Following his impressive run at Petit Le Mans last year, American Gustavo Menezes is back driving with Rebellion Racing for this year's Super Season, making his LMP1 debut in one of the team's brand-new R-13 Gibsons. This weekend at the series' Prologue, he and his team of reigning FIA WEC LMP2 champions team are in the midst of a mammoth task, its new prototypes having only completed the briefes...

Newly signed CEFC TRSM Racing driver Alex Brundle tells RACER he feels fully ready to step up into LMP1 competition for the first time this season. Brundle, a former LMP3 champion who signed a deal with the Chinese-flagged, UK-run WEC team, has impressed on multiple occasions in LMP2 machinery in both the FIA WEC and IMSA in recent years. Now he makes the move to LMP1 for the 'Super Season,' whic...

British sports car manufacturer TVR has confirmed its new partnership with Rebellion Racing, branding the Swiss outfit's R-13 LMP1s for the upcoming FIA WEC 'Super Season.' The link to Rebellion comes via mutual partner Motul. This news means that the TVR brand will have a presence in sports cars, and specifically Le Mans, for the first time since its Tuscan T400R stopped racing in 2005. The exte...

The recent rumors are true and sanity has swept over the scheduling of next year's trip to Sebring, where IMSA and the FIA World Endurance Championship will host rounds over the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours weekend. Under the previously announced schedule, the start of the FIA WEC's 1,000-mile race was meant to follow two hours after IMSA's 12-hour event, or approximately 12:40 a.m. Sunday; in the new ag...

The full three-car driver crew for AF Corse's GTE Pro attack at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours has been revealed, and it includes three newcomers to the Italian team's effort. In the team's No. 51 488 GTE, former Dunlop development driver and 2017 Le Mans winner (with Aston Martin) Daniel Serra will join the full-season 2017 WEC-winning duo of Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado. This confirms a...

The FIA World Endurance Championship will adopt Formula 1's Halo driver protection device at the onset of the 2019 season. RACER has learned the WEC's LMP1 and LMP2 prototype teams, and its factory-supported GTE-Pro entries will be required to submit Halo designs to the FIA safety commission for approval by the end of the calendar year. GTE-Am teams, for reasons that remain unclear, have been exe...

2014 FIA WEC Drivers' Champion and newly appointed Toyota Gazoo Racing reserve driver Anthony Davidson will return to the WEC after the Le Mans 24 Hours this year with American team DragonSpeed. Davidson has a wealth of experience racing LMP machinery, dating back to his run as a Peugeot factory driver prior to the FIA WEC's existence and his multiple seasons racing with Toyota, winning a title a...

What's different about the new Aston Martin Vantage GTE that has been developed hand-in-hand with Aston Martin Lagonda? Well â almost everything, according to Adam Phelps, the head of chassis development, as he and several key members of the AMR design and engineering team offered further insight into the tech behind the new car during RACER's recent visit to Prodrive, which has run Aston Martin'...