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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 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: 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 & Images: Rick Kiewiet FIA WEC returns from its summer break this weekend for Lone Star Le Mans, with Circuit of The Americas hosting round five of a season that has both major championships hanging by a thread. The Hypercar Drivers' standings are tied at the top, and just five points cover Toyota and BMW in the Manufacturers' fight — a gap Austin could easily flip in either direction. Toyota and BMW still chasing a first COTA win Both marques have won twice already in 2

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 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 & 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