Qualifying format tweaks planned for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours
The Le Mans 24 Hours qualifying format will be revamped in 2025, event organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced. Entrants in the top Hypercar class will be split from the LMP2 and LMGT3 categories in the session that determines the cars that will reach the Hyperpole shootout. Previously all cars qualified at once […]
Verstappen eager to race Daytona 24 and Le Mans after GTP car run
Max Verstappen says he has a desire to venture into endurance racing in the future, but admits his focus is squarely on Formula 1 as he sits on the brink of a fourth consecutive title. The 27-year-old Dutchman took part in a celebration of Honda’s ‘Hybrid Heroes’ on Tuesday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where […]
Mercedes makes Le Mans return, enters WEC with Iron Lynx
Mercedes will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time since 1999 as part of a World Endurance Championship campaign with the Iron Lynx team. The German manufacturer will enter the WEC for the first time in the LMGT3 class with the successful Mercedes-AMG GT3, a winner of the 24-hour classics at […]
Is Wehrlein, not Vettel, a contender for Porsche Le Mans seat after surprise test?
Pascal Wehrlein could be in the running for a factory drive with Porsche in next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours after a surprise appearance in last week’s Daytona test. While Porsche Penske Motorsport has already announced the driver pairings for its two factory 963 LMDh cars in the 2025 World Endurance Championship, there will be […]
Schumacher’s first F1 engineer Trevor Foster
In his lengthy motorsport career which has spanned “so many eras”, Trevor Foster has filled almost every conceivable role in racing organisations. Working his way through the ranks from a humble mechanic to becoming a race engineer, he has taken the plunge of running his own single-seater outfit, been a team manager, managing director of […]
ACO announces changes at Circuit de la Sarthe for the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours
The Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced a series of changes to improve the fan experience at its event in 2025. This has been done «in response to the growing popularity» of the World Endurance Championship’s blue-riband round having acted on «precious feedback from loyal fans», according to the […]
McNish returns to the cockpit of unraced Porsche LMP2000, 25 years after car’s only test
Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Allan McNish has returned to the cockpit of the unraced Porsche LMP2000 25 years after he took part in the car’s solitary test. McNish, who retired from racing after taking the World Endurance Championship title with Audi in 2013, drove the LMP2000 at Porsche’s proving ground at its Weissach […]
2025 Le Mans 24 Hours invitations awarded to ELMS winners
AO by TF was one of several teams to secure an automatic invitation for the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours after it won the overall title in this year’s European Le Mans Series. The Tom Ferrier-led squad secured the entry for the next edition of Le Mans after Jonny Edgar, Robert Kubica and Louis Deletraz finished […]
Porsche set to take up third Le Mans entry after winning IMSA GTP title
Porsche looks set to take up the extra entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours it gained for winning the IMSA SportsCar Championship crown at Road Atlanta last weekend. Thomas Laudenbach, boss of Porsche Motorsport, told Autosport/Motorsport.com that it “absolutely makes sense” for the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport squad to run a third 963 LMDh […]