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Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Prescott Motorsport. Due to financial problems at the 6hrs of Sao Paulo's promoter, the FIA and ACO have been...

Text: Rick Kiewiet In a post on twitter Peugeot has announced it's return to endurance racing in 2022! It joins manufacturers Toyota and...

Rebellion Racing took their second ever outright win, in a race that was affected by a mixture of the new for 2019-2020 season success...

Highlights;- #1 Rebellion score first non-hybrid pole position in current rules version of WEC Ginetta secure 2nd & 3rd on grid, ahead of...

Toyota took a dominant one-two result in their home race at Fuji International Speedway yesterday, to maintain their hold on the FIA WEC...

This weekend sees the field converging at the classic Japanese circuit of Fuji International Speedway, for round 2 of Season 8 of the FIA...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Toyota Motorsport, Porsche Newsroom, Cool Racing (race-film.de) , FIA WEC / Adrenal Media There were a couple...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Rick Kiewiet, Toyota Motorsport, Aston Martin, Porsche. The 2019 edition of the 24 hours of Le Mans is now...

Text: Rick Kiewiet. Images: Rick Kiewiet and Adam Prescott. We had a sit down with Jeroen Bleekemolen, driver of the Keating Motorsports...

Text and images: Rick Kiewiet After three qualifying sessions, the full grid for the 87th running of the 24 hours of Le Mans is known....

Motorsport fans can look forward to a particular highlight at this year’s edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours: Project 1 will be competing at the endurance classic, which is also the FIA WEC season’s finale, with a unique design by the artist Richard Phillips, specially created for the occasion. Further to our Le Mans livery article, Project 1 have trumped the pack with their art car. “Art Cars have a long history in Le Mans and this stunning design continues the story”, says tea

Text and images: Rick Kiewiet BMW has decided to stop their contribution to the World Endurance Championship at the end of the current...

The AF Corse factory Ferrari team will return to the LMP2 class in next season's World Endurance Championship. According to a recent report in Autosport the Italian team will run a Dallara-Gibson P217 in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 2019/20 season. AF Corse have previously ran in LMP2 back in 2014 under the SMP banner with 2 Oreca-Nissan 03s. The car will be driven by sportscar stalwart Andrea Belicchi, Giorgio Sernagiotto and Pharmanutra ma

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing has achieved the WEC World Championship for the second time, following the title in 2014. I would like to really thank the fans for all their support. The team has faced challening conditions on demanding circuits, for example the race at Fuji, the heavy rain of Shanghai, the famous bumps of Sebring and the snowy weather at Spa, an undulating and difficult circuit. I am proud of the six drivers and all team members who fought hard in all the races and won

On May 4, the seventh round of the World Endurance Championship took place at the Belgian Spa-Francorchamps circuit. The SMP Racing crew of Vitaly Petrov, Mikhail Aleshin and Stoffel Vandoorne finished on the podium with third place at Spa. The competition was under difficult weather conditions: it was raining and snowing on the track with the sun in between that made the track dry out quite fast. The SMP Racing crews No. 17 (Egor Orudzhev, Sergey Sirotkin, Stephane Sarrazin)

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet A race where the main character was not a driver, nor a car or an incident, but the weather. From sunny, to...

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will start the penultimate round of the 2018-2019 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) from pole position after another clean sweep of the front row in today’s qualifying for the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The #7 TS050 HYBRID of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López earned the bonus point for pole position to reduce the deficit in the drivers’ World Championship to 14 points. World Championship leaders Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajim

On May 3, qualifying session took place on the Belgian Spa-Francorchamps circuit before the seventh round of the World Endurance...

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Toyota answered the question whether or not the competition could profit from the dropped fuel-flow...

Text and Images: Rick Kiewiet SMP Racing has set the fastest time in free practice on day 1 of the 6h of Spa. Where FP 1 was driven in...

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The coming weekend, traditionally on Saturday, it's time again for the Total 6h of Spa. Read everything you...

The number 8 Toyota of Alonso, Nakajima and Buemi took the honours at the inaugural running of the FIA WEC 1000 Miles of Sebring, ran to the time limit of 8 hours and not the 1000 miles. Fernando Alonso (TS050 HYBRID #8): “It is a happy day for us. We came here to this very difficult circuit and we did a lot of testing and preparation. We went into the weekend feeling confident we would have a strong race, particularly starting from pole position. From the lead of the race,

As my Dad says "And there it was gone!" Fernando Alonso smashed the Sebring lap record with a sensational lap of 1:40.124 coupled with his team mate Kazuki Nakajima's lap they claimed pole with an average lap of 1:40.318. The team maintained its perfect record in WEC qualifying this season, with the #8 TS050 HYBRID of World Championship leaders Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso going fastest in qualifying with an average of 1min 40.318secs, earning the addi

Did you know that the legendary track in Sebring was founded by the Russian emigrant? It was him who brought the idea of the Le Mans marathon to the USA. SMP Racing team is preparing for the next rounds of the 2018/2019 WEC super season. The winter break has come to an end quickly and important races are to be run: Sebring, Spa and Le Mans. The start of the 1000 miles of Sebring race will be given on March 15 and the cars will hit the track, which is very popular among motors