Automobile Club de l’Ouest competition director Thierry Bouvet made the claim when the Le Mans 24 Hours organiser and FIA, which jointly administer the WEC, went public on the revised BoP procedures ahead of this weekend’s Qatar 1812Km 2024 season-opener.
“What the BoP will not do is compensate for the lack of optimisation in racing — tyre choice, driver form, strategy decisions,” said Bouvet.
“We want to leave that up to the teams; we want to let them race.”
A window into which the Le Mans Hypercars and LMDhs competing in the top class of the WEC must sit will be defined and the BoP adjusted up or down for those cars that lie outside it.
The calculations will be based on data from the fastest car of each manufacturer after analysis of “an awful lot of lap”.
This will then be correlated with simulation and then an average derived around which the window will be set.
Source: Autosport