The move was agreed by Saturday’s FIA World Motor Sport Council in Bahrain “in order to allow a seamless introduction” of the rear-wheel-drive hybrids into the championship alongside cars built to the Le Mans Hypercar rules.
A manufacturer would be allowed to join Toyota, Glickenhaus and Alpine in the Hypercar class of this year’s championship on a race-by-race basis, which would mean the car would not be eligible for points.
No further information was released in the WMSC bulletin, including whether any manufacturer wishing to blood an LMDh in competition this year would be required to fully homologate the car, which means effectively freezing its specification for five years.
It is far from clear whether either of the two LMDh manufacturers – Porsche and Cadillac — with plans to join the WEC next year would be ready to race this year’s series before its climax in Bahrain in November.
Porsche is the only marque with an LMDh up and running so far ahead of the…
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