What can be done to improve the WEC ?

[Mr Pink]

Originally Posted by Jonerz

Will help all of ACO racing in addition to the WEC:

WEC should be an LMP1 championship only. The ACO opened the ILMC up to GT's because of the factory involvement in GTE. If you want to make LMP1 a manufacturer class, don't reward manufacturers for going to a different class! If manufacturers want to be World Champions they must compete in LMP1.

Piggyback off of existing strong races. If the WEC can put together an eight to twelve car LMP1 field that would be more beneficial to ACO style sports car racing than robbing the ELMS and other ACO championships of entrants by effectively creating a competing championship. It might be too late with the current death knells we're hearing about the ELMS.

Round 1 Sebring ALMS
Round 2 Spa ELMS
Round 3 Le Mans
Round 4 Silverstone ELMS
Round 5 Japan/China AsLMS
Round 6 Petit Le Mans ALMS

Go where the crowds are and don't hurt existing events and partners by robbing them of content like factory cars or marquis races.

Finally develop some way to reward manufacturers for involvement in your partner series (ALMS, ELMS, AsLMS). The benefit to the WEC is to have perhaps a dozen races outside of the Championship events that draw eyeballs to ACO style racing and the premier brands outside of the short, yet strung out WEC series season. It also rewards your partners (who have helped save/build) the sport of sports car racing which delivers great content to Le Mans and now the WEC year-in, year-out.

I don't know if a "to enter the WEC you must have at least one car entered in one of ALMS, AsLMS, or ELMS" would work, but a system that would actually BENEFIT ACO style racing, not just transfer content from one area to another (i.e. the WEC currently) would be cool.

Not for the WEC: Take displacement limitations off of the GTE class to help lessen the need for waivers. Further changes to GTE should include the allowance and balancing of hybrid drive trains and more liberal allowance of forced induction where it exists on the road car homologation.

Chris

Even though I would like to see a functional WEC with LMP1, LMP2 and GTE it's not really feasible so I agree with every point of this post! I do have my concerns about the AsLMS and the Japanese round of WEC, it would be a shame if such a sporstcar nation wouldn't get a race with a proper grid.