Toyota to update Le Mans Hypercar for 2026 WEC campaign
Toyota will introduce the first update of its GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar for four years in time for the start of the 2026 World Endurance Championship campaign. Kazuki Nakajima, vice-chairman of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, confirmed that there will be an upgrade of its Hypercar class contender introduced in 2021 focused on aerodynamics. This […]
Mick Schumacher ‘sill burns’ for single-seaters despite WEC switch
Mick Schumacher insisted that racing single-seaters is “still something I burn for” as he gears up for a maiden IndyCar test next month. The veteran of 43 Formula 1 starts, who has raced sportscars for Alpine in the World Endurance Championship for the past two seasons, suggested that competing in the IndyCar Series is an […]
Alpine grabs first win with LMDh car in chaotic race
Alpine took a first World Endurance Championship victory with its A424 LMDh as Charles Milesi, Paul-Loup Chatin and Ferdinand Habsburg came through to win a chaotic Fuji 6 Hours. The #35 triumphed by just 7.6s from the #93 Peugeot 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar shared by Mikkel Jensen, Paul di Resta and Jean-Eric Vergne at […]
Cadillac locks out front row, Aston Martin shines
Cadillac notched up its third front-row lock-out of the season in qualifying for this weekend’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship. Alex Lynn headed the times in Hyperpole qualifying in Japan from Jota team-mate Earl Bamber, following up on his poles at the Le Mans 24 Hours and Interlagos in June and July respectively. […]
Ford’s WEC Hypercar programme will be run in-house
Ford is setting up an in-house race team based in the UK to run its Hypercar programme in the World Endurance Championship from 2027. The America manufacturer announced on Thursday that the race programme with a new LMDh developed together with ORECA will be operated by Ford Racing rather than in partnership with an independent […]
Alpine gets power back as WEC Fuji BoP revealed
Alpine has been given a power break under the Hypercar Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship. The French manufacturers’ A424 LMDh will race with an increase in base power output of 6kW (8bhp) at the Fuji 6 Hours on 28 September in comparison to the Austin round earlier […]
Lamborghini can target WEC wins next year with car upgrades
Former Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat believes Lamborghini can challenge for victories in the World Endurance Championship in 2025 by upgrading the SC63 LMDh. Lamborghini joined the Hypercar class of the WEC this year with a single car entered on a factory basis by Iron Lynx and raced by Kvyat, Mirko Bortolotti and Edoardo Mortara. The Italian marque’s […]
Porsche’s Christensen wants to stay in WEC, despite IMSA switch speculation
Porsche driver Michael Christensen said he would like to remain in the World Championship next year despite speculation linking him with a move to the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Porsche revealed last month that it would be making changes to its factory crews for its third season with the 963 LMDh in the Hypercar and GTP […]
Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Lapierre retires with immediate effect
Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team. The announcement from the Frenchman, 40, on Wednesday means that last month’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship, in which he finished third with Alpine, was his final race. […]