Ferrari’s title bid boosted by BoP for WEC’s Bahrain 8 Hours
Ferrari has received a double Balance of Performance break for this weekend’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship 2025 finale, as it attempts to claim both the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles. The Italian manufacturer’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar will start the Bahrain 8 Hours 5kg lighter and with 3kW (4bhp) more baseline power than last time out […]
How Aston Martin transformed its season to become a genuine WEC & IMSA contender
The Heart of Racing team boss Ian James, right back at the start of the year, threw the idea of Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar notching up a podium before its maiden season was out. “That would be nice,” he said. It didn’t look very realistic over the first half of THOR’s parallel campaigns […]
Le Mans winner James Calado signs new Ferrari WEC contract
Le Mans 24 Hours winner James Calado has signed a multi-year contract extension with Ferrari starting from next season’s World Endurance Championship. The 36-year-old’s deal was announced on Friday ahead of next week’s WEC 2025 finale in Bahrain, where Calado will arrive leading the standings with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi. It will further […]
Garage 59 takes over from United Autosports as McLaren WEC partner from 2026
United Autosports is stepping down as McLaren’s representative in the LMGT3 class of the World Endurance Championship for next year to be replaced by Garage 59. The British Garage 59 squad will field a pair of McLaren 720S GT3 EVOs in the 2026 WEC as United gears up for its graduation to the Hypercar ranks […]
Antonio Felix da Costa joins Alpine’s WEC squad after Porsche exit
Antonio Felix da Costa will return to the World Endurance Championship in 2026 as part of Alpine’s factory squad in the Hypercar class. As reported by Motorsport.com last month, da Costa will join a revamped line-up at the French car manufacturer after ending a three-year spell with Porsche during which he primarily competed in Formula E. […]
Second WEC crown more prestigious than maiden triumph in 2012
Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer believes that winning the World Endurance Championship title this year means more than his 2012 triumph with Audi. The German, who sealed the crown in Bahrain on Saturday with Porsche Penske Motorsport team-mates Laurens Vanthoor and Andre Lotterer, suggested that his second world crown conveys more prestige […]
Tyre allocation breach brought no performance gain in Bahrain
Ferrari has insisted that the tyre allocation infringement that resulted in it losing second place in Saturday’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale offered no performance advantage. Ferdinando Cannizzo, the Italian manufacturer’s sportscar racing technical director, said “nothing would have changed, no advantage and no disadvantage” when questioned the day after the race about the infraction […]
Buemi had lost hope before comeback drive gave Toyota WEC title
Sebastien Buemi believed Toyota was out of contention for the World Endurance Championship manufacturers’ crown when he began the comeback that yielded the Japanese car maker the title in Bahrain. The Swiss “thought we were done” in his bid to take the victory Toyota needed to steal the championship from Porsche when the race went […]
Ferrari loses second place in WEC Bahrain race for exceeding tyre allocation
The second-placed factory Ferrari has been penalised for exceeding its tyre allocation in Saturday’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain and has dropped out of the points. Ferrari’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar shared by Antonio Giovinazzi, James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi received a penalty of 4m55s for using two more tyres than the […]