Category: WEC

Lilou Wadoux has been named as the new official Ferrari Competizione GT driver. The 21 year-old French driver has had a rapid rise in sportscar racing, where she competed in the 2021 Alpine Elf Europa Cup. She had such a success, that Richard Mille Racing Team decided to put her in a LMP2 car for 2022. Richard Mille Racing Team was run by the Signatech team, which is running the Alpine sportscar programme too. It was announced a few months ago, that the Richard Mille name would disappear after the…

Corvette Racing has their 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship ready. It’s been known for a couple of months, that the team would move from the now-defunct GTE Pro category to GTE Am. During that announcement, it was revealed that Ben Keating and Nicky Catsburg would be the first drivers for the team. The name of the third and final driver has been released now. That will be Argentinian racer Nicolas Varonne. He has been racing in sportscars for the past few seasons, after a classic karting and single-seater background. He…

D’Station Racing will join for another season of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The Japanese team will once again be run by TF Sport, who has run all their international programmes for the past seasons. Team owners Tomonobu Fujii and Satoshi Hoshino will once again share the car. They will however have a new teammate in the shape of British racer Casper Stevenson. The highlight for the team during the 2022 season was the podium at their home circuit at Fuji, with the dark green Aston Martin Vantage GTE being…

Prema Racing will double their LMP2 effort for the FIA World Endurance Championship 2023. The team made their LMP2 debut in 2022, with a single car in the FIA WEC, and a single car in the European Le Mans Series. They won races and the Championship in ELMS, while they claimed a single podium finish at Le Mans 2022, which counted towards the FIA WEC season. Car #9 will have Juan Manuel Correa as one of the drivers. He will do a combined FIA WEC and FIA Formula 2 season.…

Ferrari has announced the six drivers, who will race the brand new Ferrari 499P in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Car #50 will be shared by Nicklas Nielsen, Miguel Molina and Antonio Fuoco, while car #51 will have the defending GTE Pro Champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, and the former Formula 1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi. Nielsen has won numerous races and titles, since he was hired by Ferrari. He was part of the Hypercar testing from the very start, being the second guy in the car, after the…

JOTA has announced the three drivers, who will try to repeat the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 title in the 2023 season. Oliver Rasmussen will continue for the team, with David Heinemeier Hansson and Pietro Fittipaldi joining the Dane. Rasmussen raced for the team in 2022, with the big highlight being the third-place finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and another podium at the 6 Hours of Fuji. DHH has previously raced for JOTA, not only once by twice. His first time with the team was in 2018…

Vector Sport has signed a deal to partner up with the Italian car manufacturer Isotta Fraschini, and will become an official works team. The collaboration will be in the FIA World Endurance Championship, where their brand-new Hypercar is going to participate. The first car is currently being built, and is expected to make its debut at Spa Francorchamps, with the aim to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Vector Sport made their FIA WEC debut in 2022, where they ran an ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 car,…

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…

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 Lusail 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…