Vanwall working on 2025 WEC comeback with heavily-revised hypercar
Having not been granted a spot on the 19-car Hypercar grid for the 2024 season amid the arrival of Lamborghini, BMW and Alpine, among others, Vanwall is pressing ahead with plans to make a comeback next year, team boss Colin Kolles told Motorsport.com’s sister title Motorsport-Total.com. The German outfit’s Le Mans Hypercar will undergo a […]
Why Porsche doesn’t expect another WEC domination at Imola
Porsche pretty much dominated at the World Endurance Championship season-opener in Qatar back in March. The German manufacturer’s 963 LMDh led all bar 52 of the 355 laps on the way to blocking out the podium positions. But there’s every reason to expect that it is going to have more of a fight on its […]
Ferrari, Toyota receive biggest BoP breaks for WEC’s Imola round
The Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will race at a minimum weight of 1041kg, 34kg below the figure at which it competed in the WEC curtain-raiser in Qatar last month, and has had maximum power raised by 7kW (9bhp). Toyota’s GR010 HYBRID LMH has lost 29kg and gained 6kW in the table issued by the […]
Gounon replaces Habsburg for Alpine Hypercar debut at Imola’s WEC round
The two-time GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup title winner with Mercedes takes Habsburg’s seat in the French manufacturer’s #35 A424 LMDh alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup in his role as official reserve for the Signatech-run Alpine Endurance Team. Habsburg has been ruled out for at least the second round of the 2024 WEC after […]