OPINION: The Qatar season-opener broke new ground for the World Endurance Championship as its longest non-Le Mans round in over a decade. Has the time come to go the other way and revisit an experiment last seen in 2019?
This month’s Qatar 1812km season-opener was the longest ‘regular’ race the World Endurance Championship has hosted since the series was relaunched in 2012. That is if you don’t count the time when the WEC field joined what was then known as the American Le Mans Series for the Sebring 12 Hours almost 12 years to this day for its modern-era reboot.
Lasting just short of the 10-hour time limit, the Qatar race was considerably longer than the Sebring 1000 Miles fixture it replaced this year, as well as the season-closing eight-hour round in neighbouring Bahrain. The WEC had previously stuck to standard six-hour races for all events besides its flagship Le Mans 24 Hours spectacle.
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