Honda must aim for title in first year with Civic, says Nojiri
Earlier this year, Honda announced it retire the NSX-GT in favour of a radical new GT500 model based on the Civic Type R road car, which made its first on-track appearance at Okayama in July (pictured top). The car made a further outing at Motegi in September, and was then driven by Nojiri in a […]
Hartley, Herta join WTR/Andretti for 2024 IMSA enduros
Hartley, who clinched his fourth World Endurance Championship title last weekend in Bahrain, will team up with Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor in WTRAndretti’s #10 Acura ARX-06, while Herta will slot in beside Louis Deletraz and Jordan Taylor in the team’s second GTP entry next year. Both Hartley and Herta will get to compete in […]
WEC delays plans to expand full-season grid to 40 cars
Series organisers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest outlined their idea to maintain the size of the entry at 2023 levels over the course of last weekend’s Bahrain WEC season finale, while insisting that they are still working on an expansion. WEC boss Frederic Lequien described 37 cars, the same number as this […]
10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 8 Hours of Bahrain
The Bahrain 8 Hours saw Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa enjoy an easy run from pole position to win the 2023 Hypercar title in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid. The sister #7 car shared by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, which came to the weekend with four wins out of […]
Ferrari ‘proud’ of Bahrain WEC podium with third-best car
The Italian manufacturer closed out its first season in the Hypercar class with a third-place result in the Bahrain 8 Hours, with the #50 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen securing the best-of-the-rest spot behind the dominant Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH cars. Ferrari didn’t have the speed to keep up with the […]
Winning WEC LMP2 title «brings back smile» after Le Mans defeats
WRT trio Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Rui Andrade were crowned the WEC’s last-ever LMP2 champions with victory in Saturday’s Bahrain finale, beating Inter Europol’s Albert Costa, Fabio Scherer and Jakub Smiechowski by an astonishing 59 points in the final tally. Kubica feels his WEC title success goes a long way in making up for his […]
JLOC win heightens expectations for Huracan Evo2
In Sunday’s season finale at Motegi, Motojima and Takashi Kogure delivered JLOC’s first victory since 2019 and a first since it introduced the Evo2 version of the Huracan for Round 4 at Fuji in August. Prior to Motegi, the best result achieved by the #88 crew was fourth place at Suzuka, but on that occasion […]
P3 overall for NISMO Nissan crew “acceptable”
Quintarelli and his team-mate in the flagship #23 Nissan car, Tsugio Matsuda, wrapped up their 2023 campaign last weekend at Motegi by finishing second behind the title-winning #36 TOM’S Toyota of Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata. That result lifts Quintarelli and Matsuda to third overall, one place behind the NISMO-run NDDP Nissan crew of Katsumasa […]
Jota not disappointed by Bahrain WEC podium near-miss
Team principal Sam Hignett insisted that fourth position for its Porsche 963 LMDh shared by Will Stevens, Yifei Ye and Antonio Felix da Costa was still a strong result, even though the car effectively lost a top-three finish to the best of the Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars as the result of a drive-through penalty. […]