Porsche Penske Motorsport could modify its plan to run just two drivers in the regular six-hour World Endurance Championship races next year. The team will go into its 2025 WEC campaign with a “flexible approach” after opting to downsize from three to two drivers in each of the factory Porsche 963Continue Reading
Peugeot set the pace in the opening practice session for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.Former Formula 1 driver Paul di Resta set a time of 1m50.837s in the #94 Peugeot 9X8 LMH at a hot and sunny Bahrain International Circuit on Thursday afternoon, eclipsing the previous benchmarkContinue Reading
Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe race director Rob Leupen is departing the Cologne-based organisation that masterminds the Japanese manufacturer’s World Endurance Championship campaign.The 60-year-old Dutchman, also managing director of the company, will leave TGR-E at the end of the year, but has stepped down from his operational role with immediate effectContinue Reading
Jonny Kane could never have imagined that biofuel testing for the short-lived A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport might provide the origins of his favourite team-mate partnership. But a fruitful collaboration with Danny Watts that is best remembered for a famous Le Mans 24 Hours class victory with theirContinue Reading
Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Allan McNish has returned to the cockpit of the unraced Porsche LMP2000 25 years after he took part in the car’s solitary test.McNish, who retired from racing after taking the World Endurance Championship title with Audi in 2013, drove the LMP2000 at Porsche’s provingContinue Reading
2024 24 Hour of Le Mans winners, Nicklas Nielsen and Antonio Fuoco sit down to speak to Julian Thomas. SourceContinue Reading
“Honestly, it’s not putting on any pressure”. That is what Victor Martins told Autosport ahead of the Formula 2 season which he entered as one of the drivers tipped to battle for championship honours in 2024.After all, he was the highest-placed 2023 driver to return for the new season, havingContinue Reading
Reigning Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire will get his first run in a sportscar prototype when he joins Peugeot for the World Endurance Championship’s Bahrain rookie test next month.Pourchaire is one of the two drivers to be selected by the French manufacturer to drive the 9X8 2024 LMH at theContinue Reading
Former Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat believes Lamborghini can challenge for victories in the World Endurance Championship in 2025 by upgrading the SC63 LMDh.Lamborghini joined the Hypercar class of the WEC this year with a single car entered on a factory basis by Iron Lynx and raced by Kvyat, Mirko Bortolotti and EdoardoContinue Reading
Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team.The announcement from the Frenchman, 40, on Wednesday means that last month’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship, in which he finished third with Alpine,Continue Reading