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Originally Posted by Kyle B
Me too. It would certainly be an easier sell to the board. I love F1, but it is completely irrelevant to road going cars. Endurance racing is where manufacturers can experiment with technology and directly apply it to road cars. F1 is a playground for rich guys, nothing more. Everyone keeps touting the 1983 title year, but that was 30+ years ago and it happened ONCE. In general, F1 has not been kind to BMW.
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The interesting part of this though is they say engine supplier, not constructor. The same engine that they supply to an Formula 1 team can be used in LMP1 in the WEC. So in theory they would get the most bang for the buck by building an engine, supplying it to F1 teams AND build a LMP1 car around it to run in the WEC & Le Mans. There are rumors of Ferrari returning to LMP1 in the near future because they can use the same engine in LMP1.