Announcements
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Pier Guidi to replace Bruni at AF Corse
After driving for Ferrari at Le Mans every year since 2008, for both class winning teams Risi Competizione and AF Corse, three time class winner Gianmaria Bruni has left the prancing horse in search for a suspected Porsche seat in 2018. His replacement in the #51 Ferrari 488 is fellow Italian, Alessandro Pier Guidi. Pier Guidi…
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McLaren eyeing Le Mans comeback
After 19 years since their most recent visit to Le Mans, McLaren are weighing up the possibilities of a comeback to the French 24 hour race. The Woking-based team’s new boss, Zak Brown, has admitted he would ‘love to see McLaren go back to Le Mans’. Zak Brown, the executive Director of the McLaren Technology Group…
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Old hands to tackle Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most challenging races in world motorsport, so popular that it often tempts racing drivers back out of retirement. This year, a new effort by the name Racing Team Nederland is set to compete at the endurance classic, as well as the full season of the…
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Toyota confirm third car for 2017
Toyota Gazoo Racing have announced a number of changes to their LMP1 programme in the run-up to the 2017 season, with new additions to the driver line-up and three cars confirmed to run at Spa and Le Mans for the first time since joining the FIA WEC in 2012. With last year’s heartbreaking conclusion to…
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A fresh look for WEC-Magazin
Last October WEC-Magazin celebrated its third anniversary. Over those three years, the WEC-Magazin team has kept abreast with the latest news from the WEC and provided comprehensive race reports and analysis. Unfortunately left little time to work on improving the site’s design and functionality – but all that has now changed!
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Fresh off the press!
For many fans, the annual Porsche Sport book is one of the first gifts on the Christmas list. This year is the 24th edition of the classic annual, but this time things are a little different. Here at WEC-Magazin we have tried something new and got together with Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag for the 2016 edition.…
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World Champions Dumas and Lieb to leave Porsche
The newly crowned World Endurance Drivers’ Champions, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb, are to end their relationships with Porsche as factory drivers in a major shake-up of the Porsche LMP1 driver line-up. Mark Webber’s departure from the sister car leaves a total of three empty seats to be filled for the 2017 season. Lieb and…
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Martin Tomczyk set to lead BMW GTE-Programme
The 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship will mark BMW’s long-awaited return to GTE racing. Besides the fact that the new BMW programme will be based on an as-yet unknown platform, no further details of the German marque’s plans are currently available. According to motorsport.de, German driver Martin Tomczyk has been chosen to lead the brand-new…
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Porsche to show third aero configuration at the Nurburgring
Porsche have announced that they will use their third aero kit this weekend for their home race, the 6 Hours of the Nurburgring. The Le Mans winning team started the year with their medium downforce aero kit for Spa and Silverstone, before switching to their low downforce kit for Le Mans. This will be the…