I completely agree with you!

Toyota and Porsche, yes. Ferrari, BMW and Cadillac, Maybe Peogeot, Lamborghini and Alpine, Not so much Glickenhaus straight up no

@@afoxwithahat7846 Probably would be a good time to learn how BoP works. Everyone is going to get an opportunity to win at some point and that will be the worst thing of this class.

And with teh new regulations, the looks of the car would be more diverse comapred to lmp1

@@deggis4 Man, Indy and Nascar have had BoP for years now. Sometimes it's just easier to admit you're all just hoping for something that has low chance of happening

Thank you!

and yet LMDh is far more likely to survive since it has much more in common with the thriving LMP2 category than previous top class prototype regulations.

@@joelambert7128 LMH is more exciting but LMDH is cheaper

@@carlitoxb110 yes, that is a shame. But hopefully a class with a (relatively) low barrier to entry like LMDh will attract more manufacturers and entrants, which will create excitement where it really matters - on track.

Truth! 😎

@@joelambert7128 Yeah but it really sucks to be honest? LMDh is nothing than a spec series on steroids. Pretty boring.

me too!! it makes the competition more unique and personalised

That's the magic of bop based regulations

I’m glad you enjoyed! Yeah it can be pretty complicated, tbh I still don’t understand it all fully after doing content on Hypercars for the last 2 years haha! That’s why I made this video, to try and breakdown everything on the differences/tech specifications, categories, and entries.

I hope there isn't going to be any bullshit bop ! I mean, why would you bother to invest into better car when they are going to limit the others for you.

​​@@ducedevlstear2471 Because BOP is the thing that can assure all manufacturers are happy & getting a relatively level playing field while also prevents huge spending and makes sure the class is sustainable. As good as LMP1 was, their operational costs were just too expensive for most teams/manufacturers and one of the reasons for its eventual demise

Wow! That’s so cool!

Admirable because they had no competition?

@@svtinker Yes...When you're a one horse race nobody wants to watch. They stuck with it, now there will be a full field again.

@@iiredeyeiiredeye1569 and they will lose again.

@@svtinker Yeah maybe...but at least they've been there and done it through thick and thin.

Ok so essentially there are races in a season, that go on for different amounts of time (6 hours, 8 hours and 24 hours in the case of Le Mans). Depending on the lenght of the races there are different amounts of points given to the highest placing cars (essentially the longer the races, the more points you get.) Drivers are usually placed into groups of 3 drivers who compete together as a team, it is possible, though to swap out drivers, which means if two drivers compete the full season and two drivers share the third place, only the two drivers that compete full time get all the points, while the others just for the races they competed in. The races are not just one race, but in the case of WEC 4 races in one race. And the points are given each to the class. So even if lets say a Hypercar is classified 10th in the race, but 4 LMP2 cars are ahead of him, he will still be classified P4 in the Hypercar class and get the points for P4. Class Nr. 1: The Hypercar class. Its the biggest and fastest class in the field. They are Hypercars and much cheaper than the previous LMP1 class and the video does a pretty good job of explaining this. Class Nr 2.: is the LMP2 class. It stands of Le Mans Prototype 2 and are essentially a slower, smaller and more homologated version of LMP1 cars. In this day and age, they are run mostly by private teams, not manufacturers and are in many cases mostly the same car parts and teams can only make small adjustments. In this class, you'll see the most familiar faces if you're an fan of many motorsports series (Like Seb Ogier, Antonio felix da Costa, Rene Rast etc.) And if i'm not completely wrong it uses also a rating system to keep teams on a more level playing field (explanation for that in the segment about class 4). Class Nr. 3 right now is the GTE Pro class, which won't exist next season, however it will be replaced by a class with GT3 Regulations if i'm not wrong. So essentially an endurance race with GT3-Cars, with it being the class the manufacturers want to win. You could say, this is the second most important class from a manufacturers standpoint. Class Nr. 4 is the GTE-Am class, which are not backed by any manufacturer. Its a GT class and mostly used for gentleman-drivers (for example famous actor Michael Fassbender). It is at a pretty level playing-field due to the fact that there is a rating system and only allows like one gold or higher rated, one silver rated and one bronze rated driver to compete as a team (ratings depend on expierience and success). So essentially an endurance race is 4 different smaller races in one big race with driver teams instead of drivers and with the manufacturers championship essentially more important in two of the classes than the drivers championship (different from F1) I hope this could make a bit more sense for you and i hope you'll get some enjoyment out of the WEC or IMSA :)

Oh yeah and i might want to add the BoP. It means Balance of Power and exists in many motorsports series. So essentially the fastest cars of lets say the first race get some success balast added onto their car to make their race more difficult, so just because you win one race, doesn't mean you'll win the next one. It levels the playing field a bit more and is very divisive.

