Isotta Fraschini reveals new hypercar with aim of 2023 WEC debut
The Isotta Frashini Tipo 6 Competizione, which will be raced in partnership with the British Vector Sport team, was unveiled on Tuesday at the Automobile Club Milano. The reveal of the car developed by Michelotto Engineering means that the marque has met its stated target of completing the car by the end of February. Isotta director […]
Peugeot close to «acceptable» reliability with WEC Hypercar
Peugeot endured a fraught return to top-flight sportscar racing in the WEC last year, suffering a myriad of technical issues when it joined the Hypercar class field for the final three rounds of the season at Monza, Fuji and Bahrain. While some gremlins were expected on its debut in Italy and again on its second […]
Carroll reunited with WRT after 11 years for GTWCE Endurance
The Northern Irishman has signed a deal to race a BMW M4 GT3 for the Belgian squad in the Bronze Cup class for Platinum-Silver-Bronze lineups alongside his regular partner in the 2022 GT4 European championship Tim Whale and team returnee Lewis Proctor. The team had announced in December that MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, Maxime Martin […]
Bertrand Baguette still fully motivated after SUPER GT title
Baguette finally achieved his long-standing goal of winning the SUPER GT crown in 2022, his ninth season of racing in the series, as he took honours alongside Impul Nissan team-mate Kazuki Hiramine. The Belgian said that his strong desire to win the championship at least once during his time in Japan served as a major […]
The 2023 Le Mans 24 Hours entry list in full
Hypercar — 16 cars 2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook 3 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Series.R Sebastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon 4 Floyd Vanwall Racing Team Vanwall Vandervell 680 Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Jacques Villeneuve 5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frederic Makowiecki 6 […]
Cadillac “excited” by three-pronged attack on Le Mans 24hrs
Of the 16 cars competing in the Hypercar class at this year’s centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, three will be the renamed Cadillac V-Series.R prototypes. The #2 Cadillac, which will contest the full season in the World Endurance Championship, will be run by Chip Ganassi Racing and driven by Earl Bamber, […]
Le Mans 24 Hours to feature highest number of top class entries since 2011
The Hypercar field for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 10-11 June represents a three-car increase on the 13 full-season entries for the first edition of the series in which LMDh prototypes will race against Le Mans Hypercar machinery. Porsche Penske Motorsport has entered an additional 963 LMDh despite previously backing away […]
Pacific switches to Mercedes, Ferrari drops out
Pacific, which has run Ferrari machinery in conjunction with CarGuy in SUPER GT’s GT300 class for the past two seasons (pictured above), appeared on the full-season entry list released by the Japanese championship last week, but with its car model and drivers yet to be announced. Now the squad has announced that it will run […]
«Difficult» for WEC Hypercar newcomers «to win straight off»
The Italian constructor this year returns to top-flight prototype racing with a fully-fledged factory programme for the first time in 50 years, fielding a pair of 499Ps in the WEC after being lured by its new Le Mans Hypercar regulations. Ferrari’s track record of nine outright wins at Le Mans 24 Hours, coupled with its […]