Genesis has signed Jamie Chadwick as its reserve driver for the 2026 World Endurance Championship after she completed her first test in the GMR-001 Hypercar.Chadwick, who was already a part of Genesis’s Trajectory Programme this year, will step up to the role after finishing third in the 2025 European LeContinue Reading
Factory Ferrari driver Antonio Fuoco secured victory in the qualifying race for the FIA GT World Cup in Macau.Starting from pole, the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours winner delivered a controlled lights-to-flag performance in the #50 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 over 12 laps and was never seriously threatened.At theContinue Reading
Ferrari writes a new chapter in endurance racing history. Watch the highlights from the race that crowned the Prancing Horse as WEC World Champion. Relive the speed, strategy, and emotion of an unforgettable triumph. SourceContinue Reading
Ferrari says clinching its maiden Hypercar title in the World Endurance Championship gives it a “different satisfaction” to winning the Le Mans 24 Hours.The Prancing Horse swept both the drivers’ and the manufacturers’ championships after its three 499Ps finished third, fourth and fifth in the season-ending Bahrain 8 Hours.It marksContinue Reading
Corvette driver Dani Juncadella has been hit with a €5,000 fine for showing his middle finger to BMW rival Augusto Farfus during the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.Juncadella and Farfus were locked in a prolonged fight over fifth place in the LMGT3 category, with the pair making contact atContinue Reading
Toyota will head into the 2026 World Endurance Championship with an unchanged driver line-up across its two factory Hypercar entries.Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries will continue to share the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid next season, with Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa continuing in the sister #8Continue Reading
Cadillac driver Sebastien Bourdais has lashed out at the stewards’ decision to penalise his team-mate Jenson Button in the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.One-time Formula 1 world champion Button, competing in his final professional race, was slapped with a 30-second stop/go penalty for causing a collision with the #54Continue Reading
Former Lamborghini motorsport boss Giorgio Sanna is taking up the same role at McLaren Automotive to run its GT programmes. The 50-year-old Italian is moving into the position of McLaren Automotive head of motorsport formerly filled by Ian James, who was named as the new team principal of the Jaguar FormulaContinue Reading
Peugeot has revealed the reason behind Jean-Eric Vergne’s move into a development role with its World Endurance Championship squad in 2026, ending his continuous run as a race driver since the programme began.Ahead of this weekend’s Bahrain finale, Peugeot revealed that Vergne will be stepping down from his race seatContinue Reading
The World Endurance Championship could introduce success handicaps in the Hypercar division for its 2026 season.The new sporting rules for the series next year contain the provision to extend the use of the performance-balancing measure from LMGT3 to the top class. But the FIA, which runs the WEC together with LeContinue Reading