Looking at the various
photos and sketches of this class, the rocker sill has been disappearing, freeing up the front wheels. This has been a very gradual and incremental transition.
Looks like many of the rule changes are intended to combine North American racing with
rest of world endurance racing by 2025.
Published on Saturday January 25th 2020
New LMDh class first step to common WEC and IMSA SportsCar rules
https://www.autosport.com/wec/news/148016/new-class-first-step-to-common-wecimsa-rules
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The new LMDh class that will allow cars from the IMSA SportsCar Championship to race in the World Endurance Championship is the first step towards common rules across both series.
IMSA and WEC promoter and Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l'Ouest outlined a vision on the LMDh announcement on Friday for a further convergence of the regulations by the middle of the new decade.
The LMDh cars, based on the next generation of LMP2 machinery, will be able to go up against LM Hypercars in the WEC from the start of the 2021/22 season before coming on-line in IMSA in 2022, but both organisations have stated that the longer-term aim of their latest accord is to create one set of rules.
The earliest it is likely to happen would be 2025 after the initial five-year commitment to the LM Hypercar class that kicks off this September at the beginning of the 2020/21 WEC campaign.
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A lot was going on in March, did they finalize anything?
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Fillon stressed that there is a desire for LM Hypercars to be able to join the IMSA series, but he explained that no decision will be made until the LMDh rules have been finalised and then announced over the Sebring IMSA/WEC double-header weekend in March.
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