Lotterer replaces Sargeant for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours
Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer will return to the French enduro for his 14th participation at the wheel of an LMP2 ORECA run by IDEC Sport. The 43-year-old German, who will race the new Genesis LMDh in the World Endurance Championship in 2026, has been called up to join what the South […]
Le Mans 24 Hours entry list revealed, Wayne Taylor Racing set for debut
Wayne Taylor Racing will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time this year as part of a four-car Cadillac assault on the World Endurance Championship’s blue-riband event. The maiden participation at Le Mans for a team that has won the Daytona 24 Hours four times has been confirmed along with a return […]
Why Ford’s plans for a new chapter in its Le Mans story make so much sense
America’s love affair with the Le Mans 24 Hours still burns bright. It has endured for more than 60 years and is a big reason why a manufacturer that has had so much to do with propelling the French enduro into the consciousness of a continent is going back in pursuit of outright victory after […]
Ford commits to Le Mans return for outright victory with LMDh bid
Ford will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours to fight for overall victory as a part of a World Endurance Championship campaign with an LMDh prototype in 2027. The US giant has announced that it will attempt to repeat its triumphs at the French enduro in 1966 to ’69 with the Ford MkII, MkIV […]
Four Cadillacs possible at Le Mans as WTR, AXR file entries
Cadillac could have as many as four LMDhs at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the confirmation that Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing have filed entries. The General Motors brand’s representatives in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America have revealed that they have each made a bid to run a solo V-Series.R […]
Why Le Mans qualifying revamp will be a purist spectacle
Another year, and another change in the qualifying procedures at the Daytona 24 Hours. The IMSA SportsCar Championship kicks off on the hallowed banking of the Daytona International Speedway this weekend and there’s still time before you have to settle down in front of your TV, computer or whatever for the sessions on Thursday afternoon […]
Estre, Jani praise revisions to “fairer” Le Mans qualifying format
Le Mans 24 Hours pole winners Kevin Estre and Neel Jani have welcomed revisions to Hyperpole qualifying under which Hypercar entries will run on track alone at the French enduro. They have told Motorsport.com that the new procedure introduced for this year’s double-points round of the World Endurance Championship in June will be both fairer […]
South Korea’s forgotten project Genesis will hope to surpass
Genesis, you might think, will become the first South Korean manufacturer to compete at the Le Mans 24 Hours when its forthcoming LMDh takes to the grid in 2026. But you’d be wrong. Thirty years before the Hyundai brand’s intended arrival there was another campaign at Circuit de la Sarthe by a car maker from […]
Qualifying format tweaks planned for 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours
The Le Mans 24 Hours qualifying format will be revamped in 2025, event organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced. Entrants in the top Hypercar class will be split from the LMP2 and LMGT3 categories in the session that determines the cars that will reach the Hyperpole shootout. Previously all cars qualified at once […]