British trying cars

If that's not a mini-series on the foibles of the British car industry, it should be.

I’m curious has endurance racing always used bop?

A long time ago, in a land far away, every motorsport started with a bunch of people competing to build and race cars, preferably to a common and properly governed set of rules.

It's not arbitrary though, it's meant to have the cars perform equally. And it's working quite well. That Toyota in particular, and AF Corse as well, have their operations sorted out better is also not a huge surprise given their experience.

We'll never know how quick each team can theoretically be. That's not the point of the Hypercar class. Those days are over for sportscar racing. At least for now.

Wouldn't a success based bop make more sense? Like in British trying cars. Of course they have 3 races in one weekend. But at least it would avoid random tweaking of the bop essentially creating a d8ffbest team every round.
Perhaps they could implement bop but strictly based on results and championship points. And including qualifying as well somehow.
Either way bop is always going to be complicated and car performance will vary track to track anyway so a perfect solution doesn't exist.

I'm curious has endurance racing always used bop?

That's a good thing, the world should know how the FIA/ACO are arbitrarily influencing racing. By exposing it, the race results and the integrity of the championship will be called into question, hopefully leading to a much less influential BoP.

Fairly sure the whole point of BoP is to nerf cars when they perform well. Ferrari won Le Mans, the biggest race of the series, so of course they'll get nerfed. I'm surprised they're surprised.

They can bring this up in private. Doing it publicly is just going to lead to this taking attention away from the racing. Controversy equals clicks.

In fact, the rules forbid them making these statements.

Sure, dictatorship is the way to go.

It's going to be really annoying if Toyota and now Ferrari keep these theatrics up. In fact, the rules forbid them making these statements. So in the interest of the LMH/LMDh class, let's see if the FIA/ACO takes a tough stance on this and sanctions both teams.

They all knew what they were signing up for.

Obviously it is unfair, it is literally unfairness baked into the rules that they have both accepted to race to. I have never liked the BOP idea, but I assumed the teams taking part fully accepted the idea and that it can take away your ability to win races no matter how well you perform as a team over a race weekend.

I think the teams need to just accept it for what it is or pull out of the series, as the image that they give off with this whining is not good.

I'd take a win in the Le Mans 24 Hours if it meant my team finished 47th in every other race on the WEC calendar. Le Mans is the big prize, not the WEC title itself. Seeing as Ferrari already have that under their belts, I'm not sure what they are trying to achieve with comments like this…

Poor babies.