Porsche concedes second WEC customer team unlikely in 2025
Porsche is not expecting a second team to join Proton Competition in running its 963 LMDh in the World Endurance Championship next year. Thomas Laudenbach, boss of Porsche Motorsport, has revealed that at present there are no other teams in the frame to purchase a 963 for 2025 when the marque’s customer contingent will be […]
Muller aspiring to stay in WEC alongside FE after Porsche move
Outgoing Peugeot World Endurance Championship driver Nico Muller has aspirations to continue his sportscar career after joining Porsche for a Formula E campaign with Andretti. Muller stressed that his focus in 2025 would be his drive with the Andretti Porsche customer team in FE, but he has outlined a desire to race in the WEC […]
WEC unlikely to implement 2025 two-driver line-up ban
The push to prevent teams in the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class running two-driver line-ups from next season appears to have failed. A proposal to that effect put forward by the WRT BMW squad has not met with favour from the other participants and is likely to be abandoned. The calls were led by WRT […]
Ferrari set for Spa WEC appeal hearing
The FIA International Court of Appeal will rule on the appeal made by the factory Ferrari AF Corse team after it unsuccessfully challenged the decision of the race stewards to restart the Spa 6 Hours on 11 May beyond the scheduled finish time of the race and therefore the provisional results of the third round […]
Austin WEC win redemption for Le Mans heartbreak, say Ferrari crew
The drivers of the winning Ferrari in Sunday’s Austin World Endurance Championship round described the victory as a redemption for their near-miss at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Robert Kubica and Robert Shwartzman, who shared the winning AF Corse-run Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar with Yifei Ye, both used the word in reference to the […]
Ferrari AF Corse sneaks past Toyota for win
In a thrilling finish to Sunday’s Lone Star Le Mans six-hour race on the Circuit of The Americas, a customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Robert Shwartzman at Austin took the win after a battle with Toyota. All mere hours after Charles Leclerc’s Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza earlier […]
Austin our best chance of a podium in WEC 2024
Cadillac driver Alex Lynn believes that the US marque has its best chance of the season of making it onto the World Endurance Championship podium at Austin this weekend. The Briton expressed confidence that the Caddy V-Series.R LMDh run by Chip Ganassi Racing he shares with Earl Bamber can post its most competitive showing this […]
Alpine concedes definitive Le Mans engine fix unlikely this year
Alpine appears unlikely to introduce the engine upgrade to overcome the problem that resulted in the early retirement of both its cars at the Le Mans 24 Hours this season. The French manufacturer revealed at the Interlagos round of the World Endurance Championship in July that a valve issue put its two A424 LMDhs out […]
Giovinazzi beats Kubica to pole as Ferrari locks out front row
Antonio Giovinazzi claimed Ferrari’s second World Endurance Championship pole position of the season ahead of Sunday’s Austin round. The Italian topped the times in the Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in first qualifying by nearly three tenths of a second in the best of the Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars. Giovinazzi flew around […]