2008 Le Mans 24 Hour

[AnthonyF]

1st off...holy sh*t with ur knowledge!!! I think I can rep u, i will see.

the 8.0L V10 is NOT an advantage by any means. The C5R vette before the C6R didnt even run the production engine but they were complaining about the Vipers speed. Kinda obnoxious of them. Now they came out with the C6R which is lighter, more aerodynamic and more powerful but they still put restrictions on a 6-7 year old Viper. The New comp. coupes arent even allowed to race in ALMS I believe. As you can tell I am Viper biased but I like to be fair. Thats what ALMS used to have but it doesnt seem that way anymore. B/c GM is such a huge sponser I believe they give those guys whatever they want.

-Ant.

[EJ25RUN]

1st off...holy sh*t with ur knowledge!!! I think I can rep u, i will see.

the 8.0L V10 is NOT an advantage by any means. The C5R vette before the C6R didnt even run the production engine but they were complaining about the Vipers speed. Kinda obnoxious of them. Now they came out with the C6R which is lighter, more aerodynamic and more powerful but they still put restrictions on a 6-7 year old Viper. The New comp. coupes arent even allowed to race in ALMS I believe. As you can tell I am Viper biased but I like to be fair. Thats what ALMS used to have but it doesnt seem that way anymore. B/c GM is such a huge sponser I believe they give those guys whatever they want.

-Ant.

There are couple of more things that set Le Mans of from everything else.

In order to race at Le Mans, you have to be invited. Unlike the Indy 500 or the Monaco GP, you dont get points toward any championship. It is one race and thats it.

The cars that are in this year have either won the European Le Mans series,
The ALMS, the Petit Le Mans and are teams that are capable of running the race. It is a known fact that the Penske Porsche team was sent an invite but he didn;t want to spend the money to go to Europe which is a shame.

Back on the Viper debate, the Vette squad wasn't as good as the Oreca squad for about 2 years but by 2001, the Vette was the car to beat in GT1.
Oreca left and had stopped development of the car and no team was able to take the fight to the Vette.

For the fact on air restrictors......GT1 cars would make about another 150-175hp if they had larger restrictors. But they are so small to begin with that there wasn't that much of a difference on the viper.




The modern comp coupe is a GT3 car so someone would have to develop a GT2 or GT1 car in order for that to change.