The first Hypercar Balance of Performance tables for the 2022 FIA WEC season have seen the factory Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrids dealt a significant change with the speed above which their hybrid boost can be deployed raised – effectively reducing the contribution per lap that is available from the car’s KERS system.
The initial spec and BoP for the Toyotas saw the cars permitted to deploy their hybrid boost above 120 km/h on slick rubber with adjustment made when the cars were on rain tyres with activation speeds from 140-160km/h. For Sebring that deployment speed is raised to 190 km/h on both dry and wet rubber.
The move comes after the Toyotas dominated the 2021 FIA WEC on pace, with Le Mans seeing the Toyotas producing lap times in qualifying very substantially quicker than the opposition from Alpine (with their grandfathered non-Hybrid LMP1) and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (with their non Hybrid SCG 007 LMH).
SCG’s team owner James Glickenhaus made his feelings clear post-season that the peak performance of the Toyotas made his cars uncompetitive and only registered for a full season return after reassurances that the Balance of Performance for the class would be revisited.
