• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I never understood why they went Formula E vs WEC it seemed like WEC would be a better fit for selling their cars

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      1 day ago

      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

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      13 hours ago

      Probably depends if the team in its entirety folds or gets sold. Maybe McLaren owner Bahrain sells to Saudi Arabia and the entry becomes the Neom FE Team.