WEC announces five-year contract extension with Spa to 2028
Le Mans Endurance Management, a subsidiary of Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest that runs the WEC and ELMS, signed the deal with the Belgian track ahead of this weekend’s third round of the 2023 WEC. Spa has been a mainstay of the world championship since 2012, when the WEC began in its […]
Honda Civic GT500 will closely resemble concept
The Sakura marque caused a stir in January when it took the covers off the car that will form the base of the successor to the NSX-GT at the Tokyo Auto Salon. Honda has chosen the unorthodox route of using a front-wheel drive, four-door road car as its GT500 base model, although current regulations dictate […]
Giovinazzi leads Ferrari 1-2 in second practice
Giovinazzi’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar dipped under the benchmark time set in opening practice by Sebastien Buemi’s #8 Toyota GR010 LMH, posting a best lap of 2m01.871s. That proved 1.278s faster than Molina in the second Ferrari, which spent much of the first half of the session in the garage before its 2m03.149s lap. […]
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 […]