Series organisers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest outlined their idea to maintain the size of the entry at 2023 levels over the course of last weekend’s Bahrain WEC season finale, while insisting that they are still working on an expansion.
WEC boss Frederic Lequien described 37 cars, the same number as this year, as “the right number”.
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“That is the plan, but the goal is to increase the grid in 2025,” he said.
The FIA and the ACO have arrived at 37 cars because this is the number of pit boxes available at the Imola and Austin rounds in April and September respectively.
They are the tracks on the 2024 schedule with the smallest pit complexes.
There were 38 cars on the entry published for this year, but the #88 Porsche 911 RSR run by Proton Competition up to and including the Le Mans 24 Hours and the #99 963 LMDh it fielded from the next race at Monza were effectively one and the same entry.
The plan to go up to 40 cars proved “too complicated for the refuelling of the cars”, explained ACO president Pierre Fillon.