Sportscar Engineering

With the WEC's new calendar of monthly races, November brought us the 4 Hours of Shanghai. I'm starting to like this winter oriented schedule, as there's no significant off-season from motorsport world championships now, and the normal lull over the coldest months (in the Northern Hemisphere!) is filled by the warmer hope looking forward to next years big one, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As usual I will be recapping the previous FIA WEC round covering: LMP1 Performance and Success Handicap GTE Pro BoP LMP2 Performances (Tyres and Amateur drivers) GTE Am Silver and Bronze drivers Amateur drivers that have been up-rated/down-rated in the FIA driver rankings LMP1 Performance Toyota came into this event with a heavily handicapped TS050 after the success penalties given to it due to comfortably winning both previous rounds. This resulted in an impact on how the Hybrid machinery generates lap time on limited fuel. Because they had less electrical energy to utilise,

The start of the new season has come faster than I could have ever expected! You may have noticed I did not stick to my word on doing a GTE Le Mans notebook, and that there weren’t standalone articles for the prologue, new LMP1 updates or round one at Silverstone; I did not want to publish something I was not confident in. Compared to the run up to the Superseason I have had a big step kicking off my engineering career, and other life changes aligned with the start of Season 8. So, looking onward and upward with this one I aim to catch up with where we stand with WEC. It will cover the following items: New TS050 and Ginetta G60-LT-P1 updates New Porsche 911 GTE RSR in GTE Pro LMP1 EoT and Success Handicap/Penalty GTE Pro BoP LMP2 Tyre war LMP2 Amateur driver performances GTE Amateur driver performances Season 8 LMP1 Updates: Toyota TS050 The final iteration of the TS050 before the introduction of Hypercar was revealed at the S8 Prologue allowing for speculation on wh