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Crash.net's Lewis Duncan speaks with WRT boss Vincent Vosse about Valentino Rossi’s time in car racing so far and what to expect in 2025

With one of the best Le Mans races of recent time in the books, we look at how the Hypercar class could be even more dynamic in 2025 and beyond.

Who are the 16 former Formula 1 drivers competing at the Le Mans 24h race in 2024 and who stands the best chance of success?

With just over a month to go before the historic 24 hour of Le Mans race, we look at the favourites for victory.

The FIA World Endurance Championship has undergone a huge amount of change in the past two years.

How fitting that this, an FIA World Endurance Championship season that was deemed to be oh-so-predictable, would offer a late sting in the tail. And where else but at Le Mans, the cruellest of all motor races?

Fernando Alonso only started driving a Toyota Gazoo Racing LMP1 car 19 months ago at the World Endurance Championship Rookie Test in Bahrain but since then he has enjoyed a rapid rise passing milestones along the way.

Fernando Alonso will draw the curtain on his time in the FIA World Endurance Championship this weekend when he makes his second appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his sights set on a drivers’ title victory.

21 former Formula 1 drivers line up on the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours grid boasting a collective 1,232 Grand Prix starts and 36 victories.

Ever since Fernando Alonso played his part in Toyota’s maiden 24 Hours of Le Mans victory in June last year, it has felt like the writing has been on the wall for his continued presence in its LMP1 programme.

Just minutes after the chequered flag was waved to prematurely end a wet-and-wild 57th edition of the Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday, the criticism over how the on-the-flag reports were angled began to emerge.

While the new Formula 1 season may still be seven weeks away, the sports car racing world will get its first slice of racing action in 2019 this weekend with the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

The new sports car racing year bursts into life this weekend with the Rolex 24 at Daytona, one of the most famous and historic events in all of global motorsport.

The start of the new Formula 1 season may be eight weeks away, but one of its biggest recent names will be hitting the track in anger for the first time this week in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Having just celebrated its 130th Birthday on June 14, British tyre manufacturer Dunlop heads into this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend looking to claim an eighth consecutive victory at the Circuit de la Sarthe. 

Maybe just by writing this headline, fate has been tempted. Maybe we’re set for the same heartache that has burdened Toyota in recent years. Or maybe, this time around, Toyota will finally take its elusive maiden victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

As we near the start of the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans at 3pm on Saturday, the focus of the pre-race coverage has, unsurprisingly, centred on one driver: Fernando Alonso.

Formula 1 drivers have never been strangers to Le Mans but amid the fanfare surrounding Fernando Alonso’s debut at the iconic 24 hour race it appears a number of former famous faces of Grand Prix racing have been pulled to the attraction.

Five years is a long, long time in motorsport. Cast your mind back to May 2013. You will remember a time before Mercedes’ dominance in Formula 1, instead finding Red Bull at the peak of its powers.

Finally, finally  we can put an end to one of the longest-running and perhaps most predictable stories from the last few months in motorsport.

“Guys, there are people at Daytona who aren’t called Fernando…” The tweet of Sportscar365 writer and friend Jake Kilshaw summed up the thoughts of many a sports car journalist who made their annual trip to Daytona International Speedway for this year’s Rolex 24.

McLaren Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso will make his much-anticipated sports car racing debut this weekend when he lines up on the grid for the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Fernando Alonso is the star name for this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona, embarking on his endurance racing adventure.

Williams F1 driver Lance Stroll is back for a second crack at the Rolex 24.