24h Le Mans
The FIA Endurance Commission Endurance has published a driver categorization list updated for the 2015 season, a key document for the composition of driver line-ups, and now singular for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the FIA GT3 and the IMSA - the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship's regulatory body.
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Photo : Arnaud CORNILLEAU / ACO
Though the composition of drivers is loose in the LM GTE Pro class and barely restrictive in LM P1, in which only Bronze drivers are not allowed, the same cannot be said for the LM P2 and LM GTE Am classes. In the first, a driver line-up of two or three drivers must be composed of at least one Silver or Bronze driver, whereas in the second, the same driver line-up must include at least one Bronze driver and one Bronze or Silver driver.
Many criteria such as age, achievements, experience, etc. facilitate the list's establishment as it is, divided into four classes: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To simplify, the two first groups are made up of professional drivers whereas the last two include gentlemen-drivers.
2015 Driver Categorization List
Cécile Bonardel / ACO - Translation by Nikki Ehrhardt / ACO
PHOTO: LE MANS (SARTHE, FRANCE), CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES, 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, SUNDAY JUNE 23 2013, PODIUM. Martin Plowman, victorious in the LM P2 class in Le Mans in 2013, will become a "Platinum" driver in 2015.
