This year I am more interested in the WEC than in F1, although it has the BOP, I find the WEC much more attractive today than F1, plus the fact that there are so few races compared to F1. It makes the expectation in each of them grow. Also for a motorsport fan, seeing different engines, twin turbo, single turbo, different displacements, all-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, different sounds, make today the Championship chosen by the Brands to participate in. Even in 2025 we will hear a V12 on the tracks in a TOP FIA category!!! This is unbeatable!
For me the Lamborghini excites me the most, but the BMW program also does, i think BMW will be competitive and reliable because it raced last season in the US.
Interesting to see what can Isotta Fraschini do, it would be good benchmark to have Vanwall on the grid to see if they are much faster than them or if slower, then much much work to do
The entry is nteresting indeed, but it's a shame it doesn't look as slick or refined as the other hypercars, it doesn't feel unique, just like another regular LMP2/3.
Well Isotta Fraschini is exciting because it's an LMH car but it's also cool that the Lambo is running a Ligier chassis and the Alpine is a great sounding car so I'm excited to hear it running in person at Spa. Lots of exciting entries and I think we should see some tighter competition this year.
The old Alpine A480 cracks me up, an Oreca 05 based Oreca 07 LMP2 car built up to LMP1 specs for Rebellion, then detuned back to the pace of pre restriction Oreca 07.
I found your channel last year and I'm happy that someone is explaining the new cars/regs. Keep up the fantastic work FJ! I'm excited to see that WRT is running the BMW. WRT is running Rossi (VR46) in GT3 classes so if he gains points and experience, we could see him in the LMH class next year at LeMans
Hello 👋 Can't wait for Alpine: curious to see how the team will perform after one year of abscence from HYP class. Stunning drivers lineup, stunning looking car. Cheers from Italy 🙋🏻♂️ Marco Lazzari [iKR]
Great video, 2024 is gonna be a good year for racing with all these new manufacturers Also slight correction: the Qatar 1812 km even isn't a 6 hour event, it's more likely to be around 10 hours long
Is there any chance Alpine race at IMSA ? Since they build Cars with LMDh regs? Also, IMSA stated that 2500 Cars must been / being built annually for the manufacturer who wants to join, but NEVER said you must sell it in North America.
Same! I can't wait to see my first WEC race in person. As soon as I saw they were coming back to the states this year, it was a must. I've been going to IMSA at Road America the last few years.
I just realized that it is literally impossible for all brands to win this year, even if there is a different winner each race! That's what competition is all about! ❤
No it wasn't. They shared the engine, but that was the only thing the V12 LMR and the Mclaren F1 shared, and even still, there weren't 1:1 the same engines.
Nope. Like the guy above said, only the engine. The chasis and the rest was made by Williams, as part of deal with BMW to supply F1 engines for them. So, in part, Williams has a Le mans win...
@@danielclodfelter despite the issues with tyres, the Americans wont have EVO version of the Cadillac in 2024 and as Cadillac / GM racing said, they aim for ultimate glory at 2024 Le Mans. So they must have improved the issues, they feel confident. Still would like to see 2 Cadillacs full time in WEC.
Eh, they have the pace.. but only having a single car on the grid is going to hurt them badly. It seemed to happen a lot last year they'd qualify fantastic, then at the first corner they'd get swarmed by like 10 other cars. They also really need to work on not locking up the brakes, that threw several of their races out the window. I'm definitely rooting for them though
What a great lineup. I will be rooting for Alpine, not only do I love their cars in general, I think the A424 is by far the most beautiful one in the whole class. Love how they oncorporated the signature lighting theme of their road cars.
I’m quite excited about that IFM entry. Small company revived to represent a brand once lost to time. A very romantic story if I’m being real. That Tipo 6 contains the hopes and dreams of the conpany’s current employees and everyone else counting on a smaller manufacturer to perform well in the current age of big brands coming in. I hope it does well, and it seems like they know what they’re doing, so that’s also nice
I am a big and longtime F1 fan, but these hypercars are absolutely in their own class of beauty. WEC is much better racing than F1. And when you other factories join Toyota, it is exciting.
