ACO rules and regulations 2007

[termietermite]

So has anyone got a view on what "mainly" really means, in this context?

Let me know whereabouts and in what context and I'll see what I think.

[garyfrogeye]

termietermite,
It's in the very first posting on this thread.

[termietermite]

Gary, this was the gist of my earlier comments.  The word used was in fact "pricipalement" which correctly means prinicipally in the traditional English usage of the word, that is in principal, not mainly, as it was translated.  I have not read the original thoughts behind the introduction of the LMP2 category but what I read this to mean, therefore, is that the whole principal behind the LMP2 (and similarly, by inference, GT2) is for this to have been a category to encourage smaller private entrants.  You can draw any conclusion you like from this but I take it to be the ACO's way of discouraging Porsche and Honda - in their Acura guise - from hijacking LMP2, rather than competing with Audi in the LMP1 category, by attempting to prevent any LMP2 car from winning races outright, rather than in their own catergories (except in the case of failures of the fastest LMP1 cars).

[garyfrogeye]

termietermite,
Thanks for the translation/clarification.

[termietermite]

You are welcome, it seems to me that this has been a bit of a "lost in translation" thing.  Anybody reading the English translations in letters and brochures from the ACO knows what I mean!  It makes sense, but not always as we know it.