WEC 2024: Round 3 - Spa-Francorchamps

[Ferrari333SP]

Official thread for the race, happening May 11th.

Live Timing: https://live.fiawec.com/

Free Practice 1 begins on Thursday May 9th at 11:30am CET

https://www.fiawec.com/en/race/show/4863

[Adam43]

Potential hydrogen class cars will be demonstrated again this year. This time with a hydrogen combustion engine from Alpine as well as the H24 fuel cell engined car (source: racecar engineering) .

[v8supes]

For me the hydrogen cars need to be better than the effort from a year or two ago. That thing while technically brilliant was slow, silent and looked hideous. Watching the hydrogen Yaris videos online from Toyotas latest efforts though fills me with hope. The engine sounds like a "normal" petrol engine, is cleaner than petrol and there is no aesthetic difference to the normal Yaris. Whether or not this translates over to motorsport is to be seen but if we can continue with the noise, performance and aesthetic aspects of the current WEC cars then whats not to like?

[flatlandsman]

You can already feel the EV world starting to fall apart if you listen closely enough!

[Adam43]

Bit early to tell, but looks normal

[veeten]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

You can already feel the EV world starting to fall apart if you listen closely enough!

That's true... over the last couple of years, the sales of EV's have taken a big hit. Manufacturers are taking steps back from them, no matter what governments are trying to bring them back.

The one thing that has been a major problem for them in racing has been the battery: it's not quick fillable, nor "hot-swappable". This limits what EVs can do in a racing sense. This is why Hybrids have taken ahold, especially in Formula 1 and Sportscar (Hypercar).

[Adam43]

Road car forum is here: https://tentenths.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=38

Thank you.