Le Mans winner Dumas joins Proton Porsche for Daytona return
Dumas, who has been left without a seat following Glickenhaus’ exit from the World Endurance Championship, will share the team’s sole GTP entry with Neel Jani, Gianmaria Burni and Alessio Picariello in the blue-riband round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship on January 27-28. Jani and Bruni were already revealed to be driving the Proton Porsche […]
Kubica joined by Deletraz, Edgar for ELMS title push with TF Sport
Kubica and Deletraz won the 2021 ELMS title with WRT alongside Ye Yifei, and were a lap away from adding class victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours when an electrical fault denied them. After switching to the WEC with Prema for 2022, the duo were reunited at WRT last season and claimed the final […]
Porsche Penske Motorsport eyeing three hypercar Le Mans 2024 attack
It has been revealed that the German manufacturer has put in for an extra entry for this year’s French enduro on 15-16 June to reprise its expanded assault in 2023 when the IMSA SportsCar Championship arm of its PPM operation joined the two-car WEC squad with a single Porsche 963 LMDh. “We’re pushing. We ran […]
AO Racing confirms IMSA plans with GTD Pro entry for 2024
The team moves up from the GTD category and will run in the Porsche 911 GT3 R known as ‘Rexy’ that sports its fan-favorite Tyrannosarus Rex livery. Porsche factory driver Michael Christensen joins a lineup for the Rolex 24 At Daytona that also features regulars Sebastian Priaulx and Laurin Heinrich. “Rexy is ready to step […]
Porsche improving pace relative to IMSA rivals, says Cameron
Two-time IMSA DPi champion Cameron, 35, returns to IMSA competition after two years in the World Endurance Championship racing for Penske’s LMP2 and then Porsche 963 Hypercar squads. The Californian has been recalled to America for 2024 in a straight swap with its Australian young gun Matt Campbell, as Porsche Penske Motorsport looks to reap […]
Why A SUPER GT Star Still Competes On The Gran Turismo Video Game
Fraga made his racing debut for the Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage squad in April alongside team-mates Yuga Furutani and Miki Koyama, the first women driver in the championship for over a decade. “We work well together, but also the situation I think creates the need to help each other more because all three drivers […]
Customer cars key if manufacturers end up deserting Hypercar – Porsche
The WEC is booming following an overhaul in regulations, with no fewer than nineteen Hypercar entered in 2024, representing nine different manufacturers. Never had so many OEMs been involved in WEC’s top class since the inception of the series. While this development is generally heralded as the advent of a golden era, Laudenbach warns that […]
TF Sport aiming to take Corvette GT3 car to Spa, Nurburgring 24-hour races
The British sportscar outfit has partnered with the General Motors brand for the new LMGT3 class of the World Endurance Championship and will field two examples of Corvette Z06 GT3.R for factory drivers Daniel Juncadella and Charlie Eastwood. TF Sport’s current deal with Corvette only encompasses the WEC, but team boss Tom Ferrier has revealed […]
The remarkable motorsport stories you may have missed in 2023
There was no shortage of headlines to result from a 23-race Formula 1 calendar in 2023, MotoGP’s addition of sprint races at every round and the influx of manufacturers arriving into the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class. Our team of writers scouring the paddocks of international and national motorsport series has diligently covered 24-hour races […]