Category: World Endurance Championship
A Year Of Celebration – Following Porsche’s 70th Anniversary Tour At Brands Hatch
Porsche 919 Porsche celebrated their 70th anniversary with a victory tour in 2018, smashing lap records with the specially-developed LMP1 919 Hybrid Evo at legendary tracks such as Spa-Francorchamps and … Read More
Alonso smoking funny weed
Fernando Alonso (c) said the other LMP1 cars are 'much' faster than the Toyotas. In the race the Toyotas lapped the field as we predicted. Fernando must be smoking some … Read More
Buemi fastest for Toyota on wet Shanghai Friday
#7 Toyota of Sebastien Buemi before a huge Friday crowd As expected, Toyota, which enjoys a huge advantage over its rivals as allowed by the FIA (so they do not … Read More
Successful first test for Alessandro Zanardi in the BMW M8 GTE
Testing in the wet BMW works driver Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) has successfully completed his first test in the BMW M8 GTE in preparation for the 24-hour race at Daytona (USA) … Read More
Non-hybrids cut some slack in Shanghai, but not enough
Toyota still guaranteed to win LMP1 non-hybrids have been granted a fuel boost ahead of next weekend’s FIA World Endurance Championship round at Shanghai International Circuit. Data published in the … Read More
Redline Corvette C7.R livery for Shanghai
Strange not seeing the Corvettes in yellow Chevrolet revealed the Redline livery that the No. 64 Redline/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R will feature when it races in the FIA World … Read More
McLaren expansion follies further neutered
McLaren is at the back of the grid in F1. It needs to fix that before expanding into other series With it's F1 program in shambles McLaren is “highly unlikely" … Read More
Video highlights of the WEC 6-hours of Fuji
Toyota Gazoo Racing took a home 1-2 finish at the 6 Hours of Fuji today with the No.7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria … Read More
Alonso fastest at Fuji
Fernando Alonso Toyota’s Fernando Alonso topped the times in the second free practice at Fuji for the 6-hour WEC round The Spanish ace set a session best time of 1m23.973s … Read More
New Evolution Of Audi R8 LMS For Customer Racing
Audi R8 LMS Audi Sport customer racing presents its fourth new model in just four years: Following on from the radically new second-generation Audi R8 LMS (2015), the Audi RS … Read More
WEC caves in 2019-20 Fuji, Shanghai Dates Changed
Fuji date one of two moved The dates of the Fuji and Shanghai rounds of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship have been moved to avoid major clashes in an … Read More
First-Day Sales Of Super Sebring Tickets, Parking Crush Records
Sebring First-day sales of tickets and parking for what is being dubbed the 2019 “Super Sebring" doubleheader of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts … Read More
Porsche’s Nick Tandy On How Mobil 1 Powers The 919 Hybrid Evo
Porsche 919 Evo Mobil 1 and Porsche's partnership has gone from strength to strength in recent years, most notably owing to the team’s success in the World Endurance Championship and … Read More
A Drive To Succeed – Meet Corvette Racing’s Team Manager, Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson is an integral part of Corvette Racing, ensuring that – in his role as Team Manager – the operation execute their plans and meets their targets on track. … Read More
Porsche Celebrate 70 Years In Motorsport At Goodwood
Porsche 956 Porsche's 70th anniversary was the highlight attraction at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, with an array of past and present machinery on show and in action. Mobil … Read More
Toyota will not appeal disqualification
The Toyotas failed post-race inspection All our drivers drove our cars with their full power and the fight for victory was truly exciting for the fans so I truly feel … Read More
Conway Quickest in Silverstone opening practice
#7 Toyota of Conway Mike Conway set the pace in an incident-filled Free Practice 1 ahead of the Six Hours of Silverstone which saw two red flag periods. He posted … Read More
WEC cuts some races to four hours on 2019-2020 calendar
Toyota will win every race The World Endurance Championship has revealed the provisional calendar for its 2019-2020 season. It will begin with a four-hour race at Silverstone, shortened from the … Read More
Alonso Hopeful of Long-Term Sports Car Future
Alonso may decide he prefers sportscar racing unbeatable Toyota over racing with Andretti's IndyCar 'B' team Fernando Alonso says he’s expecting to remain in sports car racing for the long-term … Read More
ACO Makes Changes To IMSA Auto Entries For Le Mans
LeMans In addition to the slew of changes to the IMSA WeatherTech Championship for 2019 announced by IMSA, the ACO has announced further changes affecting the American championship’s automatic invitations … Read More
Panoz/Green4U GT-EV Le Mans Project Shelved
Panoz/Green4U GT-EV The Don Panoz-led Green4U GT-EV project, which was announced at Le Mans last year, has officially been shelved. Originally, Panoz’s plan, was to race the all-electric car as … Read More
3 manufacturers backing away from hypercar talks
Toyota hypercar concept Ford and Ferrari are among the manufacturers no longer attending the meetings to shape the FIA and ACO’s proposed ‘Hypercar’ regulations, which are due to come into … Read More
Lamborghini GTE Program gets the axe
Lamborghini Huracan GTE Lamborghini has elected not to move forward with its proposed GTE effort, with a focus instead set to be placed on its customer-based programs in the short … Read More