Category: WEC

Christian Ried will make a comeback in the FIA World Endurance Championship – again. The 45 year-old German has decided to jump in the racing overalls again, but this time won’t be in a car labeled with his own Proton Competition team name. Ried will be racing for Iron Lynx Mercedes in their car #61 together with Matteo Cresoni. Proton Competition has a close collaboration with Iron Lynx, which started back in 2023, where they ran two Porsche 911 RSR GTE cars for the team in the European Le Mans…

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Peugeot TotalEnergies will bring an international mixed-bag of talent in their two FIA World Championship cars for the 2025 season. Peugeot 9X8 #93 will be driven by Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen, who will rejoin with Paul Di Resta. JEV and Jensen have been racing together since the very first race that Peugeot TotalEnergies entered back in July 2022 at Monza in Italy. They had the Scotsman as a co-driver back then, but he was then moved into car #94 for the 2024 season. Nico Müller raced with JEV and…

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Despite the team changing manufacturer, we will still see the golden colors on the Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA this year. The Hertz Racing Gold colors will be present on the two Cadillac V-Series.R in the FIA World Endurance Championship for the 2025 season. The JOTA team started running the colors in 2023, where they got Hertz as a partner. So their first Porsche 963 and their LMP2 car had the special livery, before moving up to two cars in the Hypercar category for 2024. They will be stepping up from…

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Darren Leung will be switching brands for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship season. Leung will be moving from Team WRT BMW in 2024 to United Autosports McLaren for 2025. 37 year old Leung has a past in British GT, but has also been competing in GT World Challenge, before entering the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2024, in the brand new LMGT3 category. Darren Leung will be sharing car #95 with Marino Sato, and a not yet announced third driver. With Leung as Bronze driver and Sato as Gold…

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Mercedes-AMG has finally been confirmed as the new manufacturer in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The German car giant has teamed up with Iron Lynx, who will run two Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 cars from 2025 onwards. That marks an end to the Iron Lynx and Lamborghini collaboration, that has been in place throughout the 2024 season in the FIA WEC. The future of the Italian brand in both Hypercar and LMGT3 is currently unknown. Mercedes is another of the big car brands, that have a sportscar history, but so far haven’t…

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Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has revealed the 6 drivers for the 2025 team. The British team will become the factory team for Cadillac in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and will be a mix of old JOTA drivers from 2024, and some associated with Cadillac. The team has not revealed the exact pairing of the drivers yet. Will Stevens, Jenson Button, and Norman Nato were JOTA drivers in 2024, where the team participated in the Hypercar category with two Porsche 963 racers in the cup for the privateers, which car…

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Toyota Gazoo Racing will remain unchanged for the 2025 edition of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The multiple champions are still among the very best, which they proved with a victory on the season finale in Bahrain, one and a half weeks ago, where they ended up claiming the Constructors Championship. Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway, and Nyck de Vries took the victory at the Imola circuit earlier this year, and were part of the fight for the Drivers Championship all the way until the finale, where they retired with technical…

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There will be another car manufacturer in the very popular Hypercar and GTP category, in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The Genesis brand might not be known in the general public, but it’s related to Hyundai. They are entering the motorsport world, to make the name much better known, just as we have seen with DS, Infiniti and Cupra, who are active in other parts of the sport. There are not so many details about the programme, other than it being an LMDh car, and…

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Jules Gounon will get an additional race in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2024. Gounon is the reserve driver at Alpine Endurance Team, and he has already been active twice this year, at Imola and Spa Francorchamps, since he had to replace the back injured Ferdinand Habsburg. The team has announced, that it already was planned prior to the start of the season, that Gounon would do the upcoming race at Fuji International Speedway in Japan, where he is going to replace Paul-Loup Chatin. He didn’t get much race time,…

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Isotta Fraschini has chosen to end their 2024 programme in the FIA World Endurance Championship immediately. The Italian car manufacturer had prepared their entry for a couple of year, but it was a very turbulent entry. Vector Sport was originally slated to race the cars, but it was announced only a few hours before the release of the FIA WEC 2024 entry list, that they would no longer be a partner, and the French Duqueine outfit would run the car instead. It’s been a tough season for the team, in…

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Hertz Team JOTA will move to Cadillac for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship. The British team will be called Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA, where they will take over the factory deal from Chip Ganassi Racing. That will double the number of Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh cars from one to two in the FIA WEC, where CGR so far only has been willing to run a single car in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA WEC respectively. It was announced earlier this year, that CGR no longer will run Cadillac’s in…

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Aston Martin with Heart of Racing has confirmed their interest in entering the FIA World Endurance Championship 2025 with two cars in Hypercar. There will also be a single car entering the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as it was the plan from the start. Heart of Racing only announced a single car originally for the FIA WEC 2025, but with the new 2-car rule, there was starting to be some question marks, in regards to HoR and AM still being interested and able to run in the FIA WEC. The…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has announced the race schedule for the 2025 season. There are no changes in the number of races, nor the locations compared to this year. The season starts on 28 February with the first race weekend in Qatar, where the duration of the race once again is 1812 Kilometers or 10 Hours, depending on what is reached first. The Prologue will happen at the same circuit, in the week leading into the race. The next race will be at the 6 Hours of Imola in…

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If we cast our minds back to 12 months ago, we did not mention Porsche Penske Motorsport, including Michael Christensen, as the favourites for the 24 Hours of le Mans. But with the results that the German manufacturer has delivered so far in 2024, with car #6 currently leading the FIA World Endurance Championship, we probably have to count Porsche as the favourites to grab their 20th overall victory at the 24-hour race, despite the other times being super close to them. We met up with Michael Christensen during the…

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There haven’t been that many father-son combinations in the past at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We most recently saw the Magnussen family, and prior to that, both the Brundle and Mansell families had each their own outings, just to name a few. Spirit of Race Ferrari #155 are bringing such combination this year, with Johnny and Conrad Laursen sharing the car, that usually runs under the Formula Racing banner in the European Le Mans Series. We met up with Conrad on Saturday, prior to him going on track…

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Jordan Taylor has come to Le Mans with something completely different, compared to his previous times. He will be driving in a Ferrari in the LMGT3 category, sharing the car with Johnny and Conrad Laursen, in what effect in the Spirit of Race entry being taken over by Formula Racing in every since but the team name on the entry list. We caught up with him during the scrutineering in the town center, earlier today. So it’s a bit unusual color to see you in. “Yeah, I’ve obviously been against…

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Doriane Pin will sadly miss out on the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2024. The French racing driver was going to race for the Iron Dames outfit, who participates with a Lamborghini Huracan LMGT3 EVO2, but she unfortunately broke some ribs during her Formula Regional European Championship powered by Alpine (FRECA). She will put her focus on getting ready for the next round of the F1 Academy, which will be held at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 21-23 June. So that makes the Iron Dames team consist of Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting…

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