What’s Next For Le Mans Ultimate? Stephen Hood Explains

I'd like to talk some bigger-

Ooh

... picture stuff, but let's, let's drill down into the recent announcements.

And there's some key details in there, I think, um, which I'd love to talk about.

So I'm going to start-

Cool

... with the DLC.

In particular, six US tracks, uh, which is really cool.

Quite a surprise for the community, I think.

I think they're all locked in for Asian Le Mans series, but here we are.

Um, something outside of the ACO umbrella as well.

So there's quite a few things-

Mm

... that we could discuss here.

But firstly, is this, um...

Obviously it's, it's to give the community some really cool tracks, but is it also a move to try and broaden the simulation's, uh, appeal in America?

Yeah, I mean, starting with the Asian Le Mans thing, we, we may have even, um, you know, hinted in the past that we'd go after that, and, and, and we did.

Um, those conversations are, are still alive.

It just transpired that, um, you know, some of the circuits, and we, we license them individually, 'cause they, they don't get wrapped into the license around Le Mans Ultimate.

Right.

Some bigger motorsport series, like Formula 1, will, like, package everything up.

It's like a broadcasting deal, and they can, um, throw it over the fence.

And, um, but for, for Le Mans, the only thing that I think we get part, uh, part of that license is the hypercars, because the contracts for hypercars were, um, drafted and, and created in recent years, and they were incorporated with a view to being able to license them out.

We have to go to all the other manufacturers for the GT3s and the LMPs and individual tracks and, and do licensing deals and pay licensing fees for all of those things.

And we went to Asian Le Mans.

I'd like to talk some bigger-

Ooh

... picture stuff, but let's, let's drill down into the recent announcements.

And there's some key details in there, I think, um, which I'd love to talk about.

So I'm going to start-

Cool

... with the DLC.

In particular, six US tracks, uh, which is really cool.

Quite a surprise for the community, I think.

I think they're all locked in for Asian Le Mans series, but here we are.

Um, something outside of the ACO umbrella as well.

So there's quite a few things-

Mm

... that we could discuss here.

But firstly, is this, um...

Obviously it's, it's to give the community some really cool tracks, but is it also a move to try and broaden the simulation's, uh, appeal in America?

Yeah, I mean, starting with the Asian Le Mans thing, we, we may have even, um, you know, hinted in the past that we'd go after that, and, and, and we did.

Um, those conversations are, are still alive.

It just transpired that, um, you know, some of the circuits, and we, we license them individually, 'cause they, they don't get wrapped into the license around Le Mans Ultimate.

Right.

Some bigger motorsport series, like Formula 1, will, like, package everything up.

It's like a broadcasting deal, and they can, um, throw it over the fence.

And, um, but for, for Le Mans, the only thing that I think we get part, uh, part of that license is the hypercars, because the contracts for hypercars were, um, drafted and, and created in recent years, and they were incorporated with a view to being able to license them out.

We have to go to all the other manufacturers for the GT3s and the LMPs and individual tracks and, and do licensing deals and pay licensing fees for all of those things.

And we went to Asian Le Mans.