Alpine to reveal its 2024 LMDh contender at Le Mans
Christened the Alpine A110 R Le Mans, the Oreca LMP2-based hybrid contender will be revealed on 7 June at the Circuit de la Sarthe ahead of the centenary edition of the French endurance classic. It will succeed the Alpine A480-Gibson with which the French manufacturer competed in the WEC in 2021-22, before returning to the […]
Toyota adds Ritomo Miyata to WEC Challenge programme
Miyata, a race winner in both SUPER GT and Super Formula, will accompany the Toyota World Endurance Championship squad for the remaining rounds of the season that don’t clash with his existing commitments in Japan, starting with the Le Mans 24 Hours next month. The 23-year-old will also be involved in development work at Toyota […]
SUPER GT: Joao Paulo de Oliveira previews Suzuka
The first two rounds of the 2023 season could not have been any more different: after a hectic weather-affected Okayama opener halted by red flags no fewer than three times, the traditional Golden Week race at Fuji was a comparatively sedate affair, with sunny skies and nary a caution period. After a disappointing start to […]
Le Mans wants hydrogen-only top class by 2030
ACO president Pierre Fillon stated an intent to progressively introduce the new fuel at the centrepiece round of the World Endurance Championship between 2026 and the start of the next decade ahead of this weekend’s Fuji 24 Hours in which Toyota is competing with a hydrogen-powered Corolla. The road map he laid down included two […]
Vanwall drops ex-F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve for Le Mans
Villeneuve was set to make his Le Mans return in June as part of his pursuit to complete the Triple Crown of Motorsport, but has now been benched for the WEC’s blue riband event. It is unclear if the 52-year-old will return for the remaining three rounds of the season at Monza, Fuji and Bahrain […]
Tincknell to race Proton Porsche LMDh at Monza WEC round
Tincknell has been named in the German team’s 963 for its debut at the Monza 6 Hours on 9 July alongside Porsche factory driver Gianmaria Bruni, who was the only name listed in the Hypercar class car when the 2023 WEC entry was announced in January. It will be the 31-year-old Briton’s first race outing […]
Toyota WEC drivers welcome Le Mans tyre warmer U-turn
It was announced earlier this month by the organisers of the WEC, the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, that the new-for-2023 ban on tyre pre-heating would be temporarily suspended for the centrepiece race at La Sarthe, after a number of accidents in the previous race at Spa prompted widespread calls for a rethink […]
Peugeot signs rising star Jakobsen as WEC junior driver
The 19-year-old Dane has been brought into the French manufacturer’s line-up after a try-out in one of the Peugeot 9X8s at last year’s official WEC rookie test in Bahrain. The test followed Jakobsen sealing the European Le Mans Series LMP3 class title in 2022 with the Cool Racing squad with which he has subsequently graduated […]
Top 10 most heartbreaking retirements at the Le Mans 24 Hours
Unsurprisingly for a test of endurance that has been around for nearly a century, the Le Mans 24 Hours has had many heartbreaking late-race retirements. Given the amount of effort — physical and mental — that goes into the event, any failure to finish is felt keenly, but some really stand out. For this list, […]