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How two WEC manufacturers are fighting to overcome similar issues

Starting their World Endurance Championship Hypercar programmes one year behind the likes of fellow LMDh entrants Porsche and Cadillac was always likely to mean a period of playing catchup for Alpine and Lamborghini in 2024. Two rounds into the season, that prediction has borne out and both marques are experiencing…

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Why Porsche doesn't expect another WEC domination at Imola

Porsche pretty much dominated at the World Endurance Championship season-opener in Qatar back in March. The German manufacturer’s 963 LMDh led all bar 52 of the 355 laps on the way to blocking out the podium positions. But there’s every reason to expect that it is going to have more…

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How Aston Martin has begun preparations for its delayed Hypercar programme

It was in the summer of 2019 when Aston Martin first announced its plan to build a Hypercar to the World Endurance Championship’s LMH rules.

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Friday favourite: The Ferrari partners that conquered GT racing

Gianmaria Bruni has been a Porsche man since 2017, but it’s the first chapter of his sportscar career at Ferrari that he looks back on to pick a favourite team-mate. In his four years of sharing a car with Toni Vilander, the pair enjoyed great success, and enjoyed numerous collaborations…

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Official 24 Hours Of Le Mans Game, Le Mans Ultimate, Available Today

The official game of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and World Endurance Championship goes on sale February 20 in Early Access.

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Vasselon appointed to new role as Toyota prepares for hydrogen Le Mans entry

It was a role already earmarked for the 60-year-old prior to his sudden departure from the top engineering job he had occupied since 2006 in January as part of what was billed as a management change “designed to develop the next generation of company leaders” at the Cologne-based organisation, which…

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Vasselon's departure as Toyota technical director was brought forward

The Japanese manufacturer has confirmed that a succession plan was already in place for the 60-year-old to be succeeded by David Floury as technical director of the organisation that masterminds its World Endurance Championship programme and develops the engines for the World Rally Championship GR Yaris Rally 1.

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Vasselon's departure as Toyota technical director was brought forward

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The returning Daytona Prototype king who strengthens Porsche's IMSA attack

Porsche’s inaugural campaign with its 963 in the IMSA SportsCar Championship last year took a while to get into its stride, so the Penske-run operation made a big call to retrieve Dane Cameron from its World Endurance Championship line-up to bolster its American efforts. The softly spoken 35-year-old Californian, a…

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The returning Daytona Prototype king seeking a fitting IMSA homecoming

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Long-time Toyota technical director Vasselon replaced

Vasselon, 60, has been succeeded on a temporary basis by David Floury as the technical chief of the Cologne-based organisation that masterminds Toyota's World Endurance Championship programme, develops the engines for its World Rally Championship GR Yaris Rally 1 and builds the GR Supra GT4 customer racer. The move announced…

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Mercedes, Alpine reveal F1 2024 car launch dates

Alpine is holding its 2024 season launch, which will also involve its World Endurance Championship team, on 7 February.

Autosport

Porsche improving pace relative to IMSA rivals, says Cameron

Two-time IMSA DPi champion Cameron, 35, returns to IMSA competition after two years in the World Endurance Championship racing for Penske’s LMP2 and then Porsche 963 Hypercar squads.

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Porsche improving IMSA pace relative to rivals, says Cameron

Two-time IMSA DPi champion Cameron, 35, returns to IMSA competition after two years in the World Endurance Championship racing for Penske’s LMP2 and then Porsche 963 Hypercar squads.

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Jenson Button joins World Endurance Championship

Ex-Formula One world champion Jenson Button is getting back behind the wheel after entering next year’s World Endurance Championship.

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F1 champion Verstappen: 'Alonso only wants to return to Le Mans if it's with me'

Two-time F1 world champion Alonso competed in endurance racing during his sabbatical from F1, winning Le Mans twice in 2018 and 2019 with Toyota's LMP1 team as well as taking a World Endurance Championship crown.

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F1 champion Verstappen says 'Alonso only wants to return to Le Mans if it's with me'

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Silverstone wins Autosport’s Promoter of the Year Award

Part of a new B2B section of the Awards designed to reward high achievers from across the wider motorsport industry, the shortlist for the Promoter Award featured entries from Formula 1 and World Endurance Championship.

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DTM champion Preining "can imagine" LMDh future after Porsche test

Preining got a chance to sample Porsche’s prototype racer at the Bahrain International Circuit earlier this month, having been nominated by the German manufacturer for the World Endurance Championship rookie test following his title-winning DTM campaign with the 911 GT3.

Autosport

Porsche ace Cairoli in line for Lamborghini LMDh drive in IMSA

Cairoli, who is contracted by Porsche but doesn’t have factory driver status, could fill one of the two remaining seats in Lamborghini’s LMDh programme that will span the endurance leg of IMSA and the full World Endurance Championship season in 2024.

Motorsport

Hartley, Herta join WTR/Andretti for 2024 IMSA enduros

Hartley, who clinched his fourth World Endurance Championship title last weekend in Bahrain, will team up with Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor in WTRAndretti’s #10 Acura ARX-06, while Herta will slot in beside Louis Deletraz and Jordan Taylor in the team’s second GTP entry next year.

Autosport

The challenges of making Hypercar tyres without heaters

I was excited and happy to get the brief from the FIA and Automobile Club de l’Ouest to develop tyres that work without using warmers for the 2023 World Endurance Championship. It’s a regulation change that Michelin has been strongly pushing for the last couple of years. We included it…

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Inside the adaptations needed to realise NASCAR's Le Mans return

“Strange and exciting.” Those are the words that came into FIA chief technical and safety officer Xavier Mestelan Pinon’s mind when he was told about the Garage 56 entry for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. And for good reason. The car that filled the grid slot reserved – but…

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How Japan’s underdog LMP1 helped start Toyota WEC juggernaut

Earlier this month, Toyota wrapped up this year’s World Endurance Championship manufacturers’ crown with another convincing display on home turf at Fuji. It marks the fifth time in a row, and sixth in total, it has come away with the silverware, including the occasions when a teams’ title was awarded…

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Jani relishing Petit Le Mans return after decade-long absence

The Swiss driver will contest the Road Atlanta classic at the wheel of Proton Competition’s Porsche 963 LMDh alongside his regular World Endurance Championship team-mates, Harry Tincknell and Gianmaria Bruni.

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