The FIA World Endurance Championship will return next season with a new CEO. Gerard Neveu, who leads the Le Mans Endurance Management firm which oversees the administration of the FIA WEC, will depart the company at the end of the year.The Frenchman’s replacement has not been named, although RACER understands...

The knock-on effects of a change in the Formula 1 calendar will result in a significant date clash between the season finales for the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA’s WeatherTech Sportscar Championship.With Formula 1 confirming plans to race at Bahrain on two consecutive weekends, the originally planned date for...

The FIA World Endurance Championship's race at Spa in August will run behind closed doors, according to championship CEO Gerard Neveu. The ELMS races at Paul Ricard (in July) and at Spa (in August before the WEC event) are also due to be held without spectators."We are looking for 'de-confinement'...

The FIA World Endurance Championship has postponed the April 23-25 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, which serves as the lead-in race and final opportunity for teams to prepare for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Like every other event cancellation or postponement over the last week, the cause for...

It's a special edition of The Week In Sports Cars as we're joined by IMSA president John Doonan and FIA World Endurance Championship CEO Gerard Neveu to discuss the future of prototype convergence, where the the ACO's upcoming Hypercar formula and IMSA's LMDh cars will race together in a new...

It's another special edition of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show from the 2020 Rolex 24 At Daytona where Graham Goodwin and Stephen Kilbey discuss the newly-announced prototype convergence with IMSA president John Doonan, ACO president Pierre Fillon, FIA WEC CEO Gerard Neveu, former IMSA president Scott Atherton,...

It's the 30th installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show and we open with veteran race engineer Jeff Braun on the fascinating subject of technical limitations and performance deficiencies experienced with the Nissan Onroak DPi.Braun's followed by FIA WEC CEO Gerard Neveu, McLaren Racing CEO and United...

This week's show opens with CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun, who explains the use of four- and seven-post shaker rigs.Braun is followed by FIA WEC/ELMS CEO Gerard Neveu, Carlin Racing/Mazda Team Joest driver Harry Tincknell, Cool Racing driver Nicolas Lapierre, and Goodyear Racing Europe director Ben Crawley.[protected-iframe id="8ac3ece6c7f8c3931ba27cb828a0d97a-139854255-134618127" info="https://www.podbean.com/media/player/vhn9b-b9251d?from=yiiadmin&download=1&version=1"...

It's the lucky 13th installment of the Inside The Sports Car Paddock interview show and we open with CORE autosport race engineer Jeff Braun exploring how a team deals with the technical and personnel ramifications of leaving the 100-minute IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Long Beach without completing a...

The clock is ticking for the ACO, FIA and IMSA. We're now a midway through April, and the ACO's self-imposed deadline of June (at Le Mans) to reveal the outline of the 2020/21 regulations for the WEC's top class is approaching fast.Work is on-going in the background at some pace,...