O’Ward and Rosenqvist join United Autosports for 2024 Daytona 24 Hours
The pair, team-mates in 2021-23 at the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Series squad, will make one-off appearances at Daytona on 27-28 January in the pair of LMP2 class ORECA-Gibson 07s run by the Anglo-America team co-owned by McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown. O’Ward, who is remaining at Arrow McLaren for a fifth season in 2024, will […]
‘Would’ve been too easy’ if new marques beat Toyota in 2023
Toyota held its own against an onslaught of new LMDh and LMH car makers in the WEC in 2023, winning six of the seven races and sweeping both drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles. Its only defeat of the season came at the Le Mans 24 Hours, where it narrowly lost out to Ferrari following a controversial […]
Wadoux to compete in SUPER GT next year with Ferrari 296 GT3
Wadoux, who became the first female driver to score a class victory in the World Endurance Championship at Spa earlier in April, will share a Ferrari 296 GT3 entered under the PONOS Racing banner with Japanese racing veteran Kei Cozzolino in the GT300 class next year. Wadoux has risen to the spotlight following two promising […]
Grosjean buoyed by “impressive” Lamborghini LMDh test form
Italian manufacturer Lamborghini is preparing for the biggest programme in its sportscar racing history, having never previously fielded a prototype like the Ligier-chassised SC63 machine. But the project received a major setback just a few weeks into the start of testing, when Bortolotti crashed the car heavily at Paul Ricard, rendering heavy damage to the […]
WEC’s tyre warmer ban may be lifted at Le Mans again in 2024
WEC boss Frederic Lequien has revealed that the prohibition on pre-heating tyres in the pits before they are put on the car is under review on safety grounds for the double-points round of the series in June. It follows the reversal of the ban introduced for environmental reasons at the start of 2023 season on […]
IMSA ace Spinelli joins factory Lamborghini driver roster for 2024
The 27-year-old Florida-based Italian joins Sandy Mitchell, Marco Mapelli, Franck Perera, Leonardo Pulcini and Jordan Pepper among Lamborghini’s GT3 ranks. The expanded factory driver roster complements the new LMDh line-up of Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli, Romain Grosjean and Daniil Kvyat. Spinelli raced a Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 in IMSA SportsCar Championship competition with Forte Racing’s US […]
WEC firms up plans to expand grid to 40 cars by 2025
Series boss Frederic Lequien categorically stated that the field would be increased to 40 in the wake of the publication of next year’s entry list of 37 cars. «We will go to 40 cars in 2025, definitely,» said Lequein. «I can tell you it is a kind of obsession at the office, but it is […]
WTR Andretti adds Doyle for GTD endurance rounds, Harrison to Daytona roster
The two will join Kyle Marcelli and Danny Formal in the #45 WTRAndretti Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2. Doyle, 17, comes into the IMSA SportsCar Championship as a rookie after spending 2023 in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America LB Cup class, earning eight podiums and five LB Cup class wins that also included first place […]
Isotta Fraschini partners with Duqueine for 2024 WEC after Vector split
Isotta has joined forces with Duqueine, a regular in LMP2 at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the European Le Mans Series, after parting company with the British Vector Sport operation that was scheduled to run its solo Tipo 6 Competizione LMH in 2024. The link-up with the Vector LMP2 squad was revealed in […]