
Last December, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the FIA announced that tyre warmers would be scrapped from both the WEC and European Le Mans Series this year in a move "designed to reduce the teams’ environmental impact".
As such, the respective qualifying sessions for both the prototypes - including Hypercar and LMP2 - and GTE cars will be extended to 15 minutes to allow drivers additional time to warm their tyres up.