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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

Our gallery for the 24 hours of Le Mans is now online! The race where Toyota solidified its return to the top step of the podium at La Sarthe. Find the full gallery here: https://prescottmotorsport.pixieset.com/fiawec24hoursoflemans2026/ Here's a small preview:

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 Our gallery of last weekend's 6 hours of Spa is online! The race in which BMW bagged it's first WEC Hypercar victory and Peugeot scored its first Pole Position. Find the full gallery here: https://prescottmotorsport.pixieset.com/ Here's a small selection of what to expect:

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: 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

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Proton Competition has confirmed it will not field a Porsche 963 Hypercar in the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship, drawing a definitive end to weeks of intense negotiations and closing the last potential avenue for Porsche to remain present in the top class at Le Mans next year. The decision comes in the wake of Porsche Penske Motorsport’s withdrawal from the world championship, which left Proton as the only realistic route for the 963 to stay

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The Iron Dames project will not return to the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2026, ending a five-season run as the only all-female entry on the world stage. The announcement, issued on Thursday afternoon, confirms the closure of the team’s LMGT3 programme after months of uncertainty surrounding its future. First podium, Monza 2022 The Dames’ WEC story began in 2021, following two seasons in the European Le Mans Series. What started as an ambit

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Japan ruled in qualifying for the BAPCO 8 Hours of Bahrain, as Toyota Gazoo Racing locked out the Hypercar front row and Lexus continued the nation’s dominance by securing LMGT3 pole. Toyota claims first pole since a year. Kamui Kobayashi delivered a flawless performance in the No. 7 GR010 Hybrid, setting a 1:46.826 on his sole flying lap after an extra warm-up tour to bring the tyres to temperature. His time proved untouchable, edging teammate Bre

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The FIA World Endurance Championship heads to the desert for the season-ending BAPCO 8 Hours of Bahrain (6-8 November), with both the Hypercar and LMGT3 titles still up for grabs. The Bahrain International Circuit (5.412 km) will host the final showdown of the 2025 campaign, with eight hours of racing from day into night. The Championships' decider The Hypercar championship remains tightly contested. Ferrari leads both the Manufacturers’ and Driver

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 & Images: Rick Kiewiet Porsche has confirmed that its factory Hypercar effort in the FIA World Endurance Championship will come to...

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

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet The FIA World Endurance Championship’s 100th race at Fuji Speedway produced a classic, with Alpine scoring a...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: FIA WEC, Rick Kiewiet, Genesis The FIA World Endurance Championship heads into its penultimate round of the...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: Porsche, Peugeot, United Autosports Porsche Penske Motorsport claimed its long-awaited first win of the 2025...

Text: Rick Kiewiet Images: WEC, Rick Kiewiet The FIA World Endurance Championship heads to Texas for the 6 Hours of Circuit of The...