Category: Endurance

Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA will only have to drivers for each of their Cadillac V-Series.R cars, for the opening round of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Alex Lynn has undergone a planned procedure for a neck injury, that he has been nursing since the end of 2024. It didn’t hamper him too much, since he claimed the Pole Position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2025, and the first FIA WEC victory for Cadillac at the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo in Brazil. That leaves…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has announced their final entry list for the opening round of the 2026 season, which will run on 19 April at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. We have known all the cars entered in the series for several months, but there are a few changes amongst the drivers, since there is a date clash with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at the Long Beach circuit. Aston Martin THOR Team will run with just two drivers in each car – Harry Tincknell…

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Ben Keating won’t be on the entry list for the first two rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2026. The Texan driver has sustained a broken elbow in training, so he won’t be able to race. Keating was signed up for TF Sport Corvette #33 once again, but he will be replaced by Blake McDonald. McDonald has already raced for TF Sport in the Asian Le Mans Series, and he will be competing with them in the upcoming European Le Mans Series too. His FIA WEC teammates for Imola…

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Peugeot TotalEnergies has signed a new deal with Doriane Pin. The 22-year-old French racer will be the new Development Driver, and we already know, that she will have her Hypercar debut, at latest, at the Rookie test in Bahrain this coming November. Pin is one of the current biggest female racing stars in motorsports, and was quickly rolled into the Iron Dames programme. She was part of their GTE programme, and then got a chance to race in LMP2 for Prema Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship. She raced…

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Genesis Magma Racing has confirmed their driver combinations, that previously was announced by the FIA World Endurance Championship. Car #17 will be driven by Andre Lotterer, Pipo Derani, and Mathys Jaubert, while Daniel Juncadella, Mathieu Jaminet, and Paul-Loup Chatin will share car #19. Derani and Lotterer were the two first drivers signed by Genesis Magma Racing, all the way back in December 2024, and have been part of the development of the car ever since. The GMR-001 car has done a lot of test mileage over the past months, so…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has released a new race schedule for the upcoming 2026 season. The changes were made due to the ongoing issues in the Middle East, postponing the Prologue and opening round, that were originally planned for Qatar. The Prologue will instead be run at Imola in Italy, with a single day of practice on 14 April, with the 6 hours race being run on 19 April. The Qatar round has been pushed back to October, where the 1812 kilometer long race will be run on Saturday…

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Manthey will bring some eye-catching liveries to the FIA World Endurance Championship 2026, once the series gets going next month. The German outfit ran bright colors in 2025 too, in the shape of the pink Iron Dames and the light blue 1st Phorm car, with the latter one winning the LMGT3 Championship. Car #91 will bave James Cottingham sharing the drive time with Timur Boguslavskiy and Ayhancan Güven, which is a new, very interesting combination. Cottingham arrives at the team after running with United Autosports McLaren for the past two…

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Garage 59 has revealed the liveries on their two McLaren GT3 Evo cars, ahead of their inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship season. The British team has taken over the two McLaren spots in the LMGT3 category from United Autosports, who will change their focus to the preparations for their LMDh car, which will enter the Hypercar category in 2027. Garage 59 has been a factory affiliated team for many seasons, with most of the racing happening in the various GT World Challenge series. Both cars will have black and orange…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has postponed their planned opening to the 2026 in Qatar. The delay is due to the unrest in the Middle East, which let to a statement that was sent out last week. The season opener will instead happen at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola on 17-19 April. The plan is to run the Qatar race later this year, once things hopefully have calmed down in the region. But that is no easy task, since a lot of dates have to fit in. There…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has released a statement today, in regards to the planned Prologue and opening round of the 2026 Championship in Qatar, later this month. Please read the statement below: The FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) is closely monitoring the ongoing situation in the Middle East – a process of rigorous assessment that has been underway for several weeks. The safety and security of our competitors, personnel and fans remains our absolute priority. Accordingly, the FIA WEC management is in constant, direct communication with the relevant…

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Ferrari AF Corse has presented the livery of the 2026 version of the Ferrari 499P. To no one’s surprise, its red – with a yellow stripe running over the engine cover, like we have seen for the past seasons. Or as its called in Ferrari language, Rosso Scuderia, but with a slightly glossier version, compared to last year. The World Champion colors are present on the wind screen visor, with car #51 driven by Antonio Giovinazzi, James Calado, and Alessandro Pier Guidi claiming the Drivers Title, alongside the Manufacturers Title.…

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All seats are taken for the upcoming 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship. Heart of Racing Team was the final team to announce all their drivers. The American team had only listed Gray Newell and Ian James on the entry list, for the two Aston Martin Vantage LMGT3 cars. Newell is new to the FIA WEC, but has raced for the team in GT World Challenge America. He will be joined by Eduardo “Dudu” Barrichello in car #23, together with super-experienced Jonny Adam. Barrichello raced for Racing Spirit of Leman in…

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Iron Lynx has revealed the new liveries of the two Mercedes-AMG GT3 car in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2026. Car #61 will carry the traditional grey colors of Mercedes, just like we saw in 2025. The driver line-up will be Martin Berry, Maxime Martin, and Rui Andrade. Berry and Martin were teammates for most of 2025, while Andrade joins the outfit from TF Sport Corvette. Car #79 switches from primarily yellow to blue, with the same yellow stripes as we see on the #61. Johannes Zelger, Matteo Cressoni, and…

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24 Hours of Le Mans 2026 will once again see a 62-car grid entered. The entry consists of 18 in the Hypercar category, 19 in LMP2, split into LMP2 and LMP2 Pro/Am, and 25 cars in LMGT3. The Hypercar field consists of the 17 regular FIA WEC participants, being joined by Cadillac WTR, which are the Wayne Taylor Racing team from IMSA. They will be running Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque, for the second year a in a row. 10 of the 19 LMP2 cars will run in…

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Alpine Endurance Team has announced the driver combinations and colors for their last season in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The French team made the announcement last week, that they will pull their A424 as a works car, once the 2026 season is over. Car #35 will have Charles Milesi, Ferdinand Habsburg and Antonio Felix da Costa sharing driving duties. Milesi and Habsburg have been in the programme since the very start, and were there for the first A424 victory in Japan 2025. Antonio Felix da Costa has Hypercar experience…

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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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