Allied Racing is preparing for a possible involvement in the Endurance World Championship (WEC). Jan Kasperlik’s racing team, which has already made a name for itself in this year’s ADAC GT Masters, can imagine taking advantage of the expansion of the GT3 class towards Le Mans.
As is well known, Kasperlik does not do things by halves when planning an engagement. Appropriate preparation is taken into account. He says to “Motorsport-Total.com”: “We have announced that we are starting the commercial position phase. That means we are now calculating what such a WEC season 2024 with all the overseas assignments will cost.”
“This decision or the budgeting will be completed this year. Then we have until February/March 2023 to secure the financing. That means the decision as to whether we will do WEC 2024 will be made in February 2023.”
The WEC would be an expensive undertaking for Allied Racing, which has so far limited its activities to Europe. The travel costs alone make up a multiple. A GTE-Am season currently costs around three million euros per vehicle.
GT3 vehicles slightly cheaper
The GT3 vehicles are slightly cheaper, but many fixed costs, such as traveling independently of the car, remain the same. Kasperlik is currently expecting a cost of two million, but the final sum will depend on the number of races. At the moment there are only six races a year. This is to be increased again from 2023.
According to Jan Kasperlik, it would take eight to ten months of preparation, i.e. a large part of 2023, to take the step into the WEC. At the moment there is no decision on whether the team will do it.
And depending on the availability of the 992 generation of the Porsche 911 GT3 R, one of the existing GT3 commitments – GT World Challenge (GTWC) Endurance or ADAC GT Masters – might have to be sacrificed. Ultimately, however, a lot also depends on whether you would get a starting place at all, because the booming hypercar class will take up a lot of space in the field.
Allied Racing has been competing in the ADAC GT Masters since the 2022 season. The team has some recent talent, including Joel Sturm, multiple Porsche Cup race winner Bastian Buus and current GT4 star Vincent Andronaco.