#7 Toyota denies Ferrari home win
Bouncing back from their failure to finish at Le Mans that so severely dented their title chances, the polesitters delivered a controlled victory aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar. A race that featured three safety cars meant their advantage was just 16 seconds over the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH of Miguel Molina, […]
«Underdog» Proton targets finish on WEC Hypercar debut
The privateer German squad, a staple of the GTE Am class, only received its Porsche 963 LMDh one week before the fifth round of the WEC following a shakedown at Weissach in the hands of Kevin Estre. It had no opportunity to test the chassis prior to practice commencing on Friday. Tincknell, who shares the […]
Toyota and Ferrari predict tyre wear will decide WEC Monza battle
The WEC Hypercar frontrunners who led the way in qualifying on Saturday made the claim in the knowledge that track temperatures will hit in excess of 50C over the course of the Monza 6 Hours and that they will have to undertake double stints on a set of Michelins over the course of the race. […]
Blomqvist takes pole in Acura 1-2, ahead of Cadillacs
Blomqvist lapped the challenging Canadian road course in 1m05.653s, just 0.08s ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor. Pipo Derani set the benchmark at 1m06.502s in the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R, which Taylor beat with 1m05.734s. Blomqvist then took over with 1m05.653s, 0.081s faster than Taylor, but admitted […]
Peugeot «starting to have the feel of a proper race car» in WEC – Menezes
After heading the final practice session on Saturday, the French manufacturer’s two cars both finished inside the top six within half a second of Kamui Kobayashi’s polesitting Toyota GR010 HYBRID. Jean-Eric Vergne was 0.304s shy in the #93 Peugeot that will start tomorrow’s six-hour race from fourth, while Menezes was three places further back and […]
Kobayashi lands Toyota pole ahead of Ferrari
Kobayashi claimed the top spot in qualifying by just over one hundredth of a second aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar, in a closely fought session in which the top three cars were separated by a tenth. A 1m35.358s from Kobayashi compared with Fuoco’s 1m35.375s in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH, while […]
Taylor Acura leads Blomqvist in second practice
Taylor topped the 1h 45m session for the 34-car entry with a quickest time of 1m05.870s, a quarter of a second clear of all GTP rivals. Meyer Shank Racing’s Colin Braun, who was fastest by a huge margin on Friday, again set a storming early pace in his #60 Acura. His 1m07.076s on his 14th […]
Peugeot beats Ferrari to lead final practice
One year on from the Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar’s competition debut at the Italian track, Vergne set the early pace in the hour-long session before he was usurped by Antonio Fuoco’s Ferrari, the Italian posting a 1m35.923s in his 499P LMH. But Vergne then responded with the fastest time of the weekend to date […]
Braun’s Acura beats AXR Cadillac in first practice
Braun’s Acura topped the 90-minute session for the 34-car entry with a quickest time of 1m07.341s, over three quarters of a second clear of all rivals at the fabled sportscar track near Toronto. Ricky Taylor’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport Acura ARX-06 set the early benchmark at 1m09.803s. That was soon pipped by Alexander […]