[WEC] LMP Future Regulations (was Le Mans EVO rules - now hypercar rules)

[wolfhound]

Originally Posted by DeutschRenn

will an energy recover system make it easier on the brakes? since the energy recovery takes the kinetic energy of the wheels. so wil lyou need less and therfore lighter brakes?

Also isnt the 60liters of fuel limit that they gave the diesels just more room to put ballast in the right places which could make them faster?

If the system was able to recover all the energy from braking then you would not need conventional brakes. (They may be required as a safety backup.)

It may also be possible to integrate braking into a generator unit and dump the energy produced but that would waste energy.

If the the generator cannot carry out all the braking then conventional brakes would be needed. They will probably need to be the same size as normal i.e. they will still need to halt a tonne of racing car from 200+ mph but the life of the components should be longer as they will have less work to do over a race distance, at Le Mans this should mean no brake component changes.