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Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Round two of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship heads to one of motorsport's most celebrated venues this week, with the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. As is tradition since the days of the 1000km of Spa, the race takes place on a Saturday — this time the 9th of May. It also holds a familiar role in the calendar as the final competitive outing before the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, giving teams one last opportunity to sharpen th

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The opening Sprint Cup round of the 2026 GT World Challenge Europe season at Brands Hatch delivered two contrasting races, a raft of post-race penalties, and a maiden outright series win for Lionspeed GP before the weekend was out. Qualifying Ricardo Feller put the #80 Lionspeed GP Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo on pole for Race 1 with a 1m22.722s on his first flying lap, the only driver to dip below 1m23s alongside Arthur Leclerc, who qualified second i

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Toyota couldn't wish for a better debut for its brand new TR010 Hybrid at the 6 Hours of Imola. The no. #8 of Sébastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley defeated the pole-sitting Ferrari 499P in a strategic race to open the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The result, achieved in front of 92,175 spectators, came on Toyota's 100th WEC start and delivered the Japanese manufacturer its 50th victory in the series. Hypercar: Strateg

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Antonio Giovinazzi delivered Ferrari pole position for the 2026 FIA WEC season opener at Imola, but the story of a remarkable Hyperpole session was the 0.011 seconds separating the reigning world champion from Ryo Hirakawa's Toyota — and four different manufacturers filling the top five grid slots. Giovinazzi set his pole lap of 1:30.127 on his final run in the #51 Ferrari AF Corse 499P, vaulting from third to first in the closing moments. Hirakawa

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO A crowd of over 37,000 at Circuit Paul Ricard witnessed one of the more dramatic finishes in recent GT World Challenge Europe memory, as the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo snatched victory from the #48 Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter with eight minutes remaining. Nicki Thiim, Marco Sørensen and Mattia Drudi took the win; the #48 crew of Lucas Auer, Maro Engel and Luca Stolz had to settle for second after dominating for the better

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS opens its 2026 season at Circuit Paul Ricard this weekend, with a 59-car field contesting a six-hour race running from 18:00 through to midnight on Saturday. It is the 14th consecutive year the series has visited the French circuit, and one of the more eventful season openers in recent memory. New in 2026: Lamborghini's Temerario and F1 driver(-s?) The headline addition on the machinery front is the L

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Lance Stroll will step out of his Aston Martin Formula 1 car and into a GT3 machine next weekend, with the Canadian confirmed for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 11. Lance Stroll will step out of his Aston Martin Formula 1 car and into a GT3 machine next weekend, with the Canadian confirmed for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season opener at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 11. S

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season reached a its conclusion at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where Garage 59 claimed its first overall victory in nearly a decade, while Rutronik Racing secured the drivers’ championship by the narrowest of margins. From pole position, the #58 Garage 59 McLaren GT3 Evo of Dean MacDonald, Adam Smalley, and Louis Prette led from the opening stint and never looked back. A composed drive thr

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season concludes next weekend with a three-hour...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The 2025 GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Sprint Cup came to a conclusion at Circuit Ricardo Tormo...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO ROWE Racing is back at the top step of the podium in the Endurance Cup with victory at the Nürburgring,...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO A mere two weeks after the Misano round, under the floodlights of Magny-Cours, two different winners...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO The GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup returned to Misano World Circuit for a weekend featuring two...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO After decades of near-misses and heartbreaks, Lamborghini has finally done it. In a dramatic and often...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Tomorrow, 16:30 local time (15:30 UK), 75 GT3 cars will launch down the hill from La Source to Raidillon...

Text: Ian Cutting Images: SRO Victory for Jonny Adam and Giacomo Petrobelli in their Blackthorn AMR Aston Martin making Adam the most...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: SRO Mercedes-AMG Team MANN-FILTER wrote a new chapter in GT World Challenge Europe history at Monza, finally...

Text & Images: Ian Cutting Hugo Cook and Rob Collard take victory in Race 1 while Kevin Tse and Maximilian Gotz take Race 2 spoils. In GT4 Marc Warren and Jack Brown victorious in both races. Race 1 GT3 Pole sitter Collard kept Giacomo Petrobelli at bay going into Old Hall to lead after the opening lap. A fast starting Simon Orange made up 3 places passing Charles Dawson and Richard Neary. A huge accident for Ravi Ramyead 20 minutes into the race meant that a Full Course Yell

The battle for the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup crown continued merely two weeks after its opening round in Brand Hatch, as the...

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Ferrari made it three in a row in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, but Spa wasn’t business as...