2012 FIA World Endurance Championship

[Georg Peklo]

No PetitLM is a joke. The 6h of Bahrain shows which direction sportscar racing is heading too (after F1), show me the big bucks!!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Petit Le Mans is probably too long (10 hours) for this serie. Mainly 6 hours races which are a lot cheaper to run for the teams.

 

[Georg Peklo]

Well, 12h of Sebring, 24h Le Mans, not sure if i can agree with you. Just consider how exiting the PLM was over the years, this split up (Bahrain is at the exact same date like the PLM) will probably ruin the PLM a little.

 

[James Johnson]

Petit Le Mans is probably too long (10 hours) for this serie. Mainly 6 hours races which are a lot cheaper to run for the teams.

Problem is that it falls on the same date as the Petit Le Mans so what if a team wants or needs (Teams can run FIA & ACO?) to run at both races?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Don't get me wrong, I also would like to see PLM on the calendar instead of some artificial race in the Middle East desert. Was just thinking out loud why they made this decision.

I also think that Spa should be a 24 hour race like it used to be. But from costs point of view a lot of 6 hour races will result in a full field of cars.

 

[David Garcia]

NIce logo!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Yes the color perfectly shows the direction this series will go in a few years time: eco and green. Like it very much

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Fuji? I'd much rather go to Suzuka...

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

 

[James Chant]

Niiiiiice

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Didnt see the announcement yet but the WEC site is online at the following domain: http://www.fiawec.com/

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

nice find, Bram, I like this one:"6 Hours of TBA - CHN"

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Somewhere in china

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

nice find, Bram, I like this one:"6 Hours of TBA - CHN"

TBA = Tilke Build Accomodation

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Karun Chandhok is hoping to dovetail a third driver role in Formula 1 next season with a sportscar campaign in the new World Endurance Championship.

The Indian, who appeared nine times as a Friday driver for Team Lotus this year as well as racing in Germany, accepts that it is very unlikely he will land a full-time cockpit for 2012.

"My target is still F1, but the new World Endurance Championship is very interesting. There's only one clash with the F1 calendar, so I can keep my hand in there doing a bunch of Fridays and then hopefully combine it with an LMP1 programme."
Source

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Experienced F1 drivers trend to do well on endurance, so can be good for his career.

 

[EIF]

Half a season racing in a terrible car and the odd FP run doesn't make him an experienced F1 driver imo.

 

[Andrew Kahl]

Maybe he might land a seat at Toyota when they expand to 2 cars

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Half a season racing in a terrible car and the odd FP run doesn't make him an experienced F1 driver imo.

Appart from years in lower forumulas, he has been two years in F1, is more experience in F1 than 95% of the drivers in the world.

 

[Roy Magnes]

I like his attitude. One of those who want to drive and compete what he can and want to rather than "just" do the F1-gig.Points for a competetive mind