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2023 WEC – World Endurance Championship more exciting than ever

The new season of the 2023 WEC – World Endurance Championship starts on March 17 and is expected to be more exciting than the previous ones. This season (which also marks the centenary of the first 24 Hours of Le Mans), as many as 13 superfast hybrid prototypes from nine teams will participate in the battle for glory in the most powerful class (Hypercar). This is what endurance racing fans have been waiting for for years.

This year, Ferrari returns to the strongest class in which the Italian team has not participated in decades, and the two red 499P prototypes will face the Hypercar prototypes of Toyota (GR-010), Cadillac (V-LMDh), Porsche (963), Peugeot ( 9X8), Glickenhaus (007) and Vanwall Vandervell (680).

Porsche will have four cars in the most powerful class, two from the team Porsche Penske Motorsport and one each from the private teams Hertz Team Jota and Proton Competition. In the fight for the very top, the Penske Porsche 963 with number 6 with drivers Frenchman Kévin Estre, German André Lotterer and Belgian Laurens Vanthoor have the best chances. Cadillac, Glickenhaus and Vanwall Vandervell will each have one car in the game, and Ferrari, Toyota and Peugeot will each have two cars.

The LMGTE Pro class in which teams from Porsche, Ferrari, Ford, Aston Martin, Corvette… no longer exists. GT cars will be present this season only in the LMGTE Am class, in which 12 teams will have six Porsche 911 RSR-19s, four Ferrari 488 GTE Evos, three Aston Martin Vantage AMRs and one Corvette C8.R.

11 cars from seven teams will participate in the LMP2 class. This year’s calendar has seven races, among which, definitely, the most important jubilee race is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which starts on June 10, and the season will start with the 1,000 miles of Sebring (USA).

Endurance racing is returning to its roots, and this is confirmed by the previously published information that Lamborghini and BMW will be in the Hypercar company starting next year.

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Source: WEC

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Fifth win in a row for Toyota Gazoo Racing at 24 Hours of Le Mans

In the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which took place last weekend, the Toyota Gazoo Racing team took the win. It was the fifth win in a row, which put Toyota on par with Audi, while Porsche is the record holder with seven wins in a row.

The drivers of the car, with number 8, were Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley (former Formula 1 driver) who said: “I was overwhelmed with emotions when I passed the finish line. Throughout the race you try not to think about the finish line, see we are what may have happened in the last rounds over the years. It was only after passing through the finish line that emotions came to the surface. The feeling is great. “

In second place was another Toyota Gazoo Racing team car, with number 7, driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez. Third place went to Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (Franck Mailleux, Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook).

In the qualifiers, the 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing was in pole position, while the second position was reserved for the sister 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing team, and the third was the drivers of 36 Alpine (Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao, Matthieu).

Source: 24 Hours of Le Mans

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Porsche 911 RSR in the virtual race “24 hours of Le Mans”

This weekend, there will be a virtual race “24 Hours of Le Mans” in which Porsche Esports will participate with two 911 RSR models. Porsche will provide live streaming from the virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans race (Gronau, Germany) on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

Porsche is defending the title, and experienced professional motorsport drivers will share the wheel of Porsche with successful sim racing experts. The race will feature 50 vehicles, including 10 Porsche 911 RSRs, and this includes LMP2 prototypes. The endurance race at the virtual “Circuit des 24 Heures” starts this Saturday at 2 p.m.

Watch live!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbby0ZgmoI

“Parallel to real motorsport, sim racing is becoming increasingly important for Porsche. Via this platform, we can ignite a passion for our brand among a totally new target group. That’s why we founded the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup in 2019, in which the world’s best sim racers pit themselves against each other. The Cup heads into its fourth season at the beginning of February, ”said Marco Ujhasi, Esports Manager at Porsche Motorsport.

In the endurance race, which is the main event, behind the wheel of Porsche 911 RSR will be sim racing drivers Martin Krönke (Germany) and Mack Bakkum (Netherlands), and Porsche Junior Laurin Heinrich (Germany) and Mitchell deJong (USA). Heinrich is the driver of a 911 GT3 Cup race car in a real Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, and is currently in a 24-hour race in Dubai.

In the GTE category, the defending champions are: Ayhancan Güven (Turkey), Tommy Östgaard (Norway), Joshua Rogers (Australia) and Sage Karama (USA).

Source: Porsche