Author: Jens Jensen

McLaren has, after many years of speculation, finally confirmed a Hypercar programme in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The announcement appears thirty years after their first and only overall 24 Hours of Le Mans victory. That was back when all the cars were GT based, with McLaren F1 GTR being the choice of weapon back then. It’s very limited with the official information, since the announcement was made in a short video by McLaren CEO Zak Brown, where he told that the marque would return to Le Mans. We do…

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Esteban Masson has been called back to participate with the Akkodis ASP Lexus outfit at the FIA World Endurance Championship, when the 6 Hours of Imola will be held later this month. He replaces Ben Barnicoat, who has been unlucky to have a crash on his mountain bike during a training session. So he will miss out on the second round of the 2025 season, just as he missed the Sebring 12 Hours in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship last month. French driver Masson did the 2024 season for the team…

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There are a lot of fans, but especially in Denmark, who has followed the Magnussen family closely for many years. That is no matter if it was Jan Magnussen, prior to, during or after his Formula 1 career, or at the 24 hours of Le Mans, or in the USA through the many years at Panoz and Corvette Racing. Then Kevin Magnussen arrived on the scene, and has attracted just as much, if not more, attention from the fans. So there naturally were a lot of happy fans, when father…

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The Heart Of Racing Aston Martin has announced their three drivers for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship 2025 season. Ian James was the first driver, who was announced, back when the Entry list for the season was announced back in November. The team announced today, that Mattia Drudi will have his FIA WEC debut,  while Zacherie Robichon returns to the team and the FIA WEC, after having driven for the team in 2024 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and for Proton Competition Ford in the FIA WEC 2024.…

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TF Sport has presented the design of their two Corvette Z06 GT3.R cars for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship. The two cars will run #33 and #81 respectively, in primarily yellow colors, just like the two factory cars do in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. But there are a few differences, with some colored stripes on the car, plus some differences in the sponsor logos on the cars. Car #33 will have yellow mirrors, while the #81 will have black. As previously announced by the team, we will have a…

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United Autosports has presented all six drivers for their FIA World Championship programme for 2025. Car #95 was completed a couple of weeks ago, with Marino Sato, Darren Leung, and Sean Gelael teaming up, and today we got to know the two teammates of Gregory Saucy’s in the McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo #59. That will be James Cottingham, who will do his second season for UA, and Sebastien Baud, who will debut for the team. Cottingham and Saucy were teammates through 2024, where they managed to finish right outside the podium…

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Christian Ried will make a comeback in the FIA World Endurance Championship – again. The 45 year-old German has decided to jump in the racing overalls again, but this time won’t be in a car labeled with his own Proton Competition team name. Ried will be racing for Iron Lynx Mercedes in their car #61 together with Matteo Cresoni. Proton Competition has a close collaboration with Iron Lynx, which started back in 2023, where they ran two Porsche 911 RSR GTE cars for the team in the European Le Mans…

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Peugeot TotalEnergies will bring an international mixed-bag of talent in their two FIA World Championship cars for the 2025 season. Peugeot 9X8 #93 will be driven by Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen, who will rejoin with Paul Di Resta. JEV and Jensen have been racing together since the very first race that Peugeot TotalEnergies entered back in July 2022 at Monza in Italy. They had the Scotsman as a co-driver back then, but he was then moved into car #94 for the 2024 season. Nico Müller raced with JEV and…

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Despite the team changing manufacturer, we will still see the golden colors on the Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA this year. The Hertz Racing Gold colors will be present on the two Cadillac V-Series.R in the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 2025 season. The JOTA team started running the colors in 2023, where they got Hertz as a partner. So their first Porsche 963 and their LMP2 car had the special livery, before moving up to two cars in the Hypercar category for 2024. They will be stepping up from…

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Darren Leung will be switching brands for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship season. Leung will be moving from Team WRT BMW in 2024 to United Autosports McLaren for 2025. 37 year old Leung has a past in British GT, but has also been competing in GT World Challenge, before entering the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024, in the brand new LMGT3 category. Darren Leung will be sharing car #95 with Marino Sato, and a not yet announced third driver. With Leung as Bronze driver and Sato as Gold…

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Mercedes-AMG has finally been confirmed as the new manufacturer in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The German car giant has teamed up with Iron Lynx, who will run two Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 cars from 2025 onwards. That marks an end to the Iron Lynx and Lamborghini collaboration, that has been in place throughout the 2024 season in the FIA WEC. The future of the Italian brand in both Hypercar and LMGT3 is currently unknown. Mercedes is another of the big car brands, that have a sportscar history, but so far haven’t…

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Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has revealed the 6 drivers for the 2025 team. The British team will become the factory team for Cadillac in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and will be a mix of old JOTA drivers from 2024, and some associated with Cadillac. The team has not revealed the exact pairing of the drivers yet. Will Stevens, Jenson Button, and Norman Nato were JOTA drivers in 2024, where the team participated in the Hypercar category with two Porsche 963 racers in the cup for the privateers, which car…

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Toyota Gazoo Racing will remain unchanged for the 2025 edition of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The multiple champions are still among the very best, which they proved with a victory on the season finale in Bahrain, one and a half weeks ago, where they ended up claiming the Constructors Championship. Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Nyck de Vries took the victory at the Imola circuit earlier this year, and were part of the fight for the Drivers Championship all the way until the finale, where they retired with technical…

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