The pole shootout for the fourth round of the 2024 World Endurance Championship did not begin as scheduled at 8pm local time, with the race control subsequently communicating 8:30pm as the new start time.Repair work is underway at the track with marshals working on replacing the Armco barriers between MulsanneContinue Reading
Two-time IndyCar champion Palou made the comment after two of three factory Cadillac V.Series.R LMDh cars progressed into hyperpole, but were the slowest in a straightline in Wednesday’s first qualifying at the Circuit de la Sarthe.The #2 Caddy qualified by Palou’s team-mate Alex Lynn clocked a top speed of justContinue Reading
The Hinwil-based outfit is the only team not to score points in the current campaign, having seen its qualifying performances drop since the start of the season.Bottas had been running well in mixed conditions in Montreal before pitting “one lap too early” to switch to slicks as the track surfaceContinue Reading
With Hyperpole the only pure-performance exercise still coming up – and involving just 24 of the 62 entries – everyone focused on race preparation with long runs during the three-hour Thursday afternoon session.Fuoco set the quickest time in 3m27.283s – nearly three seconds slower than the #15 BMW’s qualifying effortContinue Reading
Jota and WTR are looking increasingly certain to move over from Porsche and Acura respectively to replace Chip Ganassi Racing in the General Motors brand’s roster of teams. Autosport has learned that each is at the very least moving towards a deal to run two V-Series.R LMDhs in 2025, Jota inContinue Reading
Jota and WTR look certain to move over from Porsche and Acura respectively to replace Chip Ganassi Racing in the General Motors brand’s roster of teams. Autosport has learned that each has a deal in place to run two V-Series.R LMDhs in 2025, Jota in WEC and WTR in the NorthContinue Reading
The category is making its return to the WEC this week at Le Mans with a 16-strong entry, down from 24 cars in last year’s race, having been axed from the series’ other rounds amid strong interest in the Hypercar and new LMGT3 divisions.But, despite topping the LMP2 leaderboard inContinue Reading
Team principal Sam Hignett has revealed that the quickest Jota has built up a 963 since starting racing the Porsche in the middle of last year is three weeks. He stated that the team is aiming for a Friday evening completion of the rebuild of its #12 entry, which sustained monocoqueContinue Reading
From 14th on the grid, Magnussen found the extreme wet tyre particularly potent in the first six laps when the circuit was at its most slippery, and carved his way up to fourth by the end of lap three.That put him in touching distance of the top three but, asContinue Reading
The biggest change to this year’s IndyCar campaign sees the Nashville finale pushed forward by two weeks, moving from its mid-September slot to a late August finish, to land on the US’s Labor Day weekend.It means all 17 rounds are squeezed into a six-month schedule.A return trip to The ThermalContinue Reading