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Ferrari aiming for readability over WEC restarts after failed Spa enchantment
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Ferrari aiming for readability over WEC restarts after failed Spa enchantment

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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Ferrari is hopeful of a clarification of guidelines governing World Endurance Championship restarts after the lack of its enchantment towards the failed protest of the outcomes of Could’s Spa spherical.

The Italian producer has expressed confidence that what it regards as a gray space within the sporting rules might be addressed because of final week’s ruling from the FIA Worldwide Courtroom of Enchantment. 

The ICA’s judgement of the case heard on 3 September throwing out Ferrari’s enchantment contained a clause ordering “the competent sporting authority [the FIA] to attract, as acceptable, the implications of this ruling”.

Ferrari has at all times insisted that its protest of the stewards’ determination to restart spherical three of the 2024 WEC in Belgium past the scheduled end time was partially motivated to attain a clarification of the rules. 

It argued that the WEC sporting guidelines as they stand will not be clear. 

“The enchantment and the ruling has opened the way in which for a clarification, which is required,” Batti Pregliasco, staff supervisor of the manufacturing facility Ferrari AF Corse Hypercar squad informed Motorsport.com. 

“What they’re saying is that there’s a gray space, that it’s not clear.

“We have to make clear what we will name a bug within the rules or some poor wording that triggered the interpretation on our aspect, and never solely on our aspect. 

“I believe we will have a clarification within the guidelines for subsequent 12 months within the sporting rules or maybe from the WEC Committee [which rules on matters concerning the series].

“That is essential, as a result of whether or not the race can restart or not can have an effect on rather a lot by way of technique.”

Ferrari aiming for readability over WEC restarts after failed Spa enchantment

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BMW has joined the decision for a clarification of the rules. 

BMW M Motorsport boss Andreas Roos mentioned: “If there’s something that’s not 100 per cent clear, for certain we have now to make clear it. 

“I haven’t made my thoughts up which approach it ought to go; it simply must be clear.”

Restarting the Spa spherical in Could after the scheduled end time, set for 19:00, was unprecedented within the historical past of the WEC since its rebirth in 2012. 

The stewards invoked a clause within the sporting guidelines that states: “If the circumstances so require the stewards might take the choice to cease and/or modify the race time set. This may occasionally not exceed the time of the competitors [meaning six hours in the case of Spa].”

Ferrari argued in its unsuccessful protest and subsequent enchantment that this clause didn’t permit for the race to be restarted outdoors of its authentic timeframe. 

The necessity for in depth barrier repairs after a stoppage early within the penultimate hour prevented a resumption inside the 13:00-19:00 timeframe laid down for the occasion, however the stewards determined to restart the race past the scheduled end. 

An additional one hour and 44 minutes of racing — the remaining time on the clock on the stoppage minus the time it took for the vehicles to line up on the start-finish straight – started at 19:10.

The 2 manufacturing facility Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars had been working 1-2 when the race was red-flagged after 4 hours and 13 minutes. 

Ferrari ended up ending third and fourth with its #50 and #51 vehicles after the profitable #12 Jota Porsche 963 LMDh and the second-placed #6 manufacturing facility Porsche Penske Motorsport entry leapfrogged the Italian vehicles. 

The 2 Porsches had pitted simply earlier than the purple flag, so made up more often than not misplaced as a result of the race was restarted below the security automotive after which moved to the entrance when the vehicles forward of them made their subsequent scheduled pitstops. 

The FIA has been contacted for remark.

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