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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

At Putnam Park, Indianna. Cadillac Racing put the LMDh prototype through its paces in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The car features an all-new Cadillac 5.5-liter, dual-overhead cam V-8 engine developed by GM's Performance and Racing propulsion team and paired with the LMDh common hybrid system. The 680-horsepower race car will be Cadillac's first hybrid prototype, equipped with a spec energy recovery system. In 2023, Cadillac will join Acura, BMW, and Porsche

In a dramatic and closely-contested 6 Hours of Monza, Andre Negrao, Nicolas Lapierre, and Matthieu Vaxiviere were able to extend their...

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Peugeot drove its first competitive miles today during FP1 for the 6hrs of Monza this Sunday. In the session...

Ferrari Factory drivers Alessandro Pier Guidi and Nicklas Nielsen had the privilege of completing the first laps in the Ferrari Le Mans Hypercar at the Fiorano Circuit. At the Fiorano circuit this morning, history was made. After a series of preparatory checks, two-time world endurance champion Alessandro Pier Guidi fired up the engine of Ferrari's new Le Mans Hypercar (LMH), which it will use in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2023. Under the watchful eye of CEO Bene

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus have revealed a new livery for their No. 708 Hypercar, taking the blue from their marques badge to create this quite outstanding livery. With the unveiling of the Porsche 963 in the Porsche Team racing colours of Red and White, bringing the number of red and white running teams to 3 in the Hypercar class, Glickenhaus took the decision to stand out from the crowd with this new, striking livery - taking the blue form their marques badge. We reached

Today it has been announced that JOTA will compete with the newly announced Porsche 963 next season after confirming a deal in a collaboration with Hertz. Hertz announced today that it is sponsoring a brand new Porsche race-car for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which includes the legendary Le Mans 24 Hours. From 2023 to 2025, Hertz will be the title sponsor of a new Porsche 963 LMDh race-car. Singer Group and the recently crowned Le Mans LMP2 winner JOTA will jo

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Porsche Newsroom Video: Goodwood Porsche and Penske have presented their new endurance racer that will compete...