Spa WEC race halted after accident involving Cadillac and BMW in hour five
Bamber was pressuring Neel Jani’s Proton Porsche 963 LMDh for third place with a little under two hours remaining in the race when the pair came upon the battle for fourth in the LMGT3 class on the run to Les Combes. With Jani delayed slightly behind Gelael’s WRT-run BMW M4 GT3 and the D’Station Aston […]
Alpine’s first WEC Hyperpole appearance of 2024 ‘healing’ after Imola troubles
Frenchman Milesi explained that reaching the top 10 shootout in the car’s third competitive outing had helped to lift spirits in the camp ahead of Saturday’s 6-hour race after both Signatech-run machines were involved in a first corner tangle in Italy, while each also had post-race time penalties for drive time infringements. «It’s good for […]
Acura fastest, Aitken shunts Cadillac in FP1
Albuquerque beat BMW’s Philipp Eng and Mathieu Jaminet (Porsche Penske Motorsport 963) in the 90-minute opening practice session for the fourth round of the series. Eng set the pace early in the session in his #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 with a lap of 1m14.453s, before Albuquerque’s #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 […]
Ferrari stripped of WEC Spa pole, Porsche takes top spot
The car driven by Antonio Fuoco to a second consecutive WEC pole position in Friday afternoon’s Hyperpole session by a margin of 0.507s has lost all of its times from qualifying and will now start from the rear of the Hypercar field for Saturday’s 6 Hour race. The #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh will […]
Ferrari’s Calado admits «I screwed up» after missing WEC Spa Hyperpole
The Briton revealed that he made mistakes on his two quick laps aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the opening 15-minute qualifying session. That left him outside the top 10 cars that progressed to the final session in which team-mate Antonio Fuoco claimed pole position by half a second in the sister […]
Ferrari beats Porsche to pole, top Toyota in seventh
Fuoco took the top spot by almost exactly half a second at the wheel of the #50 Ferarri 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the 12-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the first round of qualifying. The Italian’s 2m02.600s lap of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps pushed Porsche driver Matt Campbell down to second. […]
Vettel outing at Le Mans still a future possibility despite 2024 absence
Vettel emerged as a late contender to drive Porsche Penske Motorsport’s third 963 LMDh at La Sarthe following a successful test at Aragon in March in which he completed around 600km. The German manufacturer delayed the announcement regarding its full Le Mans line-up, initially scheduled for the end of March, as it evaluated Vettel for […]
The GT3 drivers we want to see at Le Mans next
This year’s Le Mans 24 Hours is the first for which LMGT3 cars will be eligible. Where in the previous GTE era professional drivers allied to manufacturers other than Aston Martin, Corvette, Ferrari and Porsche were frozen out, this year five new marques have been added to the aforementioned quartet, opening up opportunities for new […]
Porsche beats Ferrari and Peugeot to lead final practice
The Frenchman logged a 2m04.125s aboard his #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh in the early minutes and, as he had done in Thursday’s second practice, was never headed for the remainder of the hour-long session. Estre usurped the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar that had briefly headed the times in James Calado’s hands, […]