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Pretty sure he was speaking about lmp1 and dpi, the top class, not GTE. There's also a language barrier as he's French, so English isn't his native tongue. The French aren't known for holding their tongue anyway. You really have to read endurance-info articles to understand what he's actually saying. Google translate works well enough.The more you think about it, the comments get more stupid.
This moron realizes that Ford and Chevy go to Le Mans right? He thinks WEC Ford fans are a different group than IMSA Ford fans? Hell, without Ford and Chevy, WEC would basically be at WTCC levels for 2017.
From WEC to IMSA, it's the same damn drivers, many of the same teams, in GTLM is the exact same, the cars basically look the same.....but somehow the fans are different? Shut the 🤬 forever!
How might I reach out to these assholes to give them a piece of my mind?
What he said about American fans perhaps not interested as much about what's under the hood, he's speaking about the NASCAR camp (which own's WTSC). And those guys are not really interested in 'fancy hybrids' like kers and exhaust heat generators. I think it's pretty obvious the rule makers for WTSC took a dpi formula which was close to NASCAR's formula and combined it with lmp2 (chassis), but they left out a lot of things lmp1 has. The bop being the biggest thing imo.
And Audi didn't pull out because costs, they were probably the one's spending the most. They did it to save face as they were running a diesel. Those big fines came from the diesel controversy, that's why you see them in Formula E so they can get their image to look clean.
It's possible to be fans of both series. The politics are a side show. I'll enjoy dpi (when the other's can compete with Cadillac) and lmp1.