Toyota leads Ferrari in opening practice
Buemi jumped to the head of the timesheets after a 12-minute red flag midway through session aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with a 2m02.982s that gave him a margin of more than a second and a half over Ferrari driver Antonio Fuoco. Fuoco also set his time in the #50 Ferrari […]
WEC Hypercar BoP unchanged for Spa, no tweaks for Le Mans
A change before the Spa 6 Hours, round three of the 2023 WEC, was the only opportunity for revision in the first half of the season under a new BoP system introduced for 2023. The BoP for the first four races up to and including Le Mans was set ahead of the season-opener at Sebring […]
New procedures to prevent Hypercar crews losing time repairing WEC sensor failures
They were agreed between rule makers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, and the manufacturers on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the start of practice on Thursday for this weekend’s Spa round of the championship. The move follows the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID losing 11 minutes in the pits early in the second hour […]
Acura ARX-06 “quite ready” to race at Le Mans, but no plans yet
The ORECA-chassised Acura has been the standout car in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, although crashes have blunted its race results since scoring a 1-2 finish in the Daytona 24 Hours. Built to LMDh regulations, it has regularly outpaced rivals Cadillac and Porsche that will race at this year’s centenary Le Mans 24 Hours in June. […]
Rockenfeller signed to drive JDC-Miller Porsche LMDh in IMSA
Former Porsche factory driver Rockenfeller, who set a distance record that still stands on his way to Le Mans victory in 2010 aboard Audi’s R15 plus, will race the 2021 Sebring 12 Hour-winning team’s newly-delivered GTP car from the 12-14 May Laguna Seca round. He will share with 19-year-old Dutchman Tijmen van der Helm, who […]
F1 ace, Le Mans winner and a good man
Michele Alboreto was not someone who became interested in racing only once he was involved. He was like you or I – a pure fan – long before he became a driver, and each year he’d make the 45min journey from home in Milan to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. In 1970, he was […]
How BMW rewrote GTP software to fix “serious issues” at Long Beach
Connor De Phillippi, who set fastest lap en route to the M Hybrid V8’s runner-up spot at the Californian street track, revealed that a major problem was encountered in opening practice and needed software for its hybrid system to be rewritten for the #25 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-run car to function properly. The LMDh machinery runs with […]
Porsche hands over first customer LMDh cars to JOTA, JDC-Miller
JOTA and JDC-Miller received one example each of Porsche’s hybrid contender on Friday, a day after Matt Campbell shook down both cars around the German marque’s Weissach testing facility. It makes Porsche the first manufacturer to supply an LMDh or an LMH car to a privateer, having stated from the very beginning of the project […]
Pacific to skip Fuji SUPER GT race after Okayama crash
The #9 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo shared by Ryohei Sakaguchi and Liang Jiatong was involved in an incident with the #88 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo late in the rain-soaked Okayama race, bringing out the safety car. Chinese driver Jiatong had been battling JLOC rival Takashi Kogure for sixth place at the time of the incident, […]