WEC needs prototype shake-up
The upper end of the WEC prototype field is thriving, but things are less healthy behind the factory LMP1 teams and, as GARY WATKINS underlines, that needs addressing for the health of the series
LMP2 is in trouble, at least as far as the World Endurance Championship goes. That's the bad news. The good news is that series promoter the Automobile Club de l'Ouest understands that P2 has issues and is instigating a root-and-branch review of a class that is vital to the health of the championship.
The facts are there for all to see. A downtrend in entries - a drop to just seven ahead of this season - has been brought into sharp focus by a series of withdrawals that has meant there have been just four regular P2 entrants on the grid for the first two rounds of the WEC. And there appears to be a Sword of Damocles hanging over two of those.
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