Day: June 10, 2025

Da Costa: “It really sucked to miss the race last year”

Jens Jensen

Antonio Felix da Costa used to be a regular on the entry list for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but he was missing out last year, since Porsche prioritized his Formula E gig over the FIA World Endurance Championship. Racing24-7.net caught up with the always honest and passionate Portuguese driver, earlier in the week. Good to see you back here again. It’s a shame you weren’t here last year, but you have still been performing well in the other job you have. Are you looking forward to the race,…

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Tincknell: “We’re finding speed all the time”

Jens Jensen

Harry Tincknell comes to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2025 with another new cap on.  This year, he is back with Aston Martin, where he is driving the brand new Valkyrie Hypercar in car #007. Tincknell won at his very first outing back in 2014 with JOTA Sport in LMP2, moving on to Nissan in LMP1 for one year, four years with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing in GTE Pro, one year with Aston Martin in GTE Pro, where he won this race and narrowly missed out on the championship,…

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Hawksworth: “You can see how much better prepared the team is”

Jens Jensen

Akkodis ASP Lexus #78 has had quite an eventful year so far in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The team has not had the same driver combination for two races in a row, all down to Ben Barnicoat being injured in a cycling accident, happening between the FIA WEC round in Qatar, and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Sebring. That has called for all the changes amongst the teammates of Arnold Robin and Finn Gehrsitz, For the 2025 24 hours of Le Mans, the team has chosen to…

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