De Vries replaces Lopez in Toyota’s WEC 2024 line-up
De Vries will share the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID with Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway for what will be his first full campaign in the WEC since he drove for the Racing Team Nederland LMP2 team in the 2019/20 season. It marks the first driver change at Toyota since Ryo Hirakawa joined the #8 LMH […]
Honda star Naoki Yamamoto finally leaves hospital
Yamamoto was forced to miss the final two races of 2023 after the incident, which took place exiting the final corner at Sugo as he made contact with Teppei Natori’s Kondo Racing Nissan GT300 car. The two-time GT500 champion was initially cleared of any serious injury, but was later transferred to a different medical facility […]
Nissan suggests NDDP moniker not suited to drivers
Chiyo and Takaboshi were paired up at NDDP (short for the Nissan Driver Development Programme from which they both graduated) for the 2022 season, which coincided with NISMO taking over the running of the #3 car from B-Max Racing. The duo fought for the title in their first season together, only missing out in the […]
Full 2024 Rolex 24 at Daytona entry list
GTP — 10 cars 01 Cadillac Racing (Chip Ganassi Racing) Cadillac V-Series.R Sebastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon 5 JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche 963 Tijmen van der Helm Richard Westbrook Phil Hanson Ben Keating 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Nick Tandy Mathieu Jaminet Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 […]
DTM champion Preining «can imagine» LMDh future after Porsche test
Preining got a chance to sample Porsche’s new prototype racer at the Bahrain International Circuit earlier this month, with the German manufacturer having nominated him for the World Endurance Championship rookie test following his impressive title-winning campaign with the 911 GT3 in the DTM. Completing 82 laps of the Sakhir circuit that also hosted the […]
Porsche pauses build of additional customer 963 LMDhs until mid-2024
The second 963 for the British Jota team’s expanded two-car assault on the 2024 WEC will be the last car completed before production is temporarily halted, the German manufacturer has revealed. Porsche has changed its original plan to make available a further two cars to customers for each series in the second year of competition […]
IMSA releases preliminary entry list for Daytona 24 Hours
Although there are more than two months remaining until the race, the lineup already features 56 drivers that have captured victories in the season-opening endurance classic of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. “We could not be prouder to release this preliminary list of participants for the Rolex 24 At Daytona significantly earlier than we ever have […]
Westbrook swaps Cadillac for Porsche in JDC-Miller MotorSports IMSA return
Westbrook, 48, who partnered Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn in Chip Ganassi Racing’s sole Cadillac entry in this year’s WEC – and scored a podium finish in the Le Mans 24 Hours – will pilot JDC’s Porsche 963 in the second season of GTP competition in America’s premier sportscar series. The Briton, who has three […]
Jenson Button, Marcus Ericsson complete WTR Andretti roster for Daytona
Button, the 2009 Formula 1 champion, will drive the #40 Acura ARX-06 GTP alongside Jordan Taylor, Louis Delétraz and Colton Herta. Meanwhile, Ericsson, the 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner, completes the roster for the team’s #10 entry that features Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, and Brendon Hartley. “I’m very happy with the driver lineups that WTRAndretti will […]