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 […]
WEC’s Dries Vanthoor to make British GT debut at Silverstone 500
Vanthoor will contest the three-hour race as a one-off for Century Motorsport aboard its BMW M4 GT3 on the 26-28 April, amid WEC duties for the German manufacturer in the hypercar class. The drive was originally for Dan Harper, but in March Leung’s former co-driver secured a last-minute call-up for the British GT season in […]
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 […]
Ex-F1 racer Pirro makes motorbike racing debut
The 62-year-old Italian contested the Hailwood Trophy for 250cc and 350cc two-stroke grand prix and Formula 750 motorcycles that raced up to 1983. He qualified the Michael Russell-entered Yamaha TZ250 20th in the 34-bike field, 9.7 seconds off pole. The Italian, who recently left his role managing the McLaren young driver programme, ran 20th in race one […]
Vettel impressed Porsche in 963 test but no Le Mans decision yet
Vettel completed almost two grand prix distances over four stints in Porsche Penske Motorsport’s 963 hypercar in testing at Aragon in Spain, logging 118 laps in its major pre-Le Mans, 36-hour endurance test. Porsche’s director of factory racing, Urs Kuratle, remarked that Vettel “mastered it extremely well”. “Sebastian certainly doesn’t have to prove that he […]
Alpine WEC driver Habsburg suffers fractures in testing crash
Habsburg was among a number of Alpine drivers testing the Alpine A424 LMDh car at Aragon on 27 March when he suffered a crash at Turn 7, prompting a visit to a nearby hospital for check-ups. After returning to his home country of Austria the following day, he underwent further scans that revealed the full […]
Cadillac confirms two-driver Hypercar line-up as Imola WEC entry list announced
Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn will drive the Ganassi-run #2 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh as a duo in this month’s Imola 6 Hours, round two of the 2024 WEC. Final confirmation of an arrangement that bucks the trend of running three drivers in all races in Hypercar, as well as in LMP1 before it, came on […]
Cadillac disqualified from WEC opener in Qatar for technical breach
The #2 Chip Ganassi-entered Cadillac V-Series.R shared by Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Sebastien Bourdais has lost its fifth-place result at the Losail International Circuit after post-race checks revealed that the bodywork of the car didn’t comply with the homologated model. In a report published on Friday, it was noted that «the result from the […]