ByKolles Out Testing In Brno

ByKolles has been out testing this week with its ENSO CLM P1/01 Gibson at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic.

The Austrian team, which is not a full-season entrant in the 2019/20 FIA WEC season, turned laps on Wednesday and Thursday this week with Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Tom Dillmann.

The team ran on Wednesday afternoon and the whole of Thursday. An exact milage figure is not known at this point.

ByKolles, upon confirming that it would not enter a car for the full 2019/20 season, stated that it planned to enter as a race-by-race entrant this season.

This is despite the fact that regulations state that LMP1 teams are not allowed to enter cars race-by-race unless they have a full-season car. Article 3.2.3 in the 2019/20 FIA WEC Sporting Regulations reads: “a competitor wishing to enter in the LMP1 category must take part in the LMP1 FIA World Endurance Championship.”

It is therefore unlikely that the team can return to the FIA WEC before the 2020/21 season, when it has plans to enter the ‘Hypercar Prototype’ ranks with a brand new car. It also said back in June that LMP1 car will continue to be updated and developed ahead of being entered in the WEC in 2020/21 together with the team’s ‘hypercar’.

Photos courtesy of Štěpán Koutník