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Friday 9 February, Banbury : Aston Martin Racing has confirmed it will race two brand new Vantage GTEs in the GTE Pro category of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season. In a revised driver line-up, three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Darren Turner (GB) joins Danish pairing and former GTE Pro champions Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen in #95 ‘Dane Train’ machine, while exciting new Aston Martin Racing signings Maxime Martin (B) and Alex Lynn (GB) will

Ginetta can today (09/02/2018) confirm plans for a two-car entry into the FIA World Endurance Championship, including both the 2018 and 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours. The two Ginetta G60-LT-P1 cars will be entered by customer team, CEFC TRSM Racing. 21-year-old Charlie Robertson and 25-year-old Oliver Rowland are the first two drivers confirmed by CEFC TRSM Racing. Ginetta Development Driver Robertson will pilot one car, with single-seater star Rowland behind the wheel of the secon

CEFC TRSM Racing are pleased to announce Oliver Rowland will drive for the team in the 2018/19 super season in the FIA World Endurance Championship. This will mark the teams third season in the FIA WEC but their first in LMP1. Rowland has a wealth of driving experience in various series including most recently Formula 2. This will be his debut year in endurance racing. Further driver announcements and full driver line up will follow in due course. Graeme Lowdon, President

Today is the day when we find out the entries for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans. Building on its popular success of previous years the press conference will be streamed worldwide through various media sources. First up is via the FIA WEC Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/fiawec/ For English commentary your best bet is going to be via Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYgPncXzAA And of course you can follow via Twitter @FIAWEC O

McLaren has confirmed it will allow Fernando Alonso to compete in upcoming rounds of the World Endurance Championship, including this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, after reaching agreement with both Fernando and Toyota Gazoo Racing. McLaren and Fernando are in full agreement that Formula 1 remains their shared top priority. As such, Fernando will compete in every round of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, and will dovetail his sports car commitments around grands prix

At 11am on the first day of the 2018 Autosport Show in the NEC at Birmingham, Ginetta Chairman revealed their G60-LT-P1 LMP1 car to the world for the first time. Resplendent in the new colours of the Manor TRS Team, metallic blue and white the car took centre stage. Lawrence Tomlinson, Chairman of Ginetta, said: “I’m delighted to finally be able to unveil our latest machine to the motorsport industry, and what better time than at the start of our 60th year of manufacturing

After ending the 2017 season with the title of LMP2 World Champion, the REBELLION Racing team will return to the top category of the World Endurance Championship next season, just one year after leaving it. As usual, two cars will be lined up by the Swiss team in 2018. At the wheel, Bruno Senna and Mathias Beche will be joined by two current LMP1 drivers Neel Jani and André Lotterer. After driving under the colors of REBELLION the Le Petit Le Mans on October 7th, the American

Porsche plans to campaign four factory vehicles at the 86th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The two Porsche GT Teams from the FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech Championship each field two ca. 510 hp GT racers from Weissach. The cockpit of the #91 car is shared by Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz and Frédéric Makowiecki. The number 92 vehicle is manned by Kévin Estre, Michael Christensen and Laurens Vanthoor. Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber are expected to drive the nu

The test work is entering a critical phase as the new BMW M8 GTE prepares to make its race debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) in January. During the development of the car, which will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC), the engineers have focussed on aerodynamics, among other things. The BMW M8 GTE boasts a host of innovative features which will also be incorporated in the development of future prod

ByKOLLES Racing has completed an intensive three-days testing program at Motorland in Aragon. The action on the Spanish circuit was finalised to test new development parts on the Enso CLM P1/01 in preparation of the 2018/19 WEC super season and the Le Mans 24hours race. The drivers selected for this test are regular ByKolles driver Oliver Webb, James Rossiter, French Tom Dillmann (2016 World Series 3.5 V8 champion), Italian Edoardo Liberati (2016 GT Asia champion) and Canad

Not since 1994 have we seen Le Mans and the World Endurance Championships pit stops involve re-fueling and tyre changing being carried out at the same time. This looks set to change in 2018. Plans are being put forward to the Motorsport Council in December to allow a change in the rules meaning that fuel and tyres can be done at the same time. Some in the paddock including Ford believe this will be more dangerous, others are welcoming the change. It is not belived howeve

Amongst the palm trees and fountains, the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing of Sebastian Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima took the chequered flag in yesterday’s BAPCO 6 Hours of Bahrain and the WEC’s season finale. The #8 won by a clear lap taking the teams fifth win of the year. The sister car of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez suffered contact with the #92 Porsche GT which took them out of contention for the victory and they managed a fourth place finis

Matt Griffin is definitely not one to sit about and say ‘Hmmm, what shall I do today?' With 30 races under his belt this season alone, he has covered some 20,000 kms on track, taken over 100 flights and spent almost 300 hours in the air (he has an app to record this!). We caught up with Matt in between sessions whilst in Bahrain where he is competing in the season finale of the World Endurance Championship for Singaporean team Clearwater Racing, where they have the possibi

On announcing their decision to enter the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Super Season for 2018/19, Prescott Motorsport sat down and spoke with Clearwater Racing’s Team Managing Director Arj Pillay Kulasegarm about that decision and the future for the team from Singapore. “I’m very glad that Weng made the decision to continue in the World Endurance Championship. It’s a very logical progression from what we’ve done, but you can’t take away that it’s been a huge decision o

As the 2017 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship draws to a close, Clearwater Racing have announced that they will be applying to the ACO to enter the 2018/19 Super Season of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Arj Pillay Kulasegaram (Team Managing Director) said "[We] are very glad that Weng has made the decision to continue in the World Endurance Championship" and he continued "We want to keep the team the same, this includes the drivers and mechanics, consisten

British based racing car manufacturer and championship organiser, Ginetta, is set to launch its LMP1 car at Autosport International in January. A regular to the show, Ginetta announced its entry into the LMP1 marketplace in January 2017, committing to a production run of ten chassis and targeting sales to a trio of two-car teams for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The Leeds-based company has already secured its first orders, announcing Manor and TRS, as well as

Chinese based motor sports specialists, TRS, and UK based Manor Endurance Racing, are to form a new joint venture business to promote and develop projects designed to raise the profile of international motorsport events in China. As part of the new venture, the team will enter the LMP1 category of the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 2018/19 Super Season, which includes visits to the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans race in both 2018 and 2019. The team will embark on th

There has been some positive comments from Toyota Gazoo Racing's boss, Shigeki Tomoyama where he indicated that the brand will continue in the LMP1 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Speaking in the build-up to the Tokyo motor show, Tomoyama suggested that the new regulations being drawn up to reduce costs and encourage closer competition in the WEC's top division were looking increasingly appealing to Toyota. “Once things have calmed down, we will make a decis

UK based Ginetta Cars announced today that they have taken formal orders and deposits for the first three sales of their new for 2018 LMP1 endurance racing car. The cars, purchased by an as yet un-named single customer team, are bound for a proposed two car 2018/19 FIA WEC effort (including both the 2018 and 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours) with the third car intended as a spare. Lawrence Tomlinson, Ginetta Cars Chairman: “This is a big step forward for the programme, and will be g

Today saw the launch of the FIA World Endurance Championship "Global Fan Survey". Fans are invited to take part in the survey and contribute to the shape of the FIA WEC in years to come. “We want to hear from the fans,” said FIA World Endurance Championship CEO, Gérard Neveu. “Echoing the values and attitudes led by Jean Todt, President of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), and Pierre Fillon, President of the ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest), this has alw