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Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The FIA World Endurance Championship closes its 2026 season at Monza this weekend, with the 6 Hours of Monza running on Sunday 8 November. Toyota already wrapped up the Hypercar Manufacturers’ title in Barcelona, but three of the four championships remain undecided. It is the series’ first visit to the Autodromo Nazionale since 2023. Hypercar: drivers’ championship to be decided by Toyota family affair The Drivers’ World Championship has come down

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, 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: GT Report by Jacob Suter Toyota converted a late safety car into a shock 6 Hours of Fuji victory, with a bold fuel-only strategy elevating the #8 TR010 Hybrid from sixth to the win in the race's closing stages. In LMGT3, Team WRT's Augusto Farfus produced a stunning late charge to snatch victory in the #32 BMW M4, capping a frantic finish shaped by the same late-race safety car period. Hypercar Alpine controlled the bulk of the six hours, with the #

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

With six hours left at La Sarthe, the #12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA machine of Louis Deletraz, Will Stevens and Norman Nato leads the 94th 24 Hours of Le Mans by close to a minute. A night of relentless attrition has thinned the Hypercar pack, eliminating the polesitting BMW, the sister #38 Cadillac and a works Ferrari 499P. The fight for second between Sheldon van der Linde's BMW and Brendon Hartley's Toyota remains alive, but the American manufacturer looks well placed to en

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

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: Rick Kiewiet Images: GT Report (Daniele Paglino), Rick Kiewiet The FIA World Endurance Championship's 2026 season was always going to start at Imola — just not quite in the way anyone had planned. The opening round in Qatar was called off amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, leaving the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari to host not only the first race of the year but also the Prologue test that preceded it. Eight Hypercar manufacturers and a packed L