WEC Spotter Guide for Fuji

[Great Dane]

After the Texas race, WEC has now arrived at Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, west of Tokyo. This track, owned by Toyota, has been part of the WEC series since its inception in 2012
My ‘Spotter Guide’ is for the 6-hour race, which takes place on Sunday (28 September).
The pictures shown below are lower resolution screengrabs. If you want a better quality for printing, I include a Dropbox link to a PDF version with higher resolution.
PDF LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hybuxbkrvgj3r6wvskd...
REDDIT LINK: https://www.reddit.com/r/lemans/comments/1nqkp4q/s...
Hypercars, built to the LMDh regulations i.e. Alpine, BMW, Cadillac and Porsche have a red frame around the car picture.

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[RL17]

Thanks

Probably need a reasonable result for TGR at home

A real drubbing may tip them out soon.

[bergclimber34]

The worry has to be their increasing involvement with Haas in F1, and you have to say they have been battered by BoP this year.

[RL17]

First/oldest car is also an issue for them.

[//j17]

RL17 said:

First/oldest car is also an issue for them.

As is the ACO saying "We want to go Hydrogen", Toyota saying "Sounds actually interesting and innovative, we're on board.", then the ACO constantly going "Umm, maybe another year down the line?...".

Toyota don't want to spend a shed load on a new, been there/done that LMH car when they want to do something [u]interesting[/u]. Oh and of course with the significant risk of LMH being canned/moved much closer to LMDh in 2030, so if you started designing a new LMH now it might only get to race for 3 years.

Thankfully even the FIA/ACO seem to have accepted that the current BoP formula hasn't worked and has clearly favoured teams like Ferarri/disadvantaged teams like Toyota and (if I remember correctly) Alpine. I'm not suggesting that favouritism was intentional, just how the dice rolled based on where different car designs made their lap time/where the BoP cut into that.

[bergclimber34]

I personally think a lot more could be done with bop, you only have to look at the ridiculous Brazil race to see that, it was a huge anomaly compared to the last 2 years. The issue with Ferrari is that we know they have been favoured in F1 for decades, this does not travel well to WEC, and sadly this years LM annoyed a lot of fans it was so obviously one sided.

It is clear the rules favour some cars and chassis, and no matter what is done with some that cannot be pared back.

The world is slightly moving away from an all milk float world too, which changes things a lot