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Toyota’s liquid hydrogen-powered prototype will run in public for the first time next weekend ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Japanese marque has announced. The TR LH2 Racing Prototype — unveiled at Le Mans last year as the GR LH2 Racing Prototype — will conduct a pair of demonstration runs around the Circuit de la Sarthe in the run-up to the FIA World Endurance Championship blue riband, one on Thursday June 11 and the other on Saturday 13 June before the race begins. Toyota Racing vice-chairman Kazuki Nakajima will be at the wheel for the demo runs, which will also feature the Alpine Alpenglow and the Ligier Bosch JS2 RH2. It will mark the latest step towards Toyota fulfulling its long-held aim of competing for wins in the French endurance classic with hydrogen internal combustion power, having pioneered the technology in Super Taikyu in Japan from 2021 onwards. The formal target date for hydrogen-powered cars to begin racing at Le Mans remains 2028, alth...

Photo: GT World Challenge Australia Alex Peroni will make his return to GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS competition in next week’s Queensland round following an injury layoff. After skipping the first two rounds of the 2026 campaign at Phillip Island and The Bend Motorsport Park due to a broken wrist, Peroni will take up his regular seat alongside Mark Rosser aboard Team BRM’s No. 268 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II on June 13-14. It will mark Peroni’s first race outing since the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour in February. Taking his place alongside Rosser since then has been Australian Supercars regular Thomas Randle, the pair scoring three podium finishes from the opening four races of the year to sit fourth in the drivers’ standings heading to Queensland. “It’s great to be back,” said Peroni. “There was definitely a period where things were a bit uncertain with my recovery, so to be recovering well and returning for Queensland is really e...

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Photo: SRO/JEP Reigning GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS champion Kelvin van der Linde has apologized for triggering a multi-car pileup in the closing stages of the Endurance Cup round at Monza last weekend. Van der Linde’s BMW M4 GT3 EVO clattered into the Pure Rxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R of Alexey Nesov when approaching the first corner, with the Porsche launched into a roll after slamming into Ezequiel Perez Companc’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II, while Marvin Dienst’s Winward Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo was also caught up in the incident. Van der Linde was issued with a two-minute stop and hold penalty that was converted into a 155-second sanction for his role in the crash, which dropped the WRT BMW from seventh to 30th in the classification. All of the drivers involved in the crash escaped injury, but two were taken for precautionary checks at the medical center and van der Linde went to apologize to them. “A big apology to all the drivers involved in the acc...

Photo: MPS Agency Lorcan Hanafin has been handed a last-minute opportunity to contest next weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in TF Sport’s Johor Motorsports JMR-backed Corvette. The Silver-rated British driver will share the No. 2 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R with Le Mans debutants Prince Jefri Ibrahim and Ben Green, taking the place of Malaysian driver Afiq Ikhwan Yazid, who had originally been named for the car. It will mark Hanafin’s second appearance at Le Mans following his maiden appearance in last year’s running with the Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG team. While he will be racing with both JMR and TF Sport for the first time, the 23-year-old is well-acquainted with the Corvette from his time racing for Steller Motorsport in last year’s GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup. “I raced Le Mans for the first time last year and it’s a very special event,” said Hanafin. “The scrutineering, the driver’s parade, the circuit itself and...

While strategy often defines IMSA’s 100-minute street races, Detroit provided a new chapter in the ongoing story of Michelin tire performance. For years, the conventional approach at races like Detroit and Long Beach has been to complete the race on a single set of tires. Instead, the No. 31 Whelen Engineering-sponsored Cadillac team with drivers Earl Bamber and Jack Aitken elected to change its right-side Michelin tires during the lone pit stop, taking advantage of an opportunity to maximize performance during the race’s multiple caution periods and restarts. “Yeah, we kind of flipped the script a little bit on that one because the conventional strategy for a long time at these 100-minute races has been to make a set last the whole way,” said Aitken. “And while they definitely can last the whole way, we thought we’ve got a little bit of margin. The warm-up was actually really good for just the one-sided tires. “So why not give ourselves the insurance...

Photo: SRO Tresor Attempto Racing took a shock victory at Monza in a dramatic the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup race that started and ended with chaos at the first corner. Ariel Levi, Sebastian Ogaard and Rocco Mazzola delivered the first Audi win in the championship since Hockenheim 2022 aboard their No. 66 Audi R8 LMS Evo II, which also took honors in the Silver class, after a dramatic late accident meant the three-hour contest ended under caution. Kelvin van der Linde’s No. 32 WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO, which had been leading with an hour to go, rear-ended the No. 9 Pure Rxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Alexey Nesov, which was launched into a roll after ramming Ezequiel Perez Companc’s No. 25 Sainteloc Audi and then clattered into the luckless Marvin Dienst, whose No. 87 Winward Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo had been on course for Bronze class spoils and second overall. This drama handed a runner-up finish to the No. 48 Winward Mercedes-AMG of Maro Engel, Luca Stolz and...