Jim has already said his goal isn't to win world championships, it's to sell cars. And right now they sell no cars in Japan or in the Middle East so even this season they haven't confirmed they'll be at Fuji or Bahrain unless they get additional sponsorship.
No Fuji this season, the World Championship will end with two events in Bahrain (6 and 8 hours)
Forgot about that. Haven’t seen anything saying they’ll be at either of those and I wouldn’t expect that to be the case next year when Fuji returns either. I don’t think he has as much leverage as he’d like unless that changes at some point.
So far, yes. I’m not sure the team has announced otherwise yet.
Yep, more than likely we will be down to three cars.
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Yes. It’s probably easiest because the ORECA is the chassis of choice around the world and anything else would be at a competitive disadvantage next year, the Riley-Multimatic probably isn’t even in production anymore (besides in its Mazda form). It was far and away the worst chassis of the four and Multimatic are hard at work developing to the 2023 regs. ORECA still pump out 07s because they’re so coveted.
Yes, but this is separate from the LMDH project.
I think that part is just that both of those programs are also expanding, right? WRT are probably doing theirs in preparation for an Audi program and United likely have something in the works too.
Outside of the rumors of Spirit of Daytona from earlier this year, will anyone be willing to take the reigns of the Mazda project? Or due to the regulation changes being around the corner, it maybe just an absolute loss to take on that deal.
Oof, my dumbass misread.
I actually heard there were a couple of groups looking at running it for a year but it sounds like Mazda don’t want anyone running it without factory involvement. Most likely it winds up in a museum somewhere after Petit, maybe in Japan.
All good. Matter of fact, last month there was a snippet that said WRT might run LMP2 in IMSA’s endurance races next year too. They’re going big to get prepared it seems.
Ferrari was not happy in GTE-Pro with the BoP not being altered.
I watch about 10 minutes every night and it knocks me slap out. WEC, as much as I used to love it, is not very good right now.
It's important the other manufacturers get involved quickly with their respected HyperCar or LMDh.
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Which way do you go though? The WEC's inability to balance the Toyota and privateers over the last three years would make me afraid to commit either way. Imagine putting together a $35 million dollar program and picking the wrong way to go.
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If they’re going to be over-subscribed, and it sure looks to be that way for the foreseeable future, why should they cater to a team that doesn’t have interest in running a full schedule? Come 2023 nobody is really going to care that Glickenhaus aren’t around.
As long as none of the manufacturers leave, the WEC should be ok, but we know it never works that way. Whomever is losing pulls out citing "too expensive," and with the privateers already blown out (or excluded) you've got nothing left.
Bahrain wasn't real interesting with only three prototypes, was it? Glick probably would not have featured at the front, but how can you take a three entry championship seriously?
It will last until the manufacturers bail, because they always do. The step everyone needs to take now is make the cars available to privateers so we will have something left when the manufacturers leave.