WEC Regulators Pull Hypercar BoP Data From Public View for 2026

Overview

• - The FIA and ACO told media Thursday at Imola that detailed Balance of Performance tables will no longer be published, with figures such as weight, power and energy allocation shared only with teams under confidence.
• - BoP in Hypercar uses two steps that start with wind‑tunnel homologation at Windshear and then apply a rolling, race‑data adjustment, with all cars re‑checked for 2026 and last year’s data still considered valid.
• - BoP will be tailored to each event rather than fixed for the season because the WEC has only eight rounds and tracks place different demands on the cars.
• - Officials said there will be no BoP changes during a race weekend, and the approach for the 24 Hours of Le Mans remains undecided to discourage sandbagging in the early rounds.
• - A proposed Success Handicap was dropped to avoid extra variables, and newcomers such as Genesis will start with cautious BoP based on homologation until they produce representative race data.