SOPHIA FLOERSCH - 3rd round of the FIA WEC in MONZA w/ Richard Mille Racing | LMP2 | 2021

WEC is getting bigger and bigger. 2022 many new brands will enter in LMDh or Hypercar. GTE and LMP2 will probably keep having the biggest starting grids.

Most important fact: It's noon sense to compare the classes - results, times and so on...It's like F1, F2 and F3 race in the same race. Prototypes with different concepts against GTE - comparable with GT3. Fact: None of the race cars here will cost under 500k Euro new.

Any idea what the price for a team for one season or one race event is? In LMP2 you count with more then ONE million euro per car for the 24H of Le Mans.

Any idea how many mechanics and engineers work for one car? There is a lot of knowhow input. As a driver you can not hide anything with all those available parameters. Every single lap is visable over live data. Every team knows exactly what each driver does out there on track. As a driver you receive a 30min debrief after every session to know about your own performance. Cause of that reason it's pretty funny that coach potatos then analyse for what many people work here. Also the press doesn't get any of this info. Not just the quickest lap is important, there are many factors. For example, fuel and tire management with the result of a pit stop, unluck with FCY or Safety Car, you can gain or loose many positions if you're lucky or unlucky, traffic management, spins or meetings with the gravel should not happen and of course technical issues are the worst.

Cause of that reason endurance racing is really complicated and if you don't know every single detail, you shouldn't judge. The hype for a racing driver are definitely the cars. I really enjoy driving the LMP2, close to a F2. No ABS; which makes braking easy as a software controls everything until the apex. Everyone can brake with ABS, thats's why you have it in road cars. To make good brake shapes and trail the brakes right, is hard work. You have to feel the downforce in quick corners, you need balls. That are skills to drive such cars on the limit and not have any help from system with a lot higher speed. That's what I love.

How many ex f1 drivers are racing at WEC in Monza? Who finds all drivers?
Thats the LMP2 starting grid for the 3rd round of FIA WEC in Monza:

#1 Richard Mille Racing
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Sophia Flörsch
Tatiana Calderon

#20 High Class Racing
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Jan Magnussen
Anders Fjordbach
Dennis Andersen

#21 DragonSpeed
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Henrik Hedman
Juan Pablo Montoya
Ben Hanley

22 United Autosport
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Phil Hanson
Fabio Scherer
Filipe Albuquerque

#28 Jota Sport
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Tom Blomqvist
Stoffel Vandoorne
Sean Gelael

#29 Racing Team Nederland
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Job van Uitert

#31 W Racing Team
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Robin Frijns
Ferdinand Habsburg
Charles Milesi

#34 Inter Europol Competition
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Renger van der Zande
Alex Brundle
Kuba Smiechowski

#38 Jota Sport
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Anthony Davidson
Antonio Felix da Costa
Roberto González

#44 ARC Bratislava
Ligier JS P2 (Gibson)
Miroslav Konopka
Olivier Webb
Matej Konopka

#70 Realteam Racing
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Norman Nato
Esteban Garcia
Loic Duval

#82 Risi Competizione
Oreca 07 (Gibson)
Ryan Cullen
Oliver Jarvis
Felipe Nasr

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SCHAEFFLER / www.schaeffler.de
SCHAEFFLER-PARAVAN / www.paravan.de
RICHARD MILLE / www.richardmille.com
SAMSUNG / Teamgalaxy
MOTUL / www.motul.de
HRX / www.hrxracewear.co.uk
BELL Helmets / www.bellracing.eu
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