2024 WEC Season Review with World Champion Kevin Estre

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Kevin Turner sits with Gary Watkins and Haydn Cobb to review the 2024 World Endurance Championship season. In the studio, the trio discuss whether 2024 was the year the "Golden Age" of Sportscars truly arrived as Toyota was joined in the winner's circle by Ferrari and Porsche, and how the German manufacturer had such a consistent season, and of course, the Balance of Performance that shapes the series. Joining us to bring his perspective on the year is 2024 World Champion Kevin Estre, who talks about how Porsche's difficult 2023 set them up for this year's success, why they weren't able to replicate that form into the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and his aspirations to win IMSA's 24 Hours of Daytona in January. There's also a discussion on the other teams and where they stand, such as BMW knocking on the door in Fuji, Peugeot's new car not really working as planned, the coming and going of Lamborghini and Isotta, and the future as Aston Martin and Genesis prepare to enter the Hypercar class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.7	Well, it comes to the end of a very long season, although not so long is the World Endurance Championship with eight rounds.
1:16.6	And we are going to now look back at that season with Gary Watkins and Hayden Cobb to go over what could be, I think maybe one of the best sports car season for some time. We'll get to that in a moment.
1:20.6	But Hayden, you've just done, you've just got the top 50 drivers of the year out on all sport.com.
1:25.6	How's it going? Does everyone hate us yet? No, there's
1:28.1	generally been fairly positive reaction, but I'm sure there'll be somebody where they're
1:32.4	gang onto and go, why isn't this person there? But that's just the nature of the beast.
1:36.3	Exactly. No, there are for sports car fans, there are quite a few sports car drivers on the list,
1:42.1	and there's a pretty good, pretty quite a few who aren't on the list
1:45.6	as well no all right gary you can't feel that that's gary wakins everyone how are you doing gary
1:50.0	i'm okay yeah i'm only got one um uh message so far about the top 50 uh on my phone and it was
1:57.7	it was an encouraging uh guy happy you know i have from one of the drivers on
2:03.5	the list yes and i have had uh calls on Thursday morning on publication of the top 50 before from
2:11.4	irate drivers so uh or confused drivers or whatever you want to say confused iused I can understand because it does take a bit of
2:18.7	working out sometimes which is why we now make the point of trying to explain it.
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