Author: Jens Jensen

There have been quite a few changes to the FIA World Endurance Championship points standings, following the latest race at Monza in Italy. The Hypercar is still led by Toyota Gazoo Racing #8, but their advantage has shrunk to just six points over their teammates in #7. Alpine Elf Matmut #36 is 15 points from the lead, after two second places and a third so far, while the two Glickenhaus cars sit fourth and fifth. United Autosports USA #22 has moved back into the LMP2 championship lead, after the victory…

Racing Team Nederland #29 has had to swap out two of its three drivers, for this weekend’s FIA World Endurance Championship round at Monza. Not only one, but two of the drivers have been tested positive for COVID-19. Job van Uitert was tested positive last week, prior to the European Le Mans Series race at the same track. That resulted in the whole United Autosports #32 outfit had to pull out of the weekend, since van Uitert had been together with them on the full test day on Thursday, with…

High Class Racing has announced the final pieces of their Le Mans puzzle. The Danish team will enter two cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021, with their extra entry having Anders Fjordbach, plus Kevin and Jan Magnussen as the drivers. That has been a long time Magnussen family goal, plus a big dream for many of their fans. The team does, however, still have their regular FIA World Endurance Championship car #20 in the race. Dennis Andersen will be the only full season driver remaining in that…

Nicki Thiim will be racing the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021 after all. The Dane has been called in for NorthWest AMR #98, where he will be super-sub for Augusto Farfus. Farfus has other contractual obligations that weekend, so Paul Dalla Lana and Marcos Gomes will have a new teammate for the 24 hours race. Thiim is the defending World Champion in GTE Pro, but Aston Martin pulled out of sportscar racing as works teams, with the owners moving their focus to the re-branded Formula 1 team, so he…

United Autosports has finally announced their full driver line-up for the 2021 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Car #22 is their FIA World Endurance Championship car, and will consist of the three regular drivers – Phil Hanson, Filipe Albuquerque and Fabio Scherer. While Hanson and Albuquerque are the defending champions of the race, it’s going to be the first for Swiss driver Scherer. Three of the drivers from their European Le Mans Series programme will share car #32. Nico Jamin and Manuel Maldonado are already teammates in…

FIA World Endurance Championship has made changes to the final 33% of the 2021 race schedule. It’s naturally due to the COVID-19 situation, and the challenges that it keeps bringing, all around the world. LMEM and ACO, unfortunately, have to cancel the trip to Fuji Speedway, since Japan is still troubled by the infection rates, and has very strong quarantine rules, which would make it very difficult and expensive for everybody involved in the series. The organizers have decided to run two rounds at Bahrain International Circuit, finishing the season…

Peugeot Sport has revealed their new Hypercar, which will enter competition in 2022. The French car manufacturer has named the car Peugeot 9X8, and it has a very special design regarding the rear end of the car. The pictures show a racing car without rear wing, but just a low spoiler at the end of the engine cover. The car has some very significant rear lights, which are the three stripes, that are known from their road cars. The lights sticks out from the bodywork, and have some aerodynamic effect…

There is one more change amongst the drivers at United Autosports USA #22, for this week’s FIA World Endurance Championship race at Portimao. Fabio Scherer has been tested positive for COVID-19 twice within 48 hours, and that means that he can’t participate this weekend. The team has had to call up Wayne Boyd, who is a bit of a multi talent at United Autosports. The 30-year-old Brit has swapped between the LMP2 and LMP3 cars, throughout the past six seasons, and already has experience with the Portimao track in Portugal,…

Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced, that there will be access for approximately 50.000 spectators at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race, which has been pushed back to 21-22 August 2021, will run at 20% capacity compared to normal years, since the COVID-19 still puts a damper on events. All spectators showing up to the track, will have to bring a Health Passport, to be able to get into the circuit. There will be free access for people under 16 years, while there will be free grandstands…

Toyota Gazoo Racing will celebrate an anniversary, when the FIA World Endurance Championship races at Portimao this weekend. Or perhaps we should just say Toyota, since the road to this milestone, started when the team was just named Toyota. The race in Portugal will be World Championship race number 100 for Toyota in sportscars. It all began in 1983 at Fuji, where they competed with a Group C car named 83C. In 1992, we had reached the time for the first TS010 model, with the Japanese brand trying to beat…

AF Corse has been chosen to run the upcoming LMH programme for Ferrari. The team, which is run by Amato Ferrari (not related to the family from Maranello), has been running for the majority of the cars, carrying a prancing horse on the bonnet in GTE (GT2) and GT3, over the last 15 years. But on top of that, the team has also run LMP2 and LMP3 cars throughout several years, for efforts not always been named AF Corse. The most recently ran the Cetilar Racing LMP2 car through the…

The FIA World Endurance Championship has received 38 entries for the third round of the 2021 championship season, which will be held on 18 July. The Hypercar category will have all entries present, with both Glickenhaus Racing cars participating, in addition to the pair of Toyota Gazoo Racing cars, and the single Alpine Elf Matmut. The team hasn’t named their driver combinations yet, so we will have to wait and see. The LMP2 category has grown by a single car, so we reach a total of 12. Risi Competizione #82…