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Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The legendary French racing team once founded by Henri Pescarolo in the early 2000s has communicated its...

Wraps Taken Off New GT3 Challenger for Chevrolet, Set for 2024 Debut. At the same place the Corvette Z06 GT3.R will make its on track...

With a record number of Hypercar and LMGTE Am entries, the field for the 11th season of the FIA World Endurance Championship is set to herald a new era of endurance motorsport. With Hypercar entries from no less than 9 different teams, entering 7 different makes of car 2023 is set to go down in the history books. Pierre Fillon, President of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest: “The FIA World Endurance Championship is about to embark on one of its most thrilling seasons ever. Seven

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Rick Kiewiet, FIA WEC It's been a quite eventful year in the World Endurance Championship, with close fights,...

Porsche is ready to take on the 2023 motorsport season with big plans, lots of factory commitments, and some exciting new customer racing opportunities. Porsche Penske Motorsport fields two 963 hybrid prototypes in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in pursuit of overall victories. TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team has their sights set on winning the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship with their new 99X E

At the centennial race in 2023, Action Express Racing will compete in their first Le Mans 24 Hours. On a grid of premier prototypes that will number well into double digits, the team's new full-season IMSA Cadillac V-LMDH GTP car will join the full-season grid of FIA WEC hypercars along with any prospective additions from factory teams. Cadillac Racing will only have one full-season FIA WEC car for 2023, but Chip Ganassi Racing is anticipated to ask for a second car as well,

Ex-F1 and IndyCar driver to debut at 24 Hours of Daytona 2023 with Huracán GT3 EVO2 before LMDh debut in 2024. Lamborghini Squadra Corse is delighted to announce the arrival of Romain Grosjean as an official Lamborghini Factory Driver from 2023. The experienced former Formula 1 driver will also be a key cog in the development of the Lamborghini LMDh project, which will debut in 2024. The Swiss French driver, who has spent the last two seasons racing in the IndyCar Series, wil

During two days of testing, Iron Lynx took its new cars to the Paul-Ricard circuit. Porsche 911 RSRs replaced Ferrari 488 GTEs on track. By switching to Lamborghini in 2024, Iron Lynx had made it hard to continue racing Ferraris in GTE and GT3. The Porsche team will participate in the WEC and ELMS with the assistance of Christian Ried's Proton Racing. For the long distance races in IMSA and the GT World Challenge Europe, Iron Lynx will be powered by Lamborghini. Two Porsche

Toyota Gazoo Racing took a 1-2 finish in the BAPCO 8 Hours of Bahrain with the No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi,...

The Porsche GT Team has clinched pole position in the GTE-Pro class at the final round of the season in Bahrain. Works driver Gianmaria...

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Toyota took pole for tomorrow's 8 hours of Bahrain, but the #8 and #7 were split by a Peugeot for the first...

This Saturday in Bahrain, the 2022 FIA WEC campaign will come to an end with the sixth race of the season. After Sebring, Spa, Le Mans,...

The new partnership debuts next season with factory supported GT campaigns in Europe and America. Lamborghini Squadra Corse and Iron Lynx have announced that they will join forces as both entities embark on a dual assault as Lamborghini Iron Lynx in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2024. Unveiled during the Lamborghini Finals at Portimão, the partnership will begin from 2023, with Iron Lynx becoming a factory supported team in GT3 compet

In the first of our new features, we join Martin from Buchan Motorsport as he discusses the new Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar. Martin Buchan joined the junior engineer programme of AUDI AG in 2009 and became a professional car mechanic working on customer cars and prototypes. After studying Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering in Ingolstadt and Edinburgh, he worked in AUDI's technical development in aerodynamics and cooling design. After being active in Karting, Formula St

The Cadillac V-LMDh completed a 24-hour continuous test at Sebring International Raceway as it approaches its debut in January. It consisted of a single car with six drivers and the equivalent of two Twelve Hours of Sebring races in Florida. IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship next year will each feature a Cadillac V-LMDh. In the same test, Action Express Racing ran a second car in a "prescribed" testing program. Since the first rollou

The two 911 RSR fielded by the Porsche GT Team will bid farewell to the GTE-Pro class of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC sporting a very special livery. At the final round of the season in Bahrain, the two nine-elevens will be decked out in striking colours from ten years of competition with the GT racing car – from the classic Porsche Motorsport design through to the beloved “Pink Pig”. The eight-hour race will be contested on the track in Sakhir on 12 November. Set

499P is the name of the new Le Mans Hypercar with which Ferrari will tackle the FIA WEC World Endurance Championship in the elite class...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC Toyota crowned a near perfect weekend at Fuji with a 1-2 finish. For the winners of the 24 hours of Le...

End of an era

BMW M Motorsport returns to Le Mans with the BMW M Hybrid V8: WEC involvement from 2024. In 2024, BMW M Motorsport will return to the FIA World Endurance Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans. For the first time since the legendary BMW V12 LMR won Le Mans 25 years ago, a BMW M Motorsport prototype will challenge for the overall victory. The new BMW M Hybrid V8 will compete in the official FIA World Endurance Championship one year after debuting in the North American IMSA Wea

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet A tat late, but we couldn't deny you our best images of the 6 hours of Monza earlier this month. Click here...

French racing driver Tom Dillmann recently completed just shy of 1000km, testing the Vanwall Hypercar at the Lausitzring in Germany. Over the 2 day test, Dillmann who was in the car for the first time completed 2 days of testing; covering 450 km each day. 'The test couldn't have gone any better in all honesty. It was my first time [in the car] and the car's third and forth day [of testing]. We did a lot of mileage running through our program to understand the car' said Dillm

Phil Hanson will continue with United Autosport to contest the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. Since 2018, the 23-year-old Briton has raced with the team, making his debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona alongside F1 legend Fernando Alonso. Hanson has earned impressive endurance accolades during his WEC career with United. At the age of 21 years, 78 days, he became the second youngest driver in the history of the World Endurance Championship to win the LMP2 class at Le Mans

As part of its LMDh program, Lamborghini Squadra Corse has announced the first two drivers for the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar class) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (GTP class). Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti, both current Lamborghini factory drivers, have been confirmed not only as test drivers, but also as drivers in the new project. “We are especially proud to announce Mirko and Andrea as the first drivers for the LMDh program,” co