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Hypercar Potentially Set for Success Handicaps in WEC 2026

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The World Endurance Championship could introduce success handicaps in the Hypercar division for its 2026 season.The new sporting rules for the series next year contain the provision to extend the use of the performance-balancing measure from LMGT3 to the top class. But the FIA, which runs the WEC together with Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, has stressed that ...Keep reading
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Hypercar potentially set for success handicaps in WEC 2026

Success handicaps featured in WEC this year with the LMGT3 class

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FIA/ACO: “No Decision” on Use of Success Handicap in Hypercar

Photo: Fabrizio Boldoni/DPPI The FIA and ACO have stated that “no decision” has been made on whether success handicaps will be introduced into the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship next year, amid a provision in the 2026 sporting regulations that would allow the governing bodies to utilize such a measure. Confirmed in the publication of the 2026 sporting regs last Friday, the system, which would use power and/or weight adjustmen…

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sportscar365.com broke the news in on Friday, October 24, 2025.
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