WEC | Did the EoT work"
Did the EoT (Equivalence of Technology) for Le Mans work"
In short, no – but was it ever going to"
It took two and a half hours for Toyota to open out a lap lead over the Rebellion ORECA Gibsons and the gap was expected to be more than 12 laps by the end of the race. It was clear that the ORECAs had issues that slowed it up during the race, including three clutch sensor failures, and the BR Engineering cars didn?t really show up to the party to show what it could do and the Ginettas were still in a development stage, but the average lap times were far in excess of the half second gap that was targeted.
The number 8 Toyota regularly had fastest stint laps below 3m20s in the hands of each of the winning drivers, while the Rebellion cars never got below that magic target and the overall race pace was far slower.
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It must be pointed out that the EoT does not take into account the quality of the teams or the execution of the running of the cars; it takes care of the potential performance and it has to be said that the non-hybrid teams did not show their cars? full potential. They could not be expected to.
The ORECAs needed more power to cope with their downforce levels, while the BR Engineering cars had reliability and driver issues that accounted for its three cars during the race.
Toyota pretty much ran at the pace expected. The question is; were the non-hybrids unfairly balanced" ORECA estimated that...
Source:
racecar-engineering
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