Vandoorne confirmed at Peugeot

Stoffel Vandoorne has been confirmed as new driver at Peugeot ToralEnergies. The team haven’t officially confirmed it yet, but it is expected to be Gustavo Menezes, that he is replacing. The Belgian driver got signed by the team as a test driver in November 2022, when he participated in the Rookie test in Bahrain, following the season finale. He got his race debut at Fuji in Japan 14 days ago, where he repacted Nico Müller, who was sidelined due to injury. It is still not confirmed, if this is the…

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ELMS and LMC 2024 schedules revealed

The European Le Mans Series and the Michelin Le Mans Cup have announced their racing schedules for the 2024 season. Five of the six weekends are returnees, while none of the classes have previously participated at the sixth round. The season starts out with three days of Prologue at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain, just like in 2023. Paul Ricard near Le Castellet in the south of France is run three weeks later, prior to the Le Mans break. Or maybe we should put break in inverted commas. A lot…

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IMSA moves WGI

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has moved the date of the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen 2024. The new date will be 23 June, with the previous date clashing with the 24 hours race at Spa Francorchamps in Europe. That made several manufacturers very upset, with some of the drivers doing both the Belgian classic, in addition to the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen, north of New York. That will make it a super busy month for sportscar drivers in 2024. On 1-2 June there is 24 hours at the…

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Extra Japanese drivers at Fuji

The FIA World Endurance Championship will have a few extra local drivers on the starting grid, when the 6-hour race will be run this weekend. Amongst the 36 competing cars, there are a total of 8 Japanese drivers on the entry list. It’s no surprise that Kamui Kobayashi and Ryo Hirakawa participate for Toyota Gazoo Racing in the Hypercar category, like they have done all year long. D’Station Racing Aston Martin #777 is once again competing in the GTE Am kategory with Satoshi Hoshino and Tomonobu Fujii alongside British racer Casper…

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Vandoorne in Peugeot debut at Fuji

Stoffel Vandoorne will have his race debut for Peugeot TotalEnergies, when the FIA World Endurance Championship races at Fuji International Speedway next week. The Belgian racer will replace Nico Müller in car #94, who has broken his collarbone, following an accident during his summer holiday. This is far from the first time that Vandoorne has participated in the FIA WEC. The former F1 driver has previously raced for SMP Racing in their LMP1 car, and done a season for JOTA in the LMP2 category. Vandoorne was announced as a test…

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Keating and Quinn move to UA

United Autosports has announced their first two drivers for their upcoming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship programme in 2024. It’s none other than Ben Keating and Alex Quinn, who switches over from PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports. Keating and Quinn started working together at PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports in 2023, after his teammates from the two previous seasons, Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen, were snatched by TDS Racing. United Autosports announced an LMP2 programme for the IMSA series, since the category will disappear from the FIA World Endurance Championship following the conclusion of the 2023…

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Petit Le Mans with Newgarden and Vanthoor

Porsche Penske Motorsport has announced their three drivers for the years 10 hours race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta – also known as Petit Le Mans. The team has had different third drivers for the endurance rounds this year. At Daytona and Sebring they were helped by the two FIA WEC drivers Dane Cameron and Michael Christensen in car #6 and #7 respectively. There is a change regarding those seats, so Nick Tandy/Mathieu Jaminet in car #6, and Matt Campbell/Felipe Nasr in car #7 will have Laurens Vanthoor and Josef Newgarden…

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Button gets GTP debut at Petit Le Mans

Jenson Button is far from done with sportscar racing in 2023. The 2009 Formula 1 World Champion is not only making his IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut, but also in the GTP category, once the 2023 season finale will be run at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Button has signed with JDC-Miller Motorsports, to race in their Porsche 963 together with Mike Rockenfeller and Tijmen van der Helm. The Brit was part of the Garage56 NASCAR project at Le Mans in June, where the team completed the race with only a few…

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WTRAndretti announces four drivers

Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti Autosport (WTRAndretti) has announced their four full-season drivers for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The team is currently competing with a single Acura ARX-06 GTP category, being run with Konica Minolta livery, with Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque as the full-season drivers, and will continue to be in 2024. That pairing is currently leading the standings, and has done quite well at the endurance rounds, where Louis Deletraz has been third driver for the team. He will get a huge pat on the back,…

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Corvette Racing announces 2024 drivers

Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports has announced their four full-season drivers for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Antonio Garcia is the only full-season IMSA driver from 2023, to stay with the team for 2024. But the three other drivers have been seen in the yellow race suits before. Nicky Catsburg has been a full-season driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship car this year, where he already has secured the GTE AM title alongside Nicolas Varrone and Ben Keating, with two rounds to go. Catsburg has also…

