► This year includes more Hypercars than everThis year’s Le Mans promised to be one of the most exciting in years, and the 2023 running of the 24-hour race hasn’t disappointed.
There’s still over six hours to go, but it’s already proving to be a classic: we’ve seen some incredible stints and some serious heartbreak. The weather has also stepped up too, delivering plot twists so dramatic they feel staged.
This year’s Le Mans has also been a race of attrition, with a significantly greater number of unforced errors than previous years. So why is Le Mans 2023 breaking hearts and minds more than any race in recent memory? According to Hertz Jota team boss Sam Hignett, it’s down to a few factors:‘I think there’s a number of things,’ Hignett said to CAR magazine over breakfast. ‘First, the weather has been horrendous.
‘The landscape of the race has changed,’ Hignett added. ‘It used to be easy in [LMP2], you’d be told once every two hours, two hours are coming. Now you listen to the [LMP2] radio, and it’s every five minutes, “Hypercar coming, Hypercar coming.” So it’s, it’s just workload on the driver as well. You’ve got to be aware of everything that’s going on.’At the same time, a more competitive Hypercar field has forced LMH drivers to race flat-out and take more risks when scything through traffic.
‘There is the added pressure, it’s the 100th one everybody wants to win it,’ admitted Hignett. ‘There’s a ridiculous number of spectators here. All of that adds to the pressure on the drivers.’ More cars, and more at stake for teams and drivers? Get used to this scarier, faster and more aggressive version of Le Mans, says Hignett: ‘I think the reality is [that] this is probably what Le Mans is going to be like for a few years now.
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