Ye fastest to lead Ferrari 1-2 in practice
Ye went fastest half an hour into the first 90-minute session with a 1m31.347s aboard the customer AF Corse-run 499P Le Mans Hypercar to push the best of the works Ferraris with Anthony Fuoco at the wheel down to second position. Fuoco ended up on 31.503s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a […]
Peugeot surprised by severity of WEC Balance of Performance hit
The French manufacturer has admitted surprise at the BoP for its Le Mans Hypercar, now known as the 9X8 2024, which will hit the track 31kg heavier and with 10kW (13bhp) less power than its predecessor did at the Qatar WEC season-opener in March. Read Also: The increase in minimum weight and the decrease in […]
New compound to thwart Porsche’s inspired Long Beach ‘no tires’ call
Porsche Penske Motorsport claimed its first IMSA GTP victory with its 963 with Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet, after a lack of pace in practice and qualifying led it to running the same set of tires for the entire 100-minute, sprint-format race. It meant the car’s mandatory pitstop was much faster than its rivals, giving […]
Vanwall working on 2025 WEC comeback with heavily-revised hypercar
Having not been granted a spot on the 19-car Hypercar grid for the 2024 season amid the arrival of Lamborghini, BMW and Alpine, among others, Vanwall is pressing ahead with plans to make a comeback next year, team boss Colin Kolles told Motorsport.com’s sister title Motorsport-Total.com. The German outfit’s Le Mans Hypercar will undergo a […]
Why Porsche doesn’t expect another WEC domination at Imola
Porsche pretty much dominated at the World Endurance Championship season-opener in Qatar back in March. The German manufacturer’s 963 LMDh led all bar 52 of the 355 laps on the way to blocking out the podium positions. But there’s every reason to expect that it is going to have more of a fight on its […]
Ricky Taylor looking for redemption at Long Beach
A year ago, a disastrous pit stop for issues during a swap with co-driver Filipe Albuquerque left Taylor forced to put on a furious charge in the No. 10 Acura ARX-07 for Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti. Taylor overcame a gap of 8s with eight minutes left and stormed back through to second and, with […]
WEC’s Dries Vanthoor to make British GT debut at Silverstone 500
Vanthoor will contest the three-hour race as a one-off for Century Motorsport aboard its BMW M4 GT3 on the 26-28 April, amid WEC duties for the German manufacturer in the hypercar class. The drive was originally for Dan Harper, but in March Leung’s former co-driver secured a last-minute call-up for the British GT season in […]
Ferrari, Toyota receive biggest BoP breaks for WEC’s Imola round
The Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will race at a minimum weight of 1041kg, 34kg below the figure at which it competed in the WEC curtain-raiser in Qatar last month, and has had maximum power raised by 7kW (9bhp). Toyota’s GR010 HYBRID LMH has lost 29kg and gained 6kW in the table issued by the […]
Gounon replaces Habsburg for Alpine Hypercar debut at Imola’s WEC round
The two-time GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup title winner with Mercedes takes Habsburg’s seat in the French manufacturer’s #35 A424 LMDh alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup in his role as official reserve for the Signatech-run Alpine Endurance Team. Habsburg has been ruled out for at least the second round of the 2024 WEC after […]