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Very predictably the bop for Spa is very unfavorable for Ferrari, paying for its recent wins...this is plain rigging....I don't understand how mnaufacturers accept this system... https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/wec-bop-to-benefit-aston-martin-for-spa-after-poor-start-to-2025/10720516/
The idea for BoP was to level the playing field, not give different entrants an advantage. It seems that that idea has been forgotten and now the idea is to alternate who has the unfair advantage from race to race. If BoP was really fair, every top car from every entrant would qualify at the exact same speed, provided no one sandbags, of course. How close are we coming to that?
I think a handicap,formula is never going to please everyone. It's just an attempt to bring more constructors to the series. The BoP has been successful doing that in the WEC, so far. I remember a time when endurance was only Ferrari v. Ford, Ferrari v. Porsche, Ferrari v. Matra, later Porsche v. Jaguar, etc ... and the rest of the grid was filled by no-hopers. We also had for years a Porsche total hegemony followed by an AUDI decade of complete domination, without much opposition. Now we have Ferrari, Toyota, Porsche, Cadillac, BMW, Alpine, Aston Martin, and Peugeot competing, soon Genesis, Ford and McLaren. I personally think it's better than one make pouring money to dominate, discouraging other brands from participating.
The idea was that the Hypercar rules were "self-BOPed" through the standarization of horsepower, downforce ratio, etc... Then they had to shoehorn in the Daytona prototypes, that ACO wanted a good race for the centenary, add the usual lack of transparency and all went south.
