Genesis: Qatar Postponement Both Helpful, Hindrance
Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Genesis Magma Racing team principal Cyril Abiteboul has said the postponement of the Qatar FIA World Endurance Championship opener brought both positives and negatives for the manufacturer’s debut season. The WEC was due to kick off with an 1812km, ten-hour race in Qatar at the end of March, but this was postponed until October amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. This gave Genesis an extra three weeks before the new season opener at Imola, which Abiteboul said was very helpful from a manufacturing point of view as parts for the GMR-001 Hypercar were still being constructed. “It was going to be very tight, very marginal to be fully ready for Qatar in particular in terms of supply chain because we pushed very late the development, we pushed very late the homologation,” he told Sportscar365. “For that respect, governance was very helpful to make it very late. “But, on the flip side, it puts massive constraint on...