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Photo: Eric Le Galliot/MPS Agency Francois Perrodo has confirmed discussions with AF Corse to enter the 2026-27 Asian Le Mans Series in the new Hypercar class, although has cast questions whether the championship will go ahead as planned amid the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East. The Frenchman, who took LMP2 Pro-Am class honors at Le Mans in 2024 in an AF Corse-run Oreca 07 Gibson, has long raced for the Amato Ferrari-owned operation, in both GT3 and LMP2 competition. While currently focused on the European Le Mans Series ranks, as well as next weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, Perrodo revealed that he could add an Asian program later this year, should the pieces fall into place. Perrodo is the first FIA Bronze-rated driver to confirm talks to race a Ferrari 499P, which Ferrari’s global head of endurance Antonello Coletta confirmed talks with multiple undisclosed customers. “It’s in the talks,” Perrodo told Sportscar365 on Friday in Le Mans. ...

Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Sheldon van der Linde said he’s upbeat on BMW M Team WRT’s chances at the 24 Hours of Le Mans following its recent string of momentum and the fact that its Evo joker update was specifically designed for Circuit de la Sarthe. The South African and co-drivers Rene Rast and Robjin Frijns gave the German manufacturer its breakthrough first FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar win in last month’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, in a landmark 1-2 finish for the pair of BMW M Hybrid V8s. “It came at the right point for us,” van der Linde told Sportscar365. “We knew that with every year passing, we have high expectations, the board at BMW, the people around us, it’s our third year in WEC already. “Naturally with every year we have more expectation, more pressure, to perform. The longer you wait, the more that pressure starts building. “You can really feel it before Spa that everyone was wanting to get th...

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Photo: Andrea Lorenzina/DPPI Esteban Masson has been added to Toyota’s Hypercar lineup for this weekend’s official 24 Hours of Le Mans test day. The French driver is listed against both the Japanese marque’s TR010 Hybrids on a provisional entry list for the one-day test that takes place on Sunday ahead of the FIA World Endurance Championship blue riband event on June 13-14. It will mark Masson’s first public appearance in a Toyota Hypercar since the 2024 rookie test in Bahrain, although the Akkodis ASP LMGT3 regular is known to gained further mileage aboard the TR010 in private testing since then. Masson will temporarily step away from his regular seat aboard the No. 78 Lexus RC F GT3 for Le Mans to race for the Forestier Racing by Panis outfit in LMP2. Mike Conway and Sebastien Buemi are likewise listed against both the No. 7 and No. 8 Toyotas, while the same is true for Sebastien Bourdais, Jack Aitken, Will Stevens and Norman Nato for the two Cadillac He...

Photo: Paulo Maria/DPPI The full 58-car, 116-driver entry list for the first ever three-hour Road To Le Mans race has been revealed, with 35 different nations represented across the grid for the 11th edition of the event. The 25-strong LMP3 field includes 24 full season Michelin Le Mans Cup entries, which are eligible for championship points, with an addition entry by Rinaldi Racing for Italian Alvise Rodella and Greek racer Stylianos Taxiarchis Kolovos. Last year’s Race 2 winner Lena Bühler, who became the first female Road To Le Mans winner, will be joining her New Zealand co-driver Zack Scoular for R-ace GP. David Droux is the other former LMP3 winner on the grid, with the Swiss driver teaming up with regular Le Mans Cup stablemate Cedric Oltramare in the No. 97 CLX Motorsport Ligier JS P25 Toyota, as the Swiss squad seeks its fifth Road to Le Mans victory. Barcelona winners Enzo Peugeot and Danial Frost lead the championship standings on 44 points in the No. 85 R-ace GP Duque...

Image: WRT WRT’s No. 32 BMW M4 GT3 EVO will also be sporting a new livery for next weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, with artwork inspired from Darren Leung’s company, Paradine. Revealed on Wednesday, the LMGT3 entry, to be driven by full season FIA World Endurance Championship drivers Leung, Augusto Farfus and Sean Gelael, brings together the colors of its normal race livery and “new shades” that represent “what is still to come” according to a statement by the Belgian squad. “We are not ultimately concerned with staying where we are, it is always about where we want to be,” said Leung. “It is thriving. It is the tendency of living things to strive toward a better state.” It joins the sister No. 69 BMW, which is sporting a retro-inspired design from the BMW-engined Gulf-sponsored McLaren F1 GTR, as part of driver Anthony McIntosh’s rotating set of throwback-style designs for the entire eight-round WEC season. L...