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Toyota Gazoo Racing, the defending Hypercar World Champions, started the 2023 season off right with a one-two finish in the 1000 Miles of Sebring today. The No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid Hypercar driven by Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Jose Maria Lopez crossed the finish line 2.168 seconds before the No. 8 car, which was driven by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, and Ryo Hirakawa. With its victory in Sebring, the No. 7 marks the Japanese manufacturer's 40th WEC triumph. The

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Ferrari, WEC The battle is on at Sebring! Despite Toyota being fastest in last weekend's Prologue and all the...

Avis Budget Group (Nasdaq: CAR), a leading provider of mobility solutions, and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which includes the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans as its headline race, have today announced a new partnership. Under the agreement, Avis has been named a Premium Partner for the FIA WEC – which sees global marques including Ferrari, Porsche, Peugeot, Toyota and Cadillac go head-to-head on some of the world’s best race circuits over races of between six an

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC The official WEC Prologue is behind us, and the first race of 2023 is at our doorstep. FP1 of the first round, the 1000 miles of Sebring, is just behind us with some surprising results. It won't come as a surprise that Toyota topped the charts after FP1. Ryo Hirakawa put out a 1:47.649 in the #8. this was already 1.568s faster than last years qualifying time. More interesting was that James Calado, in the brand new #51 Ferrari 499P, was less

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Adam Prescott, Rick Kiewiet, NASCAR No less than 62 cars will set out to take the start of the centennial 24...

The Porsche Penske Motorsport works team tackles the 24 Hours of Le Mans with three Porsche 963. Together with the two hypercar vehicles from the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the squad will also compete with a hybrid prototype from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. For the major event on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the endurance classic, the factory team enlists personnel from both series. The customer squad Hertz Team JOTA has entered a fou

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