For Le Mans we see a narrowing of the ranges. We’ve seen this before where the regular races are less sacrosanct and lesser cars were helped significantly to be up with the most professional teams.
As such lets look long term for context, as well as more recent.
Power:Weight
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Weight
Lighter cars. Hurrah!
For those that bemoaned the increase in weight of these cars this will be a positive step.
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Power <250kph
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Power >250kph
The interplay of weight, power, and high speed power.
We can see competing elements of a cars performance here.
Le Mans and non-Le Mans are two different BoP approaches for three reasons. The aim is slightly different, Le Mans is more pure (looking for a good word here!). It has a different approach which reflects this and also reflects the need to reduce the ability to game the system. Finally, Le Mans is an outlier of a circuit.
Take Toyota. On other tracks / non-Le Mans, they are reducing the Top Speed a lot by reducing the >250kph. In other races to slow the Toyota down enough they have to bump up the weight. They slow the car in the corners, but the acceleration out of them is consequently poor. This gets boosted and the consequence of that to keep overall lap times down is to reduce the top end.
Long Term Tables/Charts
For reference here are the BoP tables for power and weight going back to the beginning of time.
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