Vasselon appointed to new role as Toyota prepares for hydrogen Le Mans entry
It was a role already earmarked for the 60-year-old prior to his sudden departure from the top engineering job he had occupied since 2006 in January as part of what was billed as a management change “designed to develop the next generation of company leaders” at the Cologne-based organisation, which masterminds Toyota’s World Endurance Championship […]
Toyota gets double BoP hit for 2024 WEC opener in Qatar
The Japanese manufacturer’s GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar will go into the 2024 season weighing 9kg more and with a maximum power reduction of 4kW or 5.3bhp compared with the post-Le Mans 24 Hours leg of the 2023 campaign. A minimum weight for the GR010 has been set at 1089kg and maximum power at 510kW, […]
How Toyota has helped its LMGT3 partner team in WEC transition from Mercedes
The French outfit has won each of the last two GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup titles with Mercedes, as well as claiming victory at the Spa 24 Hours in 2022, but has switched to Toyota-owned Lexus brand for 2024 in a move triggered by the WEC’s move to adopt GT3 cars for the first […]
AF Corse goes yellow for third Ferrari Hypercar entry
The #83 Ferrari 499P has been primarily painted in Giallo yellow, the colour of the Italian manufacturer’s home city of Modena, with red stripes around the cockpit and the sides of the car completing the livery of the car. It follows the factory Ferrari team, which is run in conjunction with AF Corse, also incorporating […]
The 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours entry list in full
Hypercar — 23 cars 2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Alex Palou 3 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Sebastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon 4 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Mathieu Jaminet TBA TBA 5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Matt Campbell Michael Christensen Frederic Makowiecki 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche […]
Palou to make Le Mans debut as third driver of Cadillac’s WEC entry
Palou will move across from Ganassi’s IndyCar Series squad for the centrepiece round of the World Endurance Championship on 15/16 June to drive the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh alongside car regulars Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn. The news was announced by Cadillac immediately after the publication of the full 62-car Le Mans entry list, which […]
Le Mans 24 Hours entry list published, 23 Hypercars for 2024
Cadillac will for a second year in a row take in the double-points WEC round on 15/16 June with both of its V-Series.R LMDhs from the IMSA SportsCar Championship run respectively by the Action Express and Ganassi teams, while Porsche Penske Motorsport will again cross the Atlantic with one of its North American 963 LMDhs. […]
Ferrari unveils revised Hypercar livery for 2024 WEC campaign
This year’s red-and-yellow colour scheme of the 499Ps fielded in the Hypercar class by the AF Corse team once again celebrates the success of the previous factory Ferrari prototype, the 312PB of 1972 and 1973. The livery incorporates a new shade of Ferrari racing red inspired by the F2007 Formula 1 car in which Kimi […]
AF Corse reveals Vista liveries for Ferrari 296 LMGT3s in WEC
Launched in Vista Jet’s Milan hangar, located at Linate Airport, the company founded by entrepreneur and driver Thomas Flohr, the main sponsor of the Piacenza-based team, revealed the 296 GT3s in silver and red colours that will take part in the LMGT3 Class. In the #54 there will be Flohr himself, Francesco Castellacci and Davide […]