Author: Jens Jensen

United Autosports has confirmed their substitute driver for the FIA World Endurance Championship team, when the series goes to Portimao next month. The FIA WEC squad is usually made up of Fabio Scherer, Phil Hanson, and Filipe Albuquerque, but somewhat ironically, the team will have to race without Portuguese racing driver Albuquerque at the Portuguese round. The reason is due to a date clash with his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship deal in the USA with the Konica Minolta Wayne Taylor Racing Acura team. They will be racing in Detroit, on…

Inter Europol Competition has a replacement ready for later in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2021 season. The Polish outfit usually runs Kuba Smiechowski, Alex Brundle, and Renger van der Zande in their FIA WEC rookie season, but the latter has a programme in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship too, with two dates clashing. The team has made a deal with Louis Deletraz, to help out at those two rounds. Deletraz knows the ORECA 07 LMP2 already from his European Le Mans Series duties at Team WRT. With the first…

Team Project 1 has had a nightmare week at Spa Francorchamps, in the lead-up to the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The team was so unlucky to lose car #46 in a crash on Monday during the Prologue, with the chassis getting so damaged, that it couldn’t be a race car again. Yesterday’s qualifying saw Egidio Perfetti crash at full speed at the top of Raidillon, hitting the tire barrier with both the front- and rear end of the car. Following examination of the car, when the…

The final two free practice sessions ahead of the FIA World Endurance Championship qualifying at Spa Francorchamps happened in quite a calm fashion. The Hypercar category is getting more and more up to speed, with Alpine Elf Matmut #36 with Andre Negrao, Nicolas Lapierre, and Matthieu Vaxiviere overall fastest in the morning session, ahead of Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 with Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima, and Brendon Hartley, while Toyota #7 with Jose Maria Lopez, Mike Conway, and Kamui Kobayashi was the third fastest in the top category. The afternoon practice…

It was thankfully an easy start to the FIA World Endurance Championship race weekend at Spa Francorchamps. After two very dramatic test days, Thursday was the first official day, with a single Free Practice session to be run for the 34 WEC cars. The events from the Prologue repeated themselves, with the defending LMP2 champions United Autosports USA #22 with Filipe Albuquerque, Phil Hanson, and  Fabio Scherer being fastest of everybody, while Alpine Elf Matmut #36 with Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao, and Matthieu Vaxiviere were second fastest – and fastest…

As if there wasn’t already drama enough on day one of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2021 Prologue, there was more drama on the second day of running. The Belgian Spa Francorchamps track is one of the high-speed circuits on the schedule, with very limited run-off and instant penalty, if you run off the circuit. Team Project 1 Porsche #46 is confirmed to be done for the week. Norwegian Anders Burchardt had a heavy shunt yesterday, that a new chassis is needed. The demand for 911 RSR-19 chassis is so…

At least three teams will have a long night ahead, following the first day of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2021 Prologue at Spa Francorchamps. TF Sport is hit the most, since they run both their own #33 but also the D’Station Racing #777, which both had huge accidents at the famous Raidillion corner. Just like IDEC Sport at Le Mans 2020, both accidents happened within half an hour of each other. Thankfully, both Ben Keating and Satoshi Hoshino were able to leave the cars without help, both Aston Martin…

High Class Racing has announced their drivers for their second car at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Jan and Kevin Magnussen will be sharing the car with Anders Fjordbach. That will make it an all-Danish team for the ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 #49. This is the first Le Mans for Kevin Magnussen. He has been on the Formula 1 route until now, but closed that chapter of his career, and has started to focus on sportscars from this season onwards. He is currently racing for Chip Ganassi Racing…

The FIA World Endurance Championship 2021 will start this coming week at Spa Francorchamps. There are 35 cars entered, with a few absentees, and a few extra additions, compared to the full season entry list. Toyota Gazoo Racing and Alpine Elf Matmut will bring a total of three cars for the new Hypercar category. The Japanese brand is the only so far to bring a pair of their brand new Hypercars, while the French outfit has been allowed to rename the old Rebellion R13 LMP1 car, as their own Alpine…