Alpine's Nico_Lapierre says Toyota deserved to win the 2022 WEC title, but a lack of competition between the two manufacturers in Bahrain wasn't good for the show.
The two crews arrived at the weekend tied at the top of the championship, having won two races each from the opening five rounds of the season.
“It was a tough race for sure,” the Frenchman told Motorsport.com. “The result is quite logical, they deserved this win. It's normal they are champions, it's just the way that [they won] was a bit frustrating. “It's like this. We have to look forward, we have to be happy with what we did this season because we did good. and now the page is turned, we are going to go for a new challenge.
Asked if he felt the Balance of Performance system designed to equate the speed of old-generation LMP1 cars with current Hypercar machinery wasn’t fair to the Alpine in the last two races, Lapierre replied: “It's not me to judge that but we suffered for sure.”
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