2018 will be a single Toyota buzzing around the course and hopefully not breaking down (and letting whatever Ginetta/Oreca/Ligier was designed in 6 months to win). This will be followed by Toyota officially leaving sportscar racing.
After this happens, what then? Does LMP1 just die?
McLaren considering a return depending on new ACO regulationss
blackflag.jalopnik.com
So is Peugeot
autocar.co.uk
Lamborghini
foxsports.com
Allowing IMSA cars would allow Cadillac, MAzda and Acura to race as well. they could easily have more competitors. even if the IMSA DPi cars aren't as fast as the Hybrid LMP1 cars there's always the chance that they can break down allowing the more stable DPi to win making things more interesting again.
DPis use LMP2 chassis and they may be slightly slower (this can be corrected with bigger air intake restrictors).
>Lamborghini
that article is from 2014. Since then Audi has bailed out and Porsche has come and left WEC. I highly doubt VAG is still considering a Lamborghini prototype entry after pulling out both their factory teams and withdrawing from the series completely.
>McLaren considering a return depending on new ACO regulations
Read the article. They said if they return, it's most likely a GTE-spec of their current GT3 car and that it could take years for it bare fruit if they do decide on it. This is why you should go to the source web page instead of taking a Jalopnik article at face value.
autosport.com
Actually, Toyota are obligated to race at Le Mans for two more years, not one. That's because the FIA went full retard and decided to do a two-year "Super Season".
>REVIVE GROUP C
At least they'll get their win right? Unless they lose to fucking LMP2s they should be fine.
Their competition was never Porsche. It was always their own parts or Denso's parts.
That won one race out of a series and got shrekt everywhere else
Actually it's looking more like DPi will become the new GT1 around 2020. Look it up, I've gotta go to work.
I like the hypercar idea best. Get the 918, the La Ferrari, the aston martin valkyrie and the whatever else people come up with out there and lets get it back to what it was in the 60s.
Honestly if they stopped making the regulations fucking retarded it would all be fine. Yeah, hybrids are cool and it looks good on paper, but when nobody is even willing to race you've fucked up somewhere.
GT class seems to be doing fine though, so who knows how the fuck that works.
I dont get why they wont let hybrids race non hybrids on a true competitive level. The neo-religion of green environmentalism is kind of annoying IMO.
They have a sacred duty to promote hybrids and electrics. Fact is they are expensive and not practicle. Let them compete and see how they hold up.
A better solution would be a GT500-styled pseudo-prototypes. I heard ACO is considering that.
With everyone getting moist over electric cars, the 2018 season is shaping up to be awful. Also ran cars that have proven to be incapable of completing the race is what we can expect in the LMP1 field. The ACO is going to have to change to allow cars closer to WEC spec if they want to even have a full grid. I personally think Formula E is a joke and more of a sideshow series like Legends cars or NASCAR's truck series.
They should just have a single class and let up to 500 people bring anything and race it so long as they have the proper license and safety shit. Shitboxes, supercars, rocketcars, motorcycles, soviet tanks, who the fuck cares, it should just be 24 hours of utter madness and carnage.
That's wholly unlikely to happen. The "run what you brung" mentality doesn't work at the professional level. That's why they series have rules: Everybody knows what the limits are so that there is at least some control over parity. I don't know what you think racing in the '60s was like, but they had rules back then, too. It's also bad publicity when a manufacturers multi-million dollar halo car gets embarrassed by the competition in an organized race. It could easily be bad publicity and ultimately a financial disaster for these companies -- this is especially more dire for small companies like Ferrari and McLaren that sell fewer than 10k units per year. Besides, if that's what people really wanted, private owners could just take their cars to the track and race their cars themselves. Nothing is really stopping them.
>Unless they lose to fucking LMP2s
But that's exactly what happened this year...
>The ACO is going to have to change to allow cars closer to WEC spec
That's pretty much what they've been doing for a few years now.
So 24 Hours of Wacky Races?
And who are these non legitimate competitors who would smoke the current runners?
Isn't that just the 24h of lemons?
Pretty much anything that's an actual purpose-built racecar.
this is basically Lemons except Lemons has a price limit
but there's a good mix of normal cheap cars, and retarded rocket cars that only cost 500 bucks because "lol we machined all the parts ourselves so its free and we put the nine turbos on the outside so theyre cosmetic and dont count in the price lol :^)"