With the F1 field starting to close together(besides Red Bull but it's a start) and WEC growing ever larger, I think we're entering a new golden era of motor racing
Great video. Just subscribed . I look forward to the WEC prologue Feb 24-25 in Qatar . I hope you will do a video on this test session. The Lamborghini and Isotta Fraschini I am most interested in from the newbies.
Lamborghini started out as a tractor manufacturer and ended up being more famous for road cars so they have plenty of experience making powerful engines and fast cars. It'll be interesting to see how that transfers to hyper car racing.
@kpl4174 sorry, dude, but when FIA mad the final list of participants in Hypercars for th '24 season, Vanwall didn't make it. Even with their announcement of switching to Pipo engines, they said no. Maybe for '25, if they can get the car straightened out.
I do hope their prototypes are more reliable than their GT3s. The reliability of those cars have been awful for a 2 or 3 years and they have lost teams because of it.
@@guybeingaguy I never said that. I said they have plenty of experience making powerful engines and fast cars and that it'll be interesting to see how that experience transfers to hyper car racing.
Why are WEC not introducing lumiranks like in IMSA or GT World Challenge, the three dots are way too minimalistic for 19 Hypercars and 18 LMGT3’s on the grid
WEC is amazing and only getting better. Can't wait to see all the new teams on the grid. My dream is to see Ford also return to the top class in future. Maybe even a Mercedes outfit too
I'm feeling more confident about Isotta Fraschini than what Glickenhaus and Vanwall ended up being. Especially Vanwall was a massive disappointment in the end.
interesting thing about the porsche volkswagen situation is that porsche both owns and is owned by volkswagen, the porsche stock company owns volkswagen the car maker wich owns porsche the car maker
Glickenhaus has ended their Le Mans Hypercar program unfortunately. Looks likely that a factory effort wont return 😞 I’ll point you into the direction of another video I made on this news. Here is the link incase you would like to check it out: ua-cam.com/video/EU3qdW21uQA/v-deo.htmlsi=lkYOuweIGlPH5BMV
Not the first. Vanwall and Glickenhaus have competed with the likes of Toyota and others. But like Isotta Fraschini, they are just smaller manufacturers compared to Toyota.
@@FormulaJonah This is no any comparison to the other two. Those were rich people trying to fund programs out of their own pocket. Isotta is a subsidiary of a large shipbuilding company with a lot of capital behind it.
Vanwall and Glickenhaus for sure aren’t the same compared to the big brands like Porsche and Toyota for example. Isotta Fraschini Milano however is separate from the shipbuilding Isotta Fraschini Motori. While the names are very similar, they are not associated.
@@FormulaJonah I did extensive research on the company for your video on the team and TWO sources said it was part of Fincantieri. Fraschini's own LINKED IN PAGE says the following:"Another asset is thatt Isotta Fraschini Motori is a FINCANTIERI Company". Prove me wrong. You talked to the company when you did the last video. Why don't you call them AND ASK?
Looking forward to all of them actually. So this would be 25 years since BMW won Le Mans? Oft. Would love to see a merc, an Alfa, a Renault, Aston Martin, whoever, this could be awesome. Honda Badge over from America too. We can dream.
Aston Martin is confirmed for 2025 and Alfa Romeo has said that after F1 its likely to be heading to WEC. Honda might be coming in 2025, be it rebadged Acura for WEC
I just hope 2024 WEC will be even more bonker, considering 2023 was already bonkers. But despite 2023 was Toyota's dominance, I just hope 2024 will produce more challenge for the dominant Toyota. Mayyyybe, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche, and so forth, will give Toyota challenge.
This is kinda paradoxal though. The car industry goes away from combustion engin tech to fossile fueled-free ones. This serie is going to morph into Classic-kinda serie because no other manufacturers will spend money on outdated tech. Unless Porsche or other companies succeed in manufacturing economical reasonable and sustainable synthetic fuel.
