Porsche, Ferrari and Toyota squat the top 8 of the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Ferrari #50 disqualified, #5 Porsche 963 and #2 Cadillac V-Series.R #2 in front row. Three Porsche 963 in row two and three.

Kevin Estre did beat his own fastest lap driven yesterday to set the definitive Benchmark for the three free practices. Nice session this morning for Peugeot 3rd and BMW 6th of combined practices.

Toyota claimed an unexpected victory thanks to perfect strategy despite not being the fastest Hypercar in the race. It is the second race win in a row for Toyota at Imola.

It’ll be a Ferrari front row but not a red one as #50 Ferrari 499P and #83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P did 1-2 during Hyperpole session this afternoon.

Six Ferrari works drivers are among the top 10 fastest drivers of the day. Kevin Estre with Porsche #6 was the second fastest « killing » the 1-2 set by Ferrari #83 and Ferrari #50 in the morning session.

Part 3 of our Imola Hypercar entries concentrates on the private teams who participate to the Endurance Trophy Hypercar Team.

For Ferrari AF Corse, the Prologue was essential to start gathering valuable information on this new track for the championship, but there is still much work to do during free practice.

Ferrari and AF Corse unveil the liveries of the 499P that will compete in the Hypercar class of the FIA WEC 2024.

Both IMSA and WEC Iron Lynx Lamborghini teams will be reunited at Le Mans.

From the 2024 season, Yifei Ye will be an official Ferrari driver. Speculation are that he will join Robert Kubica in the AF Corse #83 customer Ferrari 499P in Hypercar.

The headquarters of Endurance and Corse Clienti at Fiorano hosted the awards ceremony for drivers and teams who won a title competing with Prancing Horse cars in the main GT and endurance car championships in the 2023 season.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing achieved the double at the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain. Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa clinch their second consecutive driver's title.

With three consecutive podium finishes Ferrari has increasingly bridge the gap with Toyota. Fifty years after its last Le Mans win, is Ferrari going to win again for the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans?

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing is dominating the World Endurance Manufacturers’ Championship by scoring almost all points attributed so far if it was not for the pole (1 point) won by Ferrari at Sebring. After 5 consecutive wins at Le Mans, three victories and two doubles this season, Toyota GR010 are definitively the favourites for the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The first Safety Car was released during the third lap thwarting Ferrari team strategy of mounting rain tires as the track dried out during that SC period. Both Toyota GR010 Hybrid dominated the 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps with #7 winning after leading 89% of the laps covered. Sister #8 moved up from P36 to end second.

The 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps qualifying started wrongly for Toyota Gazoo Racing with Brendon Hartley crashing his #8 GR010 Hybrid in the Raidillon straight out of the pits on cold tires. The session was animated by Giovinazzi with Ferrari #51 who qualified first at the end of the session until his fastest lap was canceled for track-limits violation. Kamui Kobayashi will start from pole tomorrow at 12:45.

Despite a wet track at the beginning of third free practice, many drivers improved their times from the day before on a track that gradually dried out. Brendon Hartley (Toyota #8), James Calaldo (Ferrari #51), Kamui Kobayashi (Toyota #7) and Nico Müller (Peugeot #94) and Richard Westbrook (Cadillac #2) are the top 5 of the combines free practices.

Thursday practices were run in clear conditions with Toyota #8 dominating their rivals in the morning practice by more than 1.6 sec. and Ferrari managing to tie the game, even beating the time set by the #8 during the second session.

The 6 Hours of Portimão saw five different Hypercar manufacturers represented in the top 5: Toyota, Ferrari, Porsche, Cadillac and Porsche. Four cars had technical problems and one did not finish. We review each car race and share drivers comments after the race.