@@eggselent9814 Thanks for the great explaination, really helped me to finally understand them. I have one question. Like if wec & imsa have both same lmh & lmdh cars (apart from the other categories that race in them) then why are they named differently? Is it like they are same but different brand identities for different regions?

@@eggselent9814 thank you as an f1 fan trying to understand WEC now that Ferrari is joying. this is very useful

​@@shr2000 WEC is being administered directly from FIA and IMSA is handed to FIA's the ACCUS board of USA. WEC cars are largely tuned for the Le Mans circuit whereas IMSA cars are tuned for the Daytona circuit, both being 24 hour races. IMSA and WEC are separate tournaments and LMH cars and LMDH cars will feature in both of them.

Exactly! I completely agree with everything you said.

DPi was 2.3 sec faster than hypercar in Sebring and many have confirmed the new LMDH cars are lapping almost similar times. Hopee they manage it.

​@@JoeMaters Is the goal to make them all the same pace so everyone can compete for the overall win?

@@EAGYSL always have been the goal.

Yay! Forza Ferrari!

plans changed for aston ✨

Both IMSA and NASCAR are so cool! Welcome to the IMSA world as well!

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed, content will definitely continue regularly

No problem, glad it was informative!

It's Porsche, they'll find a way to make it win

Hell yeah!! Porsche all the way 🤟

Ready to roll Porsche 963 Win Hypercar Class

It’s more a successor to the all conquering 956-962 BEASTS from back in the day. The 919 seem to be the successor to the legendary 917. Either way, huge shoes to fill as you said.

Hell I really don't care who wins as long as we get to see some good racing...and get to see 20+ possible cars in the combined races from imsa and wec!!!!

I know! Hopefully some of the LMH entries will come in 2024 like Ferrari or Peugeot. But we will see!

Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Welcome! That’s awesome your going to Le Mans, have fun!

Glad you enjoyed!

Glad you enjoyed it and found it informative!

Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Right now we don’t know to much info on the difference between them, but signs point to LMH and LMDh entries being entirely equal. We probably won’t know clear evidence until after Daytona next month.

@@FormulaJonah Ah that’s good to hear. Brings BMW and Porsche into the mix

Yeah! I really hope so too!

The Toyota is already available 😉

Glad you liked it!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you, and welcome!!

Would be nice but I'd imagine you'll find most of the IMSA runners appearing in iRacing. The BMW has already been announced 🤷

Thank you!

@@FormulaJonah Subbed for more of that Sweet prototype content!

Glad it helped!

As far as i know there are drag and downforce limits, PWR is also given and can/will be changed accordingly and probably pretty regularly in the beginning. These new "standardized" classes are probably much easier to get a fair BOP. In the end, no matter if a series has BOP or just depends on a certain set of rules, there will always be a certain "unfair" factor and politics will be involved in both anyways. All in all i personally think BOP is still great because it allows for interesting and close races for the viewers and more manufacturers/teams will participate because they can be competitive without money being the deciding factor.

Thanks for watching! And great to see another fan of Wayne Taylor Racing! The WEC stated that the cars are 80% less from LMP1, but the difference from DPI to LMDh / LMH must be different.

Good to know. Yeah BOP would have been good to go over. The reason why I mentioned the rumored entries is because those are the entries in line to possibly join that have been in the news, so I wanted to make sure I briefly covered them👍

@@FormulaJonah Tbh since you labeled them as rumors I liked that. However what was really missing was how LMH and LMDH are going to compete. Because if you can build whatever you want in the LMH class, the LMDH will always be inferior.

Yes, rumors are rumors, keep it official. It's confusing enough.

No problem!

Thank you! I’m so glad to see more support for Glickenhaus. Im hoping they go good as well!

Thanks!

Like Group C did, this will become more popular than F1.

Yeah they are officially confirmed now, but the announcement came out after I made this video.

@@FormulaJonah Looks that way yeah, 12 days ago.