The 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, round 4 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship, is set to welcome 62 cars at the iconic Circuit de La Sarthe on August 21-22, 2021.Five Hypercar entries, making their debut this year, are set to be joined by 25 LMP2 prototypes, seven LMGTE Pro […]
Connor McDonagh The 2021 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will now take place in August in a bid to allow spectators to attend the event. The 2021 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will now take place in August in a bid to allow spectators to attend the event. The […]
WRITTEN BY: SARA KIMBERLEY Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT) has partnered with ORECA to collaborate on the chassis concept for all future prototypes in the Hydrogen class at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans, following a competitive pitch by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ASO). The ASO issued the tender for the exclusive supply […]
The TS050 may have faced minimal competition, but it is a three-time Le Mans winner. Just as with the last two, Toyota’s 2020 Le Mans win was inevitable. The TS050 has been the sole factory entry racing at the top level of sports car racing, and its unmatched pace meant that only catastrophic failure could […]
Kamui Kobayashi has secured pole position for Toyota at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the first-ever Hyperpole shoot-out but Gustavo Menezes scored a surprise second position for Rebellion Racing. Hyperpole is the new qualifying format that sees the top six qualifiers from each class from the first qualifying session battle it out for […]
For the first time, an all-female team will compete in the LMP2 class, which is open exclusively to privately owned teams. It represents the culmination of the work of the Women in Motorsport Commission and Richard Mille, president of the Endurance Commission of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the sport’s governing body. The Women in Motorsport […]
Dominique Bastien will become the oldest driver to race in the Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend. The 74-year-old tells James Elson that he’s not there to make up the numbers “Frankly, I don’t think too much about age. If I didn’t feel that I was good enough to be on the track, then I […]
No fans will be allowed for the world’s biggest endurance race set for Sept. 19-20 in France. “Things have changed,” says the caption on the “Official Teaser” video airing on the official FIA World Endurance Championship website, “but we are not worried. We are prepared to fight.” That’s the website for the Automobile Club de l’Ouest-FIA […]
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will challenge for a third consecutive victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours as it targets a perfect final appearance at the Circuit de la Sarthe with its history-making TS050 HYBRID, in the 88th edition of the legendary French race. The 1,000PS, four-wheel-drive TS050 HYBRID came within two laps of victory on […]
The 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 19/20 September will be Round 7 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship. The 60-car grid for the world’s most famous endurance race will feature 29 full season FIA WEC entries across the four classes with a maximum of 39 championship points on offer […]
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest, organizers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, have announced the 2020 edition of the endurance race will be run without fans in attendance. The decision, wake with local health officials, comes one week after the NTT IndyCar Series announced the Indy 500 will be held without fans due to […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing will enter a new challenge next week when the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) team takes on an all-star grid in the very first Virtual Le Mans 24 Hours event. The 2019-2020 WEC season, due to be completed in June, has been delayed until later this year, with races in August, September […]
With the 2020 24 Hour of Le Mans postponed until September due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Porsche have made the decision to withdraw their two IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 911 RSR-19 GTEs from the entry list, leaving them with just two cars on the blue-riband grid. The explanation for the decision from the German manufacturer has been cited as a […]
While SRT41’s planned ‘Garage 56’ effort to the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours has been postponed, plans have surfaced for a 2021 entry from all-French outfit VISION to run in the centenary edition of the French endurance classic with a biomethane-powered Hypercar. VISION, which started this project four years ago, is working under the management […]
Suddenly, America is going hypercar crazy. Following in the tyre tracks of the Hennessey Venom unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show a couple of years ago is the Czinger 21C, and now hard on its heels comes the equally new Glickenhaus SCG 007. This is more than a hypercar, though. This beast has bigger fish to fry […]
With the news that the 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will be postponed to September amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a question quickly tends to bubble up: has this ever happened before? It’s an intriguing question worth asking: what are the previous occasions the greatest enduro of them all was delayed, […]
Bruno Senna, Gustavo Menezes and Norman Nato have won the Lone Star Le Mans race at Circuit of the Americas for Rebellion Racing. The trio put in a dominant performance on board the #1 Rebellion R13-Gibson to defeat the pair of Toyotas and take their second victory of the season. Senna started the car from […]
An all-female LMP2 crew could race at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, Richard Mille Racing revealing that it has requested an entry for its new-for-2020 ELMS-bound ORECA. Richard Mille Racing is set to compete in the European Le Mans Series season this year with an all-female driver crew, confirmed today in the wake of […]
Peugeot on Wednesday provided a first look at its contender for the new Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship, which includes the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. Peugeot has a long and successful history at Le Mans, especially with its 908 line of sports prototypes, but for its comeback it will team up […]
Peugeot Sport has announced that it will join the FIA World Endurance Championship’s ‘Hypercar’ top class from 2022 onwards. The French marque made this short announcement via social media, stating simply that it will enter with a ‘Hybrid-Powered’ Hypercar, followed by “More news to come at the beginning of 2020.” This announcement marks the return […]
