"Enginerrrrrrrrr" (Enginerrrrrrrrr)
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"Enginerrrrrrrrr" (Enginerrrrrrrrr)
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But here’s the regulations approved for the WEC Hypercar class for 2020!
Yes it’s a pdf... yay for cybersecurity.
https://assets.lemans.org/explorer/pdf/courses/2018/fia-wec/fia-wec-regulations-2020.pdf
The WEC link:
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One of the images:
Exciting stuff!
ttyymmnn
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 15:05 |
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tips@jalopnik.com
I’m not sure anybody ever answers the phone there, though.
Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 15:10 |
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 15:19 |
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Cool!
facw
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 15:21 |
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tips@jalopnik.com is the place.
If you want to contact a specific writer, you can look here:
For secret stuff:
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ttyymmnn
> Chariotoflove
12/05/2018 at 15:23 |
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Meanwhile, at Jalopnik World Headquarters.....
RallyWrench
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 15:25 |
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You just did. And yes, I’m super excited to see what comes out of the woodwork for this class.
3point8isgreat
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 15:30 |
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So is this just a more cost controlled P1-hybrid class with more street-like bodywork?
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Enginerrrrrrrrr
> 3point8isgreat
12/05/2018 at 16:09 |
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Basically. Also privateers can opt to purchase hybrid systems from other marques to help keep things a bit more even.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 16:14 |
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I think you just email tips@jalopnik.com
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 16:24 |
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Pretty much.
RX
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 17:02 |
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I want road car
homologation. With only safety modifications. Why cant this happen?
MarquetteLa
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 17:38 |
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Interesting new rule:
To ensure competitiveness, narrow any eventual gaps, and especially avoid extreme development budgets, the principle of “success ballast” has been selected. Weight is added according to the number of points earned in the championship. Therefore, 0.5 kg will be added to the car per marked point, not to exceed 50 kg. The car retains the weight during the season up until the 24 Hours of Le Mans when the entire “success ballast” is removed for the finale of the WEC season.
Stef Schrader
> ttyymmnn
12/05/2018 at 19:32 |
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They do!
Came here to post that.
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Stef Schrader
> RallyWrench
12/05/2018 at 19:33 |
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P
lease let me hoon a street-version
and the race
car version for good measure.
Thx,
Stef
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Stef Schrader
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/05/2018 at 19:37 |
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Hmm. Not sure about the whole “success ballast” part. It seems to work in some of the touring car series, but it still feels like you’re punishing a team for doing well. (And I worry that the biggest players who may show up to this will simply figure out how to spend their way out of said penalty.)
The rest sounds rad as hell.
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Enginerrrrrrrrr
> Stef Schrader
12/05/2018 at 19:45 |
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I am excited that for the final race (which is LeMans... not sure if it’s a 2nd LeMans like they’re doing this season) only because then the “success ballast” goes away. I feel like that part will sort of throw the whole season away as we will see 100% which team built the best car.
Also success ballast is a terrible term. It’s basically a punishment for being better. And I agree that money will still find it’s way in. A big company like Porsche will be able to put a team on for shifts during the aerodynamic testing phase so that not a minute of the day is lost and probably have groups all over the world so that time zones don’t matter . Smaller groups may not be able to do that.
Overall I think the rules will make it better racing though. At least for the first couple of years. I like that companies can buy hybrid systems so that smaller groups can run the same equipment without the massive development cost.
I’m mainly excited to see what the cars end up looking like! Also they barely touched on homologation... I wonder what that’s going to look like.
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Stef Schrader
> Enginerrrrrrrrr
12/06/2018 at 15:32 |
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We were talking about this on
Twitter
a lot last night—looks like
it’s really just the main powertrain components that have to be homologated in a production vehicle. So, it won’t be like GT1 (...sadly). But I am curious how a 200kW hybrid system is going to fit into a production vehicle.
The relevant bits:
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I mean, if your engine just has to come out of a production vehicle, you could toss it in pretty much anything regardless of whether that looks like your car or not. I’m also wondering if clarification that would hold them to more of a sports
car shape are coming or not.