Sequence promoter the Car Membership de l’Ouest has harassed the significance of capping the growth of the collection, at the least quickly, following its return to its conventional eight occasions in 2024 after a contraction ensuing from COVID.
“It isn’t within the plan at the moment so as to add a race, due to the associated fee,” ACO president Pierre Fillon instructed Motorsport.com. “Crucial factor is to watch out concerning the prices even when the WEC is rising.”
The WEC organisation has made statements prior to now suggesting that the collection may return to the nine-round calendar of 2016 and 2017 and even develop to as many as 10 races.
That situation was outlined by collection boss Frederic Lequien as he laid out the roadmap throughout 2022 for the return to eight races.
Fillon once more harassed the numerous curiosity from tracks and promoters in internet hosting WEC races.
“We’ve got plenty of demand for races from circuits,” he defined, mentioning Silverstone’s curiosity in bringing again the UK WEC date, which was a fixture on the schedule from 2012 till the 2019/20 season.
The 2025 calendar must be revealed through the week of the Le Mans 24 Hours subsequent month on the ACO’s conventional press convention.
It’s anticipated that the schedule can be largely much like this season’s except a return to Monza after Imola hosted the Italian race this yr whereas the house of the Italian Grand Prix undergoes vital works to its pit and paddock services.
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Which means Austin is ready to host the US spherical once more, regardless of the curiosity from Roger Penske to run the WEC race on the street course on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The boss of the Porsche Penske Motorsport squad mentioned as just lately as March that he didn’t count on that ambition to be fulfilled subsequent yr as the results of scheduling difficulties.
Holding the schedule at eight races has the assist of the producers.
BMW M Motorsport head Andreas Roos instructed Motorsport.com: “We’re initially of a brand new period of sportscar racing and first we’ve got to see that it’s working and turns into sustainable, after which possibly can take into consideration one other race.
“If you happen to ask me now, I feel the eight races is sweet and must be saved for subsequent yr.”
Thomas Laudenbach, boss of Porsche Motorsport, supplied the same viewpoint, suggesting that the primary precedence must be to extend “the advertising and marketing, the visibility, the fan base”.
“Then, I feel you’ll be able to improve the variety of races, however for the second we’ve got to watch out.”