The Formula Winter Series aims to build on its successful debut in the upcoming 2024 season.Thanks to a partnership agreement reached with the Spanish F4 Championship in the summer, there are a host of teams with their sights set on the title for FWS 2024. Standardised F4 cars with aContinue Reading
LMP2 has been a staple of WEC since the inception of the championship in 2012, although it has its roots in the LMP675 class that was launched by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest back in 2000.LMP2 formed an important part of WEC, bridging the gap between the top division andContinue Reading
The GT Winter Series (GTWS) presents itself as the highlight of the 2024 racing year by Gedlich Racing – at least as far as the vehicles are concerned. Only racing cars from the GTX, GT3, Porsche Cup, Ferrari Challenge and Lamborghini Supertrofeo categories are permitted.”With a field full of carsContinue Reading
The pair, team-mates in 2021-23 at the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Series squad, will make one-off appearances at Daytona on 27-28 January in the pair of LMP2 class ORECA-Gibson 07s run by the Anglo-America team co-owned by McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown.O’Ward, who is remaining at Arrow McLaren for a fifthContinue Reading
Toyota held its own against an onslaught of new LMDh and LMH car makers in the WEC in 2023, winning six of the seven races and sweeping both drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles.Its only defeat of the season came at the Le Mans 24 Hours, where it narrowly lost out toContinue Reading
Maserati’s huge success with the MC12 GT1 over a decade ago meant the Italian manufacturer’s follow-up was always going to be keenly anticipated.PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing foreverBased on the road going MC20, the new Maserati GT2 made its competition debut at Paul Ricard in the final GT2Continue Reading
WEC boss Frederic Lequien has revealed that the prohibition on pre-heating tyres in the pits before they are put on the car is under review on safety grounds for the double-points round of the series in June.It follows the reversal of the ban introduced for environmental reasons at the startContinue Reading
Italian manufacturer Lamborghini is preparing for the biggest programme in its sportscar racing history, having never previously fielded a prototype like the Ligier-chassised SC63 machine. Insight: How Lamborghini took the long road to Le MansBut the project received a major setback just a few weeks into the start of testing, when BortolottiContinue Reading
Series boss Frederic Lequien categorically stated that the field would be increased to 40 in the wake of the publication of next year’s entry list of 37 cars.”We will go to 40 cars in 2025, definitely,” said Lequein. “I can tell you it is a kind of obsession at theContinue Reading
Isotta has joined forces with Duqueine, a regular in LMP2 at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the European Le Mans Series, after parting company with the British Vector Sport operation that was scheduled to run its solo Tipo 6 Competizione LMH in 2024.The link-up with the Vector LMP2Continue Reading