Formula E star Nick Cassidy to join Peugeot for WEC 2026
Formula E star Nick Cassidy will join Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship Hypercar squad for the 2026 season. The move confirmed on Monday is set to be part of a wider deal for the former Envision and Jaguar FE driver with Peugeot parent, Stellantis: he looks likely to race for the team hitherto known as Maserati […]
Genesis complete first test of new Hypercar challenge for WEC 2026
Genesis completed approximately 3000km with its new World Endurance Championship challenger during the first wave of track testing for the LMDh prototype last month. Genesis Magma Racing managed in excess of 500 laps at Circuit Paul Ricard over five days of running in the final two weeks of August with Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani […]
Silverstone WEC return hopes get boost for 2027
Silverstone’s hopes of returning to the World Endurance Championship have been boosted by confirmation that any calendar expansion for 2027 would come with an additional race in Europe. Series boss Frederic Lequien replied “definitely” when asked by Motorsport.com if a ninth race for the season after next would be in Europe. But he refused to […]
BMW reveals tweaked LMDh car for 2026 WEC, IMSA campaigns
BMW has unveiled revised aerodynamics for its M Hybrid V8 LMDh ahead of its campaigns in next year’s World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship. The revisions, which include a significantly smaller version of the marque’s signature ‘kidney’ grille, are designed to improve the consistency of the car’s performance across the range of circuits on […]
New Genesis Hypercar challenger starts testing as WEC preparations ramp up
The new Genesis World Endurance Championship Hypercar class challenger has hit the track for the first time. Genesis Magma Racing gave the GMR-001 LMDh a roll-out earlier this month on Paul Ricard’s training track adjacent to the full circuit. Both Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani, the first drivers contracted for the Hyundai brand’s two-car WEC […]
Lamborghini pauses SC63 LMDh programme as focus shifts to GT3
Lamborghini will not race its SC63 LMDh prototype next season after announcing that it is putting its GTP class attack on the IMSA SportsCar Championship on hold. The Italian manufacturer is billing its decision against continuing its IMSA campaign, which encompasses the endurance rounds with a solo car run by Riley Motorsports, as a “pause” […]
Genesis completes first fire-up of GMR-001 Hypercar engine
Genesis fired up the engine in its new-for-2026 World Endurance Championship LMDh contender for the first time ahead of the start of testing next month. The 3.2-litre twin-turbo V8 ran in the GMR-001 Hypercar in static conditions at the workshops of chassis partner ORECA Motorsport near Paul Ricard circuit on 9 July. The fire-up was […]
WRT could replace Rahal Letterman Lanigan as BMW’s 2026 IMSA representative
The Belgian WRT team is in the running to expand its programme with the BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh into the IMSA SportsCar Championship next season. BMW’s representative in the World Endurance Championship has revealed that it is in negotiation to take over Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s IMSA programme, after the German manufacturer opted against renewing […]
Toyota calls WEC 2025 «boring» in BoP revision push
Toyota has labelled this year’s World Endurance Championship as “boring” and made a thinly-veiled call for changes to the system of Balance of Performance to improve the spectacle. David Floury, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, bemoaned the quality of the on-track action in the WEC’s Hypercar division during 2025, labelling it “a sad […]