“This was a race we had to win”

“This was a race we had to win”

Robin Frijns says BMW «had to win» the Spa World Endurance Championship race after an unusual strategic choice handed the German manufacturer a big opportunity. At Spa-Francorchamps, BMW opted for a very different strategy compared to the other Hypercar teams. The #20 M Hybrid V8 of Rene Rast, Sheldon van der Linde and Frijns took on […]

“We don’t fully understand the car yet”

“We don’t fully understand the car yet”

Following the postponement of the Qatar 1812km, the 2026 World Endurance Championship season gets underway at Imola. It was at the Italian circuit that factory BMW driver Robin Frijns secured his best Hypercar result in 2025, finishing second. During this week’s Prologue — also held at Imola due to the war in the Middle East — the […]

Max Verstappen could race WEC hypercars «in a few years», says BMW’s Robin Frijns

Max Verstappen could race WEC hypercars «in a few years», says BMW’s Robin Frijns

Factory BMW driver Robin Frijns expects Max Verstappen to make the switch to the World Endurance Championship in the future, with Hypercar likely to be his preferred category. Frijns recently returned to the Nurburgring-Nordschleife for the third round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS). Together with Marco Wittmann and Phillip Eng, he competed in the Schubert Motorsport […]