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Despite we still have the final WEC round in Monza to go, work on our yearly Ultimate Endurance Calendar is well underway! Of course we will still add the best images from Monza to the final version of the calendar, but you can already find a sneak preview here. Also, the calendar is available now for pre-order from our shop. We're expecting to send out the first items early to mid-December, well in time for the holidays!

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Toyota left the inaugural 6 Hours of Barcelona with a one-two finish and the 2026 Hypercar Manufacturers’ World Championship, its eighth title in 14 seasons. The #8 Toyota TR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa won by 0.583 seconds from the sister #7 car, in a race that started wet and dried out. In LMGT3, the #92 The Bend Manthey Porsche of Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz took a dominant win, which keeps t

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Genesis has its first pole position in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Mathys Jaubert put the #17 Genesis GMR-001 on top of the Hypercar order for the 6 Hours of Barcelona, and at his age he is also the youngest driver ever to start a WEC race from pole. Toyota’s #8 TR010 was second, with the second Genesis in third. In LMGT3, Tom Fleming delivered pole for Garage 59 after arriving at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya only on Saturday mornin

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet, race poster: FIA WEC Following the turmoil in the Middle East, the FIA World Endurance Championship makes its first visit to Spain this weekend, with the 6 Hours of Barcelona on Sunday 18 October. It is the penultimate round of the 2026 season, and both titles are still undecided. Chances are it's going to be a wet one... Hypercar: a tight top four Just 20 points separate the leading four Hypercar crews. Toyota and BMW have taken most of the wins

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2026 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup ended at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with a weekend split in two by the weather. Saturday was wet, with heavy rain, a red flag and a race winner from 14th on the grid. Sunday was dry and far calmer. Bastian Buus and Ricardo Feller secured the overall drivers' title with a race to spare, and Emil Frey Racing's Ben Green and Thierry Vermeulen took the finale. Gold, Silver and Bronze Cup honours were

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Max Verstappen will race in GT World Challenge Europe for the first time at the Endurance Cup finale in Portimão, taking part in the weekend of 16–18 October. The four-time Formula 1 champion will drive the #3 Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO, run by 2 Seas Motorsport, in the three-hour race. He shares the car with full-season driver Chris Lulham and Ben Barnicoat. The Lexus factory driver last raced for 2 Seas Motorsport in a one-off appeara

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Emil Frey Racing bounced straight back from missing out on Saturday's honours, locking out the top two podium slots as Ben Green and Thierry Vermeulen took the #69 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo to victory in Race 2 at Zandvoort. It capped a big turnaround after Garage 59's #58 McLaren, driven by Louis Prette and Tom Fleming, had denied the Swiss squad in Saturday's opener, and it made Vermeulen the first Dutch driver to win overall at his home track since 20

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet A cloudy Saturday at Zandvoort began with Morris Schuring giving the home crowd exactly what they had come for, as the Dutchman claimed a maiden Sprint Cup pole position in his Boutsen VDS Porsche after a qualifying session that stayed unsettled until the final minutes. That promise, however, did not translate into victory once the lights went out for the opening Sprint Cup race, with Tom Fleming and Louis Prette instead guiding the #58 Garage 59

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC Ferrari ended its longest winless run in WEC history at Lone Star Le Mans, with the #50 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen inheriting victory after the #7 Toyota TR010 Hybrid suffered a late hydraulic failure while leading. It capped an eventful six hours at COTA that delivered on almost every storyline flagged coming into the weekend. Hypercar Antonio Giovinazzi's #51 Ferrari took pole after a dead heat in Hyperpole wi

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS reached a decisive point in its Endurance Cup campaign at the Nürburgring, with a maiden Silver crown for Team WRT and a second Endurance Cup title for Maro Engel and Luca Stolz sealed alongside Comtoyou Racing's dominant victory. Lucas Auer added a first crown of his own, the trio doing just enough in the #48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO to clinch matters with a round still to go. Qualifying The #

