Sho Tsuboi to make second F1 test outing with Haas at Silverstone
Reigning Super Formula champion Sho Tsuboi is set for his second Formula 1 test outing at the wheel of a Haas VF-23 next month at Silverstone. Toyota-contracted Tsuboi had his first taste of grand prix machinery when he took part in a specially-organised TPC test at Fuji Speedway in Japan in early August. The 30-year-old […]
Ford’s WEC Hypercar programme will be run in-house
Ford is setting up an in-house race team based in the UK to run its Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship from 2027. The America manufacturer announced on Thursday that the race programme with a new LMDh developed together with ORECA will be operated by Ford Racing rather than in partnership with an independent […]
Jenson Button reveals next career path ahead of WEC exit
Jenson Button has no ambitions to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours on a one-off basis after he steps back from the World Endurance Championship at the end of 2025. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion explained that the complexities involved in driving a WEC Hypercar class entry mean he has no interest in […]
Alpine gets power back as WEC Fuji BoP revealed
Alpine has been given a power break under the Hypercar Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship. The French manufacturers’ A424 LMDh will race with an increase in base power output of 6kW (8bhp) at the Fuji 6 Hours on 28 September in comparison to the Austin round earlier […]
Daniel Juncadella and Mathys Jaubert join Genesis WEC driver line-up
Daniel Juncadella and Mathys Jaubert have joined the Genesis World Endurance Championship line-up for next year in the second wave of signings by the Hypercar newcomer. The new additions follow the announcement of Andre Lotterer and Pipo Derani as the first Genesis Magma Racing drivers on the launch of the South Korean manufacturer’s entry into […]
How the WEC driver market stands ahead of 2026
It’s a seller’s market out there. Genesis, McLaren and Ford are on their way into the World Endurance Championship and the Hypercar driver market has been blown wide open. It’s not even the end of the season yet and the merry-go-round has started. Stoffel Vandoorne will drop out of the Peugeot line-up for the 2025 […]
The convergence steps on the path to discover the WEC’s true golden age
There’s always been an elephant in the room in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship since the start of what we have quickly come to call a golden age. And it’s the fact that cars built to two different rulesets — Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh — compete against each other at the […]
Theo Pourchaire to replace Stoffel Vandoorne in Peugeot WEC Hypercar line-up
Ex-Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne is leaving Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship squad and will make his exit ahead of the Bahrain 2025 finale in November. The French manufacturer has announced that Vandoorne will depart after this month’s Fuji round to be replaced by 2023 Formula 2 champion Theo Pourchaire, who will move into a full-time […]
No decision made on WEC, IMSA LMDh future amid cuts speculation
Porsche is insisting no decisions have been made in the face of speculation that it could axe either its World Endurance Championship or IMSA SportsCar Championship campaign for next season. Thomas Laudenbach, Porsche Motorsport boss, refused to comment on a possible reduction in its factory programme with the 963 LMDhs run by Penske in the […]