LMDh announced as the future of global SportsCar Racing

[Kristof]

https://clubarnage.blogspot.com/2020/01/lmdh-announced-as-future-of-global.html

[clkgtrlm1]

They could have worked a bit harder to make it sound less like an STI!
 

[championaudi]

Well aving ordered my Aston Martin Valkyrie for WEC, what do I with it after the 1st year ?

[clkgtrlm1]

Well aving ordered my Aston Martin Valkyrie for WEC, what do I with it after the 1st year ?

Will have to upgrade to a Racing Point-Stroll Valkyrie after year 1!
 

[Rhino]

Better way to go than hyper cars, cannot see how they can equalize performance with them.

[Truck]

So have I got this right?

A Daytona Prototype is an LMP2 chassis, probably with a bigger motor, and more backing.  So IMSA had to reduce the power of real LMP2s so the DPs could win.

So soon a DP will have road car shape bodywork, so will be even slower, and may have to be slowed down even further to make sure that a Hypercar wins, so LMP2s will be even slower, and could end up running amongst the ProAm GTs

Wasn't LMP2 a successful class that didn't need f**king up

[jimclark]

So have I got this right?
Wasn't LMP2 a successful class that didn't need f**king up

Sorta'......  

The racing I knew and loved (and participated in) was about a set of rules, build (or modify, depending on the series/class) a car, develop it and race it.
The fastest car and driver came out on top. Simple.

It was a sport, not a show; all venues.
It was competition; not just an entertainment business. A display of the greatest designers, fabricators, mechanics, drivers (and all the others on the teams).
There was no "equalizing", "balancing of performance" or "leveling of the playing field" from race to race to script what some call "real racing", but is now just
choreographed, supposed "exciting" (How exciting is it? 'May as well go see a movie...) parades of of rolling billboards

I'm glad I caught the real thing as it's apparently over........  

[Rhino]

To be honest having balance of performance is inevitable now. As has been seen at Le Mans you can get Manufactures outspend each other and kill off the field. I liked the day's when you could buy a 962 and run it essentially the same for years, but pace of development has stopped that.
I'll be watching The Bathurst 12hr tonight. Artificial, yes but exciting all the same.
I could see with the Hypercars a spending war going on. Need something that smaller budgeted teams can run for a number of years.

[championaudi]

Whist I understand the position the WEC & the ACO found themselves in after Porsche & Audi Left to(diesel-gate ,red herring formula E racing) &  therefore needing a new top class

I do feel sorry for the likes of Ginetta who were encouraged to jump into the WEC to booster the numbers in LMP1 ,using their own money in the process, then shafted by the hypercar rules ,& not being selected for the original LMP2 manufacturers list & now a closed shop for the LMDh Chassis

All these new convergence rules do is allow the IMSA teams to cherry pick the best WEC events (they would never do a full WEC ,US fixture /cost etc ) with a political motivated invite to Le Mans ,with those teams supporting ALMS & ELMS not getting their deserved June invites

and where does that leave GTE/GTLM future

A can of worms it is (as yoda would say)