Le Mans 24hrs LMGT2 result under investigation..

This is a bit interesting .. LMGT2 results still remain provisional! It did state on the time sheet that ‘The results are provisional until the end of the time for protest and appeals. The time limit for protest expires 30’ after the publication of results and Results are suspended till the end of scrutineering’ this is the normal wording. The ACO don’t seem to have gone public with this. . It seems they are taking a serious interest in the two leading GT2 car’s engines...the Class winning #77 Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 997 GT3 RSR and the #89 Hankook Team Farnbacher Ferrari 430 GTC. We have had a look around the various websites and forums and can’t establish what they are looking for but they are taking their time. There is nothing on the ACO site. It seems that the ACO have confirmed that these engines are both ‘under going further technical checks’. The rumour is that the scrutineers are going through both engines with a finest of fine tooth combs and won’t confirm the results until next month. Presumably the cars were ‘pulled’ immediately after the race either because the ACO took an interest or one of the teams had protested them. I don’t know about you guys but we heard nothing at the time.
This does ask the question ‘why’ … to us it has a whiff of whistle blowing by another team or teams, we can’t really see why the ACO might have rowed in on their own account.
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The only possible reason one of the other teams might have protested is that GT2 is becoming the only ‘GT’ class , so the big movers like GM and BMW, who are coming on strong in this revised category, might be trying to get some ‘ground rules’ sorted?

Bearing in mind the Felbermayr Porsche is a quasi works car it seems a bit unlikely that Porsche would have cheated on purpose. Equally we don’t really think that the Farnbacher Ferrari team believed deep down they were going come 2nd in Class after qualifying a distant 9th in GT2 so why on earth would they want to bend the rules? Certainly if something was amiss it didn’t show up during qualifying!

So lets wait until the first week in July when apparently all will be made clear.