It’s LMDh time on Automobilista 2

The hypercar era of the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship is gaining popularity pretty quickly, and the sim racing market isn’t taking too long to include the new prototype era in their titles, and REIZA Studios released a part of it in its Endurance Pack Part 1 DLC for Automobilista 2, but they didn’t limit the latest release to just LMDh machinery, even if it’s the focal point of it.
 
In fact, the content released last week had the cars in one DLC while a track was in the other one, with the Circuit de La Sarthe, home of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, being a totally separate DLC from the Endurance Pack 1, but along with the more than 13 km of closed and public roads that appear every June, the Circuit Bugatti, which is how the Le Mans complex operates during the rest of the year, is included. While the larger circuit might not need presentations, Circuit Bugatti is usually the home for the other 24 hour competitions at Le Mans, like the 24 Heures Motos.
 
The circuit also used to be home of the FFSA GT championship and the turning point for the ACO to recreate the European Le Mans Series, as the 2003 1000 km of Le Mans acted like the Race of a Thousand Years for the Asian-Pacific Le Mans Series in order to promote the series new format, which popularized 1000 km endurance races in the LMS and ELMS, which subsequently turned into 6 hour races at the start of the 2010s.
 

As for the cars in the Endurance Pack Part 1 DLC, count with 3 LMDh models and 4 new GT3 cars, which were  separated from the GT3s already in game into a GT3 Gen2 class in AMS2. While the BMW M4 GT3, the Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo and the Porsche 992 GT3R are pretty much everywhere with multiple simulators having them, the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo appeared before only in Assetto Corsa Competizione with aero and reliability improvements over the first iteration of the 720S.
 

As for the LMDh field, the Porsche 963 appears with the BMW M-Hybrid V8 and the Cadillac V-Series.R, which lead the way into IMSA’s field in place of the DPi class. Hybrid system simulation is there, powering the rear wheels with the respective combustion engines and is flexible as to allow mode selection to recharge energy faster or deploy full power, but REIZA Studios stated that the full simulation isn’t still there, which would put it in compliance with the limits regulated to the spec in both IMSA WSC and the FIA WEC.
 
Both the Endurance Pack Part 1 and Le Mans DLCs are available to be acquired via Steam on PC like the full game, and it is expected that the follow-up to the Endurance Pack will feature the remaining LMDh models, like the Lamborghini SC63, Alpine A424_B and the Acura ARX-06, while also including the LMP2 and LMP3 classes along with more GTs, and since the development update revealed the lean towards a more Latin flavor in the last classes, it might be possible that the cars competing in Império Endurance Brasil will be featured, like the Ligier JS P320 Trackday Spec, which varies a bit from the ACO spec.
 
IMAGES: Automobilista 2 in-game screenshots