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Jamie Klein

Glickenhaus doubts environmental benefits of WEC tyre warming ban

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.

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