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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...

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...