As the next round of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship gets closer, an updated entry list for the 1,000 Miles of Sebring has been released, confirming Corvette Racing’s return to the WEC and Sergey Sirotkin’s endurance debut.

As part of their Road to Le Mans 2022 and ahead of joining the World Endurance Championship for the 2021/22 season, Brabham will take their BT62 to the race track in 2019.

Despite a lot of debate, Toyota Gazoo Racing have confirmed they have a plan in place to entry into the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship, and confirmation of their entry should come in the next couple of months.

Refuelling and changing the tyres at the same time will no longer be allowed as of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Sergry Sirotkin is confident that SMP Racing will call upon him to fill the #11 seat vacated by Jenson Button for the 1,000 Miles of Sebring and the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Despite being one of the teams in the working group to develop the “Hypercar” rules and regulations, BMW will not be entering the class early, keeping their attention focused on their LM GTE Pro project.

Michelin are looking into developing a new tyre compound for the Privateer LMP1 teams for the 2019 races to try and bring the competition closer to Toyota Gazoo Racing.

After racing in LMP3 and LMP2 in continental Le Mans series, Untied Autosports have confirmed they will move up to the LMP2 FIA World Endurance Championship class for the 2019/20 season.

Before accepting his Formula One role, Andreas Seidl was due to take the leading role in Porsche Motorsport after his LMP1-program successes.

Despite backlash from some of the teams after announcing the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue will be mandatory, Gerard Neveu is confident this is a necessary step in preparing for the series’ first winter season.

Although McLaren have ruled out joining the FIA World Endurance Championship from the start of the ‘Hypercar’ era, in 2020, a late season entry, looking at partaking in the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans, is “in discussion”.

The FIA World Motor Sport Council announced the finalised ‘hypercar’ class rules for the World Endurance Championship, set to come into action for the 2020/21 season.