2024 Sportscar Thread (WEC, IMSA, NLS, GT World Challenge)

[freedman]

Maybe it’s Bovys choice, but she’s doing ALMS with the Iron Dames, so maybe will do ELMS or even IMSA for 25?

They won’t have the wow factor in WEC without her, because she was regularly the quickest Bronze driver on track, and was already better all round than Frey

[airbusA346]

freedman said:

Maybe it’s Bovys choice, but she’s doing ALMS with the Iron Dames, so maybe will do ELMS or even IMSA for 25?

They won’t have the wow factor in WEC without her, because she was regularly the quickest Bronze driver on track, and was already better all round than Frey

I think their line up will be lacking a bit without Bovy. In my opinion they should have chosen the ALMS line up for WEC too. It'll be interesting to see how Celia compares to other Bronzes.

[Some Gump]

freedman said:

Maybe it’s Bovys choice, but she’s doing ALMS with the Iron Dames, so maybe will do ELMS or even IMSA for 25?

They won’t have the wow factor in WEC without her, because she was regularly the quickest Bronze driver on track, and was already better all round than Frey

Sad for her, but this is the point of the grading system, esp. Since it's a pro-am class. IMO no question she's a pro driver (and a.good.one at that!)

[airbusA346]

2025 WEC entry list has been released.

https://sportscar365.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/1...

[airbusA346]

Some Gump said:

Sad for her, but this is the point of the grading system, esp. Since it's a pro-am class. IMO no question she's a pro driver (and a.good.one at that!)

At least she's got the Iron Dames backing (for now). Seen as she is now competing with silver (who should be gold) drivers.

[airbusA346]

Porsche Motorsport and Iron Dames form a new alliance and Michelle Gatting is now a Porsche Contracted Driver.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/12/03/porsche-...

[airbusA346]

ELMS 2025 entry list released.

https://storage.googleapis.com/doc-prod/Xqy4YNc4Ie...

44 Cars

- 14x LMP2
- 7x Pro/Am LMP2
- 10x LMP3
- 13x LMGT3

LMGT3 is:
- 7x Ferrari
- 2x Porsche
- 1x McLaren
- 1x Aston
- 1x Mercedes
- 1x Corvette

LMGT3 reminds me when Le Mans Series used to be like the Ferrari Challenge in 2009/10ish.

Interesting that Schiavoni and Cressoni are driving the Porsche for Proton instead of Schiavoni's own teams Mercedes.

[df76]

airbusA346 said:

Porsche Motorsport and Iron Dames form a new alliance and Michelle Gatting is now a Porsche Contracted Driver.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/12/03/porsche-...

Gattings air miles will be getting pretty serious from now and through 2025.

[airbusA346]

df76 said:

Gattings air miles will be getting pretty serious from now and through 2025.

25 races (including this weekends 8 (2x4) Hours of Sepang).

[Rewtle Litand]

The much rumoured news, finally announced; Hyundai Motorsport will enter both WEC & IMSA under the Genesis brand.

https://www.fiawec.com/en/news/hyundai-commits-to-...

https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/lotterer-and-de...


Interview with Cyril;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4t_-vcovLI