🗣️ 'It's going to be an open race and hopefully a nice battle.' Nicolas Lapierre is relishing Alpine's battle with Toyota for the WEC title in Bahrain this weekend as the 'small, family team' takes on the Japanese manufacturer:
However, the Balance of Performance figures have been slightly adjusted since the previous round to give Alpine a small relative power boost, while the pace at which Toyota can deploy hybrid power has been raised from 120km/h to 190km/h since WEC’s last visit to Bahrain in 2021.
“We will not start this race as a favourite because this track has a lot of straightlines, which will probably feed better to the Toyota,” explained Lapierre. “At this track we are also not bad because our car is lighter. But overall in traffic we might lose a bit more with the P2, it's really difficult to overtake them. Alpine has been allowed to compete in the WEC’s Hypercar division with a previous generation LMP1 car as part of the so-called ‘grandfathering’ of rules, with the special dispensation due to lapse at the end of this weekend’s Bahrain 8 Hours.
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