Inside Mercedes’ turbulent first WEC season
Few could have expected Mercedes to end its first World Endurance Championship with a podium, but Maxime Martin, Lin Hodenius and Martin Berry’s second-place finish in the Bahrain finale was no fluke. The venerable Mercedes-AMG GT3 was among the pacesetters in the LMGT3 field all weekend, both in race and qualifying trim, and the #61 […]
Heavy Le Mans practice crash forces Iron Lynx to change Mercedes chassis
The Iron Lynx team has been forced to change the chassis on its #63 Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 after a sizeable crash for Stephen Grove in Le Mans 24 Hours opening practice. It was a tough start to Mercedes’ first Le Mans appearance since 1999 as event rookie Grove was caught out on his first proper push […]
Iron Lynx to run special Mercedes Silver Arrows livery at Le Mans 2025
Mercedes World Endurance Championship squad Iron Lynx will run a special livery at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours to celebrate the German marque’s victory of the famous enduro in 1989. The customer team will deck its three Mercedes GT3s in the popular Silver Arrows scheme that was used when the manufacturer claimed a dominant […]
Mercedes makes Le Mans return, enters WEC with Iron Lynx
Mercedes will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time since 1999 as part of a World Endurance Championship campaign with the Iron Lynx team. The German manufacturer will enter the WEC for the first time in the LMGT3 class with the successful Mercedes-AMG GT3, a winner of the 24-hour classics at […]
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 […]
Ferrari AF Corse sneaks past Toyota for win
In a thrilling finish to Sunday’s Lone Star Le Mans six-hour race on the Circuit of The Americas, a customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Robert Shwartzman at Austin took the win after a battle with Toyota. All mere hours after Charles Leclerc’s Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza earlier […]