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Changes at Whelen Engineering in 2024

Whelen Engineering Cadillac #31 has made some changes to their driver line-up for the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The team has opted to swap Alexander Sims in the full-time seat with Jack Aitken, who has been their endurance driver this year. Sims will be moving back to Corvette Racing, for which he has raced for in the past. Pipo Derani, Sims, and Aitken won the 12 Hours of Sebring in March this year, but haven’t had the best results this year otherwise. Having said that, we currently have…

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Frijns new BMW works driver

Robin Frijns has signed a new contract with BMW Motorsport. The 31-year-old Dutch driver will become a part of their new LMDh test programme, ahead of their FIA World Endurance Championship 2024 entry. Frijns will join from Audi Sport, where he was works driver for many seasons. He was on the road to a sportscar seat in LMDh with them, until they shut down that programme, moving their focus to a Formula 1 programme from 2026 instead. The Dutch driver has been at Team WRT, which has been chosen to…

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Sean Creech confirms LMP2 programme

Sean Creech Motorsports has confirmed their future plans in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. They are going to enter the LMP2 category, once the LMP3 category in the American series closes after this season. But the choice is not on the popular ORECA 07, which pretty much every team around the world uses. But the team has opted for a Ligier JS P217. They already know Ligier from running LMP3, and as the team points out in their press release, several of their mechanics already have LMP2 experience. The new…

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Lamborghini shows new LMDh

Lamborghini has shown their new LMDh car to the public for the first time. The physical presentation happened at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Great Britain, on the 60-year anniversary of the very first car from the Italian brand. The car will be called SC63, consisting of Squadra Corse and (19)63 is the first year that their first car left the factory near Bologna. The team has already confirmed that they are going to participate in the full FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024, plus the four Michelin Endurance…

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IE: The programmes almost ready for 2024

Inter Europol Competition are really close to having the programmes for the 2024 season ready. The Polish team has been a long time member of the FIA World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series paddocks, while they have been a bit in and out of the Asian Le Mans Series, Michelin Le Mans Cup, Ligier European Series, and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. With the new rules in FIA WEC in 2024, with LMP2 no longer being a part of the series, the team has to move in other directions.…

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Few changes to the Monza entry list

There are a few changes to the entry list for the 6 hours FIA World Endurance Championship round at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza this weekend. 36 cars are entered, with some dropping out and others coming in. Northwest AMR #98, who has run with Heart of Racing Team colors since Spa Francorchamps, are not running this weekend, since they have a clash with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, so they have chosen that over the FIA WEC race. Proton Competition has switched cars and categories. They have been running a…

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Proton with WeatherTech livery in WEC and IMSA

Proton Competition will once again run in WeatherTech colors, when the team makes their debut at the brand new Porsche 963 in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The German started working with WeatherTech in 201, where they would run the IMSA car, in addition to Cooper MacNeil in the European Le Mans Series, as a warm up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They moved away from the Porsche to a Mercedes AMG GT3 in the IMSA series instead, but the collaboration with Proton…

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TF switches to Corvette

TF Sport has chosen to switch brands once the 2023 season is over. The British team has pretty much been synonymous with Aston Martin, ever since they first appeared in British GT in 2014, and with their entry in the Michelin Le Mans Cup in 2016, where they won the title, and moved on to the European Le Mans Series, where they finished second, and then further on, into the FIA World Endurance Championship. The team will move to the brand new Corvette Z06 GT3.R in 2024, running two cars…

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Proton with Ford in the FIA WEC

Proton Competition and Ford Performance have announced a new collaboration, as they are presenting the brand new Ford Mustang GT3. So they are throwing in their cap, to participate in the brand new GT3 category in the FIA World Endurance Championship, which is replacing the GTE category. Ford has been in and out of the sportscar world. They have had a NASCAR programme for many years, as their primary motorsport activity. But they have also had an engine programme in IMSA, in the DP category, and more recently with the…

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Alpine shows A424_β

Alpine has shown their brand new A424_β LMDh car, ahead of the very first rollout coming up next month. The car is developed in collaboration with ORECA, and do have some similarities with the Acura ARX-06 in regards to the front of the car. It will once again be Signatech running the programme, just like they have done in the FIA WEC since 2012, where it’s primarily has been LMP2 running. They got the chance to buy the Rebellion R13 towards the end of 2020, and then raced two seasons in…

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