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Originally Posted by gwyllion
http://www.autohebdo.fr/endurance/le...le-calendrier- has a short interview with Ullrich.
He claims that Peugeot was better on the ILMC tracks because they started developing/testing much earlier than Audi. While Audi was working on their Le Mans setup, Peugeot had already done their Le Mans preparation and could adopt their car for the sprint ILMC races.
He also explains that they will only run with hybrid system if they are convinced that it has a performance advantage and if the system is completely reliable.
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in my opinion peugeot hadn't the same pace of audi at LM (even if audi won for just 13 seconds) because they had chosen a more careful attitude to avoid a disaster like the 2010!
audi used a map to have his engine more powerfull (but less fuel efficency) and had a much better efficency of tyres than peugeot for almost all the race long (the reverse happened at imola race). Then think about that the #2 had a perfect race with 0 problems while the peugeot #7 had the wurz indianapolis crash and gene slow stints, the #8 had some penality pit if i remeber well and the #9 too (the only and terribly slow stint of lamy can be considered a problem too). If peugeot dared less in 2010 and more in 2011 maybe we were talking about a 3hit strike.