#World Sportscar Championship

[sixcylinderdean]

Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 Hypercar, 6 Hours of Spa 2023. [x]

#porsche #spa #wec #world endurance championship #jota #porsche 963 #6 hours of spa #spa 6 hours #6hspa #sportscars #le mans #singer #singer porsche #cars #race cars

[racing-is-passion]

No guarantee for posting more about it, I just want to know more about your interests and what I maybe should post more about. F1 will always have the top priority, but I don't want this to be a F1 only blog.

If you would like to see more about more than one of the above series, or about one that isn't listed there, please write it as a comment/reply, or in a reblog. I'll read it, promised.

#motorsport #motorsports #motorsports poll #motorsport poll #racing poll #racing vote #motorsports vote #motorsport vote #dtm #australian supercars #nascar #monster jam #gt world series #imsa sports car championship #imsa sportscar championship #formula e #w2rc #wrc #motogp #indycar #wec

[unrealismgames]

2022 photo albums

Albums from the races I’ve been to so far, in order from oldest to newest. All photos taken by me on a Canon EOS 2000D. Pointers appreciated.

IMSA Roar Before the 24: https://imgur.com/a/GXi8RyU IMSA Rolex 24 week: https://imgur.com/a/ajDDa6Y SRO America @ Sebring: https://imgur.com/a/iAw1fs3 WRL @ Sebring: https://imgur.com/a/SOeWxyP

#racing #weathertech sportscar championship #gt world challenge america #world racing league

[martinroyhall]

News: BMW, Lamborghini and Alpine set to join HyperCard class. 2024 FIA WEC Sneak Peek Series

According to FIA WEC, there will be new additions from BMW M Motorsport, Lamborghini Squadra Corse and Alpine in the 2024 FIA WEC HyperCard class. And in the video below, kindly provided by FIA WEC to MotorMartin, you can watch Alexa Randell and Sam Smith provide updates on what we can expect from these three new manufacturers. Next season is going to be epic! For those new to World level…

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#2024 FIA WEC Hypercar class #Alpine #BMW M Motorsport #FIA #FIA WEC #FIA World Endurance Championship #hypercar #international sportscar championship #Lamborghini Squadra Corse #LMP2 and LMGTE Am #WEC #World level Sportscar Racing

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

De Tomaso P70 Spyder Prototype, 1965, by Fantuzzi. Powered by a Carroll Shelby supplied 475hp version of Ford's 289ci (4.7 litre) V8, Alejandro de Tomaso had originally planned the car as a mid-engined open-top grand tourer. Instead Shelby wanted to use the car in the United States Road Racing Championship and asked Pete Brock to work on the design with Fantizzi. However Shelby withdrew from the project to work on Ford's GT40 project. A second single seat prototype was built (the Sport 5000) specifically for racing. The second car made its debut in July 1966 in the Mugello Grand Prix round of the World Sportscar Championship; however, it retired on the opening lap and never raced again.

#De Tomaso #De Tomaso P70 Spyder #Fantuzzi #mid-engine #Ford V8 #Carroll Shelby #coachbuilt #race car #open roof #Pete Brock #prototype #one-off

[vintageclassiccars]

Ferrari 250 Breadvan.

The Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan is a one-off Ferrari made in 1962 from a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB, chassis number 2819 GT.  It was built to compete against the new 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and other FIA World Sportscar Championship races.

[umseb]

