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Old 8 May 2011, 18:00 (Ref:2876951)   #1508
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Originally Posted by chernaudi View Post
If the Pugs had to dial in more downforce to get their car to work (as both were in LM trim!), that shows that the Pug doesn't have the aero balance where they need it when they want to run their LM package. Remember, the Pugs were significantly slower than the R18s in the Porsche Curves at the LM test day, but the rest of the sector times were dead equal.

And at Spa last year, Peugeot ran their sprint package, and that was a deciding factor in their win last year.

In the end, I think that both cars are far from exactly where either camps want them. If either Audi or Peugeot want to run their LM packages else where, they'll need to add downforce, which if that's what Peugeot did, that's a card that they played which might bite them, especially with the 2:03s that Simon ran late.

That doesn't preclude Audi from sandbagging, either, as they ran a couple of 27 lap stints. Only thing that tells me is that either Audi got some help with cautions, or they dialed down the engines--one post in the Spa thread said that neither the R18s or the 908s smoked much at all compared to the test day, which means that they weren't running at full power.

My biggest grip is that I though that the ILMC being instituted and making LM a championship round would preclude any sandbagging, but if anything, it may've made such mind games worse.
Listen - Both cars ran their LM aero kits.
But we do not know if either Audi or Peugeot ran in LM configuration (ei. Downforce levels and so on).
No matter what, both Audi and Peugeot got some problems, and seems very equal.
What we do know - however is that Spa was something Audi would have liked to won. You could see it in Dr. Ullrich's eyes in the end. Therefor i do not believe Audi would have "gave" it away by running in LM configuration.
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