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

[truebeliever]

Originally Posted by carbsmith

The sports car World Championship has always been a manufacturer supported series. If you were running a privateer focused championship it wouldn't be the WEC, the travel and marketing is far too expensive.

After all those years of trying to balance the needs of factory diesels and petrol privateers in one category the ACO and FIA made a clear divide between customer car racing with LMP2 in regional series and manufacturer/constructor based racing with LMP1 in WEC to allow themselves more freedom in raising the top international sports car category to something "world championship" level in speed and technology without destroying the smaller scale series by using the same regulations. They knew the costs would skyrocket with that approach, that's why they split things up. The new LMP2 cars should actually be more powerful and quicker than the privateer LMP1 cars when the WEC was created, to give you an idea of where we sit.

Also before you completely crap on the idea of this world championship remember that back in the "good old days" before WEC and LMP1H you were lucky if any manufacturer ran a full schedule in any series. It's not perfect but the international profile and competition level of sports car racing is much higher than what it was a few years ago even without Audi.

I hope you are correct that the French "spec'' P2 cars will be more powerful and quicker than the current P1 privateers (you may want to check the top end speeds at Le Mans and other tracks before you make that comment though) A "spec" class certainly does not inspire a "World Championship" status, in my opinion.

If either Toyota or Porsche quite, we are back to 1992 all over again. That does somewhat show, how clever the ACO really are