Author: Jens Jensen

FIA World Endurance Championship race at Spa Francorchamps was a classic Spa race, with changing weather and fantastic racing. Olivier Pla, Pipo Derani and Romain Dumas in Glickenhaus Racing #708 had taken the team’s first Pole Position in FIA WEC, ahead of Alpine Elf Team #36 with Matthieu Vaxiviere, Nicolas Lapierre and Andre Negrao, followed by Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 with Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez and Mike Conway, and Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 with Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi in P4. AF Corse #83 with Alessio Rovera,…

There will be six changes amongst the FIA World Endurance Championship drivers, when the second round of 2022 will be run at Spa Francorchamps in two weeks’ time. Glickenhaus Racing #708 has swapped Ryan Briscoe for Pipo Derani. Derani was busy with his American Cadillac DPi programme, when Round 1 was held at Sebring International Raceway, so the Brazilian had to focus on that job, while Briscoe got some race miles. Glickenhaus Racing #708 has Romain Dumas and Olivier Pla plus Derani in the car for Spa, while Briscoe, Richard…

The seats for the 2022 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans are slowly filling up. CD Sport #27 will enter their first 24 Hours of Le Mans. The French team has bought the Ligier JS P217, which Eurointernational drove in the 2020 event. They earned their place on the 24 hours grid, thanks to the LMP3 title in the Asian Le Mans Series in February 2022, and it will be a mix of three drivers from that effort. Christopher Cresp was the initial announcement, along with their name…

The second 1000 Miles of Sebring in history, which was also the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2022, was run on the historic Sebring International Raceway. Alpine Elf Team #36 with Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao and Matthieu Vaxiviere started the race from Pole Position, ahead of Glickenhaus Racing #708 with Olivier Pla, Ryan Briscoe and Romain Dumas, while Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 with Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa would start from the third position. Nicklas Nielsen, Francois Perrodo and Alessio Rovera had taken LMP2 Pole…

The qualifying for the 1000 Miles race at Sebring was run on Thursday evening, prior to the opening race in the FIA World Endurance Championship The 17 GTE cars were the first on the track for their ten-minute qualifying. While the Pro drivers qualified in the GTE Pro category, it was the Bronze-rated drivers who had to qualify the GTE Am cars. The qualifying was run shortly before sunset, which was a condition the teams hadn’t tested at all, neither in the Prologue nor the practice sessions afterwards. It didn’t…

The FIA World Endurance Championship preparations for the 2022 season finally got underway. There was a two-day prologue at Sebring International Raceway before the season starts on Wednesday. For the majority of the teams, the test went well with plenty of laps for the drivers. But it didn’t take long before the first lengthy interruption in the first session on Saturday. A huge thunderstorm with heavy rain and a strong wind drove over, so all the marshals had to leave the track for safety. On the second day, however, there…

Automobile Club l’Ouest has announced the starting list for this year’s 24 hours at Le Mans. The list consists of sixty-two cars as it has been since 2019. There are some surprises, but most of them are already known since the FIA World Endurance Championship has handed automatic invitations to the majority of the field. In Hypercar, there are FIA World Endurance Championship cars plus an extra from Glickenhaus Racing. Peugeot TotalEnergies can’t get their car ready for the race this year since it would require a start at Spa…

We usually try to keep the Balance Of Performance discussion away from the Racing24-7.net content. It has been an essential part of sportscar racing, where the GTE cars have been adjusted to race equally, no matter if it was physically bigger or smaller, or the difference of engine configuration. With the introduction of the Hypercar category in 2021, we saw the arrival of BOP in that category too, where it previously was called Equivalence of Technology. Two names – more or less the same aim, of making cars being able…