Category: Aston Martin
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Understanding the New Balance of Performance Approach
Thierry Bouvet and FIA technical engineering director Thomas Chevaucher outlined the BoP process for FIA WEC 2025 1. It is based on recent race lap times. Here is a look at those recent races and how they influenced BoP for the Opener in Qatar. Along with a look at how Qatar’s lap times will influence…
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2025 Le Mans Entry List
ACO Announces the entries. Still some drivers to be confirmed1.
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FIA WEC BoP Process Explained (2025) Updated
ACO competition director Thierry Bouvet and FIA technical engineering director Thomas Chevaucher explain (Sportscar365) This was updated with additional information from Racecar Engineering1. This is a significant change from 2024 2 to something that is easier to administer. They are now looking for convergence, rather than same operating window. The ACO and the FIA met…
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FIA WEC Circuits 2025
Circuit Maps of all the 2025 Venues Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8
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2025 ACO Racing Calendar
Happy New Year!
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2025 Power Unit (ICE) Technical Regulations
No real changes, but a good reminder1
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Welcome to the Sportscar Race Analysis
Here we will look at how races unfolded, build-up to races went, differences in manufacturer, team and driver performance, and how different series compare.
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WEC Prologue BoP (update)
Update after BoP Amendment publication. This is for the prologue. The amendment was published before any running on the track. It contains small tweaks to Alpine and Toyota’s weight and to the high speed adjustment. There could be an update before the first race. Charts will show the BoP values since the beginning of 2024…
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Sebring Test GTP: BMW puts in the hard yards
Aston and Lamborghini are short of running and off the pace. Continuing on from yesterday BMW completed the most laps in testing1. Their pace is strong too, but it is super close. As always. Lamborghini did not run at all on the second day of testing. Aston Martin ran in every session, but barely in…
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Sebring Test Day 1: #43 Inter Europol Competition Leads LMP2
(and other Sebring Test Day lappery)Mainly GT running today. Here is are the laps from all the classes. LMP2 #43 gets the most laps in! Bijoy Garg, Jon Field and Tom Dillmann in the Inter Europol Competition car completed 30 laps more than their nearest competitor. In the process Dillmann and set the fastest LMP2…
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IMSA: Sebring BoP Update
Aston is back! A quick look at the test BoP settings1. Power:Weight (low speed): Let’s see how the Power at low speed and high speed compare. There is a very different approach to Acrua at Sebring test compared to Daytona 24. At Daytona it had a high low speed power and was compensated Down by…
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Daytona 24: Hourly Update
IMSA 2025 Round 1 Daytona Hour 24Leader #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport, 781 laps Race positions on the hour Comparison to last year and record year (2020: 833 laps, 2,965.48 miles): Words, not just charts: Daily Sportscar Hourly reports: H24, H23, H22, H21, H20, H19, H18, H17, H16, H15, H14, H13, H12, H11, H10, H9, H8,…
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Daytona 24: Quick look at practice so far
Number of laps and averages after Thursday’s running. This includes ROAR, so need to be a bit careful due to the BoP tweaking. I’ll be interested to see how the >240kph adjustments work out. Super close as the spread shows: And we can see the number of laps everyone has done – these are without…
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BoP for Daytona: IMSA gets max speed power adjustment!
Here is the latest on the playing with BoP over Daytona end of season test, ROAR, and race weekend. Power The big thing is the power reduction to the Cadillacs, and to a lesser extent others. This allows for the >240kph adjustment and is something that could be critical at Daytona. Presumably this is reaction…