The 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours is over, it was a blast overall. Nothing compares to this event, have a look at our Gallery from Mike Widdowson of MJW Media.
Silverstone returning to the WEC calendar? As we approached Le Mans when we know the calendar would be confirmed for 2026, multiple sources had hinted that it could be the year we see Silverstone return, some even saying there is a deal in place. With the ever growing popularity of the World Endurance Championship and sportscar […]
Ferrari’s satellite 499P scored victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a late charge from Porsche denied the Italian manufacturer a clean sweep of the podium. Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson came through aboard the No. 83 AF Corse car to beat the factory Ferraris in a race that was mostly […]
Check out the full entry list for the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours, the 93rd running of the French endurance classic and the blue riband round of the 2025 World Endurance Championship. A total of eight manufacturers will compete in the Hypercar category, with newcomer Aston Martin joining last year’s winner Ferrari, record-holder Porsche, WEC […]
A year on from Porsche’s famous 1-2-3 finish in the 2024 running of the Qatar 1812KM, Ferrari and AF Corse achieved the same feat tonight under the floodlights with its trio of 499Ps to kick off the 2025 FIA WEC season. It was an astonishing result for the Italian marque, which benefitted from the challenges […]
Ferdinand Habsburg could miss the second round of the FIA WEC at Imola after sustaining a back injury from a testing accident at Motorland Aragon. “On the afternoon of March 27, 2024, during the A424 test session in Motorland (Aragon), driver Ferdinand Habsburg had an accident at Turn 7,” a statement supplied by Alpine read. […]
The No. 6 crew of Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Andre Lotterer sealed the German manufacturer’s first WEC win since 2017, and the first-ever in the series for a LMDh car, surviving a late scare when Estre had to make an emergency stop to replace a number plate. Porsche claim the first win of the LMGT3 era
The FIA World Endurance Championship is back on track this weekend with the third Superseason race at Silverstone. Traditionally the season’s opening race, in 2018 the Tourist Trophy has been moved to high summer after the Le Mans 24 Hours. Five Ferraris will be competing, two in the GTE-Pro class and three in the GTE-Am.
Since the start of the Super Season a series of fun, easy-to-understand cartoons has appeared which explains a bit more to new fans and followers about the WEC and endurance racing. If you haven’t seen them before now, here’s a reminder.
The FIA World Endurance Championship welcomed numerous new teams for the Super Season which made their series’ debuts at Spa-Francorchamps earlier this month.
We came away from the 6 Hours of Spa with a sixth-place finish in the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship with Aston Martin Racing on the competition debut of the new Vantage GTE. From our side it was a weekend of trying to perfect our execution and trying to focus on the … Continue reading → ...
Weiron Tan was denied a deserved podium finish on his FIA World Endurance Championship debut at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend (3-5 May), but despite the disappointment, the highly-rated Malaysian Chinese ace nonetheless took ‘plenty of positives’ from the experience as he revs up towards the biggest race of his burgeoning career to-date. Competing as the first … Continue reading → ...
Gustavo Menezes proved his pace and potential on a hugely impressive LMP1 class debut in the fiercely-disputed FIA World Endurance Championship last weekend (3-5 May), lapping fastest of the non-hybrid competitors around legendary Belgian circuit Spa-Francorchamps to secure a top three finish with Rebellion Racing. The 2016 FIA WEC LMP2 class champion and Le Mans … Continue reading → ...
The pole position-winning #7 TS050 HYBRID of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López will start the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps from the pit lane after an administrative error resulted in the cancelation of the car’s qualifying lap times. An incorrect identification number for the car’s fuel flow meter was declared for the #7 … Continue reading → ...
BMW Team MTEK kick-started the BMW M8 GTE’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) campaign at “The Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps” in Belgium with a fifth place qualifying position. BMW works team drivers Tom Blomqvist (GBR) and António Félix da Costa (POR) piloted the #82 BMW M8 GTE to its promising debut WEC starting position with … Continue reading → ...
Aston Martin Racing’s Vantage GTE has made its qualifying debut at the FIA World Endurance Championship’s season opener, the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, in Belgium. The new racecar – based on the new Vantage – carried drivers Maxime Martin (B), Alex Lynn (GB) and Jonny Adam to P8 in the #97 entry, while the … Continue reading → ...
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing made the perfect start to the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season by taking pole position for the season-opening Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi, in the #7 TS050 HYBRID they share with José María López, took pole position with a 1min 54.583secs average of their fastest … Continue reading → ...
The two Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GTs have qualified on pole position and in second place, locking out the front row of the grid for tomorrow’s ‘Total 6 Hours of Spa’, the first round of the new WEC Super Season. “That’s a fantastic way to start the season,” said Team Principal, George Howard-Chappell. “We … Continue reading → ...
Ginetta Cars has released the following statement confirming that the first two G60-LT-P1 LMP1 cars will not start the 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps race this weekend, the opening round of the 2018/19 FIA WEC. It is with great disappointment that we have to announce that Ginetta will not be releasing the two LMP1 cars … Continue reading → ...