[sammyg2]

how about this? They make the audis play by the same rules as everyone else as far as weight, displacement, and boost. how do you think they would do? Dead last.
They gave the diesels a huge and unfair advantage because they were diesels, now they are just taking away part of that unfair advantage. They realized they screwed up bigtime and are trying to fix their screw up.

The R10 is allowed up to a 5.5 liter turbocharged or supercharged engine because it burns diesel fuel, it's non-diesel LMP-1 compretitors can only run a 4 liter turbocharged engine. For our math-challenged friends that's almost a 40% displacement advantage for the audi. Where you aware of that when you posted this thread? On top of the huge displacement allowance the R10 gets to run 3 bar and has twin intake restrictors of almost 40mm each. Yea, that's fair.
I don't think I'll shed a tear Audi.

They should say in each class a car can have a maximum displacement, a minimum weight and let it go at that. no intake restrictors, no rev limitations, nothng else. Burn diesel or gas, who cares as long as they play by the same rules.
If they did that the R10s would not be competitive at all. They would be gathering dust in a barn because they would be worthless as race cars.

The Porsche LMP-2 cars can only run a 2 liter engine and they are almost as fast as the 5.5 liter diesels. Technology my butt.