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In general, looking at the brief snipet that Speed posted on their site about the race, the race was good, but the LMP cars need more reliability. if Audi or Peugeot decided to enter Laguna Seca, they would've walked away with it by being as fast or faster, than their competition while being more reliable. And knowing the Pug's reliablity problems even in 1000km/6 hours races in the past, a '07 spec 908 probably could've won today.
I also agree with the piece also from Speed about opening up the LMPC cars' air restrictors and maybe taking some air restrictor away from the GTC cars. Problem is that IMSA's waiting until at least after Le Mans(where like in the LMS the LMPC cars run as an LMP2 sub-class) to make any moves. However, Le Mans/LMS doesn't have a GT3/GTC class, but they have a FIA GT1 class, and those cars due to Ratel's rules are only as fast as GT2 cars now.
Either way, if Audi or Peugeot, or even AMR entered at least one car, they'd have walked away with a relativly easy win, but from what I've seen, the LMP1 cars in the LMS have the same problems with reliablity-if the diesels didn't run Spa, and LMP2 car would've won.
What's up with the LMP1's lack of reliability in the ALMS/LMS?
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