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Originally Posted by tortoise
Anytime you race two different types against one another, it depends on how the equivalence formula is defined. TDIs won Le Mans because the orgainizers wanted them to win.
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I, of course, don't know the inner workings of the sanctioning body... but I think it's more of a case that they did not know what they were dealing with. Audi hit the nail on the head straight out of the gate. Each year the Audi was required to hold less fuel / limit it's horsepower / and or add weight to the car. By the end you had a TDI racecar that weighed quite a bit more with a smaller fuel tank making less horsepower... and it was still competitive with the brand new Puegots that were much faster in the dry (but it always rains at LeMans
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