BALANCE OF PERFORMANCE

JAMES NEWBOLD

For all the clamour over Mercedes’ domination of Formula 1 in recent years, it has never quite managed a 100% grand prix wins record. But in the 1998 FIA GT Championship it did just that, sweeping all 10 races to leave Porsche and Panoz – McLaren and Lotus had already called it a day the previous year – in its wake. At season’s end, the GT1 class collapsed and series founder Stephane Ratel vowed to learn a lesson. The result is Balance of Performance, a concept anathema to purists but now a pragmatic necessity whose reach has expanded to the very top of the sportscar racing landscape in the World Endurance Championship. Opposition typically results from a desire to see the fastest cars prevail. Nothing wrong with that, and it’s true that…

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