It feels like Team WRT’s dual LMDh program across the FIA WEC and IMSA is truly underway now as we head into this weekend, during which it will compete at Imola and Long Beach.The Belgian team’s foray into IMSA with the M Hybrid V8 this year still feels fresh. It...

After months of rumors, it’s now been made official: BMW M Team WRT will expand its top-class prototype racing program, operating the redesigned BMW M Hybrid V8 in both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship starting in 2026. First reported in July by RACER's Marshall Pruett,...

BMW has confirmed that Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing will step back from its role as its service provider in IMSA's GTP class at the end of 2025.

BMW factory racing partner Team WRT has opened the doors of its huge new state-of-the-art headquarters in Belgium on Tuesday evening with a special inauguration event.Its new base, which is located in Bierset, near Liège, features 20,475 sqm of working and manufacturing space for 140 employees and all of the...

Preparations ahead of the debut of BMW M Team WRT's FIA WEC Hypercar in 2024 continued this week when the Belgian team completed a three-day test at Spa-Francorchamps with an M Hybrid V8.During the three days of running, which were held in mixed conditions, five of BMW's factory drivers took...

The inaugural FIA GT World Cup in Macau this November is set to be fought out by seven manufacturers.Stephane Ratel, whose organization has been put in charge of assembling the entry for the event on Nov. 19-22, has revealed that the target is to achieve a 21-car entry made up...

The championship-winning WRT Audi squad is expanding to four cars for the defense of its title in this year's Blancpain Sprint Series.WRT will split its assault on the championship known last year as the FIA GT Series into what are being described as two separate team structures, which will each...

FIA GT Series front-runner WRT will keep its Audis in 2012 specification as a performance break was not forthcoming ahead of the next round of the championship at Navarra.WRT, whose three driver pairings sit at the top of the points table, converted its fleet of R8s to 2012 specification ahead...

Audi has been handed a performance break ahead of this weekend's Blancpain Endurance Series finale at the Nurburgring.The Audi R8 LMS ultra has been given a five millimeter diameter increase in the size of its engine air-restrictor for the Blancpain 1000Km event at the 'Ring. The decision, which comes with...

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winners Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler and double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom will join an expanded WRT Audi lineup for this month's Spa 24 Hours.The Belgian WRT team, which won the Spa enduro in 2011, will field a fourth Audi R8 LMS ultra in addition...