A perdiction for LMDH

[u/TheWawa_24]

What manufactures do you think will join LMDH

My guess

Porshe

Mazda

Hyundai

Lexus

Cadillac

Acura

Who do you think will join

[u/-Jack-The-Stripper]

Mazda, Acura, Cadillac, Ford, and Porsche are my safe-ish predictions. I wanna hear more from manufacturers like Hyundai and Lexus before getting my hopes up.

[u/TheWawa_24 → u/-Jack-The-Stripper]

I also heard that if Porsche joins Ferrari might also

Source radio Le mans

[u/-Jack-The-Stripper → u/TheWawa_24]

That would be sick as hell

[u/Ironman1690 → u/TheWawa_24]

Ferrari said they won’t do LMDH because they want to build the car themselves, they’re currently looking into LMH. I bet Porsche does the same thing, they don’t want to get dusted by the HyperCars.

[u/428scj]

GG has sounded optimistic on Ford on TWISC. Sportscar365 podcast has not. I hope GG is right.

[u/-Jack-The-Stripper → u/428scj]

I really think Ford will be there. After the success of the GT program, they now have an easy path to try and win overall at Le Mans. They’re going to try their hand at that for sure.

[u/Ironman1690 → u/-Jack-The-Stripper]

They won’t have any chance to win at Le Mans overall in LMDH. They’d have to build their own LMH car to have a chance at that.

[u/busman25 → u/Ironman1690]

Are the two classes not going to be BoP'd? I'm pretty sure that's why it's called joint regulations.

[u/Ironman1690 → u/busman25]

Oh they’ll try, but it’s going to be as bad as when IMSA tried bogging down the DPi’s so the LMP2 teams could try to play catch-up all race or like trying to hold the Toyota’s back in LMP1 to keep the customer teams close. It simply doesn’t work. An in house built chassis is going to be vastly superior to the spec nonsense LMDH will be using and I’ll call it right now that they won’t stand a chance. They’ll I give it a year of joint racing before they realize LMDH just isn’t on the same level as LMH and separate the classes like they should be already.

[u/aar48]

Porsche, GM, Ford, Acura, and Lexus. Mazda and Hyundai I believe are also reasonably safe bets to be there.

[u/Richard_In_NYC]

Cadillac, Acura, Mazda, Glickenhaus, Porsche, Ford, Hyundai, Lexus

[u/TheWawa_24 → u/Richard_In_NYC]

I thank glickenhaus is confiremed for LMH

[u/zyeta_S117]

not porsche as formula e

prob mazda biased on possible rx9 concept or on current dpi

not likely in lmdh hyundai but may be gt3 with a stinger of sorts

big maybe on lexus more likely to stay gt3

prob cadi

prob acura

[u/dannytr1 → u/zyeta_S117]

Porsche has concepts already.. id say they are 95% and more likely that Cadillac.

[u/rsl20 → u/dannytr1]

In my opinion, Caddy and Genassi getting together next year is almost a commitment to LMDh in the future.

[u/dannytr1 → u/rsl20]

Ganassi will be with ford.. it is a good relationship already and I'd have to assume they've been working on it. If not, then most likely Cadillac.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd say only GM and maybe Acura. If any other manufacturers were looking at it COVID killed that, plus LMH makes the whole thing obsolete anyway.

[u/TheWawa_24 → u/[deleted]]

I think Coivd Actually helps this because It is a lot Cheaper than LMH and you can still run le man and you also run Rolex 24 and sebring

[u/IndecisiveRock]

Porsche, mazda, acura, alpine, hyundai, and corvette replacing cadillac.

[u/V8-Turbo-Hybrid]

Mazda mightn’t join LMDh as their their current financial condition. They will only race one car in next year, it seems Mazda unlikely staying in top class in future.