WEC and IMSA

[Matt]

Alonso heading back to the Daytona 24 and bringing Toyota teammate (from the other car) Kobayashi with him. They?re joining Jordan Taylor and Renger Van der Zande in one of the best teams. Here?s his ?job interview? with Jordan Taylor: https://twitter.com/jordan10taylor/status/1067514625615425536?s=21

[Penfold]

 

And now one of these in response to the new WEC regulations: https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/05/new-2020-wec-lmp1-hypercar-regulations-revealed-including-success-ballast/

Lots of restrictions to try and keep costs down and the competition tight... and then they add some success ballast for good measure.  Seems like overkill to me.

[Matt]

Alonso beats the all-time Sebring track record. By three seconds.

https://racer.com/2019/03/14/alonso-smashes-sebring-lap-record-to-claim-pole/

[Chrill]

Reasonable.

[Matt]

It is actually easy to overstate it without context. Nakajima also beat it by nearly 3 seconds. There just haven't been true LMP1 cars at Sebring since the previous record was set.

What's crazy is that the DPi cars set the Daytona lap record this year, and we'll have a direct laptime comparison between the two after IMSA qualifying this afternoon. I haven't looked at practice speeds, but the LMP1 cars should be quite a bit faster.