Jacen Sekai

A rant about BoP

https://jacen.moe/rants/20260324-imsa-has-a-bop-problem/

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IMSA Has A BoP Problem | Jacen Sekai

With their win at Sebring, Porsche Penske Motorsport has completed the "36 Hours of Florida" sweep for the second season in a row, with the no. 7 car leading a 1-2 finish for the team in dominant fashion. Predictably, Penske's strong performance started mutterings among fans about BoP issues within IMSA in particular and endurance racing in general, and I can't say I disagree.

Jacen Sekai
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Show threadSeanMP 🏳️‍⚧️13h ago
@jacenboy haven’t gone into your rant yet, but BoP has really tempered my enjoyment of sportscar and endurance racing, top to bottom. I just can’t work myself up to care now, especially with how visibly BoP fails (hello Ferrari Le Mans 4-peat)
Show threadJacen Sekai13h ago
@SeanMP It's a necessary evil if we want manufacturers to be able to be creative with their cars, but I certainly don't envy IMSA or WEC, because figuring out how to balance everything seems like a difficult task
Show threadSeanMP 🏳️‍⚧️11h ago

@jacenboy In a customer-based racing series, it absolutely is, otherwise the brands will spend themselves into killing a category - we've seen it time and again. I don't know if there's a cost-cap-oriented solution for factory categories, I'd hope there is, but we've seen factories are less committed to sports car racing than e.g. F1.

BoP, especially when it's visibly wrong, just continually injects the "was this team/car the best on the day or was this won with sandbagging and politicking?".