Sebastian Vettel in the Porsche 963

Sebastian Vettel has prepared meticulously for his stint with the hybrid prototype. On 14 March, the 53-time Formula 1 race winner paid a visit to the FIA WEC team at the Porsche Penske Motorsport facility in Mannheim. One day later, the Heppenheim native completed an extensive simulator session at the Porsche Motorsport Centre in Flacht and familiarised himself with the special features and complex controls of the Le Mans race car. This was followed on 21 March by the first familiarisation kilometres with the Porsche 963 on the in-house test track at the Weissach Development Centre. In dry weather with tarmac temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius and 10 to 13 degrees cool air, the F1 champion completed almost two Grand Prix distances in Aragón without any problems. "Of course, I also keep an eye on other motorsport disciplines and know many drivers who are active in the WEC and Le Mans. At some point, my curiosity was so great that I had the idea of trying it out myself. Porsche gave me the opportunity to test a current hypercar with the 963," says Sebastian Vettel. "After the seat adjustment, the simulator session and the roll-out in Weissach, I already had a good feeling. Driving the Porsche 963 on the track here in Aragon - that was definitely fun. I first had to get used to everything and find my rhythm. The driving experience is different simply because of the roof over your head, as well as dealing with the higher weight and the tyres. The Porsche works drivers were very helpful and explained to me what was special and what I needed to get used to. That made it easy for me." The Porsche Penske Motorsport works team has won both the season opener of the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the 24 Hours of Daytona, and this year's first race of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Qatar with the approximately 500 kW (680 hp) Porsche 963. At the WEC highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, record holder Porsche is aiming for its 20th overall victory. There, as at the other rounds of the WEC, the entire starting field has relied on a biofuel since March 2022. "Aragon is one of the few places in Europe where we can run around the clock and gives us an opportunity to run 36 hours straight in preparation for Le Mans. The quite long back straight that gives us the top speed of more than 300 km/h we see on the Circuit des 24 Heures," explains Jonathan Diuguid, Managing Director Porsche Penske Motorsport. "Having Sebastian Vettel here is a unique opportunity for the team. He is a four time Formula 1 World Champion. He has massive experience with hybrid systems and high performance racing cars. Having his fresh unique perspective on where the car is and gives feedback on our systems and performances is a unique opportunity. We are happy to have him here. He came out of the car with a smile which is all good." In addition to Vettel, a total of seven Porsche works drivers will take part in the endurance test. Matt Campbell (Australia), Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) will share the Porsche 963 with starting number 5 in the WEC, while Kévin Estre (France), André Lotterer (Germany) and Laurens Vanthoor will drive the sister car with the number 6. They will be joined in Aragon by reigning DTM champion Thomas Preining from Austria.

#sebastian vettel #f1 #formula 1 #wec #fic ref #fic ref 2024 #not a race #2024 not a race #between australia and japan 2024 #testing #testing 2024 #aragon

[ummick]

Schumacher's attitude a 'positive surprise', says WEC team-mate Lapierre

Sportscar racing veteran Nicolas Lapierre says he was "positively surprised" by Alpine team-mate Mick Schumachers attitude from the first day the German stepped into a World Endurance Championship hypercar.

Former Haas Formula 1 racer and current Mercedes reserve Schumacher showed a desire to adjust himself to the multi-driver format of sportscar racing instead of going out for individual glory, according to four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Lapierre. "When Mick came to his first test, it was in Jerez," said Schumacher’s Alpine teammate, Lapierre. "For me, when drivers come in from single-seaters, even more Formula 1, there are two options. Either he wants to be a real sportscar driver, share the car and work with his teammates, or he just wants to shine. I was very positively surprised with Mick since day one. He really wanted to work as a team, and it suits him quite good, as well. And his pace was straight away very fast. This we knew [already]; we had no doubt about this. The only thing now is to have a little bit of traffic management and this kind of stuff, because this is very new [to him]." Schumacher first got a chance to test the Alpine A424 LMDh last October and impressed the French manufacturer enough to earn a seat in its line-up for the 2024 season, joining team stalwarts Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere aboard the #36 car. Prior to his Hypercar move, the German driver spent two seasons competing in F1 with Haas from 2021-22, scoring a best finish of sixth on his second visit to the Red Bull Ring for the Austrian Grand Prix. He remains on Mercedes' books in a reserve role in 2024 and, if required, can be called in by the Brackley-based squad even on WEC race weekends. Lapierre believes Schumacher's experience of working with the title-winning Mercedes F1 squad helps bring a new perspective to the Signatech-run Alpine team. "He is bringing some good stuff from Formula 1 because he is working with one of the best teams on the Formula 1 grid," he said, "so this brings us some fresh ideas, some new feedback, which has also been very helpful in this project." Schumacher spent the 2023 season on the sidelines after being dropped by Haas in 2023 in favour of countryman Nico Hulkenberg, electing not to compete in any other category during his first year out of F1. The German driver reiterated that he is looking for comeback opportunities in grand prix racing, but made it clear his current focus is on his Hypercar programme with Alpine. "I'm here now. What the future holds is quite difficult to predict and foresee," said the 24-year-old. "Obviously my focus for now is WEC, but I would be lying if I would say that I don't have an eye on Formula 1. There are a lot of things happening right now. Who knows what opportunities are presented to myself in a couple of months' time. I will deal with that when it's time." Schumacher, Lapierre and Vaxiviere finished twelfth overall in Saturday's opening round of WEC in Qatar, three laps down on the winning #6 Porsche Penske LMDh of Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Andre Lotterer. Alpine stable-mates Paul-Loup Chatin, Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi scored points in eighth place aboard the #5 Alpine A424 to lead a successful return to Hypercar for the French manufacturer. "We had the pace to fight for the points, which was a bit unexpected, so we can be happy about it and proud of ourselves," said Schumacher. "It’s great the sister car managed to score."

#mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #wec #fic ref #fic ref 2024 #not a race #2024 not a race #between bahrain and saudi arabia 2024 #between qatar and imola 2024

[christiangeistdorfer]

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER & KARL WENDLINGER during the 1990s WORLD SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP

#they are both babies !!! they are only babies !!! #karl wendlinger #michael schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #vintage f1 #classic f1

[mensfactory]

Lamborghini SC63

Lamborghini is set to compete at the top level of endurance racing starting in 2024, with an entry in the premier classes of the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship, known as GTP and Hypercar, respectively.

Lamborghini will enter one car in each of the full seasons of the SportsCar Championship and World Endurance Championship, meaning appearances at premier races including the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

#art #design #supercars #luxurycars #supercar #luxurylifestyle #luxurycar #hypercars #hypercar #lambo #lamborghine SC63 #le mans #daytona #IMSA #GTP

[retromania4ever]

1992 Circuit Paul Ricard 🏁

World SportsCar Championship

Peugeot 905 Evo2

Jean-Pierre Jabouille 🇨🇵

#classic

[sixcylinderdean]

Iron Dames Porsche 911 RSR, 6 Hours of Spa 2023 [x]

#porsche #porsche 911 #iron dames #wec #world endurance championship #sportscars #porsche 911 gt3 #gt3 rs #cars #race cars #women in motorsport

[theformula101]

The History of...The Japan GP

Hello and welcome to the first post of formula 101's new segment...the history of, starting with this Weekend's GP "The Japanese Grand prix"

Historically, Japan has always been one of the last races of the season and thus has been a GP for many title-deciding races. with 12 driver's champions being crowned on Japanese soil. In fact the Japanese Grand prix was also the only Asian nation to host a formula 1 race until 1999 when Malaysia joined, but just because it's 1 GP doesn't mean its always been held in one place.

The first two Formula One Japanese Grands Prix's (in 1976 and 1977) were held at the Fuji Speedway, located at the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s and in the 1980's was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. The track itself was originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co, however it was acquired by Toyota Motor Corporation in the year 2000

The Fuji Speedway also happens to be home to one of Formula 1's greatest moment in 1976 (the first Japanese GP) where the race was run under some terrible wet conditions and Driver James Hunt finished third and was crowned world champion over his title rival Niki Lauda, who refused to risk his life in the treacherous conditions.

The Japanese GP was unfortunately then taken off the calendar but it returned in 1987 at Suzuka, which stands to be one of the most challenging Formula One circuits due to its unique ‘figure of 8’ layout, which includes the 130R corner! which also happens to be the place where the second major event that took place at a Japanese grand prix, and that was in the 1988 race...

(Image: Track Layout of Suzuka)

The World Championship decider between Senna and Prost – who were McLaren teammates that year. Senna came in with a greater chance of winning the championship (as the points system in those days counted the best 11 results; Senna had retired from one more Grand Prix than Prost had and had been slightly less consistent than the Frenchman, yet this was actually to the Brazilian's advantage; the way the points system worked in those days meant that there was more room for him to score points.) McLaren also had obtained superior and fuel-efficient Honda engines from Williams and had a car far better than any of the others, plus had won every race of the season except the Italian Grand Prix – McLaren's only double retirement of the season.

At the start, Senna made a very bad start, stalling on the grid but then managing to bump-start his car. However because of this, he dropped to 14th, while Prost took the lead. It then began to rain, and Senna (being a wet weather specialist) stormed around the track, setting a number of fastest laps and passing car after car until he caught Berger in 2nd and then started to catch Prost rapidly. The Frenchman's gearbox was malfunctioning, and the Brazilian caught and passed Prost while the Frenchman was delayed by consistent backmarker Andrea de Cesaris. Senna won the race and his first Drivers' Championship with Prost finishing 2nd, despite the latter scoring more points overall.

