Le Mans race week kicked off at the Place de la République in central Le Mans, where the organisers carried out their traditional scrutineering checks. The pesage, French for “weigh-in”, see the teams transport their race machinery to the centre of the city for official approval by the technical team Read more…
A grid of 39 full-season entries has been announced for the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship including a number of intersting names.
We sat down with WEC Race Director Eduardo Freitas on his role in race control, how to become a race director and which team is his favourite.
WEC-Magazin on the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota heartbreak, safety car mishaps, the need for good-quality live timing and the excitement ahead.
Among a flurry of announcements on the eve of the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans, the FIA WEC also revealed the entry list for the 2019/20 season.
The FIA WEC 2018/19 Super Season officially kicked off this morning with the start of the two-day Prologue test, which gives teams and drivers the chance to put their cars under scrutiny for a full 30 hours around the Circuit Paul Ricard in France. Honours in the first timed sessions Read more…
The #1 Porsche will start from third on the grid for tomorrow’s six hours of Silverstone. However Nick Tandy has noted that tyre wear will be the limiting factor in the race. We caught up with him to get his thoughts ahead of his first home race in LMP1 with Read more…
Toyota Gazoo Racing left the weekend’s WEC Prologue with broad smiles after securing the quickest times on both days of testing, but the pair of factory Porsche 919 Hybrids kept a watching brief at Monza and topped three of the five sessions. Prodigal son Nicolas Lapierre, returning to Toyota Gazoo Read more…
Books are popular gifts for friends and family at Christmas time. When it comes to motorsport books, it’s often hard to wade through the vast range of titles on offer to find something suitable. “Porsche Victory 2016”, published in November by Gruppe C Verlag, may just be the perfect present Read more…
Driver ratings have arguably been one of the most controversial aspects of the FIA World Endurance Championship in recent years. For the uninitiated, driver ratings may seem like a relatively unimportant issue in the grand scheme of things, but in reality they can play a major role in whether or not drivers Read more…