LMP2 cars will continue to race at the LeMans24 Hours in 2024 but will disappear from the FIAWEC as the casualty of an increasingly popular Hypercar class. The change has happened for the right reasons, but that doesn’t make it any less notable. ⬇️
OPINION: LMP2 cars will continue to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours next season but will disappear from the World Endurance Championship as the casualty of an increasingly popular Hypercar class. The change has happened for the right reasons, but that doesn’t make it any less notableIt was inevitable really. The welcome accumulation of manufacturers in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship means sportscar racing is in a state of rude health.
“It’s a real shame actually,” says United Autosports Oliver Jarvis, who finished second overall at Le Mans with Jota in 2017 when only a late recovery from the sole-remaining Porsche 919 Hybrid prevented an outright winner from the secondary class. “LMP2 just doesn’t fit from a pure numbers point of view. But when you think that at one stage there was literally Toyota and maybe one or two other Hypercars, LMP2 has almost been the backbone for many years.
“It will be missed,” opines Louis Deletraz, who has won each of the last two ELMS titles and this year races for WRT in the WEC alongside an ELMS programme and racing for Acura in IMSA’s GTP class. “It has given a lot of opportunities to young drivers, created careers, brought people to Hypercar. I started in ’21 and without this LMP2 category in both ELMS and WEC I wouldn’t be where I am now, able to be in factory drives and running in the top class.
“So many top quality drivers race in LMP2 because for example a lot of the guys are also racing in Formula E or they race in America like Tom [Blomqvist] and it allows them to come [without racing against a rival manufacturer],” Jarvis points out. “If you look at the driver lineups in P2, it’s up there with the Hypercar.”
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