The FIA World Endurance Championship’s brand-new Hypercar class, which replaces LMP1 at its top prototype category, could be facing a worrisome debut at Sebring with a grid of no more than two to three Hypercars.The unfortunate scenario comes on the heels of news from New York’s Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, which...

Austrian-flagged sports car team ByKolles Racing officially confirmed today at Le Mans that it would enter the new Le Mans Hypercar category. ByKolles' "PMC Project LMH"will see the team produce multiple hypercars for different purposes (a race car, track day car and road car). The racing version is set to...

Rebellion Racing ended Toyota's day-long reign at the top of the timing screens in Thursday's night practice at Le Mans. The team's No. 3 Rebellion R13 set the quickest time, a 3m19.158s, though it was still two seconds behind the time Toyota set in the preliminary qualifying session earlier in...

Today's announced calendar changes to the FIA WEC’s current season are very significant, and will have ripple effects on the championship and the other major ACO and IMSA sportscar championships for the foreseeable future.By holding the 6 Hours of Spa in August and making Bahrain the venue for the season...

The FIA World Endurance Championship’s intriguing new Hypercar formula was dealt a heavy blow last week with Aston Martin’s decision to abandon its plans to enter the class, which sparks to life in September.Since the Aston Martin news broke, Toyota has, to the great relief of WEC CEO Gerard Neveu,...

Former FIA WEC LMP1 team ByKolles was out testing earlier this week with its ENSO CLM P1/01 Gibson at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic.The Austrian-flagged outfit, which is not a full-season entrant in the 2019/20 FIA WEC season that begins this weekend, turned laps on Wednesday afternoon and...

The 2019 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps is handing the current FIA World Endurance Championship LMP1 crop a chance to run their low-downforce aero packages in preparation for the ‘Super Season’ finale next month at Le Mans.Rebellion Racing is the only team running brand-new aero, its R-13s looking strikingly different in...

ByKolles Racing has made the switch from Nissan to Gibson power for its FIA WEC LMP1 program.RACER reported earlier this month that ByKolles had withdrawn from the upcoming race at Sebring after a dispute with engine supplier NISMO. The Austrian team is now set to return to the WEC for...

Austrian-flagged LMP1 privateer team ByKolles Racing looks set to miss Round 6 of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship -- the 1000 Miles of Sebring -- next month.The team is understood to be in dispute with NISMO over the performance of, and payment for, its VRX 30A Evo 3-liter V6...

Toyota Gazoo Racing's Prologue-topping times were set while its TS050 HYBRIDs were running effectively unrestricted, without respecting the boost or fuel management as per their set EoT (Equivalence of Technology).The team ran its cars unrestricted until 5 p.m. local time at Paul Ricard yesterday. The reason given to RACER by...