Five new teams are entering the LMP2 class for this 10th season: Team Penske, Prema Orlen Team, Vector Sport, Ultimate as well as AF Corse who is moving from LMGTE AM class.

The Hypercars will make their first appearance on American soil with Toyota Gazoo Racing, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and Alpine as only manufacturers represented in the Hypercar class. 

The LMP2 class race was also frenetic as the Oreca #81 DragonSpeed driven by Devlin Defrancesco, Patricio O'Ward, Colton Herta and Eric Lux snatched victory in the last ten minutes...

The race in GTD PRO was very intense with the top 3 ending within 5 sec. Matthieu Jaminet won the class with Pfaff Motorsport Porsche #9 co-driven by Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.

The race was very tight from start to finish as the top 4 finished within 5.615 sec., after having exchanged the lead in the closing hours and seeing all seven DPi cars on the lead during the first half of the race.

Many changes of leaders during the first half of the race with the 7 DPi’s within 5.5 sec. Currently #5 JDC Miller Motorsport Cadillac holds the lead thanks to less pits than competitors. In GTE PRO, 6 cars are within 6.6 sec.

Four time Indy car Champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated the session and was the only one to cover the lap in less than 1:35 with his #01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac.

Poor weather conditions for the Thursday sessions with a mostly wet track.

The second practice saw some dryer laps enabling the 2 WEC 2021 World Drivers Champions to perform the fastest laps with K. Kobayashi (#48 Ally Cadillac) in P1 and M. Conway (#31 Whelen Engineering Racing) in P2. 

Ben Keating took the lead on lap six with his #52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsport Oreca LMP2 07 and handed over to Mikkel Jensen who kept the lead until the end clinching the Rolex 24 pole position in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class.

The 100-minute Qualifying race for next week’s Rolex 24 Race at Daytona International Speedway saw the duo Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti winning the Motul Pole Award and the right to start up front in class at the 60th Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan 29.

Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi and Will Stevens will start the 60th running of the 24 hours of Daytona from pole as Taylor and Albuquerque won the Rolex qualifying 100 minutes race this Sunday.

Alex Imperatori took the GTD pole for KCMG on his #2 Porsche 911 GT3 R beating Porsche works driver Mathieu Jaminet in the #9 Pfaff Porsche by just 0.063s.

After finishing second in the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 class in 2021, Blomqvist made his debut in Dpi by turning the fastest lap of the two practice sessions Friday at the ROAR before Rolex 24 at Daytona with the # 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05.

Alessio Picariello is a Belgian racing driver who won the LMGTE European Le Mans Championship in 2020. In 2022, he’ll drive Porsche 911 RSR for Absolute Racing in the LMGTE European Le Mans Championship and Falken Motorsport for Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie as well as 24 Hours of Nurburgring.

FIA WEC Season 2022 teams’ announcements.

Peugeot, Corvette racing, Glickenhaus and Alpine committed to 2022 WEC season.

FIA WEC LMP1 and Hybrid from 2012 till 2021.

Three manufacturers won the LMP1 and Hybrid seasons since WEC inception: Audi, Porsche and Toyota.

FIA WEC Season 2021: Hypercar & LMP2 @ 8 Hours of Bahrain.

The suspense didn’t last long in Hypercar as Alpine Elf Matmut went in garage during 3 laps with gear box problem after 46’. Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi clinched the first Hypercar World Endurance Drivers Championship.

FIA WEC Season 2021: 8 Hours of Bahrain LMGTE race

Ferrari got the double by winning in both classes and clinching the PRO and AM titles. No discussion in GTE AM class where François Perrodo, Nicklas Nielsen and Alessio Rovera dominated the championship and the race. In GTE PRO class, Alessandro Pier Guidi took the win after taking Christensen out of track. Three days after, Ferrari was officially crowned 2021 FIA World Endurance GTE Manufacturer’s Champion and James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi have been named World Endurance GTE Driver’s Champions.

FIA WEC Season 2021: 8 Hours of Bahrain Qualifications & Titles in play

Kamui Kobayashi in pole for tomorrow race. Both toyota will be in front row. Albuquerque was fastest in LMP2 with United Autosports #28 and Estre with Porsche #92 in LMGTE Pro. Roberto Lacorte with Cetilar Racing Ferrari #47 in pole for LMGTE AM class.

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FIA WEC Season 2021: 6 Hours of Bahrain LMP Race

Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway (#7 Toyota) win the 6 Hours race. Team WRT #31 driven by Charles Milesi, Robin Frijs and Ferdinand Habsburg win the LMP2 class, #29 Racing Team Nederland win LMP2 Pro/am class.