After Porsche topped the times at Fuji in Free Practice 1 to kick off the on-track running, Jose Maria Lopez put Toyota at the head of the field in Free Practice 2, with a 1m39.202s aboard the No. 7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID in the heavily interrupted session.The session was red...

CEFC Manor TRS Racing's current driver line-up of Ben Hanley, Matt Rao and ex-F1 driver Jean-Eric Vergne in the No. 24 ORECA 07 Gibson are set to finish the 2017 FIA WEC season together, team principal Graeme Lowdon confirmed to RACER at Fuji.The trio has been together since the 6...

When the FIA and ACO announced major changes to the FIA WEC calendar last week, it also revealed a renewed direction that the LMP1 division will take until 2020.Despite speculation as to whether the IMSA DPi formula would find come into play, LMP1 hybrids and non-hybrids will form a single...

With the dust still settling on Friday's major FIA WEC calendar announcement, which saw the FIA and ACO make the WEC a winter series, with fewer rounds and spread over two years, there's a lot to consider for the majority of the championship's stakeholders up and down the paddock.It's a...

CEFC Manor TRS Racing's head Graeme Lowdon has confirmed to RACER that its driver line-up across its two LMP2 ORECA 07 Gibsons will stay the same for the next round of theWorld Endurance Championship season at Circuit of The Americas later this month.For this weekend in Mexico City, the trio...

Sport news2017 is British driver Ben Hanley’s second full season in Endurance racing. The 32-year-old from Manchester has been competing in the European Le Mans Series with American team Dragonspeed and has also been making one off appearances for various LMP2 teams on the FIA World Endurance Championship grid. Ben...

Sport newsThe 2017 6 Hours of Mexico will take place at the impressive Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez facility, located in the heart of one of Mexico City, and will be the second time the WEC has staged a race on the 4.304km circuit. Twenty-six cars are included on the provisional entry...

CEFC Manor TRS Racing will bring a fresh line-up in the No. 24 ORECA for the 6 Hours of Mexico next month.Sporting director Graeme Lowdon revealed to RACER that the team will enter the car with Ben Hanley, who drove in the WEC with TDS Racing at Spa and G-Drive...

The No. 24 CEFC Manor TRS Racing ORECA 07 Gibson has been handed a seven-minute stop-and-hold penalty, to be served in Sunday's 6 Hours of Nurburgring.This penalty comes after Jonathan Hirschi overtook and made contact with the No. 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford GT at Turn 8 during...

Final WEC seats filledMultiple vacant seats have been filled this weekend at Monza ahead of the season, some more significant than others. Of the driver announcements which RACER had not yet reported, all three will drive in the Prototype ranks.Ex-F1 driver Vitaly Petrov (pictured) has confirmed a deal with CEFC...