Every of the WEC’s two lessons from subsequent season, Hypercar and LMGT3, may have two classes at every common spherical: the quickest 10 vehicles from a 12-minute qualifying interval will undergo to the Hyperpole session lasting 10 minutes that units the primary 5 rows of the grid in every class.
The brand new system mimics that launched for the double-points Le Mans WEC spherical in 2020.
All vehicles in all lessons participate in a one-hour qualifying session on Wednesday night at Le Mans with the quickest six in every going via to Hyperpole on Thursday lasting half-hour.
What’s described by the FIA as an “enhanced qualifying format” was rubber-stamped by Thursday’s World Motor Sport Council in Geneva.
It replaces the present qualifying process the place every of the present three lessons has a single 15-minute session.
The WEC may have simply two classes subsequent 12 months when LMP2 disappears from the championship, except Le Mans.
It has not been revealed up to now if the Hyperpole format at Le Mans can be modified in any method for subsequent 12 months. The centrepiece spherical of the sequence has its personal supplementary laws, which have but to be printed for subsequent 12 months’s race.
Rules for the LMGT3 division that may change GTE Am from subsequent 12 months had been permitted by the WMSC.
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WEC-specific variations of the FIA GT3 regs will embrace the introduction of luminescent quantity panels and chief lights, which point out whether or not the automobile is operating within the high three in school.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem made point out of Aston Martin’s confirmation earlier this month of plans to race a Valkyrie developed to the Le Mans Hypercar guidelines on the WMSC.
“I additionally welcome the latest announcement of Aston Martin and their dedication to enter the Hypercar class of the WEC from 2025,” he stated.
“This class goes from power to power with a powerful line-up of a number of the world’s greatest producers.”