There’s always been an elephant in the room in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship since the start of what we have quickly come to call a golden age. And it’s the fact that cars built to two different rulesets - Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh - compete against each other at the front end of the world’s premier sportscar series. But now there appears to be a real desire among the manufacturers to move towards common regulations or something approaching them.
That process will start this week with the first of the follow-up meetings to the announcement made at the Le Mans 24 Hours WEC round in June that the life of the Hypercar division will be prolonged by another three years until the end of 2032. That came 12 months after the two-year extension through to the conclusion of 2029.
