The numbers may have been small but the chase for the LMP2 titles went down to the wire at the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo.
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SMP Racing added the 2014 FIA WEC team Championship to its ELMS title wins in both GTE and GTC.
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Sergey Zlobin took the drivers Championship after the SMP team shuffled driver squads at Le Mans leaving Zlobin the only full season driver to complete all 8 races in the #27 car!
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G-Drive Racing set 7 out of 8 pole positions in the year and won 4 of the 8 races. It was also the only team to score points at every race.
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KCMG took the other three races in its first full year in the WEC.
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SMP Racing scored maximum points for being the first WEC points-scoring LMP2 car home at Le Mans and also scored second place points after finishing behind the ESM HPD at COTA.
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Jota Sport then was the other winners of a WEC round this season in its Zytek Nissan though scored no points.
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Dunlop-shod and Nissan-engined cars therefore won all 8 races.
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With the exception of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 9 different cars appeared on a WEC grid during the season (G-Drive’s Morgan and Ligier Nissans, SMP's pair of ORECA Nissans, KCMG’s full-season ORECA Nissan, OAK Racing’s Morgan Judd, both of ESM’s HPDs and the Jota Zytek Nissan).
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That means five different chassis and three different engines appeared during the year (again with the exception of Le Mans).
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Only SMP Racing brought Michelins to the seven 6 hour races, all the remaining runners used Dunlop tyres.
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14 points-scoring drivers appeared in LMP2 this season plus 15 other drivers in non points-scoring entries (not including Le Mans).
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KCMG’s Richard Bradley and Matt Howson finished as top LMP2 drivers in the overall Drivers World Championship standings, 13th in the points table on 30 points, half a point clear of Zlobin.
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G-Drive scored the world’s first victory for the new Ligier JS P2 Coupe at Fuji.
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Keiko Ihara became the first female driver to appear on a WEC podium with third place at Fuji in the non points-scoring #35 OAK Racing Morgan Judd, repeating the feat in Bahrain.
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In the 24 WEC races so far ORECA chassis have won 13 (for 4 different teams), Morgans have won 4, HPDs 3, Ligier and Zytek 2 apiece.
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Nissan engines have won 21 races, Honda three.
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Roman Rusinov is the driver with most LMP2 class wins to his name, seven so far, these scored in three different chassis (ORECA, Morgan and Ligier).
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Nicolas Minassian is the only man in to have scored LMP2 podium finishes in each of the three years so far of WEC competition.
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COTA was the first race since the start of the WEC that did not feature a Morgan chassis on the grid.
Graham Goodwin
