Will the new golden era of sportscar racing last longer than the peak years of LMP1? Several leading figures in WEC think so:
The introduction of new regulations by both the WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship have brought an unprecedented number of manufacturers to the top echelon of sportscar racing, with the likes of Porsche, Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, BMW, Cadillac, Acura, Lamborghini, Alpine and Glickenhaus all having confirmed factory programmes for the coming seasons.
United Autosports driver Oliver Jarvis raced for Audi at the height of the LMP1 era in 2015-16 and also has a firm grasp on DPi regulations from his time with Mazda and Acura in IMSA in recent years. “It's much easier to find the budgets to make it work and to make it viable, which is why you've seen the likes of Ferrari come back and Peugeot come back.
He also cited the requirement to lock the specification of LMDh cars for a five-year period as proof that costs of competition will not go out of control.“Here now it's a cost cap in a way because it's really well made the way it is. You can only achieve x downforce, x number of drag and power output.
This has allowed Porsche and Cadillac to announce twin programmes in WEC and IMSA for 2023, meaning they will get to battle for outright honours at both Le Mans 24 Hours and the Rolex 24 at Daytona without spending money on developing two entirely separate cars. “LMP1 was different rules and for me it was more the question at that time who can compete at a high level. Also the costs were definitely also an issue.
Porsche’s motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach is reasonably confident that the new Hypercar class will continue to attract strong manufacturer participation in the coming years as the rulemakers had focused on keeping costs under check from the very beginning.
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