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Numerous aspects of the design for the new class would be kept open, with a free engine architecture and the freedom to run any number of cylinders with the choice of a turbocharged or naturally aspirated design. At the time, Toyota, Ford, McLaren, Aston Martin, and Ferrari were revealed to have been in roundtable meetings with the championship organisers for the new regulations, with a significantly reduced targeted full-season budget in the region of 25 million euros-75% lower than existing budgets used by manufacturer teams.Īt the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, the initial details of the new top class for the FIA World Endurance Championship were announced at the ACO's annual press conference, with the regulations set to be active for 5 seasons. In June 2018, ahead of the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, the FIA first confirmed that the new set of top-level prototype regulations would feature design concepts based on hypercars when implemented, with a summary of the new technical regulations being presented to the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Manila. A renaming of the category was later suggested by FIA President Jean Todt.
These initial plans targeted significant cost reductions while maintaining the performance levels of the LMP1 prototypes. At the time, there had been an option for a customer hybrid powertrain for small-volume manufacturers and privateers, which could lead the regulations to replace those of the Daytona prototype International (DPi) in the top class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2022 this allowed for the unification of top level sports car racing, with teams and manufacturers being able to compete with the same car in the "triple crown" ( 24 hours of Daytona, 24 Hours of Le Mans, 12 Hours of Sebring) of endurance racing. Representatives from the three organizations, as well as current and prospective manufacturers, were involved in talks for the proposed regulations, which would debut in the 2020-21 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. Initially, a single, low-power hybrid system had been planned for the new LMP1 rules, with plans for a shared platform with IMSA.
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History Demise of LMP1 class įollowing the successive exits of Audi and Porsche from the FIA World Endurance Championship at the end of the 20 seasons in the aftermath of the Volkswagen emissions scandal affecting the Volkswagen Group (parent company of both manufacturers), as well as spiralling costs in the LMP1 Hybrid sub-category, the ACO began a series of discussions aimed at reducing the costs of competition for the next generation of LMP1 rules. The Le Mans Hypercar regulations were created jointly by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as a successor to the Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) from the 2021 season onwards. It will also compete in the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship from 2023.
Grand Touring Prototype class logo as used in the IMSA SportsCar ChampionshipĪ Le Mans Hypercar ( LMH) is a type of sports prototype race car that competes alongside LMDh entries in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
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