowed serious outputs.
These cars should represent what is ultimately possible with current technology. What we now see are cars that are dialed down far too much, just to let F1 shine. The FIA has done it again. Sad to see so many be lulled into thinking this is all so very spectacular. Also sad to see that the worldwide campaign of making people think fossil fuels are nearly gone and that electrically powered cars are the way to go, is catching on too well for something so poorly not based in reality .
Fossil fuels are here to stay for at least a few centuries more and electrical propulsion is never gonna take over the many millions of FF engines we humans employ in our daily lives. People(willingly) keep forgetting the nagging facts that for electrical propulsion to take over completely, we would need amounts of exotic materials that are simply not there. Think of copper, Lithium, Neodymium, all far from being in abundance on our planet but all crucial for any modern electrical power unit. .

Sorry lads, as long as the cars on my beloved track are basically policor sign boards for a world that's being shoved down our throats as ' the future' while reality is something completely different, I will keep on not being impressed by the sight of them ugly and sterile contraptions.

Still the party is allways good at Le Mans, many friends will be there and the atmosphere will be warm and friendly, so I'll keep coming but if I want see some seriously fast machinery, I'll go to F1.

Sorry, but current F1, and even with the next gen rules, will have engines with fuel flow restrictors on them. And without hybrids, they'd be stuck at making about 650-700bhp, because though they can rev to 15,000rpm, they can't get near that because of fuel flow limitations. Biggest reason why next year's F1 cars will be faster is better aero and more mechanical grip because of wider tires and going from being 1800mm wide to 2000mm wide.

Of course, I wish that the current LMP1s were still 2000mm wide and had 14+inch wide front and rear tires on them.

Fossil fuels might not be going anywhere soon, because of hybrids. No electric car, not even the upcoming Audi E-Tron SUV, has sufficient range on EV power alone for anything more than city driving, even with ERS systems. ICEs need hybrids to cut emissions and boost fuel economy. EVs need hybrids as range extenders. I don't see that changing in the mainstream for at least a decade, especially outside of city driving.