Category: WEC

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Nico Müller will end his Audi Sport deal at the end of the season. The Swiss driver will move from the German car manufacturer to French car maker Peugeot, where he will be part of their FIA World Endurance Championship line-up. Müller started at Audi Sport in 2014, where he became part of their DTM team. He has been a part of that ever since, from Class 1 regulations to the current GT3 rules. He has been active in ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, where he was racing for…

It was a very different 6-hour race at Fuji International Speedway, than the one the FIA World Endurance Championship often has seen at the Japanese track. The sun was shining, which was an unlikely view at the historic circuit, where rain and interruptions happen more often than in any other place on the FIA WEC calendar. Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 with Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez and Mike Conway started from Pole Position in their home country, ahead of Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 with Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo…

ARC Bratislava has chosen to skip the next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, which will be held at Fuji International Speedway in two weeks time. The Slovakian team has had a difficult year in the FIA WEC 2022, with a heavy shunt and subsequent retirement at the 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps cost them a lot of points. The 2022 season is the second FIA WEC season for the Miro Konopka led team. They started the 2021 season with a Ligier JSP 217, before moving to an ORECA…

Renger van der Zande will get to race at Fuji International Speedway, when the 5th round of the FIA World Endurance Championship will run there in two weeks’ time. The Dutchman will sub for Nico Müller at Vector Sport in the LMP2 category, since Müller will be racing in DTM that weekend, as mentioned in a previous article. Van der Zande hasn’t raced for the team before, but is a teammate to Sebastien Bourdais in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the USA. They are sharing a Cadillac DPI car,…