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Porsche open to versatile driver line-up strategy in six-hour WEC races
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Porsche open to versatile driver line-up strategy in six-hour WEC races

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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Porsche Penske Motorsport might modify its plan to run simply two drivers within the common six-hour World Endurance Championship races subsequent 12 months. 

The workforce will go into its 2025 WEC marketing campaign with a “versatile strategy” after opting to downsize from three to 2 drivers in every of the manufacturing facility Porsche 963 LMDhs, PPM managing director Jonathan Diuguid has revealed to Motorsport.com. 

That might contain the WEC squad drafting in drivers from its IMSA SportsCar Championship operation if it feels {that a} three-driver roster is smart for sure tracks. 

Mathieu Jaminet and Matt Campbell are scheduled to bolster the common WEC crews for the Le Mans 24 Hours centrepiece spherical of the sequence in addition to the 10- and eight-hour races in Qatar and Bahrain that bookend the season. 

They may respectively be a part of Michael Christensen and Julien Andlauer within the #5 963 and Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre in #6. 

“We’ve important flexibility how we strategy the season,” explains Diuguid.

“There is just one battle, which is Spa [and Laguna Seca in May], and outdoors of that if we predict it was the mistaken determination for tracks A, B or C, we are able to return to 3 drivers fairly simply.”

Porsche open to versatile driver line-up strategy in six-hour WEC races

Race winner #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Kevin Estre, Andre Lotterer, Laurens Vanthoor

Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Pictures

Diuguid pointed to the Austin spherical in September as a possible race at which bringing in a 3rd driver is a risk due to possible sizzling circumstances.

He defined that Penske’s “one-team” strategy throughout the WEC and IMSA offers it this flexibility and was additionally a key consider its determination to go to 2 drivers for 5 of the eight WEC rounds subsequent 12 months.  

For that motive Diuguid believes that PPM is not going to be compromised at Le Mans, in addition to at Qatar and Bahrain, when a 3rd driver is added. 

“A giant a part of our determination is that we’re one international operation,” mentioned Diuguid. 

“All of our drivers know all the engineers and processes, and the vehicles and tyres are the very same excluding just a few small aero variations [resulting from the different windtunnels used for homologation in the two series]. 

“It isn’t as if we’re taking somebody from an LMP2 and placing them within the automotive — it is going to be somebody who’s used to racing the 963.”

Diuguid advised that PPM wouldn’t have opted for line-ups of simply two everlasting drivers if this feature wasn’t accessible to it. 

“If PPM was solely racing within the WEC I don’t suppose we might have taken this determination; entering into with solely two drivers per automotive would in all probability not have been the proper factor to do as a result of you would need to convey somebody in for Qatar, Le Mans and Bahrain and get them in control,” he mentioned.

“However as a result of we’re racing in IMSA that isn’t an issue.”

Diuguid defined that working simply two drivers provides an incremental achieve “because the WEC will get tighter and tighter”.

“We predict there’s a achieve to be made as a result of there may be at all times a set-up compromise with three drivers,” he defined.

“Now we’ll solely must have two drivers run by our long-run tyre plan to know the degradation profiles. 

“We can put together for the race rather a lot higher with the data we’ve.”

Porsche has adopted the lead set by the Ganassi Cadillac workforce, which fielded Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn as a duo in its single V-Sequence.R for the shorter WEC races this 12 months. 

There was a transfer led by BMW to mandate three-driver line-ups for all WEC races within the Hypercar division, which was rejected by a majority of contributors.

The Jota workforce that has taken over the manufacturing facility Cadillac programme is anticipated to run three drivers in every of its V-Sequence.Rs subsequent 12 months, whereas it’s unclear if every other producer will go for two drivers for the six-hour races. 

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