Newgarden would “love” to add Daytona 24 Hours win to Indy 500 success
Newgarden, who won America’s biggest open-wheel oval race at his 12th attempt, will aim for overall victory at Daytona next month in his first bid for overall class honors – having made his sportscar debut in the LMP2 class in the Floridian sportscar classic in 2023. Driving alongside Dane Cameron, Felipe Nasr and Frederic Makowiecki […]
Button to make WEC return racing Jota Porsche in 2024
The 43-year-old will undertake a full season of racing for the first time since his sophomore campaign in the Super GT Series with the Kunimitsu Honda team in 2019 in one of the pair of Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 LMDhs. He will share the British team’s #38 Hypercar entry with fellow Briton Phil Hanson […]
Conway, Miyata complete Vasser Sullivan’s Rolex 24 lineup
Conway will co-drive alongside defending GTD Pro champions Ben Barnicoat, Jack Hawksworth, and IndyCar star Kyle Kirkwood in the team’s #14 Lexus RC F GT3. The combination of Barnicoat, Conway and Hawksworth teamed up to finish third in the 2023 edition of the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s season-opening endurance classic. The 40-year-old Briton has driven for […]
Lamborghini completes WEC and IMSA line-ups with Mortara and Cairoli
The duo were announced as the Italian manufacturer took the wraps of the line-ups for the two cars to be run by the Iron Lynx factory team in the full WEC and four of the five endurance rounds of the IMSA series in North America. Mortara and Cairoli come into the line-up after joining the […]
Ye leaves Porsche ahead of likely link-up with Ferrari and customer AF WEC drive
The end of the Chinese racer’s contract as a so-called ‘selected driver’ with Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific was revealed on Tuesday. This is expected to be a prelude to an announcement that a driver who raced the Jota Porsche 963 LMDh in the WEC this year will be linking up with Ferrari. His deal with […]
WEC tyre warmer ban remains in place for 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours
A repeat of this year’s U-turn for Le Mans to lift the new-for-2023 WEC rule prohibiting the pre-heating of tyres before they are put on the car was under discussion, series boss Frederic Lequien revealed late last month. But it has now been confirmed that it will remain in place with the publication of the […]
Upsized WTR Andretti squad quickly “gelling” in Daytona test
The organization grew from a one-car outfit to three, adding an additional machine in the topflight GTP category while also branching out with a new entry in the GTD class. In prepping for the 2024 season, which begins with the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 27, the newly expanded stable pounded the 3.56-mile, 12-turn […]
Porsche ‘ironing out flaws’ for endurance races, says Tandy
Tandy and team-mate Mathieu Jaminet won two races in the new GTP category this year and had a third taken away following a technical infraction found in post-race scrutineering at Watkins Glen. Porsche has identified the longer-distance races as where it needs to focus its efforts and has made a number of updates aimed at […]
Ilott in WEC switch with Jota and Porsche for 2024
The former Alfa Romeo Formula 1 reserve driver will race the British squad’s #12 Porsche 963 LMDh along with team regular Will Stevens and Norman Nato. Ilott and Nato were announced on Monday by Jota for #12 in its expanded two-car Hypercar squad along with Phil Hanson, who will race the #38 car together with […]