Roman Rusinov, speaking to DSC on the day following the FIA WEC season finale at Interlagos was still perplexed about the failure that ended the championship Challenge for the #26 G-Drive Ligier Nissan.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident that saw Olivier Pla lose control in the braking zone at Turn 1 Rusinov, speaking on live television, laid the blame squarely at a braking system failure, naming Brembo on more than one occasion as a clearly very disappointed Russian came to terms with the end of a long championship fight against a bitter rival.

The team later described the failure as a suspension problem, but Rusinov was not so sure.

“There have been problems with Brembo brakes before on another car, (the TDS Ligier which the team are now selling, upset over a lack of reliability).”

A senior source at Onroak confirmed to DSC that they have concerns about the quality assurance from Brembo, this comes after the firm moved production to China. Onroak are known to have tested a Ligier on AP brakes at Shanghai earlier this year.

Double Points Debacle

Rusinov was also critical of the points scoring system in LMP2 that left his team chasing hard for the second half of the season to close a points gap that was almost entirely opened up as a result of a freak result at the Le Mans 24 hours.

That race saw three of the four full season LMP2 entries fail to finish with the sole survivor, the #27 SMP Racing Oreca Nissan, coming home 11th in class but scoring double maximum points as the first and only WEC runner to finish.

“Those are the rules but they need to be looked at again. The reality is that the championship winner hasn’t won a race all season. I think they need to look very carefully at how points are scored at Le Mans. Points should be scored perhaps at six and 12 hours to to make up the double point score.”

G-Drive are set to return next season with a planned pair of spell Ligier coupes but switching engine supplier from the current Nissan V8 to an as yet unnamed “prestige” engine supplier”.

As outlined in our pre-race notes from Brazil though, Rusinov will no longer be racing in the class with his bitter rival Sergey Zlobin. The 2014 LMP2 drivers champion will move over to a planned LM GTE AM Ferrari entry from SMP, the driver feeling that’s his 100 kg plus weight would provide too much of a disadvantage for the teams LMP2 to efforts in their new in-house designed and Nissan engined coupes.