FIA World Motor Sport Council acknowledges milestones in final meeting of 2022 in Bologna

Sporting and Technical Regulations for the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship were approved.

  In order to make qualifying easier to follow, to guarantee the competitors sufficient driving time and to broaden the window of optimal conditions for setting times, Qualifying will be composed of three separate 15-minute sessions, with a dedicated session per class, as opposed to the previous format of two sessions, one for prototypes (including Hypercar and LMP2-classes) and one for GT cars.

Manufacturers competing for the FIA Hypercar World Endurance Championship must enter at least one and a maximum of two cars. Any additional cars from the same manufacturer must be entered in the new Hypercar Team’s World Cup classification.

As part of the tyre road map developed in consultation with tyre manufacturers, any form of tyre heating will not be permitted in 2023. Also as part of this road map, the amount of available tyre specifications in the Hypercar class will be reduced to two specifications per circuit in 2023 (and three for Le Mans), and to a single specification per circuit (and two for Le Mans) the following year.

Further principles of the future GT class in the FIA World Endurance Championship, incoming in 2024, were approved. The class based on the current FIA GT3 technical platform will be called LMGT3. In line with the regulations of the Hypercar class, torque meter sensors will be mandatory in order to enable live monitoring of powertrain performance. Dedicated bodywork conversion kits will be permitted but not mandatory.

The homologation period for the LMP2 cars was extended until the end of 2025.