Mick Schumacher will be joined by Frederic Makowiecki and Jules Gounon in Alpine’s World Endurance Championship line-up for 2025. It means the ex-Formula 1 racer will have two new full-season team-mates in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh for his second year of sportscar racing. In 2024 he was joined by Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere, who
Aston Martin will run an all-British line-up in one of its Valkyrie AMR-LMHs at the Le Mans 24 Hours and across the full World Endurance Championship this season. The double Le Mans class winner Harry Tincknell, who was announced as part of The Heart of Racing Hypercar class line-up last November, will be joined by
After the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel quit Formula 1. It has now been two full seasons since the four-time world champion has driven a race. Rumours of a comeback have been around from time to time, although these usually involve an entry into endurance racing.
For a long time, McLaren seemed to have a partnership in place with Ford. However, the American manufacturer made the decision to enter a hypercar team of the World Endurance Championship, which leaves McLaren having to find another engine supplier for their WEC project. Or is another option the most logical solution?
With Ford’s announcement to enter the hyperclass class of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) as a manufacturer, the FIA’s endurance championship has once again become a lot more interesting. Max Verstappen will no doubt follow the developments in the series with great interest, as sooner or later he would like to make the switch to this
Ford has announced that it will participate in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2027, meaning the American manufacturer will also compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Big ambitions are coming from Ford in the coming years, as they will also be active in Formula 1 from 2026
Porsche will run three drivers per car rather than two at the Imola World Endurance Championship round in April as part of its preparations for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Porsche Penske Motorsport squad will delay its plan to field just two drivers in the six-hour WEC races until after the second round of
Several Formula 1 drivers have been critical of the FIA on several occasions, especially during the 2024 season. However, there is not only frustration in F1, but also in other racing classes where the governing body rules. For example, Robin Frijns sees two races in 2025 once again falling on the same weekend, forcing him to
Max Verstappen has never made a secret of not wanting to be active in Formula 1 until late in life. Not only does he find F1 far too intense with now 24 Grand Prix weekends, the four-time world champion would also like to compete in other racing classes. In that case, Verstappen always mentions the
The World Endurance Championship (WEC) continues to grow in popularity. Major manufacturers, such as Ferrari, Peugeot, BMW, Alpine and Aston Martin, have already entered the premier hypercar class, or will soon do so. McLaren too is reportedly planning to enter endurance racing with its so-called prototypes in the near future.
Charles Leclerc’s former race engineer at the Ferrari Formula 1 team has been recruited by Cadillac as technical director of its LMDh sportscar project. Xavier Marcos is taking up the new position within the Cadillac V-Series.R programme, which straddles the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship, after seven years at the Scuderia. The
The Dakar Rally has claimed its first high-profile victims, and the chequered flag has fallen on the Dubai 24 Hours with victory claimed by the Al Manar Racing by WRT BMW. After a brief lull while gravy-soaked turkey and pigs-in-blankets were consumed, motorsport is well and truly back. The year ahead promises numerous talking points across
