Team Heart Of Racing has named the six drivers, who are going to drive the brand new Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH cars, which are going to compete this year in both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Harry Tincknell and Alex Riberas were named as the first two drivers in the FIA WEC, when the entry list was announced back in November. Tincknell will share car #007 with Tom Gamble through the full season. The team will only compete with two drivers through most of…
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THOR announces LMGT3 drivers
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.…
Read MoreTF goes yellow
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…
Read MoreFord enters LMDh
Ford Performance has send out a press release, confirming that they are the next car manufacturer to enter the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2027, with a Hypercar programme. The car will be build according to the LMDh regulations, with a base chassis, which is not yet announced, while Ford have their own input on the work regarding aerodynamic and the engine of the car. They will become the fifteenth car manufacturer, who can compete in the united Hypercar category, which is a mix of LMH cars (cars build from…
Read MoreMagnussen: “Endurance racing is a lot more than a Pole Position”
BMW M Team RLL got a great start to 2025 and the racing weekend at Daytona International Speedway, ahead of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, by claiming Pole Position with car #24. Head of BMW Motorsport, Andreas Roos and the new driver in the team, Kevin Magnussen, met the media in Daytona, to talk a bit more about what has gone on so far, and about the rest of the week and year. First of all, Andreas – it’s been a great start to the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2025…
Read MoreUA with full FIA WEC line-up
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…
Read MoreRied makes a comeback – again
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…
Read MorePeugeot with international line-up in 2025
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…
Read MoreJOTA continues in golden colors
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…
Read MoreFluxa changes team
Lorenzo Fluxa will move from one European Le Mans Series team to another. The 20 year old Spaniard made his debut in sportscar racing for COOL Racing in 2024 in the LMP2 category, but he will race for Algarve Pro Racing in 2025. Fluxa got a dream debut in ELMS, when he won the opening round in 2024 in Barcelona alongside Ritomo Miyata and Malthe Jakobsen. A lot of factors resulting them in only returning to the podium at the final race of the year in Portimao in Portugal with…
Read MoreLeung switches from BMW to McLaren
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…
Read MoreMagnussen signs with BMW M Motorsport
Kevin Magnussen will be a new driver at BMW M Motorsport for the 2025 season. The 32-year old Dane will be racing the BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh car, after ending his Formula 1 career for a second time. It is not yet revealed, if he will race in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship or the FIA World Endurance Championship, but the Dane has previously raced in IMSA for Chip Ganassi Racing, when they were running the Cadillac programme in 2021. Kevin had a deal with Peugeot TotalEnergies too, to become race…
Read MoreAston Martin THOR confirms the two first drivers
The first two Hypercar drivers for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship programme for Aston Martin THOR Team have been confirmed by the team. Harry Tincknell and Alex Riberas will pilot their own Aston Martin Valkyrie during next season, racing cars #007 and #009 respectively. Tincknell has previously raced for Aston Martin Racing, when they entered GTE Pro cars, and was part of the winning crew at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2020 alongside Alex Lynn and Maxime Martin, while the World Championship title went to Nicki Thiim and…
Read MoreMercedes-AMG enters the FIA WEC
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…
Read MoreCadillac Hertz Team JOTA names 2025 drivers
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…
Read MoreToyota remains unchanged for 2025
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…
Read MoreGenesis to become new LMDh brand
There will be another car manufacturer in the very popular Hypercar and GTP category, in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The Genesis brand might not be known in the general public, but it’s related to Hyundai. They are entering the motorsport world, to make the name much better known, just as we have seen with DS, Infiniti and Cupra, who are active in other parts of the sport. There are not so many details about the programme, other than it being an LMDh car, and…
Read MoreAn additional race for Gounon
Jules Gounon will get an additional race in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2024. Gounon is the reserve driver at Alpine Endurance Team, and he has already been active twice this year, at Imola and Spa Francorchamps, since he had to replace the back injured Ferdinand Habsburg. The team has announced, that it already was planned prior to the start of the season, that Gounon would do the upcoming race at Fuji International Speedway in Japan, where he is going to replace Paul-Loup Chatin. He didn’t get much race time,…
Read MoreWTR and AXR partners up with Cadillac for 2025
Cadillac Racing has announced their two teams for the upcoming 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. It’s officially announced now, that there will be three official Cadillac V-Series.R for next season. Action Express Racing will continue with a single car, just like they have done for the past many seasons. Wayne Taylor Racing will return to the GM brand, with whom they were associated with for so many years, prior to becoming an Acura works team. The drivers for the there cars will be announced at a later stage, but it’s…
Read MoreIsotta Fraschini ends WEC programme
Isotta Fraschini has chosen to end their 2024 programme in the FIA World Endurance Championship immediately. The Italian car manufacturer had prepared their entry for a couple of year, but it was a very turbulent entry. Vector Sport was originally slated to race the cars, but it was announced only a few hours before the release of the FIA WEC 2024 entry list, that they would no longer be a partner, and the French Duqueine outfit would run the car instead. It’s been a tough season for the team, in…
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