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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

Ginetta G60-LT-P1 customers, CEFC TRSM, have completed their driver line-up for the 2018/19 FIA WEC Super Season with the announcement of Oliver Turvey. Image - Ginetta Oliver is the sixth and final driver to be confirmed for CEFC TRSM’s two-car entry into the 2018/19 FIA WEC Super Season, which gets underway at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium next month. He will join Oliver Rowland and Alex Brundle in car six. Previously announced Charlie Robertson, Leo Roussel and Dean Stonem

If the news coming from Auto Hebdo in France is to be believed then this could be true. The French news agency were reporting that Button is in talks with the SMP Racing Team to drive their BR1 LMP1 prototype at this years race. The 2009 Formula One world champion is rumoured to be in talks to join Mikhail Aleshin and Vitaly Petrov in the #11 car that finished the 30 hour WEC Prologue test earlier this month. This car had the fastest non-hybrid time, and indeed topped the tim

From now until 2020, the Porsche 911 Turbo will be the safety car for the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC). The all-wheel-drive 911 produces 540 hp (397 kW) and sprints from zero to 100 km/h in 3.0 seconds. Technologically, the safety car corresponds largely to the production vehicle. Only a few race specific modifications were added, such as the light bar on the roof and a radio for contacting the race director, with the brakes and suspension optimised for the r

Now there has been time for the dust to settle, here is our report from the 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue which was held at the Paul Ricard Circuit, France. In some ways it was like the first day back at school, some new teams joining the World Endurance Championship and old friends meeting up after the break. The same true for the media and FIA staff, greetings were exchanged and hopes for the upcoming season expressed. The mood was relaxed in the pit lan

Hi folks! Our gallery from the recent Prologue event of the FIA World Endurance Championships is now live on the website HERE If you would like to use any of the images, just drop us a line! We will shortly be announcing the winner of the FIA WEC Spa competition also so keep an eye on Twitter for the result @PrescottMsport

The FIA WEC Super Season is poised to start and REBELLION Racing has announced its partnership with the iconic British sports car manufacturer TVR. In September 2017, the brand – which is well known for its place in the history books of the 24 Hours of Le Mans – revealed its latest "Griffith" model. It is fitting for the brand to partner and work with REBELLION Racing for its return to Le Mans.   Following its entry in the LMP1 category, REBELLION Racing chose to reveal the