Day: September 18, 2020

The FIA World Endurance Championship has announced their provisional schedule for the 2021 season. The Season 8 schedule has been trimmed down to a 6-race schedule for FIA WEC, due to the COVID-19 situation, and the economic challenges for companies around the world. The season starts on 13-14 March at Sebring International Raceway, with a two-day test, before the season opener will run on 19 March. That will be a 1000 Miles race, just like it was in 2019, and was planned to be in 2020. May 1st will be…

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Peugeot Sport has released more details about the upcoming Le Mans programme. They have made a deal with Total, where they will develop a Le Mans Hypercar, with a hybrid system. So this will not be an LMDh programme, since that category doesn’t have as much technical freedom as LMH. The cars will be four-wheel driver, with the hybrid part of 200 kW on the front wheels, while the regular internal combustion engine of about 300 kW, to power the rear wheel. That will bring a total of 680 bhp,…

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The first Hyperpole of the 24 Hours of Le Mans history was run this Friday morning, on a dry a sunny Circuit de la Sarthe. 23 cars were fighting for the 6 first positions in each category. There was, however, only 5 LMP1 cars entered, so that is why it was 23 and not 24. 30 minutes of intensive battles went green, but Aston Martin Racing decided to keep their GTE Pro and Am cars #95, #97 and #98 in the pits. They would let the other teams spread out…

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The fourth free practice for this year’s Le Mans was run Friday morning, and was extremely messy, when you consider that the teams already had 10 hours of practice yesterday, and this is the final practice for all the cars, prior to the 15 minutes Warm Up Saturday morning. There were some positive stories since yesterday. IDEC Sport has built two new cars, after the double shunt yesterday. They have had to call up a replacement for Dwight Merriman, who isn’t fit to race. Red River Sport Ferrari #62 was…

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Patrick Pilet has gotten an unexpected call up in the 11th hour. The French driver has been called up as replacement Dwight Merriman, who has been declared unfit to race, following his FP2 accident onboard the IDEC Sport #17 yesterday. Pilet is normally a Porsche works driver and should have been in a 911 RSR, until Porsche Sport North America chose to pull their two entries from this year’s race. The has 11 Le Mans starts to his CV, but always in a Porsche. So it will be all new…

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The third free practice for this year’s Le Mans race, which was the only night session this year, got to an abrupt ending of the originally 4 hours of driving. The first issue showed up, just over an hour into the session. ByKolles Racing Team #4 had an episode, where the front of the car suddenly was spread all over the Tertre Rouge corner. That resulted in a Red Flag, so all the debris could be collected. Other than that, there was a few brake lock-ups here and there, just…

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