However this is not the only iconic moment between Senna and Prost at the Japanese GP as in 1989 the 2 teammates got into an even more heated GP, but in order to give that story justice I'll just make another post on it (coming soon)

In 1994 and 1995, Japan also hosted the Pacific Grand Prix at the TI Circuit, making Japan one of only nine countries to host more than one Grand Prix in the same season (the others being Austria, Bahrain, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and the USA) and the only Asian country on the list

In 2007 the Grand Prix moved back to the newly redesigned Fuji Speedway and after a second race at Fuji in 2008, the race returned to Suzuka in 2009, as part of an alternating agreement between the owners of Fuji Speedway and Suzuka Circuit, rivals Toyota and Honda. However, in July 2009, Toyota announced it would not host the race at Fuji Speedway in 2010 and beyond due to "a downturn in the global economy", and so the Japanese Grand Prix was held at Suzuka instead. Suzuka has hosted the Japanese Grand Prix every year since 2009, apart from in 2020 and 2021 when the Grands Prix were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Grand prix has been confirmed to stay on the calendar till 2024 where it will be from the 5th to the 7th of April, making it one of the first Grand Prix's unlike its usual record. Overall the Grand prix is a special one, holding many '1st's' of Formula 1 and the fact that it's a track in an asian ground in a very European dominated sport.

Most wins (Driver) at the Japanese GP: Michael Schumacher (6)

Most wins (constructers) at the Japanese GP: Mclaren

signing off,

~writer girl

#f1 #formula one #charles leclerc #max verstappen #alex albon #carlos sainz #danielricciardo #estaban ocon #lando norris #pierre gasly #japanese grand prix 2023 #japan gp 2023 #formula 1 #suzuka 2023 #singapore grand prix

[diabolus1exmachina]

Ferrari 375 MM “Ingrid Bergman Coupé” Speciale 

In 1953-1954 Ferrari built the 375MM (Mille Miglia) to conquer the racing World Sportscar Championship. While the majority were built for competition a few (about five) were made for the street and called Speciales.Film director Roberto Rosselini had one of the best known romances with Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman who eventually became his wife. He commissioned the 1954 Pininfarina Ferrari 375MM Coupé Speciale  as a gift for Bergman, hence calling it the “Bergman Coupé”, even though she never received the car. It made its first public appearance at the Paris Salon Auto Show in 1954 before being delivered to Roberto Rossellini.Whether it was a publicity stunt or an actual gesture of love (or both) the car is an amazing sight much like the beautiful actress. Regardless of how the conversations went prior to starting construction any reason was a good reason to build it and a clever story to boot. The one-off car has covered headlights that “pop up” which were very modern for 1954 and side coves that were copied on the 1956 Corvette, it also has a rear hatchback. The gold paint is appropriately called Grigio Ingrid.Rosselini was on a roll and being an avid Ferrari owner he had a Ferrari 375MM Pininfarina spyder that had suffered an accident so he sent the car to coach builder Sergio Scaglietti to make a coupé for the street. The 1954 Mercedes 300SL gullwing was a styling influence and can be seen in the cab shape and back end of Scaglietti’s design.

#Ferrari 375 MM #Mille Miglia #Roberto Rosselini #Ingrid Bergman #pininfarina #Paris Salon Auto Show #one off

[martinroyhall]

News: BMW, Lamborghini and Alpine set to join HyperCard class. 2024 FIA WEC Sneak Peek Series

According to FIA WEC, there will be new additions from BMW M Motorsport, Lamborghini Squadra Corse and Alpine in the 2024 FIA WEC HyperCard class. And in the video below, kindly provided by FIA WEC to MotorMartin, you can watch Alexa Randell and Sam Smith provide updates on what we can expect from these three new manufacturers. Video courtesy of FIA WEC Next season is going to be epic! For…

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#2024 FIA WEC Hypercar class #Alpine #BMW M Motorsport #FIA #FIA WEC #FIA World Endurance Championship #hypercar #international sportscar championship #Lamborghini Squadra Corse #LMP2 and LMGTE Am #WEC #World level Sportscar Racing

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Aston Martin Vantage GT3, 2024. Alongside the new Vantage AML have revealed the racing version that will compete in GT series, including the FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the Fanatec GT World Challenge.

#Aston Martin #Aston Martin Vantage GT3 #2024 #race car #track car #endurance racing #Aston Martin Racing #Aston Martin Performance Technologies