ALFA ROMEO hype train , expect absolute stunner in terms of design ( in 2025 )and maybe, just maybe they could be as competitive as Ferrari 499P ( surely the Italians will co operate with other Italians at Maranello, its an Italian thing.... ) or Alfa Romeo just hiring some of those engineers who developed the 499P.
@Calibra95 They aren't allowed too, due to BoP any car that is going to be run at Le Mans has to be a car entered in the full WEC season so Acura wouldn't be able to in Hypercar and nor would Mercedes and Audi in LMGT3. Only LMP2s are allowed because all ELMS, AsLMs and IMSA teams use the Oreca 07 except for Sean Creech Motorsports in IMSA which uses the Ligier JS P217.
Aston racing next year. As for McLaren who knows, Zack Brown has said they have been thinking of entering for the last few years. And Bentley is a no go, they don't run any of their GT3 cars anymore and then would it even be good for them to join as I am not sure how much the Bentley market cares for racing. Also the fact the VW group already has Lambo and Porsche, I don't think they want to add another, and if they were going to Audi is arguably the better choice for marketability and historical reasons.
@@maxb148 You are absolutely right, would be an overkill for VW on the other hand I thought of Bentley because of its LeMans tradition. Any way it is so exciting as never before!
The problem continues to be twofold: in profile, fans can’t tell the difference in the cars. They all look spec. 2nd, neither IMSA nor the WEC/FIA let them race. All finishes are contrived with the absurd yellows, pit rules, gathering the classes,etc. Teams cannot have strategies anymore. Love road/sports car racing but the sanctioning bodies need to get the hell out the race. Too many damn rules and regs
In part i agree. Mostly with the class gathering on yellows. At the start of the night Peugeot had almost a minute of advantage in the leading, with the chance of the faster Toyotas, Ferraris and Caddys to catch up if conditions on the track improved (it rained, that gave some advantage to the Peugeots), after the 7 Toyota crash, thanks to the class merge, all that advantage was lost, allowing the other teams to surpass the Peugeot and leaving them in fourth place very quickly, forcing them to try to keep up ending in the crash at the first chicane, plus ending their chances. What if those new merging rules wouldn't had happen?. The night in LM last year was amazing but it could had been better if the Peugeot mantained the advantage and the others worked hard to catch up. Instead of two brands it could had ended with four brands battling for the win in the morning hours.
WEC is not like F1, which can run 23 races in one year. Maximum amount of races for WEC would be around 10. Keep in mind that not all tracks are suitable for WEC LMH. Barthurst in Australia would be nice but not doable due to it being so narrow, and some tracks do not have enough of pit boxes for the teams, especially since LMH category is growing massively
@@guybeingaguyWEC has as much as racing as F1 with the current amount of races. Keep in mind a WEC race is at least 3 times as long as your normal F1 race, even though teams have way less money compared to F1. There are also many different endurance racing championships that shouldn't clash else teams / drivers can't do both.
I can´t wait for the season to start. Btw, on the entry list BMW WRT have 2 drivers. Sheldon van der Linde on the #20 and the brother of Laurens (porsche) Dries Vanthoor on the #15. Will we see the brother's fight on track? 🫣
Indeed! BMW do have those two drivers and Robin Frijns also confirmed for an LMDh drive. But unlike Lamborghini or Alpine, their lineups have yet to be fully confirmed. Glad you’re looking forward to the season! It’s set to be incredible 👏
@@pacmaniacer I'd be shocked if he wasn't. That was a big coup for them getting him away from Mercedes. I wonder too that if Valentino Rossi has a successful 2023 in GTs, if they may move him to the prototypes in 2025. That would be BIG for WEC and Prototype racing worldwide if it happened.
@@williamford9564 AMG missed the Point to get in the hypercar Ära. Its booming right now. I would Not be surprised If Ford and McLaren would Join the Party 😉
What a season it's going to be! Now we only wait for Aston and maybe Alfa 😋
Alfa ain't happening, Stellantis will be all EV in 2026
@@Dexter037S4 so you think that Peugeot will drop after 2025?
