Toyota grabs top spot in truncated final practice
Toyota edged out Cadillac and Ferrari to top a shortened final practice for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship round at Fuji. The hour-long session was cut short with 19 minutes left on the clock due to possible damage to kerbs located at the exit of Turn 1. TV images showed officials arriving at the corner […]
BMW leads Porsche and Cadillac in tight FP2
BMW, Porsche and Cadillac ended up within two hundredths of each other at the top of the times in second free practice for Sunday’s World Endurance Championship round at Fuji. Dries Vanthoor led the way for the WRT BMW team from Porsche driver Matt Campbell and Cadillac’s Alex Lynn in the 90-minute FP2 session on […]
Peugeot evaluating further hypercar upgrades for 2025 WEC season
Peugeot is evaluating the introduction of further upgrades to its Le Mans Hypercar in 2025 in order to close the gap to the front in the World Endurance Championship. The French manufacturer wants to get a full understanding of the potential of the updated 9X8 2024 by the end of the current season in order […]
Porsche pips Toyota in red-flagged opening practice
Porsche led home favourite Toyota in a red-flagged opening practice for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship round at Fuji. Laurens Vanthoor set a best time of 1m30.581s in the #6 Porsche 963 LMDh at the very beginning of the 90-minute session to head the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Ryo Hirakawa by just 0.010s. Third […]
Austin clash with Estre «looked worse than it was»
Toyota driver Sebastien Buemi believes his late-race clash with Kevin Estre’s Porsche at the Austin World Endurance Championship round «looked worse than it was». Buemi insisted that the camera angles of the incident on the Circuit of The America’s back straight when he moved over on the Frenchman to defend his position «made it look […]
Toyota takes another BoP hit for home WEC race at Fuji
Toyota has received a further double hit under the Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Fuji World Endurance Championship round after its near-miss last time out at Austin. The Japanese manufacturer’s GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar will run with reduced maximum power and increased minimum weight under the Hypercar BoP released on Tuesday for the […]