[ELMS] ELMS Discussion

[Coach Ep]

Originally Posted by FIRE

For a 2nd level series like ELMS 2024 is too early for Mustang and Corvette, I am sure we will see them in 2025.

Fair point. Hopefully we'll see a Proton Mustang one-off towards the end of the season.

[Coach Ep]

Originally Posted by airbusA346

All the teams in P2 have chosen Oreca because it has been shown to be the best package over the years, so what do you expect the ACO to do if all the teams who submitted entries have chosen Oreca?

Take care of their customers incl. the non Oreca linked ones.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by airbusA346

All the teams in P2 have chosen Oreca because it has been shown to be the best package over the years, so what do you expect the ACO to do if all the teams who submitted entries have chosen Oreca?

Rethink a rules package that caused a diverse grid to "accidentally" become a single make class.

[FIRE]

How much could be solved by BoP like in GT3?

[Coach Ep]

BoP could decrease the performance windows between the platforms but at this stage, teams are so proficient with the Oreca and able to extract every last tenths out of them, it's probably not gonna make much difference. Sean Creech Motorsport in IMSA will find out very quickly their Ligier is not up to par (despite the team's and Barbosa's best efforts).

Better to wait till the next generation cars.

[Mike E]

Originally Posted by FIRE

How much could be solved by BoP like in GT3?

The next generation of LMP2 will have AoP (Adjustment of Performance) to try to keep it from turning into a spec chassis series again

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...e-aop-process/

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Mike E

The next generation of LMP2 will have AoP (Adjustment of Performance) to try to keep it from turning into a spec chassis series again

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/...e-aop-process/

Thanks

Will be interesting to see if Dallara, Ligier and Multimatic have a serious attempt to sell cars. Or with LMDh projects in mind they are okay with not being in LMP2.

[v8supes]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Rethink a rules package that caused a diverse grid to "accidentally" become a single make class.

Just a coincidence who continued to be the chosen supplier of LMP3 engines..

[Mike E]

This is a formidable LMP2 line up. TF Sport, Kubica, Deleteraz and Edgar.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...z-combine.html

[airbusA346]

Driver line up for the #85 Iron Dames Porsche.

- Sarah Bovy
- Rahel Frey
- Michelle Gatting

[joeb]

Panis livery update for the season, I think it looks great. This front view almost makes it not look like an Oreca!

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...-revealed.html

[skycafe]

Stunning livery on the Panis car!

[S griffin]

Certainly one of the best liveries in the series, but then I expect nothing less from a team of that stature

[KlBD]

Gaazmaster liveries in recent years have really favored that horizontal color separation across the Oreca's nose. Looks pretty good though, so no complaints here.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

Panis livery update for the season, I think it looks great. This front view almost makes it not look like an Oreca!

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...-revealed.html

Looks like a fake Hellcat with knockoff Marlboro lettering. But maybe that's me

[airbusA346]

RIP Gerhard Freundorfer.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2024/...barcelona.html

[J Jay]

Has the ELMS always begun its season with Also Sprach Zarathustra? It sounds somewhat out of place compared to the start of Le Mans.

[Akrapovic]

This new VSC procedure is...not amazing.

The obvious use of this was to create a gap for the marshals to work in safety. However, the marshals released the cars into traffic before the SC anyway, during what was similar to a FCY. Then we went SC and had to do the pass around dance.

We basically added 15 minutes of yellow onto it, presumably to give the marshals space to work, which they didn't use anyway.

[Mike E]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

This new VSC procedure is...not amazing.

The obvious use of this was to create a gap for the marshals to work in safety. However, the marshals released the cars into traffic before the SC anyway, during what was similar to a FCY. Then we went SC and had to do the pass around dance.

We basically added 15 minutes of yellow onto it, presumably to give the marshals space to work, which they didn't use anyway.

Yes, pretty weird and annoying

[joeb]

Race today? I'm guessing somebody watched, but i missed.

[Adam43]

I read the report. Happy to win and sad not to at the same time!

Limited myself to that. Can’t waste time watching every bit of Motorsport!

[tomcug]

https://sportscar365.com/lemans/elms...p-in-4h-imola/
Congratulations to Panis, Eurointernational and Iron Dames Gatting did great to stay ahead on older tyres after their +10 sec penalty that forced the team not to change.

[J Jay]

Some clever use of a curved straight to keep the Aston Martin behind!

What exactly happened with Chatin's off? I saw the aftermath but I don't think they showed the start of the incident with the LMP3.

[Mike E]

I've been impressed with Getting has stepped up as the Gold in the crew this year. That was a great last stint.

All in all, a typically entertaining ELMS race.

[v8supes]

Still not sure how Bovy is still a bronze driver though. So much faster than the other bronzes and racing nearly every week.