For alfa i dont think they will anytime soon as WEC have a limit number of cars every race which is 37(including GTE and LMP2)
@@Nothing.... mate, where have you been. They dropped LMP2 and GTE. They're being replaced by GT3.
@@CarlosDiaz-oj5fn wait really? Havent heard it till now thanks alot!
This year I am more interested in the WEC than in F1, although it has the BOP, I find the WEC much more attractive today than F1, plus the fact that there are so few races compared to F1. It makes the expectation in each of them grow. Also for a motorsport fan, seeing different engines, twin turbo, single turbo, different displacements, all-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, different sounds, make today the Championship chosen by the Brands to participate in. Even in 2025 we will hear a V12 on the tracks in a TOP FIA category!!! This is unbeatable!
So you would like to see just one race a year?
That’s weird man!
51 weeks of anticipation !!!!!!!
@@guybeingaguy You do realize it's not just the 24 Hours of Le Mans right? Unless you're that stupid
I get it WEC is more exiting then f1
@@guybeingaguy man search up at least a little before commenting stupidity
@@guybeingaguyWEC and IMSA don’t have only one race a year wtf.
Isotta Fraschini for sure
Isotta Fraschini hypetrain! Jump onboard
Forza Isotta Fraschini 🇮🇹
FORZA!
I do hope they do well, though as they said themselves, this first season will be learning season
This brand is not new. I remember they first released their steam powered car back in 1881!
The livery of the Lamborghini looks really badass!!
Yeah!
But lag of sponsor's on it😅
I love when the prototypes have some design from the normal cars like the bmw dual grills and the lambo lights.
For me the Lamborghini excites me the most, but the BMW program also does, i think BMW will be competitive and reliable because it raced last season in the US.
Interesting to see what can Isotta Fraschini do, it would be good benchmark to have Vanwall on the grid to see if they are much faster than them or if slower, then much much work to do
Isota is Hybrid, so they would destroy Vanwall and Glick from the get-go...
If they finish a race on the lead lap it will be a miracle.
It’s a filler car 😂
I just hope it stays out of the way !
@@guybeingaguy Car developed by Michelotto and Williams is no joke, I think can be much better than Vanwall and Glickenhaus
The entry is nteresting indeed, but it's a shame it doesn't look as slick or refined as the other hypercars, it doesn't feel unique, just like another regular LMP2/3.
I hope so, still must wonder from where they get all the monet to run in WEC?
4 proper well put together programs, i'm hopeful WRT can get that BMW out front. I trust them the most of the newcomers
Well Isotta Fraschini is exciting because it's an LMH car but it's also cool that the Lambo is running a Ligier chassis and the Alpine is a great sounding car so I'm excited to hear it running in person at Spa. Lots of exciting entries and I think we should see some tighter competition this year.
Thank you for this presentation. It will be a great season, I can’t wait the first race ! 👍❤
The old Alpine A480 cracks me up, an Oreca 05 based Oreca 07 LMP2 car built up to LMP1 specs for Rebellion, then detuned back to the pace of pre restriction Oreca 07.
LIGIER GANG 🔥🔥🔥
Lamborghini is my fav one of these 4
I found your channel last year and I'm happy that someone is explaining the new cars/regs.
Keep up the fantastic work FJ!
I'm excited to see that WRT is running the BMW. WRT is running Rossi (VR46) in GT3 classes so if he gains points and experience, we could see him in the LMH class next year at LeMans
Very excited for the new season. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Hello 👋
Can't wait for Alpine: curious to see how the team will perform after one year of abscence from HYP class.
Stunning drivers lineup, stunning looking car.
Cheers from Italy 🙋🏻♂️
Marco Lazzari [iKR]
Hello thank you.very good but Germany BMW LAMBO so awesome.
Aston Martin in 2025! Hopefully AMG develops a purpose built hyper car aside from the AMG ONE and brings it to the WEC
Thanks Jonah for the detailed intro on the new teams including the chassis they are based on.
