Following the postponement of the Qatar 1812km from its original date in March to later in the year, the decision has now been taken – due to the continued uncertainty in the region – to replace the final two rounds with races at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and Autodromo Nazionale Monza. The inaugural 6 Hours […]

The British driver aboard the #12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA Hypercar claimed pole position and the first Hypercar championship point of the weekend. Stevens produced a stunning lap of 1:23.041s to edge out the sister Cadillac of Jack Aitken by just 0.048s. The #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA Hypercar, driven by Jack Aitken, had set […]

The FIA World Endurance Championship is heading overseas for its first long-haul event of the season this weekend as competitors prepare to tackle Brazil’s iconic Autódromo José Carlos Pace, home to the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo – round four of the 2026 campaign. The nation’s premier motor sport venue featured on the inaugural […]

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A record-breaking crowd of 350,105 trackside fans were treated to the most competitive and compelling edition of the twice-round-the-clock contest in recent memory, with just 10.913 seconds separating the winner from second place – the closest outright finish in FIA World Endurance Championship history. The foundations for Toyota’s sixth success at Le Mans were laid […]

As the series continues to go from strength to strength – with record-breaking trackside attendances and 14 manufacturers represented on the grid – the championship has reconfirmed its commitment to all existing venues while adding a return to the United Kingdom’s Silverstone after an eight-year absence. The action will begin with the traditional Prologue group […]

When the dust settled at the end of a frenetic Hyperpole 2 shootout around the iconic Circuit de la Sarthe, a five thousandths-of-a-second was all that separated Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA’s Jack Aitken from BMW M Team WRT’s Dries Vanthoor. It was the latter, though, that would inherit pole after the Brit was stripped of […]

The 30-minute session – with the quickest 15 competitors advancing to Thursday’s Hyperpole 1 shootout – saw numerous cars top the timesheets as fresh tyres were bolted on and lap times tumbled, but all eyes were glued to the bottom of the order. In what has been a troubled event so far for the #83 […]

The ‘Ardennes Rollercoaster’ invariably generates exciting action, and the second round of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign was no exception. BMW M Team WRT – based just up the road near Liège – began the six-hour contest in front of a record-breaking Spa crowd of 101,606 enthusiastic fans from just tenth and 11th […]

Earlier on in the Hypercar qualifying session, that kind of result had looked far less likely, when the Dane spun at high speed at the top of Raidillon on his ‘out’ lap from the pits, fortunately avoiding any impact but obliging him to return to the box for a fresh set of tyres. Determined to […]

The car – set to be developed through a rigorous test programme in 2026 ahead of homologation in the winter – was presented in a striking 2026 test livery inspired by the McLaren M6A, the very car Bruce McLaren once envisioned taking to La Sarthe as the M6GT.  The McLaren Hypercar Team was scheduled to […]

As it bids to get its title defence off to a winning start on home soil, Ferrari topped four of the five testing and practice sessions around the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, but when it came to qualifying for tomorrow’s FIA World Endurance Championship curtain-raising contest, the Prancing Horse’s rivals turned up the […]

The season is set to kick off at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, celebrated for its ‘old-school’ nature. The 4.909km anticlockwise layout sees Hypercar drivers hit top speeds approaching 315km/h, change gear 42 times per tour and travel with a fully open throttle for two-thirds of the lap. Its bumpy surface and combination […]

The current geopolitical instability in the Middle East obliged the postponement of the Qatari contest, which had been due to launch the 14th campaign of FIA WEC competition later this month. Following collaborative and constructive discussions with the Qatar Motor & Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), Lusail International Circuit and Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, FIA WEC is […]

HYPERCAR HEAVYWEIGHTSIn the headlining Hypercar category, another clash of the titans is very much in prospect. Ferrari’s 499P prototype remains unbeaten at La Sarthe since joining the fray in 2023, and the Prancing Horse is targeting a fourth straight success, the factory #50 and #51 cars and independently run #83 AF Corse entry having prevailed […]

As in 2025, Alpine, Aston Martin, BMW, Cadillac, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, Lexus, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG, Peugeot, Porsche and Toyota will all take to the track next year in the discipline’s pre-eminent global series, to be joined by Genesis, the premium arm of Hyundai, one of the world’s foremost carmakers. In the headlining Hypercar category, outfits representing […]

In its third season in the FIA WEC’s top tier, the legendary Italian marque has been the benchmark throughout the year in the Hypercar class, winning the opening four races with its 499P prototype to establish an advantage that none of its rivals was ultimately able to overcome. The result marks the Prancing Horse’s first […]

The result replicated that achieved by the Japanese marque last year – a day before it clinched its seventh Manufacturers’ crown in the series. There might have been no chance of another Toyota title 12 months on, following a disappointing campaign at the international pinnacle of the discipline, but the brand put itself in pole […]

Heading into the eighth and final round of the season, Ferrari, Porsche and Cadillac are all in the hunt for both Manufacturers’ and Drivers’ Hypercar honours. Bahrain International Circuit, the venue for the title showdown, is a well-established staple on the FIA WEC calendar, having welcomed the series on 13 previous occasions. The track’s wide […]

Lynn’s lap of 1:28.236 was 0.439 seconds quicker than the sister V-Series.R driven by Earl Bamber, securing Cadillac’s third front-row lockout of the season. The second row of the grid will be shared by Aston Martin and Peugeot, owing to the efforts of the two Danes, Marco Sørensen and Mikkel Jensen. Sørensen was only 0.030s […]