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The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has received 75 applications to participate in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans. Of the 60 competitors to take the start on 15 June at 15:00, the 24 Hours of Le Mans Selection Committee has already confirmed the 42 automatic invitations, and that list is now available. The next step is scheduled on 1 March, the release of the official entry list for the 87th running of the race, finale of the 2018-2019 World Endurance Championship Super Season. Thre

The 87th edition of Le Mans will mark itself out as the start of a new era in the endurance racing calendar as it will be the grand finale of the 2018-2019 FIA WEC Super Season, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.  The 60 entries and 10 reserves for 15/16th June 2019 will be revealed in two stages - on 11th February and 1st March 2019.  The Super Season is the reason for the change in announcement of entries for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019, the culminati

Text: Rick Kiewiet It was a sunny day for the Brits at the rainy track at Shanghai: in a race that was red flagged twice due to the rain...

Text: Rick Kiewiet This weekend, Sunday 11.00 AM local time (03.00 GMT), the World Endurance Championship gives acte de présence at...

Our 2019 calendar is now available for sale via our sales partners The GP Box, Etsy and directly from our photography website. This year we focused our attention on the Le Mans 24 Hour Race, and have produced this high quality A3 - 29 cm x 42 cm, sized wall calendar. We have used a high quality matte photographic paper and chosen 12 of our best images from the race. Keeping the process close to home, we have used a local print firm in Essex to produce this for us. We are pl

The news which some fans may have been waiting for has appeared in the Le Mans local news paper today. The Le Maine Libre is reporting that Audi will return to Le Mans with a hydrogen powered car. The article says that Audi is secretly working on a hydrogen-powered racing car project to enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans by 2024. Like Formula E, which allows electric car manufacturers to compete on the track as well as on the road, the Le Mans 24 Hours of Le Mans should become th

Toyota Gazoo Racing took their third win in a row today with a 1-2 at the 6 Hours of Silverstone. Although the weather may have been a...

With overcast skies the grid has been set for tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Silverstone. The No. 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing of Conway, Kobayashi and...

The initial forecast that I made on Monday still seems to be generally on track, but I've made a few tweaks for today's update. The main change has been to add a slight chance of rain on Sunday afternoon, however I still expect that impacts on the race will be very low.  Rain associated with a deep upper level trough and surface cold front is still expected to move across England late tonight and into Thursday. Although it will likely be wet for scrutineering, the rain will b

A low pressure system will move through Silverstone on Thursday, which will make for a wet day for scrutineering. Fortunately, the rest of the event looks like it should be mostly free of rain, with mostly cloudy skies, breezy winds, and comfortable temperatures.  The low pressure system that brings rain on Thursday will be long gone by Friday, and a weak ridge will build over France and southern England. With a mix of sun and clouds and a westerly wind, temperatures will rem

As we approach the 3rd Round of the FIA World Endurance Championship ‘Super Season’, who will be the Brits to follow at the 6 Hours of Silverstone on 19th August… Oli Webb  – Bykolles Racing Team – LMP1 No. 4 Sadly this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours wasn’t too be for Oli; after a heavy crash for Dominik Kraihamer at the Porsche Curves the teams afternoon ended a little over 4 hours into the race, and poor Oli didn’t even make it into the car!  To put a smile back on his face howeve

Following the poor performance of the Mechachrome engine in the Ginetta LMP1 car, the team have changed engine supplier mid season t0 the AER "Project 60B" engine ahead of the Silverstone Round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. PRESS STATEMENT FOR GINETTA Due to circumstances outside of Ginetta’s control, the G60-LT-P1 car will not be racing at the Silverstone round of the FIA WEC on 18 / 19 August. Ginetta is hugely disappointed by this outcome, as the manufacturer ha

The American team Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus have announced their intention to enter the 2020/21 Le Mans 24 with their SCG 007 Hypercar in the new "LMP1" class. The team intend to build 2 racing versions of the car, these will be funded by the sale of 25 road going versions, the muted price tag of the road cars will be in the $1m range. Both race cars will be run equally as a factory effort and will be entered into the FIA World Endurance Championship. Powered by a US built

The FIA have announced changes to the EOT (Equivalence of technology) across the LMP1 field prior to the 6 Hours of Silverstone in an aim to bring the private LMP1 teams closer to the performance of the hybrid Toyotas. "As a result of the studies carried out this winter we gave private teams a fuel flow to help them achieve performance levels close to those of the hybrid cars. We then took advantage of concrete information collected during the Prologue, the first round at Spa

Chevrolet announced today that Corvette Racing will close its 20th season of competition in grand style by competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) 2018 race in Shanghai. The C7.R racecar, which will wear a special Redline livery for the competition, will be the first factory-run Corvette to race in Asia. The 6 Hours of Shanghai will take place from November 16-18 at the 16-turn, 5.45-km Shanghai International Circuit. Built in 2004, the venue plays host to a n

So the 86th running of the Le Mans 24 hours is over and we think the dust has settled on this, the first of two visits to Le Mans during this FIA World Endurance Championship super season. Way back on the Sunday of scrutineering, as the cars arrived to a wet Place de la Republic, we may have been forgiven for thinking that the result was already known and that Toyota would win the race… but what would be in store for the teams and drivers on their journey to the flag… remembe

Clear blue skies greeted the large crowd that flocked to the Circuit de la Sarthe today for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Official Test Day,...

A technical infringement has meant that the number 1 Rebellion Racing car has been disqualified from 3rd place in the FIA WEC Total 6 Hours of Spa. At 22:45 the team were handed the penalty after the scrutineers found the skid block on the car did not conform to the required thickness, it was found to be 1.2mm to thin thus meaning that Lotterer, Jani and Senna score no points. This moves the number 3 Rebellion into 3rd overall.

The FIA World Endurance Championship finally began today in a beautifully sunny Spa-Francorchamps. The fans flocked to the Ardennes in their thousands to watch the inaugural round of the new Superseason, seeing the Championship race not once but twice at the Belgium circuit. And they were not disappointed! LMP1 Starting from an unexpected pole position due to it’s sister car receiving a penalty late last night, the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Naka

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 that successfully ran at the FIA WEC Prologue at Paul Ricard earlier this month. Unfortunately, funds promised have not arrived from TRS (China) to CEFC TRSM Ra

Apologies for the lateness of this update - I was sick in bed with the flu all day yesterday. But the good news is that the forecast for the Six Hours of Spa is looking better and better. Considering the typical cool and wet conditions that the race can often have, the weather this weekend looks spectacular. A high pressure system at the surface will be shifting northeast across northern Europe through Friday and Saturday, from off the west coast of France early Friday to the

The WEC Super Season begins this weekend at the beautiful Circuit Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Overall, the weather looks pretty good, but there are some caveats with that. Forecasting for Belgium can be very tricky due to its proximity to the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south, and southern Belgium has quite a varied terrain itself. The details of the weather conditions can vary greatly on a local scale, and I'm certainly not a local expert. Plus, the models a

2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button has been announced as the latest driver to take on the challenge of the FIA World Endurance Championship and top tier sports prototype racing. The British driver will race for the full Super Season (except except for the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2018 which clashes with the second round of the Super GT Series) for SMP Racing in the LMP1 category alongside Mikhail Aleshin and Vitaly Petrov and against a strong field which i

As part of our build up to the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, we take a look at the famous Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Designed in 1920 by Jules de Thier and Henri Langlois Van Ophem, the original triangle-shaped course used public roads between the Belgian towns of Francorchamps, Malmedy, and Stavelot. The track was intended to have hosted its inaugural race in August 1921, however this event had to be cancelled as there was only one entran