{"id":1410622,"date":"2024-04-02T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?post_type=issue_content&p=1410622"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:57:19","slug":"ferrari-weighs-in-on-bop-concerns","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/may-2024\/115\/ferrari-weighs-in-on-bop-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari weighs in on BoP concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With an influx of new Hypercar manufacturers, it would appear that the good times are rolling for WEC \u2013 but not all is well within the paddock.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Le Mans<\/a> 24 Hours winner Ferrari<\/a> is deeply unhappy with the latest set of Balance of Performance (BoP) adjustments.<\/p>\n

WEC\u2019s BoP is the opaque and slightly mysterious technical system which, via stipulated weight and power output adjustments, is supposed to eliminate any advantage gained or lost by choosing a particular engine and chassis philosophy. It often causes controversy.<\/p>\n

\"Ferrari<\/p>\n

The changes for the opening Qatar round implied the lighter LMDh cars would apparently be favoured over heavier Le Mans<\/a> Hypercars (LMH). The race was subsequently dominated by the five Porsche 963 LMDh machines, running at a minimum weight of 1048kg.Meanwhile, Ferrari and Toyota were WEC\u2019s heavyweights \u2013 1075kg and 1089kg respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous \u2013 we can\u2019t imagine why this choice [has been made],\u201d said Ferrari team boss Antonello Coletta. \u201cIt is very stupid that we are putting weight on the car. Also, we have drivers that make more and more sacrifices to lose 1kg, 2kg. This is dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

With more changes anticipated for Round 2 in Imola, expect the BoP debate to run and run<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":14862,"featured_media":1410623,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118724],"tags":[36746,34098,130393,124797,639],"issue_decade":[122153],"issue_year":[132287],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1410622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1410622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410955,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/1410622\/revisions\/1410955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410622"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=1410622"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=1410622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}