The Coolest Racing Series In The World Got Too Expensive
For the past few years, racing fans who tuned in to the FIA World
Endurance Championship could watch Porsche, Audi and Toyota duke it out
in the series’ top LMP1 class—a class that featured the most advanced
race cars in the world going at it in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and some
of the best tracks on Earth.
Much of it is a symptom of the growing costs of running a Le Mans
Prototype 1 race car, which is in line with what some Formula One teams
spend. For manufacturer after manufacturer, these costs have been too
great to justify in the face of Formula E’s cheap, media-friendly
alternative.
This exodus is all thanks to LMP1's crippling costs, but you also need
to look at the class’ resulting lack of competition, and its struggle to
provide relevancy to the most cutting-edge tech in road cars.
(Jalopnik.com)
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