Jenson Button will leave WEC after 2025, but won’t retire yet
Jenson Button will not continue in the World Endurance Championship with the Jota Cadillac team next season. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion has opted against undertaking a full programme of racing in 2026, but has insisted that he is not retiring. Button, who has a two-year contract with Jota covering the 2024 and ’25 […]
WEC Sao Paulo win proves «sky is the limit» for Cadillac, says Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn reckons the “sky is the limit” for Cadillac and the Jota team after the US manufacturer sealed a maiden World Endurance Championship victory at Interlagos on Sunday. Lynn described the win notched up together with Will Stevens and Norman Nato in the #12 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh as “just the beginning”. “We can achieve […]
WEC Sao Paulo win proves «sky is the limit» for Cadillac, says Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn reckons the “sky is the limit” for Cadillac and the Jota team after the US manufacturer sealed a maiden World Endurance Championship victory at Interlagos on Sunday. Lynn described the win notched up together with Will Stevens and Norman Nato in the #12 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh as “just the beginning”. “We can achieve […]
Cadillac claims a dominant 1-2 LMDh victory at Interlagos
Will Stevens, Alex Lynn and Norman Nato led home a Cadillac 1-2 at Interlagos as the US manufacturer notched up its maiden World Endurance Championship victory. The two Jota-run factory Cadillac V-Series.R LMDhs dominated the Brazilian round of the series in which only Porsche offered a brief challenge in the initial stages of the six-hour […]
Ferrari pegged back by BoP amid 2025 WEC supremacy
Ferrari will run at the Hypercar minimum power for the first time at this weekend’s World Endurance Championship round at Interlagos. The Italian manufacturer’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar, which is unbeaten in the WEC this year, will race at 480kW (644bhp) under the Balance of Performance for the Brazilian event on Sunday. That means it […]
How Richard Lietz went from worrying about retirement to winning Le Mans
Richard Lietz driving a GT Porsche in the Le Mans 24 Hours has become a real fixture of the race over the past two decades but, prior to picking up a second LMGT3 class win in succession last weekend, the Austrian had feared his racing days were over. With the introduction of the new LMGT3 […]
The “best mistake ever made” led Phil Hanson to Le Mans victory
Phil Hanson calls it “the best mistake I ever made”. He’s talking about the decision to begin his car racing career in the world of endurance, rather than stepping onto the single-seater ladder. Nine years later, he’s celebrating an overall Le Mans 24 Hours victory at the wheel of a Ferrari. He’s about right when he […]
Peugeot wants path to ‘fairness’ in WEC after Le Mans BoP debacle
Peugeot has said it needs the World Endurance Championship “to find the path that will make it fair for everyone”, in light of the Balance of Performance that made its Le Mans 24 Hours a struggle. Peugeot was given the worst power-to-weight ratio for the French classic; its 9X8s qualified 17th and 18th, with the […]
Where and how to watch the 2025 race on TV
The 93rd running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is taking place this week, starting on Wednesday and Thursday with free practice and qualifying, before the race runs from Saturday 4pm to Sunday 4pm (local time). When to watch it (all times CET) Wednesday 11 June 2pm-5pm – Free Practice 1 6:45pm-7:15pm – LMP2/LMGT3 qualifying 7:30pm-8pm – […]