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In a Friday afternoon press conference at the Mexican round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, series boss Gerard Neveu and ACO President Pierre Fillon unveiled the the new schedule, as well as a roadmap for the future, including revised LMP regulations for 2020. Provisional 2018-19 WEC Schedule: 5 & 6 April: The Prologue, Circuit Paul Ricard (FRA) 4 & 5 May: WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) 16 & 17 June: 24 Hours of Le Mans (FRA) 13 & 14 October: 6 Hours of F

Friday 1 September, Mexico City: Aston Martin Racing is ready to kick off the second half of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship, as the premier racing series touches down in Mexico City. After taking a GTE Pro double podium in 2016 - scoring a victory and third place - Aston Martin Racing will be hoping to claim yet another strong points-haul 12 months on. While the intense heat and 2,250m altitude of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez challenged both the drivers and V8

There hasn't been a big change in what I'm thinking the weather will be in Mexico City this weekend for the WEC event, but my confidence is rising that the racing will be impacted by rain each day. A low pressure system will be taking shape in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the east coast of Mexico. This will produce an easterly flow through the low and mid levels of the atmosphere that will pump moisture toward the track all weekend, but especially Saturday and Sunday. With m

We’ve done it, the wait is almost over, the summer break only has a matter of hours left… ‘THANK GOODNESS’ we hear you cry! With round 5 of the FIA World Endurance Championship knocking on the garage door, we managed to sneak in 5 minutes with Clearwater Racing’s Managing Director Arj Pillay Kulasegaram as they prepare to get the second half of their debut season underway. You’ve gone into the summer break still leading the Championship. Did you think this was where you w

Perrinn appear to have called a halt to their LMP1 programme, favouring a Garage 56 entry in 2019 with a full electric car with autonomous mode. The Dacia branded LMP1 project looks to have been shelved as Perrinn, who had sold 2 LMP1 chassis for 2018 to ART Racing Services move instead towards a full electric car with an autonomous mode. Plans are for the car to run in the 2019 24hrs Le Mans race under the Garage 56 entry for alternative technologies. From what Perrin

IF…. and that’s a big ‘IF’ Porsche decide to leave the World Endurance Championship at the end of 2017, does this really mean the end of the Championship as some people are predicting? We at Prescott Motorsport think not! And if you are reading this post any announcement having been made from Stuttgart either to continue with their LMP1 programme or not, we still think not! We always knew in the back of our minds that this period of time prior to new regulations coming i

Last week’s three-day test at the Lausitzring (GER) heralded the next phase in the development of the new BMW M8 GTE. Following the roll-out on 1st July at BMW Plant Dingolfing, this was the first test outing for the BMW M8 GTE. BMW works driver Martin Tomczyk (GER) alternated at the wheel with BMW DTM driver Maxime Martin (BEL). BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt also attended the test. “To see the BMW M8 GTE on the racetrack makes me very proud. Everyone involved has d

Clearwater Racing leave the Nurburgring still leading the WEC in the GTE-Am class by finishing 4th in class!! Our race can only really be described as fraught....we lost 20 seconds during our first pit stop with a sticking seat belt. Unfortunately Weng then had his first off in more than 6 years at the high speed turn 5 but fortunately the car, very cooperatively, bounced harmlessly off the soft barriers and Weng was able to continue unscathed but we dropped more than a mi

Porsche put another hat trick in the record books by winning their third in a row 6 Hours of Nürburgring having taken the top spot in both 2015 and ’16. Timo Bernhard (DE), Earl Bamber (NZ) and Brendon Hartley (NZ) put the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid into the lead for the final time after a quick splash and dash on lap 197, but in all honesty either of the 919’s could have won the race. Finishing a mere 1.606 seconds ahead of the sister, a 1-2 for Porsche on home soil can only be

Irish Racing Driver Matt Griffin is en-route to Germany for this weekends round 4 of the 2017 World Endurance Championship being held at the iconic Nurburgring circuit. Griffin returns with team mates Mok Weng Sun and Kieta Sawa in their Clearwater Racing entered, number 61 Ferrari 488 GTE. This weekend see the final round of the European leg of the World Endurance Championship, the rest of the championship will see races being held in Mexico, The USA, Japan and China, be

The opening day of on track action at Nurburgring will likely have some rain. A cold front will be moving across the area in the morning, but a high chance of rain will continue through the day as the upper level trough moves through. There is pretty good model agreement on this general pattern, so I have a high chance of rain at 70%. Rain amounts at this time appear to be between 0.15 and 0.3 inches, or between 4 and 8 mm. The upper level trough will be east of the area by

In just over a week’s time the FIA World Endurance Championship will begin its fourth round at the Nürburgring in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. Porsche will be looking for yet another hat-trick after winning here in both 2015 and 16, and looking to extend their lead in the Championship before the WEC family heads off for its summer break! Toyota will be hoping they’ve left the gremlins behind in France and can pick up on their pre-Le Mans winning streak by b

