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Jenson Button's hopes of scoring his first podium finish at Silverstone in almost 20 years were ended early in Sunday's FIA World Endurance Championship round as the Briton's car was forced into an early retirement.

Jenson Button is hoping to end his home race hoodoo and score his first podium finish at Silverstone in almost 20 years on Sunday in his second appearance in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez combined to score their first pole position of the FIA World Endurance Championship season in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid in qualifying for the 6 Hours of Silverstone on Saturday, edging out Fernando Alonso and Kazuki Nakajima by two-tenths of a second.

Fernando Alonso led Toyota to the head of the timesheets in the final FIA World Endurance Championship practice session at Silverstone on Saturday morning with a new fastest time of the weekend.

Jose Maria Lopez led Toyota's charge in the second FIA World Endurance Championship practice session at Silverstone on Friday, heading up another one-two finish for the Japanese manufacturer.

Bruno Senna will miss the remainder of this weekend's FIA World Endurance Championship round at Silverstone through injury after fracturing his foot in a practice crash on Friday.

Mike Conway led Toyota to a one-two finish in the opening FIA World Endurance Championship practice session for the 6 Hours of Silverstone on Friday afternoon, edging out Sebastien Buemi by two-tenths of a second at the head of the field.

Officials from the FIA and the ACO have confirmed a provisional eight-race schedule for the 2019-20 World Endurance Championship season, with Bahrain and Sao Paulo returning to the series' calendar.

Harrison Newey has set his sights on claiming his first podium finish in the European Le Mans Series in his first sports car race on home soil at Silverstone this weekend.

The FIA World Endurance Championship got a shot in the arm when Fernando Alonso confirmed his entry earlier this year. Over six months later, the Spaniard remains the big talking point as the endurance paddock prepares to reconvene at Silverstone this weekend.

Fernando Alonso has set his sights on continuing his perfect start to the FIA World Endurance Championship campaign when the season resumes at Silverstone this weekend.

Aston Martin Racing has confirmed a switch to a two-driver line-up in both of its GTE-Pro entries for the remaining rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018.

Porsche has destroyed the long-standing Nordschleife track record with its 919 Hybrid Evo, the modified version of its retired World Endurance Championship LMP1 car, with Timo Bernhard setting a time of 5m 19.546s.

The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has confirmed discussions on opening up technical regulations to Hypercar concepts from 2020 as well as introducing target budgets for LMP1 entries.

Fernando Alonso set the fastest time to top the official Le Mans test day for Toyota on his first experience of the Circuit de la Sarthe. 

DragonSpeed has confirmed it will go ahead with its plans to enter a BR Engineering BR1 chassis to next month's 24 Hours of Le Mans and continue with its LMP1 programme despite concerns following a spate of incidents at Spa, including a crash that left Pietro Fittipaldi with two broken legs.

Antonio Giovinazzi is relishing his return to racing action when he features in next month’s 24 Hours of Le Mans after more than a year focusing on testing and development duties.

Mike Simpson has replaced Dean Stoneman at the Manor Ginetta CEFC TRSM Racing LMP1 squad’s driver line-up for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

Fernando Alonso is happy to have more sports car races on his schedule than additional Formula 1 grand prix events “because they are more fun” as he juggles two FIA world championship campaigns in 2018.

Tennis legend Rafael Nadal has been named as the race starter for this year's running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, taking place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on June 16-17.

McLaren executive director Zak Brown has said that he finds the provisional plans for the new premier class at Le Mans “compelling” as the Formula 1 team considers a works return to sports car racing.

Jenson Button has completed his maiden test with World Endurance Championship squad SMP Racing at Magny-Cours as he steps up preparations to join the Russian squad for his Le Mans debut.

A fan video has emerged confirming speculation that the #17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1 car suffered a high-speed flip at Eau Rouge during last Saturday's FIA World Endurance Championship round at Spa-Francorchamps.

Aston Martin Racing managing director John Gaw has confirmed the British manufacturer is considering an expansion of its racing interests into North America for 2019 following the launch of its new Vantage GTE car.