Top-class debuts at #Qatar1812KM 2025 for Alex Riberas, Kevin Magnussen, Malthe Jakobsen, Nico Pino, Nico Varrone, Tom Gamble, Ross Gunn, Roman de Angelis and Marco Sorensen will mean 100 drivers representing different 26 nations have driven a Hypercar in #WEC.
Aston Martin THOR Team’s Hypercar lineup for #WEC 2025 will feature Marco Sorensen - the first driver to win titles in two major classes, and Tom Gamble, who will become the 5th #ELMS LMP3 champion to work his way up to the world championship’s premier class.
#Qatar1812KM 2025 will be the first #WEC race since Portimao 2023 where Porsche 963 isn’t the sole most-common Hypercar. Its 2nd WEC race, in Portugal, featured two factory cars; the same total as the Toyota GR010 HYBRID, Ferrari 499P and Peugeot 9X8s on that grid.
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On this day 10 years ago, the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO (📸) was revealed to the world. The car raced only once in #WEC, at Le Mans 2015, with three entries in LMP1 - none of the cars were classified at the finish, and the programme was scrapped.
0 - Toyota (📸) did not finish on the podium at Qatar 2024, ending a run of 32 consecutive #WEC races at which the marque had finished in the top-three, claiming 57 podiums, from Fuji 2018-Bahrain 2023. The last race before Qatar to not see a Toyota podium was Silverstone 2018.
Two-time GTE Am champion Ben Keating returns to #WEC in 2025, driving a Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R; the 11th different car model he has raced in the series. Having already driven the C8.R, Keating will have driven two Corvettes after two Orecas - 03R & 07, and two Fords - GT & Mustang LMGT3.
In 2024 Porsche became the first brand to surpass 600 total cars entered (18.2%) in the #WEC's 93 races, across its 911 RSR variants, 919 Hybrid, 963 and 911 GT3 R LMGT3 models, by long-time teams such as Proton, Manthey & Penske.
In 2025, Will Stevens, Norman Nato & Jenson Button (Multimatic, Dallara) and Fred Makowiecki (Multimatic, Oreca) are due to become the first drivers to race in #WEC with two different LMDh chassis manufacturers.
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Theo Pourchaire signing to Peugeot for 2025 as Test and Development Driver makes him the 4th Formula 2 World Champion to land a WEC Hypercar role, after Nyck de Vries and Mick Schumacher, who have contested full seasons, and Felipe Drugovich, who competed at Le Mans 2024.
Reading it again with fresh eyes, it's more than 44km but they're still ranked 6th and 7th overall for distance covered. Yes this only counts the factory cars and not AF Corse #83. Penske beats Ferrari AF at 6 circuits to Ferrari's 4, whilst they've both completed 965 laps in Bahrain.
2024 was the first WEC season in which two different marques finished on the same number of overall wins, with
@porscheraces.bsky.social Team Penske (2 wins) & Hertz Team Jota (1 win), and Toyota both finishing on three wins each.
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I am considering them as separate yes. I haven't split Audi Sport Team Joest and North America, but have tracked the two Alpine Hypercar eras individually, everyone else falls under one name. Porsche Penske should be the next team to reach 50k km funnily, as they're currently 44km ahead of Ferrari.
51,204 - At Bahrain 2024, Peugeot became only the 5th LMP1 or Hypercar team to complete 50,000 km of racing in #WEC, joining only Audi, Toyota, Porsche LMP1 Team and Rebellion.
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