So the 85th edition of the Le Mans 24 hour race has been and gone! It was my 11th time at the race but my first time the other side of the fence. Whilst we are a growing website with some great news articles and images, even if I do say so myself, this does not guarantee your application to the ACO for media accreditation will be successful. However, after building a very good relationship with Clearwater Racing our application went in to the ACO and we waited…. Then, 18 da

The 85th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours was a crazy old race, and the shenanigans didn’t finish after the chequered flag either! At more than one stage throughout the 24 hours the possibility of an overall all LMP2 podium was looking like it might happen! Having spent over an hour in the pits during the 4th hour with a front axle drive issue, the #2 Porsche of New Zealander’s Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley, and Germany’s Timo Bernhard most definitely looked like it’s race

Two chassis set for 2018 FIAWEC and Le Mans 24 Hours British motorsports engineering company PERRINN has announced that it has received the first order for a brace of its new LMP1 car to race the 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship. With the design work already completed alongside preliminary digital and crash test simulations, the as yet unnamed car is expected to be revealed in late November before testing starts in December. With the programme already at such an adva

Following their 3rd place finish Clearwater are now sitting in 2nd place for the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE AM teams, 5 points behind Aston Martin Racing; Clearwater Racing continue on their inaugural season in the FIA World Endurance Championship and next up is the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is not their first trip to the Circuit de la Sarthe in central France, in 2016 they became the first Singaporean to compete in the 24 hour race, this short film from Motul documents

FIA WEC, SPA 6hrs – And it’s a 1-2 for Toyota LMP1 Toyota Gazoo Racing scored a 1-2 at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, with the #8 TS050 - Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima finishing just 2 seconds ahead of a late charge from the sister car #7 of Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi. Although the #9 finished 5th and 2 laps off the pace, Toyota’s entry of 3 cars showed that reliability was strong in the Japanese outfit as they pursue their quest fo

The entire Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps is expected to remain dry, but rain will be on the doorstep near the end of the race. The day will start with sunny skies, but clouds will be increasing through the afternoon. Temperatures will be quite pleasant, with highs in the lower 60s. In the closing hours of the race, clouds will be covering the entire sky. During this time, rain will be spreading across central and northern France, moving toward the northeast. The expected ar

With a time of 1:54.097 around the 7.003km circuit buried deep in the Ardennes, the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani, André Lotterer and Nick Tandy took pole position for tomorrow’s FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Four minutes into the session saw it red flagged after Russia’s Vitaly Petrov put the #25 CEFC Manor TRS Racing Oreca 07 into the tyre barrier up at Turn 9 – too much damage meant the car did not record a time. A spinning Bykolles

The GT category of the FIA WEC enters the new season in very good shape. After a successful 2016 season, the class gets an increased car count for 2017, (8 in PRO and 5 in AM), with the return of the works Porsche team in PRO, running the new mid-engined 911. With factory efforts from Aston Martin and Ford joining the established private Ferraris of AF Corse in PRO and newcomers Clearwater Racing in AM, as well as the AM Porsches of Gulf Racing and Dempsey Proton, we will s

There is just under a week to go until the Ardennes will be ‘alive with the sound of WEC’… and we can’t wait! The iconic 4.35 mile circuit of Spa-Francorchamps is sure to provide us with thrills and spills as it always does, and no doubt a good dose of rain somewhere along the way! Race two out of nine on the WEC calendar, Spa is a firm favourite and one of the most picturesque circuits there is (our opinion but I’m sure thousands will agree). If you’ve never been there i

Over 50,000 fans were present as the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship kicked off over the Easter weekend with the 6hrs of Silverstone booming across the Northamptonshire countryside… or in the case of the LMP1’s…whooshing! LMP1 The #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 - Hybrid of Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima was the first to put points on the Championship board finishing 6.173 seconds ahead of the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Hartley, Bernhard and Bamber

If the inaugural round of the FIA World Endurance Championship 6hrs of Silverstone showed us, it could well be! On their debut race at the former WWII airfield, Clearwater Racing in the Ferrari 488 GTE showed they meant business when their three drivers of Malaysia’s Weng Sun Mok, Japan’s Keita Sawa and Ireland’s own ‘Lucky Charms’ Matt Griffin (a name given to him by Team Managing Director Arj) found themselves on the top step of the podium in a dramatic finish! Prescott

Porsche, the reigning world champion team, will start third and fourth on the grid for the season’s opening race of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Silverstone (GB) with the two 919 Hybrids. Toyota secured a front row lock out for the start of the six-hour race on Sunday. For strategic reasons, Porsche’s Le Mans prototypes approach the fast Formula One circuit in Britain with significantly less aerodynamic downforce than the track layout actually would require. In t