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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

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