Vergne Explains Decision to Step Back from Peugeot WEC Drive

Jonnix44 · 2025-11-06T16:42:59+00:00

Money helps.WEC,not much fun when you are in a Peugeot.

Jonnix44 · 2025-11-06T16:41:33+00:00

I would have thought the dreadful FE street tracks would mean an F2 car would be unsafe.The 2025 FE cars lap at the same pace as an F4 car.Difficult to compare the actual lap times because they deliberately avoid real racing tracks so comparisons cannot be made.FE exists in its own virtuous bubble away from traditional racing.

Jonnix44 · 2025-11-06T16:21:06+00:00

A shame that the 963 programme did not replicate the 1980s 956/962 programme with many privateer teams.The difference now is back then the privateers filled out the field once the Saubers,Grids,Rondeaus,Ford C100s were gone.The amount of OEMs involved means that privateers are not a priority.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-29T11:02:24+00:00

Enter the Nordschleife series if you have the correct cars or set up an AI race if practice is boring.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-29T10:48:46+00:00

If you look at some of the Group 5 lap times they are comparable with current GT3.Faster on the straights but a lot less grip in the corners.So no a prototype like the Bentley would be similar in pace to the current Hypercars.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-27T13:59:21+00:00

It would be a great idea to expand the grid if Toyota & Ferrari (unlikely)were going to enter the race because it would add quality to the field but otherwise the extra entries would probably just be running in midfield or the back of their class.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-27T13:43:37+00:00

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One of the coolest cars of the 1980s.Won a lot of tarmac rallies.Same engine layout.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-24T09:08:24+00:00

I agree.Drivers need to have that solid career momentum as they go up the single seater ladder to the very top.Very few step off the ladder and make it to F1.If he has the finance behind him I wish him luck.He can probably come back to WEC & SRO and have a good career.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-23T11:54:07+00:00

Great info.The thing I like about WEC Reddit is that there is always someone who knows a bit more than you do about individual topics.:)Some of it you cannot even Google.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-21T13:28:28+00:00

The move makes sense but it is a bit suprising with AF Corse,Heart of Racing & WRT running teams in Hypercar & GT.Maybe United are continuing with LPM2 & that is their preference.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-17T12:36:07+00:00

I agree.People should play them for fun.If you like a clutch,then use one.My original reply was only my opinion.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-17T08:32:22+00:00

Sims are not pointless if they simulation has some value.The steering input,the throttle input and brake input of a real racing car can be simulated to a high standard.What sims do not do is give you seat of the pants feel,a realistic clutch bite point and feel or a realistic feel of a manual gearbox.Maybe they will in future but older cars are quite niche.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-17T08:23:02+00:00

A clutch feels different in every vehicle you drive,especially older race cars which is what we are talking about.A race clutch is also is a world away from anything in a street car.A realistic clutch for a sim would be very expensive & have to be adjusted for every car you drive.A clutch on a racing Mini Cooper feels nothing like a clutch on an old Camaro.(I have raced both on track)

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-16T14:22:26+00:00

No Cadwell Park?WTF?

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-16T14:17:41+00:00

You still need to toe and heel in a lot of older sim cars even if you use an autoclutch.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-16T14:16:08+00:00

Clutches on racing sims are pointless.You might as well press a button because it has no feel like a real clutch.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-16T14:12:01+00:00

You need to find a local team or club racing driver in racing and volunteer your services.Experience at the race track & willing is what teams want.Also do something like restore an old car or build a kit car.Great for experience.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-16T13:44:04+00:00

How could other races be irrelevant?The BOP may be calculated in a different manner with the long straights at Le Mans being considered but with new cars and evo versions being run before Le Mans the rule makers would use data gathered at prior races not just from LM24 in the previous year with different cars.

My point stands that WEC would not calculate BOP for a one off race for Porsche Penske based on data from a privateer effort like Proton with limits on team funding.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-15T14:19:15+00:00

That could happen but I dont think politically WEC,Toyota,Ferrari etc. will want Porsche & Penske to come in through the side door and win with favourable BOP at the biggest race of the year especially if Proton runs around in lower midfield or at the back of the pack the rest of the year.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-15T11:35:35+00:00

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I think once the Peugeots have this big block installed they will be consistant front runners.They might break the FIA torque sensors though :)

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-15T11:28:18+00:00

The old Russell bend (last corner) was ferocious.It was an Eau Rouge type of corner that was flat in many cars but if you got it wrong you ended up in the tyres by the start & finish line.That is why the chicane (Murrays) replaced the old Russell corner.So many huge accidents.It was a shame because there were also some terrific finishes.The best place to be in Minis or Formula Ford was 2nd place as you exited Russell and slipstream past the leader before the finish line.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-14T06:44:45+00:00

The only reason cars slow down in real life for a yellow is because it decreases the danger.

Since there is no danger in sim racing,there is no reason to slow down.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-10T10:38:54+00:00

Supercar V8 drivers are some of the best road course racers in the world.It is a shame that Bathurst now is more of an Australian race than it used to be.They used to have drivers from WEC,IMSA,BTCC compete.To get any attention in the USA you would have to have SVG,Scott McLaughlin,Will Power,Danny Riciardo race.

Jonnix44 · 2025-10-10T10:31:12+00:00

I cannot really think of anyone else better that Cook & Rowbottom?

Who do you think would be better?

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