Another great video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Adopting the new DPi category was the best decision ever. 19 car in the top category is great.
Love ure video"s keep them commin
Thank you! Will do! This video is just the beginning for what’s to come in 2024!
Great video, 2024 is gonna be a good year for racing with all these new manufacturers
Also slight correction: the Qatar 1812 km even isn't a 6 hour event, it's more likely to be around 10 hours long
Thanks for the info, I’ll make that adjustment for future videos. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@FormulaJonah no problem :)
I can’t wait for the new season! 🏎
Is there any chance Alpine race at IMSA ? Since they build Cars with LMDh regs?
Also, IMSA stated that 2500 Cars must been / being built annually for the manufacturer who wants to join, but NEVER said you must sell it in North America.
I cannot wait to see these cars at the Lone Star Lemans this season here at C.O.TA. in September.
Same! I can't wait to see my first WEC race in person. As soon as I saw they were coming back to the states this year, it was a must. I've been going to IMSA at Road America the last few years.
IMSA has similar cars and specs. 24 hours or daytona in 24 days.
I just realized that it is literally impossible for all brands to win this year, even if there is a different winner each race! That's what competition is all about! ❤
I am excited to see so many different manufacturers and teams. Out of these four newest, the team i am probably the most interested in is Lamborghini
The V12 LMR was basically a McLaren F1LT underneath btw
Fascinating! I wasn’t aware of that. I’ll have to do some more digging into the BMW V12 LMR.
No it wasn't. They shared the engine, but that was the only thing the V12 LMR and the Mclaren F1 shared, and even still, there weren't 1:1 the same engines.
Nope. Like the guy above said, only the engine. The chasis and the rest was made by Williams, as part of deal with BMW to supply F1 engines for them. So, in part, Williams has a Le mans win...
Guys we are heading into the golden age of sports car/endurance racing. The world needs this , I need this
You do not know how much I would sacrifice for Lamborghini to put a V12 in their hypercar
hell yeah, but the engine weight and packaging will be awful for them
Then wait for Aston Martin next year 😊
Probably would only work in an LMH car because of packaging
Hell even a v10 I'd be happy with. Imagine a slightly tuned version of the r8 gt2 V10. That thing would scream.
@@johnsullivan937 Aston will Bring the v12. That will BE awesome ☺️
I can’t wait to see them all in the caddy rear view
Cadillac is FAST but the issue with the Americans is that it is slow to get its tyres warmed up, as seen in Bahrain
@@kpl4174 agreed. Plus they found a way to throw it away damn near every time
@@danielclodfelter despite the issues with tyres, the Americans wont have EVO version of the Cadillac in 2024 and as Cadillac / GM racing said, they aim for ultimate glory at 2024 Le Mans. So they must have improved the issues, they feel confident. Still would like to see 2 Cadillacs full time in WEC.
Eh, they have the pace.. but only having a single car on the grid is going to hurt them badly. It seemed to happen a lot last year they'd qualify fantastic, then at the first corner they'd get swarmed by like 10 other cars. They also really need to work on not locking up the brakes, that threw several of their races out the window. I'm definitely rooting for them though
What a great lineup. I will be rooting for Alpine, not only do I love their cars in general, I think the A424 is by far the most beautiful one in the whole class. Love how they oncorporated the signature lighting theme of their road cars.
Good choice! Alpine are definitely bringing a great package to 2024.
I’m quite excited about that IFM entry. Small company revived to represent a brand once lost to time. A very romantic story if I’m being real. That Tipo 6 contains the hopes and dreams of the conpany’s current employees and everyone else counting on a smaller manufacturer to perform well in the current age of big brands coming in. I hope it does well, and it seems like they know what they’re doing, so that’s also nice
I am a big and longtime F1 fan, but these hypercars are absolutely in their own class of beauty. WEC is much better racing than F1. And when you other factories join Toyota, it is exciting.
