Category: Endurance

Akkodis ASP Lexus will bring a brand new livery, for the two cars competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2026. They are sticking to the red and black colors, but the tone isn’t as metallic as it was in 2025. The team is entering their third season of FIA WEC, and although the initial hope in 2024 was to have the brand new GT3 model ready from Toyota and/or Lexus by now, they actually have to use the older RC-F for this year as well. Car #78 will be…

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Mikkel Jensen has been confirmed as an official McLaren United AS driver, in their upcoming Hypercar programme. The 31-year-old Dane is the first driver confirmed for the British marque, and will be doing the development of the Hypercar, that will race in the FIA World Endurance Championship from 2027. Jensen has previous had a similar role at Peugeot TotalEnergies, where he was part of the development of their 9X8 Hypercar in 2021 and 2022, moving into a racing programme with them up until the season finale in 2025. When Peugeot…

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Peugeot TotalEnergies has announced their driver combinations for the upcoming 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season. As they revealed a couple of months ago, there are going to the changes in the two cars. Paul Di Resta will remain onboard car #93, just like he did for all seasons except the 2024 season. He will be joined by Nick Cassidy and Stoffel Vandoorne. Vandoorne and Di Resta were teammates in 2024, so they already know each other. Cassidy has parallel programme in Formula E, but there are no race day…

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Nick Cassidy has officially been confirmed as a new works driver at Peugeot TotalEnergies in FIA World Endurance Championship, as a new race driver for the 2026 season. The British racing driver is making his sportscar return, after having done so in Japan, where he won the Super GT Championship in 2017, but also some racing on this side of the globe, including races in the FIA WEC. He has raced in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, where he has finished 2nd, 3rd, and 2nd in the standings…

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Mike Conway has once again been injured in a training accident. The British driver was training for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship round at Circuit Of The Americas, which is scheduled to take place this weekend, but was unlucky to break his collarbone once again. It is unknown if it’s the same collarbone as last year, when he crashed his road bike, before the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team has not revealed if this is another cycling accident or if it happened in another way. The team…

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Genesis Magma Racing has their brand new GMR-001 ready for the very first test. The first chassis has been built by ORECA, and has been moved the team facility in Le Castellet, in basically a walking distance from the ORECA factory, with the final preparations currently ongoing. The two drivers for the outfit, Pipo Derani and Andre Lotterer, have both got their custom made seats molded, prior to the very first shakedown, which has just been completed. This is the first of three test chassis’s prior to homologation, which needs…

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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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