The World Endurance Championship has abandoned its Middle East finale. Barcelona hosts a first-ever WEC round on 16-18 October and Monza returns on 6-8 November, with both races losing the 1.5x points the cancelled events carried.
The World Endurance Championship is preparing to replace its Qatar and Bahrain rounds with six-hour races at Barcelona and Monza if Gulf security fails to improve, with Ferrari already shipping duplicate freight to cover every outcome.
Twelve months after a mechanical failure pitched him into the barriers from the lead, Tom Dillmann returned to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and won the IMSA Chevrolet Grand Prix for Inter Europol, leading 93 of 127 laps from pole to claim overall honours in a GTP-free field.
McLaren's 2027 Le Mans contender ran in public for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with Lando Norris at the wheel just 10 weeks into its test programme. Team principal James Barclay called the appearance a last-minute decision, while new signing Laurens Vanthoor explained why he left Porsche for an unproven project.
The No. 15 BMW of Kevin Magnussen, Dries Vanthoor and Raffaele Marciello beat Ferrari by 2.2 seconds to win the Rolex 6 Hours of São Paulo, while a pointless afternoon for Toyota blew the WEC Hypercar title race open.
Toyota heads to the 6 Hours of São Paulo leading both WEC titles after its Le Mans win, but Cadillac, Peugeot and a tightly grouped Hypercar field see Interlagos as the place to strike back.
Porsche motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach has welcomed the WEC's 2030 plan to merge the LMH and LMDh categories but stopped short of committing to a Hypercar return, ruling out any entry before the new rules arrive.
TF Sport's No. 33 Corvette of Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar and Ben Keating came from 17th to win LMGT3 at Le Mans, ending Manthey Porsche's stranglehold and giving the Corvette GT3 its first win at La Sarthe.
The No. 7 Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries won the 2026 Le Mans 24 Hours by 10.9 seconds over BMW, ending Ferrari's three-year reign as Toyota claimed a sixth victory at La Sarthe.
After Hyperpole and the test day's long runs, just 1.3 seconds covers the Le Mans Hypercar grid. BMW has pole, but Toyota, Cadillac, Ferrari and more are within reach heading into Saturday's race.
Silverstone rejoins an expanded nine-round FIA World Endurance Championship in 2027 as Ford and McLaren prepare to enter Hypercar and the series locks in Bahrain through 2036.
A deleted lap for a pit-lane infringement stripped Jack Aitken and Cadillac of provisional pole at Le Mans, gifting BMW and Dries Vanthoor their first Hypercar-era pole at La Sarthe.
