June 13, 2024

Brendan Iribe topped the Hyperpole session in his McLaren 720S GT3 Evo, entered under the Inception Racing banner, with a 3m58.120s lap that put him 0.808s clear of Alexander Malykhin’s #92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche that leads the LMGT3 standings in the WEC.The Optimum-run Inception outfit that competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and GT World Challenge Europe earned an invitational entry …Keep reading

Hartley clocked a best time of 3m29.451s in his #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar after 20 minutes of the hour-long session, and remained at the head of the leaderboard as rain began to fall at the Circuit de la Sarthe.The three-time Le Mans winner, sharing the car that will start 11th with Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi, was challenged hardest by Molina in the factory #50 Ferrari 499P LMH …Keep reading

Estre was the last Hypercar runner to cross the chequered flag and clocked a time of 3m24.634s in the #6 factory Porsche Penske 963, overhauling the #3 Cadillac that had led for the majority of the 30 minute session in the hands of Sebastien Bourdais by 0.148s.Bourdais had set the initial pace in the pole shootout with a time of 3m25.294s in the additional entry fielded by Chip Ganassi at Le Mans …Keep reading

The pole shootout for the fourth round of the 2024 World Endurance Championship did not begin as scheduled at 8pm local time, with the race control subsequently communicating 8:30pm as the new start time.The Hyperpole session was further pushed forward to 8:35pm, as the work continued on replacing the armco barriers between Mulsanne and Indianapolis.The first of the two contests for the weekend …Keep reading

Kyle Larson took an impressive victory at Sonoma Raceway, passing both Chris Buescher and Martin Truex Jr. late in the race.Truex ran out of fuel in the final corner, crawling across the line in 27th place. With the victory and Denny Hamlin’s early exit due to an engine failure, Larson as reasserted himself atop the championship standings.Larson now leads Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Chase …Keep reading

The Hinwil-based outfit is the only team not to score points in the current campaign, having seen its qualifying performances drop since the start of the season.Bottas had been running well in mixed conditions in Montreal before pitting “one lap too early” to switch to slicks as the track surface dried, eventually finishing 13th, 10 seconds adrift of Pierre Gasly in the last of the points-paying …Keep reading

The two-time WRC champion made his circuit racing debut last weekend finishing an impressive fourth and fifth in a pair of Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux races at Zandvoort.Rovanpera is this year expanding his motorsport horizons after making a decision to participate in a part-time WRC programme with Toyota ahead of a full-time return in 2025.Speaking after his outing at Zandvoort, the 23-year-old …Keep reading

With Hyperpole the only pure-performance exercise still coming up – and involving just 24 of the 62 entries – everyone focused on race preparation with long runs during the three-hour Thursday afternoon session, which took place under overcast skies with gentle temperatures ranging from 20°C to 22°C.Fuoco set the quickest time in 3m27.283s – nearly three seconds slower than the #15 BMW’s …Keep reading

Jota and WTR look certain to move over from Porsche and Acura respectively to replace Chip Ganassi Racing in the General Motors brand’s roster of teams. Motorsport.com has learned that each has a deal in place to run two V-Series.R LMDhs in 2025, Jota in WEC and WTR in the North American IMSA series. There has been no confirmation of the 2025 programmes from either team or from Cadillac, but it …Keep reading

The Aprilia rider finished a distant 11th in the Italian GP at the start of June in an overall difficult race for those on RS-GPs, with Maverick Vinales the best of them in eighth.While Espargaro acknowledged at the time that the set-up on his bike was not the best, he feels the impact of aerodynamics in MotoGP now are getting beyond what is manageable for the body.“Disaster,” he said when …Keep reading