Gonna be BANANAS!!!! Ferrari, fresh off the 24hrs win comes home to Monza. Will the crowd be bigger than the F1 crowd? Is this a rhetorical question? Image Unavailable, Please Login
I might attend! The tire wear issue will resurface, but not as badly as in Spa or Portimao though, at l ast that is what I hope. At LM it was not a problem due to the nature of the track.
I have the feeling there are too many GPs on the calendar, but not enough endurance races !! 23/24 GPs during the 2023 season, but only 7 WEC races. I hope they will improve on that in years to come. There are plenty of suitable circuits to visit.
WEC would need to mix in shorter races like IMSA does if they are going to run more races. Otherwise budgets would go crazy and they risk losing some of the entries. If you think about it Le Mans is the equivalent of like 4 or 6 regular races.
It's the first year of the new cars and I think the GT3s join next year, While I would love more races 10 - 12 a year lets get what's working so well locked in. We also need to know what is going on with this Post Le Mans Bullsh@t as this has the potential to destroy everything. F1 has far to many races 15 - 16 was when it was at its best.
Short races are sprint, not endurance !! Races should at least be 6 hours, I feel to be called endurance. Before, the World Endurance Championship used to be a mixture of 24-hour races (Daytona and Le Mans), 12-hour for Sebring, then 6-hour races for Spa, Monza, the Nurburgring, Silverstone, and Watkins Glen. There were also off-championship races at the end of the season, like the Rheims 12-hours, Paris 1000kM, and Kyalami 9-hour races, that used to be well attended. It's a pity that the WEC lost the US star races (Daytona and Sebring mostly). Racing in Bahrain or Fuji instead doesn't make up for that loss, IMO.
I think they should do a race at Road America. I doubt IMSA is going to be running longer than 2 hrs 40 anytime soon there so it would be cool if WEC did a 6 hour there or something.
Proton 963 has entered the chat. https://www.fiawec.com/en/news/monza-entry-list-reveals-additional-hypercar-with-proton-competition/7679
To bring it back to the initial post: I will be at Monza... bought the tickets for me and my wife a few days ago.
Surely you’re not suggesting dropping Sebring. If you only want two, which of COTA or Road Atlanta would you keep? I can’t sign on for dropping a Sebring.
Sebring can remain an IMSA race, like Daytona, and like it's been for many years. After all, Sebring's WEC race has already been dropped for 2024.
Ferrari get BoPped... https://www.motorsport.com/wec/news/monza-bop-ferrari-toyota-hypercar/10491240/
As Le Mans run their own BoP. I would take it that this change to BoP would be an increase from the Spa BoP. If that's not the case, than Toyota have been handed the race with no one else able to compete great Balance of power.
The artical isn't as clear as it could be. Seems these BoPs were pre-determined at the beginning of the season. sjd
Ferrari 1, Toyota 3. Seems to me the wrong team got double BoP or is this race fixing as clearly it's not a Balance of Power
Well, you can´t ask Toyota to loose this championship after keeping it alive for three years, ACO owes them a lot. I actually think that the Le Mans Ferrari win was unintended, they just wanted to keep the racing closer, but not so close.