By: Jamie Klein News that Peugeot will join the FIA World Endurance Championship grid in 2022 is just the tonic the series needed at a time doubts were beginning to surface about the hypercar concept, writes Jamie Klein. Wednesday’s announcement that Peugeot is gearing up for its first assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours since […]
This 1967 Ford GT40 MkIV still racks up thousands of miles around the NYC area. This 1967 Ford GT40 MKIV that raced in Le Mans is still driven by its owner, who had put over 50,000 miles on it on roads around NYC. Ford v Ferrari featured plenty of real cars racing around real tracks. But if […]
The Porsche GT Team concluded the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season by winning the manufacturer, driver and team titles. At the final round of the season at Road Atlanta (USA), the two Porsche 911 RSR flying the Coca-Cola colours finished on positions five and six. This race marked the 50th and final factory outing for […]
The latest chapter in the history of Ford Racing – a gripping true story of triumph more than a century in the making – will be completed at Motul Petit Le Mans on Oct. 12. That’s when the iconic and inspiring Ford GT will make its final appearance as a factory-backed entrant in the IMSA […]
Ben Keating’s 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning No. 85 Ford GT has been excluded from the final results. An initial ruling by the ACO, the event’s organizers, assessed a time penalty that moved the GTE-Am victors from first to second in class. Team Project 1’s No. 56 Porsche 911 RSR was elevated from second to […]
The 2019 running of the Le Mans 24 Hours certainly wasn’t without action. After a rather lackluster race last year, at the start of the ‘Super Season’, the ‘Super Finale’ delivered, in every class, with drama, right until the finish.In the end, it was Toyota Gazoo Racing that won overall, after another dominant performance against […]
Toyota GAZOO Racing will bring the curtain down on its record-breaking 2018-2019 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season when it sets out to defend its Le Mans 24 Hours crown next week in the most challenging event of the year. Following its historic first victory last year, in the second race of the 2018-2019 WEC […]
In the first of the three qualifying sessions ahead of the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the no7 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid was on provisional pole position at the end of the 2 hour session in the dark. This was despite a collision at the final corner with the no31 Dragonspeed […]
Pol Espargaro says finishing the MotoGP French Grand Prix just 5.9 seconds from race winner Marc Marquez in sixth proves KTM’s rivals are “not gods”.Espargaro – who trailed Marquez by 32s in last year’s Le Mans race – was unable to set a lap in qualifying due to a crash in Q2, but leaped up […]
South African born Princess Charlene of Monaco has been named as the official starter for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene, a former Olympic swimmer, is actively involved in the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix will wave the start of the 87th running of the iconic endurance race which […]
This change to the regulations comes after the “unanimous agreement of LM GTE Pro Manufacturers”, according to the FIA, and will be recommended for next week’s FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the penultimate round of the season, before being enforced “until further notice” ahead of next month’s the Le Mans Test Day and the […]
The grid for the Le Mans 24 Hours will be expanded to 62 cars for 2019, adding two cars to the original 60-car entry. The change means that United Autosports’ second Ligier JS P217 and Danish team High Class Racing’s ORECA 07 have been added to field. “In February, the selection committee faced a harder […]
A total of 42 cars have been confirmed for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, in the first draft publication of the entry list on Monday.It sees 34 full-season FIA World Endurance Championship entries as well as eight additional cars that have taken up automatic invites by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest for the […]
The first portion of the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours entry list is set to be revealed on Monday, February 11 and, RACER understands, it will see confirmation of the first privately entered Ford GT in the GTE Am class. The single-car entry will fulfill Ben Keating’s Auto entry for the race in June. The […]
Brabham Automotive intends to enter its new BT62 supercar at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, starting in 2021. Led by Le Mans winner David Brabham, the Australia-based factory effort will see the BT62 entered at the prestigious French endurance race as part of a full-time campaign spanning the 2021-2022 FIA WEC ‘Super Season.’ “Returning […]
Lucas Di Grassi and Marino Franchitti will join Mazda Team Joest for the ten-hour Petit Le Mans, the season-ending event of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.Di Grassi will join Oliver Jarvis and Tristan Nunez in the No. 77 Castrol / Williams Scotsman Mazda RT24-P. Di Grassi is a Formula 1 veteran and a former Formula […]
McLaren’s decision as to whether or not it will sign up to the 2020 as yet unnamed Hypercar regulations is set to come soon, and that with the regulations almost finalized, McLaren’s Zak Brown feels they could bring “glory years” back to Le Mans in the near future. Speaking during last weekend’s ELMS round at […]
Each manufacturer or constructor will build their own chassis for new class The next generation of car that will fight for outright victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans will have the look of hypercars and super sportscars. A class to be introduced for the 2020-21 World Endurance Championship calls for purebred racing prototypes that manufacturers will be […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing have won the 86th Le Mans 24 Hours, their cars taking the chequered flag in first and second place this afternoon (Sunday 17 June). It was a historic first victory for Toyota in its 20th entry in the world-famous race. Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso started from pole position in […]
Juan Pablo Montoya says has no priority in securing the Triple Crown despite preparing for his maiden Le Mans 24 Hours with a chance to complete the feat Juan Pablo Montoya says has no priority in securing the Triple Crown despite preparing for his maiden Le Mans 24 Hours with a chance to complete the […]