If WEC drops LMP2 in 2024, the ACO will still guarantee a minimum of 15 grid spots at the Le Mans 24 Hours
Draft plans to turn the WEC into a two-class championship for the Hypercar and new LMGT3 divisions were rubber stamped at Wednesday’s FIA World Motor Sport Council in Bologna.
“Irrespective of this decision, LMP2 remains crucial to endurance and will continue to form the top class in the European and Asian Le Mans Series.The expansion of the Hypercar grid over the next two seasons with the arrival of LMDh prototypes from Porsche and Cadillac in 2023 and then BMW, Lamborghini and Alpine in 2024 will leave little room for LMP2.
In the ELMS power will be raised by 15kW or 20bhp on 2022 levels, although the reduced power figures will apply when cars from the European series join the WEC at Le Mans. Car makers competing in the Hypercar class will be able to enter a maximum of two cars in the manufacturers’ championship. This follows objections from the GT3 manufacturers, who questioned the need to make changes to the rules of a successful global category.Rather than two 10-minute sessions for prototypes and GT cars at the regular six and eight-hour races, each of the three remaining classes will have its own 15-minute qualifying session.
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