Category: WEC

Ben Hanley has been called up as a substitute at United Autosports. The Brit will help the team in the FIA World Endurance Championship rounds in Portimao and Monza, since there are date clashes with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for those two weekends. He will share ORECA 07 Gibson #22 with Phil Hanson, and a not-yet-announced third driver, who will be of Silver ranking. Hanley replaces Filipe Albuquerque, who will do those two weekends for Cadillac Racing in the IMSA series. There is a clash as well at the…

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FIA World Endurance Championship will add another race to the 2024 race schedule. The series will go to Qatar for the very first time, having done a 6 year deal with Losail International Circuit. The track is known for MotoGP, which it has hosted for many years. Formula 1 had a single start at the track in 2021, and will return to the desert track in 2023, with the track currently undergoing an upgrade. The race will be the new opening round of the FIA WEC, and will host the…

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There will be a Dutch substitute in place at United Autosports for at least 2 of the 7 rounds in the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. Giedo van der Garde will be the newest driver to wear the blue and red racing suits, when he jumps into car #23 in the FIWEC. Tom Blomqvist is the regular driver onboard the car, alongside Josh Pierson and Oliver Jarvis, but the Portimao and Monza rounds clash with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races at Long Beach and Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. There…

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Toyota Gazoo Racing will enter the 2023 season with stability around the team The defending World Champions in the FIA World Endurance Championship will stick to the exact same six drivers for the upcoming season. Jose Maria Lopez, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi will share car #7, while World Champions Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley share car #8. The team did make some changes in car #8 prior to the 2022 season, when Kazuki Nakajima announced his retirement, and was replaced by Hirakawa. The young Japanese driver was…

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Yifei Ye is the first confirmed driver at Hertz Team JOTA, for their upcoming 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign. The Chinese driver has impressed a lot of people in sportscar racing, with the results that he has achieved so far. He won both the Asian Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series in 2021, and continued to race on in the ELMS in 2022 for COOL Racing, where he grabbed three podium finishes, and fifth in the final standings. JOTA is definitely not a new name in the…

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The season finale in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2022 was run at Bahrain International Circuit, whose contract to hold the final race recently got renewed until 2025. Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain was the closure of overall fifty-eight hours of racing, at six different tracks. Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 with Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa started the race from Pole Position, ahead of Peugeot TotalEnergies #93 with Paul Di Resta, Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen in second place, Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 with Mike Conway, Jose Maria…

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The 2022 season finale in the FIA WEC, which will run at the 8 Hours of Bahrain, will see a change in the line-up at Peugeot TotalEnergies. The French outfit has said goodbye to James Rossiter immediately, since the Brit moved to a new job as team principal at Maserati in Formula E. So he only got two race weekends onboard the new Peugeot 9×8 Hypercar The team has called up Nico Müller instead. Müller signed a contract with the French car manufacturer, after being an Audi Sport driver for…

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United Autosports has announced the three drivers for their car #23, which they are planning to run in the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. Josh Pierson was announced way back in Le Mans week. Now Oliver Jarvis and Tom Blomqvist have been announced alongside the 16-year-old American. But there might be a small stumbling block. The FIA is currently scrutineering all the driver rankings of all sportscar drivers in the whole world, and while a lot of drivers already got their 2023 ranking, they are still undecided about Pierson. Pierson…

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Racing24-7.net had the pleasure to spend half an hour with the head of LMEM, Frederic Lequien, who is running the FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series and the Asian Le Mans Series. We chose to split the interview into several pieces, which contains different subjects. FIA WEC TV is currently behind a pay-wall. Where is the current consideration, bearing in mind that the number of manufacturers who are coming – they are going to be keen on as big an audience as possible. Is there a discussion about…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship expands to 7 races for the 2023 season. Six of the well-known events are joined by a seventh, which was one of the COVID-19 replacements in the 2021 season. The season will start at Sebring on March 11-12 with two days of Prologue testing, prior to the 8 hours/1000 Miles season opener on the following Friday 17 – the day prior to the IMSA 12 hours race. The series returns to the Portuguese track of Portimao, for 6 hours in the hills on April 16.…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship has chosen the four drivers for this year’s Rookie test, which will run on the Sunday after the season finale in Bahrain. This has been a tradition for the past few years, where four young talents will have the chance to do at least 30 laps in the championship winning cars. Lilou Wadoux will have the chance to test the 2022 Championship winning Hypercar. Alpine Elf Team #36 and Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 are equal on points, with the 36 having lead for most of…

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