Goodbye LMP 1 hello Hypercars

[wsn03]

//j17 said:

In other news - the WMSC try their best to minimise the number of different cars in the new "Le Mans Hypercar" class by mandating competitors “must enter a homologated car under the name of an automotive brand” (20 cars within 2 years of starting racing), so our 2021 entry list now looks like:
- A-M
- Toyota
- ByKolles
- Glickenhaus


Oh, and also a 30kW/40bhp power cut for LMP2 to stop them being faster than the new LMH class. Yay.

But 2022/3 becomes:

- A-M
- Toyota
- Peugeot
- McLaren?
- Lambourghini??

I'm willing to bet Audi will be back in the money and at Le Mans by then, they're hooked on the place

[gt6]

Well if the ACO start to worry about numbers i am sure they will allow what ever electric hypercars that want an entry in. They are desperate that this change will attract enough entries to make it look a success.

[//j17]

OK, so seems WMSC can't write a press release/didn't understand the rules they'd just written - to enter the LMH class your car MUST be homologated with at least 20 production versions within 2 years of first race and MUST have a motor manufacturer's name...unless you get an exemption from the EC*, in which case you DON'T need to be homologated and DON'T need to have a motor manufacturer's name, so ByKolls and Glickenhaus are back in.

• Don't know if it's just a typo on the DailySportsCar.com site, or just an example of the WMSC managing to confuse things further in their clarification but they manage to use "EC" for both the "Endurance Committee" and the "Endurance Commission".

[Dakkon]

//j17 said:

Personally I feel the other way - this year will be a classic and next year, the first of Hypercar will be dull. I mean, just how great is the 2021 grid looking?

- Toyota - should turn up, be fast and reliable and win.
- A-M - will turn up, be slow and unreliable, break down and not finish (anyone else remember the B09/60?).
- ByKolles - will probably turn up, but give A-M a run for their money in the "Who can spend most time in the garage" competition.
- Glickenhaus - will they even make it?

Which just leaves the grandfathered LMP1NA cars - possibly with their best chance of winning outright if Toyota hit reliability issues with their new car.

Glickenhaus will be taking this very seriously, they have form in the N24 already, they won the Baja this year against big factory outfits (I know this is a completely different category), but my point is, they know how to win races

[gt6]

So new reg will allow rotary engines again. Now that will be a sound worth hearing again

[Great Dane]

Reading between the lines with Vincent Beausomil from ACo.... They would be very flexible with OEM link to the team seems just to be able to avoid Jimmy's Motor Company

[RL17]

good article
http://www.dailysportscar.com/2019/12/06/le-mans-h...