Toyota s GR010 Wins on Spa Debut
The Hypercar class is underway, and the favorite is 1-for-1. James Moy PhotographyGetty Images
The GR010, the first factory Le Mans Hypercar, came into today s FIA World Endurance Championship season opener burdened with the weight of an entire category s expectations. As the only car built by a major manufacturer in Hypercar s first season, GR010 will be the clear favorite for both Le Mans and every World Endurance Championship round it has not been shut out of by the category s take on success ballast.
Those expectations are in place, in part, because the car will be competing against relatively weak competition in its first few rounds. The program s only direct competition for the early portion of the season is a grandfathered-in privateer LMP1 car built for Rebellion but now run by Renault s Alpine division, and the regulations were written to ensure that any car in the the LMH category would comfortably be fast enough to outpace competition
Toyota s GR010 Wins on Spa Debut
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Audi LMDh prototype teased, will go racing in 2023
30 April 2021 7:47 pm / 0 comments
Audi is continuing to develop its new race cars that will form the basis of its revitalised motorsports programme. As well as a first-time Dakar Rally entry next year, Ingolstadt is also making a long-awaited return to endurance racing, where the company has had a storied history – it won 13 editions of the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans between 2000 and 2014.
It will arrive at a far different landscape from when it last raced in 2016, during which the LMP1 class ruled the roost. Soon, there will be two different categories vying for overall victories – Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) for purpose-built sports prototypes and Le Mans Daytona hybrid (LMDh) for more cost-effective racers. Audi’s will be the latter.
The car is being developed in close cooperation with Porsche.
The plan is to be ready for the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January, 2023, running the LMDh class.
Thirteen-time Le Mans winner Audi says it has “largely completed” the concept work on its 2023 Le Mans race car and says it is being developed with the automaker with the most Le Mans wins, Porsche. Audi’s most-recent Le Mans win was in 2014 and the automaker got out of endurance racing at the end of the 2016 season.
Audi and Porsche have committed to the LMDh class. Starting in 2023 LMDh (Le Mans Daytona hybrid) is going to be the top class of both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the World Endurance Championship. The joint class was announced in January, 2020, and the rules are identical for both series. Automakers can develop their own engines but a spec hybrid system is required.
Fittipaldi Comes Full Circle with Series Return at Texas
By Curt Cavin | Published: Apr 28, 2021
Life has a way of bringing things full circle, and it continues to be that way in Pietro Fittipaldi’s racing career, too.
Fittipaldi, the 24-year-old grandson of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi, didn’t get his first chance to compete at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2018 due to severe leg injuries suffered in a World Endurance Championship race May 4 in Belgium. But later that season he was sufficiently recovered to return to Dale Coyne Racing, where he made the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth NTT INDYCAR SERIES starts of his career.
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