Mercedes is positive about going into the World Endurance Championship next year after the execution of the LMGT3 class.
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The Mercedes-AMG GT3 will get a taste of WEC competitors in 2024 after the series chose to drop the GTE class in favor of a more affordable GT3 option.
However, the company will offer top priority to producers who are currently in the champion in the Hypercar class when accepting entries.
This indicates that producers such as Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, Lamborghini and Chevrolet (Cadillac) will get more favor than Mercedes if they attempt to fit everybody on the grid.
Mercedes will likewise depend on consumer groups, with an optimal variety of 2 entries per producer, as set up by WEC promoter Automobile Club de l’Ouest.
Although the information of the LMGT3 class have actually not yet been authorized by the FIA Motor Sport Council, Mercedes is currently positive that it will exist in the WEC next year, due to the interest it has actually gotten from its clients.
” We in fact have groups interested since there are numerous clients who want to sign up with the WEC and who wishes to contend at Le Mans in the future. We remain in close contact with the organizers and we will see what the future holds,” stated Stefan Wendl, head of consumer racing at Mercedes- AMG.
Mercedes uses various levels of assistance to consumer groups depending upon the champion or race they are taking part in, with bigger budget plans for the DTM and significant endurance races such as the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
When asked just how much Mercedes would be included as a maker in a possible WEC offer, Wendl stated:
— First, we go as the clients desire, and after that we examine just how much assistance can be supplied. Of all driver assistance and engineers as we do in numerous programs, possibly likewise extra parts support as we are understood for having great assistance systems worldwide. This is our technique,” stated the head of the Mercedes-AMG consumer racing department.
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