That alpine sounds like an evil train it's glorious
With the F1 field starting to close together(besides Red Bull but it's a start) and WEC growing ever larger, I think we're entering a new golden era of motor racing
Great video. Just subscribed . I look forward to the WEC prologue Feb 24-25 in Qatar . I hope you will do a video on this test session. The Lamborghini and Isotta Fraschini I am most interested in from the newbies.
Lamborghini started out as a tractor manufacturer and ended up being more famous for road cars so they have plenty of experience making powerful engines and fast cars. It'll be interesting to see how that transfers to hyper car racing.
But not reliable cars
@kpl4174 sorry, dude, but when FIA mad the final list of participants in Hypercars for th '24 season, Vanwall didn't make it. Even with their announcement of switching to Pipo engines, they said no. Maybe for '25, if they can get the car straightened out.
I do hope their prototypes are more reliable than their GT3s. The reliability of those cars have been awful for a 2 or 3 years and they have lost teams because of it.
Rolls Royce started out building aircraft engines and never succeeded in racing.
Tractor engines equate a winning race program?
Alllll righty then ……
@@guybeingaguy I never said that. I said they have plenty of experience making powerful engines and fast cars and that it'll be interesting to see how that experience transfers to hyper car racing.
Lamborghini did have a group c car back in the late 80's/early 90's
Only the engine was Lambo.
What about Isotta Fraschini swapping teams shortly before Campagin Begin?
Vector sport wasn't to professional it seems. Duqueine has more experience.
High hopes for Alpine as the Oreca chassis is the best LMDH chassis.
Theyre gonna be the one and only running an Oreca
Wait how do we know if oreca is the best if this is the first car running an oreca chasis?
@@johnsullivan937 What does Acura run? In imsa they showed the potential of the Oreca chassis.
Lambo!! 👏🏻👏🏻
Isotta & BMW all the way. But we are so spoiled for choice it'shard to pick and even though Toyota dominated, I dont dislike them like you get in F1.
Why are WEC not introducing lumiranks like in IMSA or GT World Challenge, the three dots are way too minimalistic for 19 Hypercars and 18 LMGT3’s on the grid
Great Video again Josh, Cant wait to board that plane to Qatar...
Still a disgrace Vanwell are not on the grid...
WEC is amazing and only getting better. Can't wait to see all the new teams on the grid. My dream is to see Ford also return to the top class in future. Maybe even a Mercedes outfit too
I'm feeling more confident about Isotta Fraschini than what Glickenhaus and Vanwall ended up being. Especially Vanwall was a massive disappointment in the end.
well Vanwall actually tried to enter 2024 season as well but was rejected due to homologation issues
Dreaming of the Raging Bull taking chequered flags.
Forza Ferrari ❤❤❤
interesting thing about the porsche volkswagen situation is that porsche both owns and is owned by volkswagen, the porsche stock company owns volkswagen the car maker wich owns porsche the car maker
WEC fans gonna be eating GOOD in 2024
I miss the days when simple mechanical and lightweight was what won. 1950s to the early 2000s was king
Can't wait
Is Jota still going to run a customer Porsche? They were pretty handy with it last year.
They are! In fact, Hertz Team Jota are actually running TWO Porsche 963’s next season. Same amount of Porsches as the factory Penske team!
The BMW V12 won LeMan in a McLaren F1 in 1995
What about Glickenhaus??
Gone.
Glickenhaus has ended their Le Mans Hypercar program unfortunately. Looks likely that a factory effort wont return 😞
I’ll point you into the direction of another video I made on this news. Here is the link incase you would like to check it out: ua-cam.com/video/EU3qdW21uQA/v-deo.htmlsi=lkYOuweIGlPH5BMV
Me encantaria que apareciera Alfa Romeo y Maserati
Me too!
I'm excited to see Isotta Fraschini racing with their project. Will be the first private effort to fight with Toyota at same level?
Not the first. Vanwall and Glickenhaus have competed with the likes of Toyota and others. But like Isotta Fraschini, they are just smaller manufacturers compared to Toyota.
@@FormulaJonah This is no any comparison to the other two. Those were rich people trying to fund programs out of their own pocket. Isotta is a subsidiary of a large shipbuilding company with a lot of capital behind it.
