Category: WEC

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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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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