Ho-Pin Tung

After the 24 Hours of Le Mans test day, TheCheckeredFlag takes a look at who could be the class favourites for the 87th rendition of the blue-riband event.

The Checkered Flag takes you through the current championship standings and all the latest FIA World Endurance Championship news ahead of this weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Rain dampened the FIA World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Shanghai, but even with only 4h30m of racing the Toyota’s remained on top. Aston Martin Racing marked a moment in history as they claimed the first win for the new Vantage and their first win of the Super 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 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.

Welcome to our preview of the LMP2 class at the 86th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

It was a commanding victory from Toyota for the weekend’s first endurance race of the ‘Super Season’, but just how competitive were the other cars in their respective classes?

It had looked like 2017 was going to be Jackie Chan DC Racing’s year, but a last race pursuit saw Vaillante Rebellion Racing take the LMP2 trophy in their rookie season of the class.

For 2018, Oliver Jarvis has had to give up racing full time in the World Endurance Championship due to commitments elsewhere.

Ferdinand Habsburg will make his endurance race debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, but won’t be taking the kind of risks that he took during his attack on the Macau Grand Prix at the end of 2017.

Antonio Felix da Costa, Ferdinand Habsburg, Ho-Pin Tung and Alex Brundle will form the line-up for Jackie Chan DC Racing’s second car at the Rolex 24 at Daytona next month.

The #31 Vaillante Rebellion squad has performed a remarkable comeback in order to take the lead of the LMP2 Endurance standings coming into the Bapco 6 Hours of Bahrain. The Swiss team hold a slender four point advantage over #38 Jota Sport Jackie Chan DC Racing entry.

Jackie Chan DC Racing x Jota Sport set the pace in qualifying for the opening round of the Asian Le Mans Series at Zhuhai. Thomas Laurent was 0.15 seconds quicker than Chinese team-mate Ho-Pin Tung, with KCMG taking LMP3 pole.

Inaugural Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr makes the switch from NIO to Jaguar for 2017-18

Porsche took an easy 1-2 finish for the 6 Hours of Nurburgring as LMP1 teams ran the high aero package. #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing had a simple win in LMP2.