Author: 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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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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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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Filipe Albuquerque is one of the names that you associate with the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and rightly so, since it’s been eleven years since he made his debut, but it’s been ten years since he last competed in the top category, for overall honors. This year he is competing in the Hypercar category with Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing #101, alongside Ricky and Jordan Taylor. Racing24-7.net caught up with him, to have a brief chat about what has happened since his debut. What has changed over the past 10…

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Toyota Gazoo Racing has presented the colors, that they are going to run at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. While car #8 continues with an unchanged design compared to the other FIA WEC rounds, the #7 has been changed to a lot of red. The design is supposed to look like the TS020 model – GT One – which raced in the 1998 and 1999 editions of the race, and with similar colors to what Toyota started out with, when they entered Formula 1 in 2001. Car #7…

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The Aston Martin THOR Team is steadily improving, and getting closer and closer to the rest of the FIA World Endurance Championship field. They were 3,2 seconds off in Qualifying, at the season opener in Qatar, and that was on a 5,418 kilometer long circuit. Today, at the 7,004 kilometer Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, the two cars were 2,174 and 2,295 seconds off the time set in Qualifying by the Ferrari AF Corse #50. Racing24-7.net caught up with Alex Riberas, driver of the #009 alongside Marco Sørensen, and this…

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Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA made the switch from being a Porsche privateer to being full works team for Cadillac prior to the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship season. That meant a change in the driver lineup, with some Cadillac factory drivers from the previous programme with Chip Ganassi Racing being added into the mix, while half of the 2024 JOTA lineup was maintained. One of the drivers continuing with the team is Jenson Button. The 2009 Formula 1 World Champion appears to have found his happy place, after competing in…

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Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has had a really tough start to the year in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The British team made the switch from Porsche to Cadillac in the Hypercar category, and after showing promising pace at times, they have come short of any big results during the first two rounds. Racing24-7.net caught up with Earl Bamber, to have a talk about his start of the year, in both the FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, where he is racing for Action Express Racing. You already…

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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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