What do you mean by "private"? The company is part of a world wide publicly traded ship building company.
Vanwall and Glickenhaus for sure aren’t the same compared to the big brands like Porsche and Toyota for example. Isotta Fraschini Milano however is separate from the shipbuilding Isotta Fraschini Motori. While the names are very similar, they are not associated.
@@FormulaJonah I did extensive research on the company for your video on the team and TWO sources said it was part of Fincantieri. Fraschini's own LINKED IN PAGE says the following:"Another asset is thatt Isotta Fraschini Motori is a FINCANTIERI Company". Prove me wrong. You talked to the company when you did the last video. Why don't you call them AND ASK?
@10:30 Alpine
Just checked Le mans tickets... Sold out for the race day. No wonder.
I think BMW has announced DTM champion Sheldon Van der Linde would drive one of the cars
ランボルギーニはもうEV逆販売しないと宣言さたのにWECな参戦する意味はあるのか？
Looking forward to all of them actually. So this would be 25 years since BMW won Le Mans? Oft. Would love to see a merc, an Alfa, a Renault, Aston Martin, whoever, this could be awesome. Honda Badge over from America too. We can dream.
Renault is allready here...Alpine, you know...
Aston Martin is confirmed for 2025 and Alfa Romeo has said that after F1 its likely to be heading to WEC. Honda might be coming in 2025, be it rebadged Acura for WEC
Jaguar hyper car some day 🙏
LAMBORGHNI WILL WIN THIIS YEAR'S LE MANS 24 HOURS LMDh Class!
I just hope 2024 WEC will be even more bonker, considering 2023 was already bonkers. But despite 2023 was Toyota's dominance, I just hope 2024 will produce more challenge for the dominant Toyota.
Mayyyybe, Ferrari, Peugeot, Porsche, and so forth, will give Toyota challenge.
“The last time BMW raced there they won.” All because Toyota choked near the end.
This is kinda paradoxal though. The car industry goes away from combustion engin tech to fossile fueled-free ones. This serie is going to morph into Classic-kinda serie because no other manufacturers will spend money on outdated tech.
Unless Porsche or other companies succeed in manufacturing economical reasonable and sustainable synthetic fuel.
ALFA ROMEO hype train , expect absolute stunner in terms of design ( in 2025 )and maybe, just maybe they could be as competitive as Ferrari 499P ( surely the Italians will co operate with other Italians at Maranello, its an Italian thing.... ) or Alfa Romeo just hiring some of those engineers who developed the 499P.
Ferdie with short hair is still weird to me tho 🤣
That is no proper way to refer to His Highness
Whats up with all these 20th old manufacturers coming back from death?
You need to be a manufacturer to enter. So many small teams buy the rights to basically dead manufacturers to race in WEC.
BMW team WRT Wec next season
Indeed! Looking forward to see what they can do!
no Acura 😢
Unfortunately not, but we will see them race with 2 cars in IMSA next season!
@@FormulaJonahHRC Are murmuring about running the Acuras in the WEC following IMSA success
@@Dexter037S4 hopefully a Le Mans wildcard happens
@@Calibra95depends if Honda want to apply for an invitation slot this year
@Calibra95 They aren't allowed too, due to BoP any car that is going to be run at Le Mans has to be a car entered in the full WEC season so Acura wouldn't be able to in Hypercar and nor would Mercedes and Audi in LMGT3. Only LMP2s are allowed because all ELMS, AsLMs and IMSA teams use the Oreca 07 except for Sean Creech Motorsports in IMSA which uses the Ligier JS P217.
McLaren and Bentley + Aston Martin! Still missing
We have enough 👍👍👍or no room on the grids
Aston racing next year. As for McLaren who knows, Zack Brown has said they have been thinking of entering for the last few years. And Bentley is a no go, they don't run any of their GT3 cars anymore and then would it even be good for them to join as I am not sure how much the Bentley market cares for racing. Also the fact the VW group already has Lambo and Porsche, I don't think they want to add another, and if they were going to Audi is arguably the better choice for marketability and historical reasons.
