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Ferrari eyes joker upgrades to Le Mans-winning 499P


Ferrari is eyeing a efficiency improve of its Le Mans 24 Hours-winning 499P that might come on stream earlier than the top of this 12 months’s World Endurance Championship. 

Ferdinando Cannizzo, technical director of Ferrari’s sportscar operations, said earlier than and after it retained its Le Mans crown final weekend that the Italian producer is seeking to exploit the evo joker guidelines that govern automobile growth within the Hypercar class. 

He defined that no timeline has been set for what stays an unspecified revision to the Ferrari Le Mans Hypercar and that it would come as late as the beginning of subsequent season. 

“We’re enthusiastic about introducing a joker this 12 months or subsequent 12 months,” Cannizzo mentioned between the Le Mans Take a look at Day and the beginning of working throughout race week. 

“We have not made any determination but, however we’re additional growing this joker as a result of we have recognized areas for enchancment.”

After the race, Cannizzo conceded that Toyota, with which it battled for the victory final weekend, was the quicker automobile in moist and blended circumstances however that the Ferrari “was extra aggressive within the dry”. 

“We all know the areas we wish to enhance,” he mentioned. 

“We have to be far more aggressive in all circumstances —  this race is an ideal lesson for us.”

Race winner #50 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen

Picture by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Picture

Ferrari has thus far but to make use of one of many 5 evo jokers efficiency upgrades allowed to a producer over the lifespan of a LMH or LMDh prototype. 

It said on the finish of final 12 months that it was evaluating introducing one for 2024, however confirmed forward of the season-opener in Qatar in March that it had opted towards bringing one on stream

Cannizzo said pre-Qatar that it was vital that Ferrari first “exploit the potential of the bottom automobile”  

“Earlier than we apply for any jokers we wish to perceive the final word efficiency of our automobile,” he mentioned.

A producer should apply to the WEC rule makers, the FIA and the Vehicle Membership de l’Ouest, to have the ability to take one of many evo jokers accessible to it. 

The take-up of evo jokers is just not within the public area and isn’t shared by the FIA and the ACO with the producers. 

It isn’t recognized, for instance, what number of had been utilized by Toyota for its revisions to the GR010 HYBRID LMH for the 2022 and ’23 seasons or by Peugeot for its transforming of the 9X8 LMH for ’23 after which this 12 months.

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