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Originally Posted by Brake dust
Akrapovic - wasn't there some ifno that suggested Porsche was not in favour of some of those 2020 regs? The idea of the first kilometer after a pit stop must be run under electric is both contrived and lame.
The ACO/FIA got the regs right in 2014 - let the engineers detrmine the best way to design their cars.
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Electrification is coming and WEC will not survive if they can't offer some sort of EV racing in the future. Problem is in the gap of technology right now. EV is not ready or relevant for long and fast tracks so they can't slap the LeMans title on future road going EV projects just yet. Instead they all flea to spec series for marketing purposes. Once FE opens up manufacturers with most EV tech success will want that LeMans win in EV braggin tag on their product so few of them will jump back to WEC.
Who knows what happens by then, maybe prototypes as we know them would be replaced by something that resembles production vehicles for purposes of marketing.