Aston in 2025.
@@maxb148 You are absolutely right, would be an overkill for VW on the other hand I thought of Bentley because of its LeMans tradition. Any way it is so exciting as never before!
the videos on this chanel are great if you play them on mute
WRC will take over as the pinnacle of auto racing soon.
People said the same when Group B was a thing and it never happened. Keep dreaming
Not if only have Toyota the eternal runner up Hyundai and a semi-works Ford...
The problem continues to be twofold: in profile, fans can’t tell the difference in the cars. They all look spec. 2nd, neither IMSA nor the WEC/FIA let them race. All finishes are contrived with the absurd yellows, pit rules, gathering the classes,etc. Teams cannot have strategies anymore. Love road/sports car racing but the sanctioning bodies need to get the hell out the race. Too many damn rules and regs
That’s mostly due the fact that most of the manufacturers are choosing the cheaper lmdh rules set.
Bro you blind
I can tell the difference easily
So don't watch. There are millions of us who love this racing as it is.
In part i agree. Mostly with the class gathering on yellows. At the start of the night Peugeot had almost a minute of advantage in the leading, with the chance of the faster Toyotas, Ferraris and Caddys to catch up if conditions on the track improved (it rained, that gave some advantage to the Peugeots), after the 7 Toyota crash, thanks to the class merge, all that advantage was lost, allowing the other teams to surpass the Peugeot and leaving them in fourth place very quickly, forcing them to try to keep up ending in the crash at the first chicane, plus ending their chances. What if those new merging rules wouldn't had happen?. The night in LM last year was amazing but it could had been better if the Peugeot mantained the advantage and the others worked hard to catch up. Instead of two brands it could had ended with four brands battling for the win in the morning hours.
52 weeks in a year and the WEC can only grace us peasants with 8 races?
WEC is crap!
French arrogance on full display.
WEC is not like F1, which can run 23 races in one year. Maximum amount of races for WEC would be around 10. Keep in mind that not all tracks are suitable for WEC LMH. Barthurst in Australia would be nice but not doable due to it being so narrow, and some tracks do not have enough of pit boxes for the teams, especially since LMH category is growing massively
@@kpl4174 I only go to the extreme of blocking someone when they post something REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@@guybeingaguyWEC has as much as racing as F1 with the current amount of races. Keep in mind a WEC race is at least 3 times as long as your normal F1 race, even though teams have way less money compared to F1. There are also many different endurance racing championships that shouldn't clash else teams / drivers can't do both.
I can´t wait for the season to start.
Btw, on the entry list BMW WRT have 2 drivers. Sheldon van der Linde on the #20 and the brother of Laurens (porsche) Dries Vanthoor on the #15. Will we see the brother's fight on track? 🫣
Indeed! BMW do have those two drivers and Robin Frijns also confirmed for an LMDh drive. But unlike Lamborghini or Alpine, their lineups have yet to be fully confirmed. Glad you’re looking forward to the season! It’s set to be incredible 👏
I think marciello is a safecall for the lmdh since He joined BMW
@@pacmaniacer I'd be shocked if he wasn't. That was a big coup for them getting him away from Mercedes. I wonder too that if Valentino Rossi has a successful 2023 in GTs, if they may move him to the prototypes in 2025. That would be BIG for WEC and Prototype racing worldwide if it happened.
@@williamford9564 AMG missed the Point to get in the hypercar Ära. Its booming right now. I would Not be surprised If Ford and McLaren would Join the Party 😉
@@pacmaniacer Mercedes doesn't have a good "relatiónship" with Le mans or prototype racing alltogether.
Toyota=RB
Competitors copying their design LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
None of them can beat Ferrari 499P 💚🤍❤️
The GR010 destroyed it for the entire 2023 season..you were lucky that BoP helped Ferrari in LM.
@@milesr4609 Porsche cans nothing without BoP 😂😂
@@user-swvn3ti2d better for me not being a Porsche fan then...