They announced joining Formula E in 2020, and the future of the hypercar category was not fully clear at that time, LMDh was announced also in 2020, I guess their Formula E deal was already settled before. In the late 2010s WEC didn’t look very interesting. Porsche left it in 2017, the only factory team was Toyota in LMP1
I never understood why they went Formula E vs WEC it seemed like WEC would be a better fit for selling their cars
They announced joining Formula E in 2020, and the future of the hypercar category was not fully clear at that time, LMDh was announced also in 2020, I guess their Formula E deal was already settled before. In the late 2010s WEC didn’t look very interesting. Porsche left it in 2017, the only factory team was Toyota in LMP1