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Why Ferrari’s conservatism didn’t deny it in an Imola WEC thriller

Just eight and a bit seconds. That was Ferrari’s margin of victory at the end of the Sunday’s Imola round of the World Endurance Championship. Or to put it another way, around about half the advantage of 16s the 499P Le Mans Hypercar shared by James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and…

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Imola 6 Hours: Ferrari wins at home, but Valentino Rossi loses out

Ferrari came out on top at the end of a thrilling race on home ground at Imola to claim its second victory of the 2025 World Endurance Championship season.

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Imola 6 Hours: Ferrari triumphs from BMW and Alpine

Ferrari came out on top at the end of a thrilling race on home ground at Imola to claim its second victory of the 2025 World Endurance Championship season.

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How Ferrari dominated Qatar WEC’s opener

Each of the Ferrari 499Ps that flashed past the chequered flag almost line astern in positions one to three at the Qatar World Endurance Championship curtain-raiser would have been a worthy winner. They were separated by less than three seconds after 10 hours of racing and any one of them…

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WEC introduces new ballast system to compensate for driver weight

The World Endurance Championship has introduced a new system designed to reduce the advantage of lighter drivers in the series.

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WEC introduces ballast system to compensate for driver weight

The World Endurance Championship has introduced a new system designed to reduce the advantage of lighter drivers in the series.

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Why Ferrari is leaving no stone unturned in its bid for WEC title glory

Win the championship or keep the trophy? Offer Ferrari the choice of claiming a title in the World Endurance Championship this year or taking ownership of the latest piece of silverware given to the victor of the Le Mans 24 Hours by making it three in a row, and a…

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Ferrari reveals retro hypercar livery for 2025 WEC

Ferrari has unveiled a new retro livery for the two factory 499P Le Mans Hypercars ahead of its 2025 World Endurance Championship campaign.

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Ferrari improves car reliability for WEC 2025 after Hypercar DNFs in 2024

Ferrari has strived to improve the reliability of its 499P World Endurance Championship contender after non-finishes blighted its 2024 Hypercar campaign.

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Top 10: Ranking the best GP2 non-champions

The official start date of the Formula 2 championship is 2017, but the principal training category of future F1 drivers can be considered a continuation of the GP2 Series that ran between 2005 and 2016. After all, F2’s first modern champion Charles Leclerc was crowned after a season in the…

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Calado reveals hospitalisation after "dangerous" WEC weight loss effort

Ferrari driver James Calado has revealed that he was hospitalised with malnutrition early in this year’s World Endurance Championship campaign as a result of his efforts to lose weight.

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Ferrari: Tyre allocation breach brought no performance gain

Ferrari has insisted that the tyre allocation infringement that resulted in it losing second place in Saturday’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale offered no performance advantage.

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Ferrari: Tyre allocation breach brought no performance gain in Bahrain

Ferrari has insisted that the tyre allocation infringement that resulted in it losing second place in Saturday’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale offered no performance advantage.

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Buemi had lost hope before comeback drive gave Toyota WEC title

Sebastien Buemi believed Toyota was out of contention for the World Endurance Championship manufacturers’ crown when he began the comeback that yielded the Japanese car maker the title in Bahrain.

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Ferrari loses second place in WEC Bahrain race for exceeding tyre allocation

The second-placed factory Ferrari has been penalised for exceeding its tyre allocation in Saturday’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain and has dropped out of the points.

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Ferrari Hypercar driver line-up unaltered for 2025

Ferrari will continue with an unchanged Hypercar class driver line-up in next year’s World Endurance Championship.

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WEC COTA: AF Corse Ferrari sneaks past Toyota for win

Ferrari took its first victory in a regular World Endurance Championship race with the customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman at Austin.

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Ferrari's WEC title hopes "back on track" after Le Mans win

Ferrari believes it is back in the hunt for the 2024 World Endurance Championship after claiming its first win of the season at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Ferrari survives late drama to score back-to-back wins

Nickas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina took the chequered flag in the #50 Ferrari 499P with a 14s margin over the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, as the #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi rounded…

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Who are the former F1 drivers set to take part in the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours?

The Le Mans 24 Hours entry list has been announced and features a number of former F1 drivers, with 18 of the 186 drivers having previously competed in a Formula 1 grand prix.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: What's changed for WEC's main event in 2024?

The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back as this weekend drivers will tackle Circuit de la Sarthe for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Ferrari are the defending champions having won the race’s centenary edition in 2023, which was its first overall victory at Le Mans since 1965. But the…

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What is BoP? The regulation that's part of sports car racing

BoP is a part of how sports car racing is governed, but making sense of it is not always easy given much of it is hidden from the public domain. Manufacturers in the World Endurance Championship are even forbidden from discussing BoP, however some facts are still known. What is…

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Le Mans 24: Can Porsche win again at la Sarthe?

One year ago, when Porsche made its first bid for outright honours at the Le Mans 24 Hours in six years, it didn’t look like a potential winner. Not in the run-up to the centenary running of the French enduro nor during the race itself, although it would be wrong…

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Can Porsche win again at la Sarthe?

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Banning tyre warmers at Le Mans an "unsafe" choice, say Ferrari WEC drivers

Teams across both Hypercar and LMGT3 categories will not be allowed to artificially heat their tyres in the blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship on 15-16 June as per the updated sporting regulations for 2024. The WEC had originally imposed an outright ban on tyre warmers at the…

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