Sportscars News

Two-and-a-half years after being dropped, Nicolas Lapierre will return to Toyota in 2017 for the Spa WEC round and Le Mans.

G-Drive Racing has confirmed that Alex Lynn will take its final full-season seat for the FIA World Endurance Championship season.

"I no longer recognise the spirit and the values that I knew and that I find today in motorcycle sport with the fabulous men who surround me." - Marc van der Straten.

The V de V Endurance Series will pursue its development by introducing in 2017 a unique 1.6 Litre turbo engine.

Audi has confirmed it will withdraw all efforts in the FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans to focus on Formula E from 2017.

The first day of the V de V Endurance Series' penultimate French meeting of 2016 took place in hot conditions which enabled teams to better their cars' set-up.

AB Sport Auto Ferrari head proceedings on the opening day of action at Mugello in the V de V Sportscar championship.

Daniel Bassora's team has repeated their performance seen at Paul Ricard, as once again they locked out the front row of the grid.

The opening outing in GT/Touring car/LMP3 saw a fierce battle between the #1 Ferrari 488 GT3 of team Visiom and AF Corse, with their #51 Ferrari 458 GT3.

Nissan's former LMP1 programme director Michael Carcamo has been named as the manufacturer's new global motorsport boss taking over from Darren Cox.

Oliver Webb has stepped up to the LMP1 class with ByKOLLES Racing to complete its driver line-up alongside Simon Trummer and Pierre Kaffer.

G-Drive Racing will team up with JOTA Sport in the defence of its FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 title as well as a full European Le Mans Series campaign.

Bruno Senna, Filip Albuquerque and Ricardo Gonzalez team up for the 2016 World Endurance Championship in LMP2

Toyota reveals its latest Le Mans 24 Hours and World Endurance Championship challenger, and confirms Kamui Kobayashi as replacing Alex Wurz.

Harry Tincknell will remain with JOTA Sport for a third consecutive campaign in the European Le Mans Series alongside Simon Dolan and Giedo van der Garde

The line-up of events that will comprise the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) calendar

Former F1 podium winner Vitaly Petrov will drive in the World Endurance Championship in 2016 with SMP Racing.

Nissan has commenced winter testing with its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 challenger having announced it will return to racing in the World Endurance Championship next year.

Alex Lynn has been chosen by Toyota's LMP1 squad for the World Endurance Championship rookie test in Bahrain this month

KCMG has been given a suspended drive-through penalty as punishment for its actions in a clash with G-Drive in the Fuji 6 Hours race.

Richard Bradley accuses the G-Drive squad of 'questionable' driving and feels he was lucky to leave the Fuji 6 Hours without injury.

The FIA World Motor Sport Council has approved the Endurance Commission's proposal of limiting the power from energy recovery systems in LMP1 due to safety concerns.

Nissan may have called its Le Mans effort a 'success', but behind-the-scenes some serious re-evaluations are taking place... Max Yamabiko discusses why.

Dallara, Onroak Automotive, Oreca and a joint application by Riley Tech/Multimatic have been awarded chassis supplier slots for the 2017 LMP2 regulations revamp