[WEC] 2018-2019 WEC Super Season

[chernaudi]

ACO do confirm that Fuji will move back to it's original date and will clash with Petit Le Mans unless IMSA moves PLM.

[Coach Ep]

Plenty of time to do so - but not gonna happen.

I really don't understand this so called synergy between ACO and IMSA and wouldn't be surprised to see the "new global prototype rules" having another disappointing outcome...

Btw, 36 full season entries is better than I expected.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/3...or-wec-season/

[chernaudi]

Midweek Motorsports reporting that IMSA as of now have no intention of moving the PLM date.

[chernaudi]

It seems that Rebellion will be running numbers 1 & 3 this year.

[TF110]

Originally Posted by carbsmith

Aero rules haven't changed from last year. I think if you talk about Silverstone, Shanghai, or Sebring the privateers are probably pretty screwed, but well, Le Mans is a quarter of the races in the season anyways...

The private cars are allowed to have some aero parts extend to 2000mm, was that in the rules last year?

Why can't IMSA move their PLM date? Is something conflicting with it being a week or two later? It seems like the WEC is getting all the flak but the other series can't compromise at all.

[Akrapovic]

Yeah but it's a bit harsh to say "IMSA should move one of their crown events so that WEC can have a race with Alonso".

I'm all for Alonso-mania, but this is a silly situation.

[chernaudi]

Midweek Motorsports did do a post on their FB page explaining that IMSA did try and move the date, but there were conflicts with Fox over the TV deal and teams.

[Bentley03]

Whilst completely ignoring the reveal of both the WEC and Le Mans entry lists, Auntie has picked up on the Fuji date move story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/43009816

[Akrapovic]

The article about Fuji moving date is almost 5 times longer than the entire 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours report.

[Number7]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Yeah but it's a bit harsh to say "IMSA should move one of their crown events so that WEC can have a race with Alonso".

I'm all for Alonso-mania, but this is a silly situation.

I don't care for alonso at all ....

[MaskedRacer]

Originally Posted by Number7

I don't care for alonso at all ....

The High Priest Gerard Neveu says: "All bow down to your lord and savior Fernando!"

[Mike E]

This Fuji/PLM business is absurd. Alonso has been on a two year charm offensive doing and saying all the right things about Indy/Daytona/LM and then this. How to shred all your good will in one easy step. And yes, I appreciate Toyota must be a big driver behind this.

It is extremely disrespectful to the drivers (and their sponsors) already signed up to do both events.

[Bentley03]

Some interesting snippets in the DSC press conference round up:

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/0...-notebook.html

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Bentley03

Some interesting snippets in the DSC press conference round up:

http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/0...-notebook.html

The most positive bit here is definitely the unlimited nonhybrid aero kit re-assurance, which is just common sense

Also Oreca considering few of them later on instead of plain dismissing the chance right away is good news considering they had taken bit of a lazy approach to the later development of 04/R-One in 2014-16

[silente]

Hi guys,

if you wonder how quick could the new privateer LMP1 be, we did a study based on simulations:

http://theracingline.net/2018/race-c...1-whats-story/

[Dyson Mazda]

Originally Posted by TF110

The private cars are allowed to have some aero parts extend to 2000mm, was that in the rules last year?

Why can't IMSA move their PLM date? Is something conflicting with it being a week or two later? It seems like the WEC is getting all the flak but the other series can't compromise at all.

Why didn't they just get Alonso to skip the F1 race? He skipped Monaco last year to run the Indy 500.

[carbsmith]

Originally Posted by TF110

The private cars are allowed to have some aero parts extend to 2000mm, was that in the rules last year?

Yep. They were supposed to maybe have DRS this year.
http://www.fiawec.com/en/news/new-re...ate-teams/4152

2016 CLM


2017 CLM


It just didn't really matter last year when the only car entered was ByKolles. But remember Ginetta and SMP announced cars under last year's regulations.

[Mal]

I suspect the Fuji date was a condition of Toyota's commitment to return

[TF110]

Originally Posted by carbsmith

Yep. They were supposed to maybe have DRS this year.
http://www.fiawec.com/en/news/new-re...ate-teams/4152

2016 CLM


2017 CLM


It just didn't really matter last year when the only car entered was ByKolles. But remember Ginetta and SMP announced cars under last year's regulations.

It looks like the rear wing endplates and the front diveplanes are at 1900mm or the same width as the car. This year those are allowed to be 2000mm wide or 10mm wider than the body of the car. Toyota's rear wing endplates are at 1800mm iirc and the diveplanes can't extend past the width of the car. But look at the Ginetta's diveplanes and you see they extend outside the body width. It looks like a good 5cm each side on the white part of the diveplanes

[Bentley03]

Originally Posted by silente

Hi guys,

if you wonder how quick could the new privateer LMP1 be, we did a study based on simulations:

http://theracingline.net/2018/race-c...1-whats-story/

Interesting analysis. A theoretical low 3:17? Wow!

In my own mind, and based on nothing more than historic privateer P1 lap times, as well as last year's P2 laptimes, I felt a low 3:19 might just be possible.

[carbsmith]

Originally Posted by TF110

It looks like the rear wing endplates and the front diveplanes are at 1900mm or the same width as the car. This year those are allowed to be 2000mm wide or 10mm wider than the body of the car. Toyota's rear wing endplates are at 1800mm iirc and the diveplanes can't extend past the width of the car. But look at the Ginetta's diveplanes and you see they extend outside the body width. It looks like a good 5cm each side on the white part of the diveplanes

Hybrid rear wings are 250x150x1800 and non-hybrid rear wings are 300x150x1880, in neither case are they as wide as the rest of the car. ByKolles didn't have 2000mm diveplanes (and as of their most recent test, still don't) but they were in the regulations.

[canaglia]

Originally Posted by silente

Hi guys,

if you wonder how quick could the new privateer LMP1 be, we did a study based on simulations:

http://theracingline.net/2018/race-c...1-whats-story/

Interesting, this guy basically does what I do with my modded gtr2, but trought a really more complex method.
BTW even my simulations predicted a silverstone best laprtime in about 1.38 for a 2018 private lmp1 gibson powered physic model. Guess I wrote a post here about that one or two weeks ago.

[JoeW04]

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/r...iver-pairings/

Most the eggs in the #1 car

[canaglia]

Originally Posted by JoeW04

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/r...iver-pairings/

Most the eggs in the #1 car

Rebellion used to have a really strong line-up and a "decent" one since its roots. Not surprised about that.
Strange they didn't hire Loic Duval too.

[NSX_LeMans]

Duval is committed to DTM and TDS in LMP2. Which means he is one of the many drivers affected by the date change.