
Speaking ahead of the start of the new LMDh era of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, HPD president David Salters said his team had been given “a lot of freedom” and took “quite a lot of risk” in the 2.4-liter design, which is paired with the first electrical hybrid system in top-class American racing.
“In the back of our mind, we thought this might be the last one that we really make for racing, I don’t know,” said Salters. “Among the brief I gave our boys and girls, it was ‘let’s do the best we can because it may be the last one we put pen to paper on for real racing’ – it’ll be interesting to see what happens.