2019 FIA WEC 8h of Bahrain Post Race Engineering Notebook
Bahrain brought the longest race so far for Season 8 of the FIA WEC, and with it even more content for looking at the usual LMP1 Success Handicap levels, GTE BoP and Amateur driver performances. LMP1 Toyota and Rebellion both had similar bodywork to the previous round in China as expected due to the limited logistics operation for the sea-freight races. Ginetta had a few tweaks to their G60 LT-P1s in the form of brake cooling and dive planes. This car has had several design changes in its life for brake cooling, originally taking clean air from underneath the splitter and front diffuser area, something very difficult to achieve - yet is implemented in high end road going supercars where there is a demand from styling to avoid a big hole in the bodywork! After testing and realising it was not the direction to go, they opted for an inlet in the fender above the splitter. This was used from the Prologue onwards. In Team LNT guise, the car now has a very large inlet on th