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The World Endurance Championship heads overseas for round four this weekend, with the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo marking the first of the season's flyaway rounds. Toyota arrives at Interlagos on the front foot for the first time all year, while Cadillac returns to the scene of its breakthrough win looking to repeat the trick with one fewer driver than it managed it with last time. Championship standings post-Le Mans Toyota's sixth outright win at L

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Thomas Preining, Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus gave Lionspeed GP a maiden CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa victory, the #80 Porsche 911 GT3 R crossing the line 12.3 seconds ahead of the #48 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Luca Stolz, Lucas Auer and Maro Engel. The #51 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 of Nicklas Nielsen, Alessio Rovera and Tommaso Mosca completed the podium after one of the more eventful races in recent memory. For Porsche, it was a nint

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO AF Corse's #51 Ferrari 296 GT3 leads the 2026 CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa as the race enters its final six hours, a remarkable turnaround for a car that spent much of Saturday evening two laps off the pace following a puncture while Nielsen was in front. Pro: Ferrari's recovery steals the show The #51 had led comfortably in the opening hours before the puncture dropped it out of contention, handing the advantage first to the #48 MANN FILTER Merc

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Alessio Rovera gave the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 the best possible starting position for the 78th CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, topping all four segments of the new-format Superpole to claim pole with a 2:18.613 — Ferrari's first pole at this event since 2017. As flagged in our preview, the AF Corse squad and the Lionspeed GP Porsche were expected to be among the pace-setters, and Rovera's performance left little doubt about the Ferrari's spe

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season reaches its centerpiece this weekend as the GT World Challenge Europe heads to Spa-Francorchamps for the 78th CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa. A 69-car field representing ten manufacturers will take the green flag at 16:30 (local, 15.30 BST) on Saturday 27 June, with the checkered flag due at the same time on Sunday afternoon. It is the biggest GT3 race on the calendar, and after two rounds that hav

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The 94th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is almost upon us, and the entry list reads as one of the strongest in recent memory. Across all three classes, the field is deep, the pace is close, and the arguments for any number of potential winners are convincing. The test day, held yesterday at the Circuit de la Sarthe, gave a first indication of where things stand — though as ever, test day times are only part of the story. Twelve months ago, Fer

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO/JEP Tresor Attempto Racing claimed one of the most unlikely victories in GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup history at Monza, with the Silver Cup-entered #66 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of Ariel Levi, Sebastian Øgaard and Rocco Mazzola triumphing from 29th on the grid. It was Audi's first Endurance Cup win since Hockenheim 2022, and a result shaped entirely by chaos — at the start, and again at the finish. Qualifying HRT Ford Racing took its mai

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Comtoyou Racing arrives at Monza this weekend as the team to beat, the Belgian outfit leading the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup standings after a dramatic season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard. The 3 Hours of Monza — round two of the Endurance Cup campaign — takes place on Sunday. From Paul Ricard to Monza The #007 Comtoyou Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of Nicki Thiim, Marco Sørensen and Mattia Drudi snatched victory at Paul Ricard with

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Team WRT delivered BMW its first FIA World Endurance Championship victory at the 2026 TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, with a strategic masterclass producing a 1-2 finish for the Bavarian marque — its first outright win in ACO-rules racing since Le Mans in 1999. Hypercar Robin Frijns, Rene Rast and Sheldon van der Linde took the win in the #20 BMW M Hybrid V8, with Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor comple

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Malthe Jakobsen delivered Peugeot its first-ever FIA World Endurance Championship pole position on Friday, steering the #94 Peugeot 9X8 to a 2:00.653 in Hyperpole at Spa-Francorchamps. It was a landmark moment for the French manufacturer, coming at the 9X8's 28th WEC race start. Hypercar The achievement was all the more notable given Jakobsen had spun at Raidillon on his out lap during the opening qualifying segment, forcing him to pit for a second