Ferrari

Toro Rosso using a complete Red Bull rear end for the 2019 season will be a “big advantage” for Honda

Ferrari will only enter two factory GTE Pro cars in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Along with taking part in Formula E’s Season 5 with Mahindra, Pascal Wehrlein could find himself in an IndyCar and Le Mans seat during his 2019 racing campaign.

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.

In the closest qualifying session of 2018, the 6 Hours of Shanghai saw the LMP classes lock out the front rows, but the gaps between the top threes in all classes was very close.

The last FIA World Endurance Championship race gets underway on Sunday at the Shanghai International Circuit. Get ready for the race as The Checkered Flag takes you through the latest news from each of the four WEC classes.

Ahead of this weekend’s World Endurance Championship event, a new BoP has been released for GTE Pro’s Aston Martins and Ferraris.

Toyota Gazoo Racing and Jackie Chan DC Racing took dominate one-two finishes in their respective classes, whilst Porsche took victory in both LM GTE Pro and LM GTE Am at the FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Fuji.

It has been nearly two months since the FIA World Endurance Championship has battled it out on the asphalt, but returning to Toyota Gazoo Racing’s home track, the 34 strong grid are ready to go racing again.

The automated BoP system has accrued enough data on the GTE Pro field to assign a new, more relative BoP for this weekend’s 6 Hours of Fuji, and it looks like BMW have gained the most from the performance shift.

Read about how the field performed at the FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Silverstone with TheCheckeredFlag.

The Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 trio of Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima took their third victory in a row, whilst the #51 AF Corse found some surprising pace and luck to take the GTE Pro honours at the 6 Hours of Silverstone.

Improving on his FP1 time, Mike Conway put the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing back on top to claim the team’s second 1-2 of the weekend whilst Aston Martin Racing set ripples in the predicted GTE order.

Returning to a race circuit that was nearly dropped from the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar, the grid heads to Silverstone for round three of its longest season to date.