WEC Spa 6 hours
The first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 season kicks off with the Spa 6 hours this weekend. A flurry of activity in readiness for the first round has seen loopholes tightened, but there is still the small issue of balancing the LMP1 privateers with the manufacturers that is dominating the landscape.
Spa 6 hours circuit facts courtesy of WEC
Among the clarifications issued before the Spa 6 hours, drivers may not even release their safety belts until they have stopped their cars outside their garage for a pit stop, reducing the likelihood of an injury should cars collide in the pit lane. Tape may also not be used to seal up the gaps between body panels, a particular trick of Ferrari, which will sort out unusual qualifying performances seen in other series earlier this year. However, the Equivalence of Technology table has also been released, and it is interesting to see how the ACO and FIA have dealt with the differences of car concepts between hybrid and non-hybrid. While before, Appendix B of the regulations dealt primarily with different fuel and hybrid concepts, but essentially similar car concepts (four wheel drive hybrids), the focus now is on the first column which most ignored last year; the non-hybrid column, and the comparison between Spa 2017 and Spa 2018 is the relevant data.
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