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Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet, race poster: FIA WEC Following the turmoil in the Middle East, the FIA World Endurance Championship makes its first visit to Spain this weekend, with the 6 Hours of Barcelona on Sunday 18 October. It is the penultimate round of the 2026 season, and both titles are still undecided. Chances are it's going to be a wet one... Hypercar: a tight top four Just 20 points separate the leading four Hypercar crews. Toyota and BMW have taken most of the wins

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2026 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup ended at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with a weekend split in two by the weather. Saturday was wet, with heavy rain, a red flag and a race winner from 14th on the grid. Sunday was dry and far calmer. Bastian Buus and Ricardo Feller secured the overall drivers' title with a race to spare, and Emil Frey Racing's Ben Green and Thierry Vermeulen took the finale. Gold, Silver and Bronze Cup honours were

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Max Verstappen will race in GT World Challenge Europe for the first time at the Endurance Cup finale in Portimão, taking part in the weekend of 16–18 October. The four-time Formula 1 champion will drive the #3 Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO, run by 2 Seas Motorsport, in the three-hour race. He shares the car with full-season driver Chris Lulham and Ben Barnicoat. The Lexus factory driver last raced for 2 Seas Motorsport in a one-off appeara

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: GT Report by Jacob Suter Toyota converted a late safety car into a shock 6 Hours of Fuji victory, with a bold fuel-only strategy elevating the #8 TR010 Hybrid from sixth to the win in the race's closing stages. In LMGT3, Team WRT's Augusto Farfus produced a stunning late charge to snatch victory in the #32 BMW M4, capping a frantic finish shaped by the same late-race safety car period. Hypercar Alpine controlled the bulk of the six hours, with the #

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC, McLaren, Rick Kiewiet Round six of the FIA WEC season takes the paddock to Japan this weekend (25-27 September) for the 6 Hours of Fuji, with the title picture closer than it's been all year. Ferrari's win at COTA has turned what was a two-way Toyota/BMW fight into a genuine three-way scrap, even as de Vries, Kobayashi and Conway remain tied on points at the top with BMW's Frijns and Rast. Pole positions are overrated... Fuji Speedway, laid

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Emil Frey Racing bounced straight back from missing out on Saturday's honours, locking out the top two podium slots as Ben Green and Thierry Vermeulen took the #69 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo to victory in Race 2 at Zandvoort. It capped a big turnaround after Garage 59's #58 McLaren, driven by Louis Prette and Tom Fleming, had denied the Swiss squad in Saturday's opener, and it made Vermeulen the first Dutch driver to win overall at his home track since 20

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet A cloudy Saturday at Zandvoort began with Morris Schuring giving the home crowd exactly what they had come for, as the Dutchman claimed a maiden Sprint Cup pole position in his Boutsen VDS Porsche after a qualifying session that stayed unsettled until the final minutes. That promise, however, did not translate into victory once the lights went out for the opening Sprint Cup race, with Tom Fleming and Louis Prette instead guiding the #58 Garage 59

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC Ferrari ended its longest winless run in WEC history at Lone Star Le Mans, with the #50 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen inheriting victory after the #7 Toyota TR010 Hybrid suffered a late hydraulic failure while leading. It capped an eventful six hours at COTA that delivered on almost every storyline flagged coming into the weekend. Hypercar Antonio Giovinazzi's #51 Ferrari took pole after a dead heat in Hyperpole wi

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet FIA WEC returns from its summer break this weekend for Lone Star Le Mans, with Circuit of The Americas hosting round five of a season that has both major championships hanging by a thread. The Hypercar Drivers' standings are tied at the top, and just five points cover Toyota and BMW in the Manufacturers' fight — a gap Austin could easily flip in either direction. Toyota and BMW still chasing a first COTA win Both marques have won twice already in 2

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS reached a decisive point in its Endurance Cup campaign at the Nürburgring, with a maiden Silver crown for Team WRT and a second Endurance Cup title for Maro Engel and Luca Stolz sealed alongside Comtoyou Racing's dominant victory. Lucas Auer added a first crown of his own, the trio doing just enough in the #48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO to clinch matters with a round still to go. Qualifying The #

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS heads to the Nürburgring this weekend (28-30 August) for the penultimate round of the 2026 Endurance Cup, with a 55-car field set to contest a three-hour race on the 5.1km GP-Strecke. It's the 15th time the series has visited the Eifel venue since joining the calendar in 2012, second only to Spa-Francorchamps in visit count, and it marks the first Endurance Cup outing since the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Ford Racing Ford Racing's Hypercar contender for the FIA World Endurance Championship has been pictured on track for the first time, with the American manufacturer releasing images from testing at Paul Ricard as it builds towards a 2027 debut. The car, still unnamed and wearing a camouflage livery, ran its first proper track test on 17 August, following a shakedown programme that began on 5 August at the driving centre adjacent to the circuit. Ford

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe's Sprint Cup returned to Magny-Cours for round three with the title picture shaken up on both days. Jules Gounon, deputising for the unwell Chris Lulham, delivered a maiden overall win for Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing's 2Seas-run entry alongside Dani Juncadella on Saturday, before Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus hit back for Lionspeed GP on Sunday in a red-flagged Race 2 that also ended points leaders Charles Wee

WEC has confirmed Barcelona and Monza will close out its 2026 season, with the Qatar and Bahrain rounds scrapped for good after the Gulf ceasefire collapsed, and a scoring change for the championship's closing races.

Keith Frieser dominated the debut Endurance Icons grid with a double win, while GT3 Legends' season finale split between Jonathan Mitchell and Graham Davidson across an eventful weekend at Silverstone's BRDC Classic.

The inaugural BRDC Classic at Silverstone on 24-26 July 2026 brings the debut Endurance Icons grid, the GT3 Legends season finale, Historic Formula Junior and a ten-category programme of historic racing to the Grand Prix circuit.

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Team WRT's Charles Weerts and Kelvin van der Linde left Misano with a maximum haul, winning both Sprint Cup races on home soil for reigning MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, who had to make do with a maiden pole and a pair of frustrating results in the #46 BMW. Weerts extended his record tally of series victories to 20 across the weekend and, together with Van der Linde, took over the championship lead from Lionspeed GP's Ricardo Feller and Bastian

Tinder has signed on as Formula E's first-ever dating app partner, becoming official Sparking Connections partner of the 2026 Hankook London E-Prix as the series' partner roster keeps widening beyond automotive and tech.

Barcelona and Monza look set to host WEC's 2026 season finale in place of the shelved Qatar and Bahrain rounds, with knock-on effects for the championship points scale, the GT World Challenge Europe calendar and the Asian Le Mans Series too.

BMW M Team WRT held off a hard-charging Ferrari to win a dramatic Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo, while Racing Team Turkey by TF made it back-to-back victories in LMGT3 with a bold driver-order strategy at Interlagos