Fia wec a super season and a new playing field for michelin an endurance championship over two years that is what the fia is proposing with the wec super season 20182019. The 20182019 super season was unique for many reasons, and it was super in every sense. The calendar for the 201920 fia world endurance championship has. Lastest news drivers line up super season wec videos. Le mans will no longer close out the 20192020 wec season. Velocity to air le mans 24 hours, wec super season racer. Wec announces eightrace 201819 calendar performance. This super season of eight races spans across more than a year instead of. Fia wec super season a unique contest with two le mans. Fia world endurance championship announces revised season 8. At the same time, for the first time in the history of the wec, the official preseason test will not be held at circuit.
Season 8 ushers in a fresh new era for the fia world endurance championship, with a crossyear 20192020 calendar format over ten months. Total 6 hours of spafrancorchamps 24 hours of le mans 8 hours of bahrain. Who will be racing in the 201819 fia wec super season. In light of the overwhelming popularity of super sebring weekend in march that included the fia wec miles and the imsa 12 hours, next year the two races will share the same weekend once again. You may have already spotted there are two le mans 24 hour races in that period. Endurance championship, with a crossyear 20192020 calendar format over ten months. Scoring positions third and eighth from the sixhour race at spafrancorchamps belgium, porsche has claimed an early world championship title win in the gtepro class of the world endurance championship wec. The season marked the first move to a winter schedule for the championship.
Wec super season teaser short version with 20182019. Silverstone added to wec super season, asian races moved. Ot alonso will race full 201819 wec super season for toyota gazoo racing in lmp1 except fuji due to date conflict submitted 1 year ago by pamelahanderson james hinchcliffe 32. The third race of the season, to be held at shanghai, will also be cut from six hours to four. Round 0 april 67 2018 prologue, circuit paul ricard. Wec super season champions honoured in bahrain fia world. We are confident that by september there will be fewer restrictions. Wec 20192020 fia wec calendar is approved federation.
The weathertech series runs their race the day after wecs 8hour. Keep track of every single race and program it yourself so you do not miss any dates from the calendar. The series is open to prototype and grand tourerstyle racing cars divided into four categories. The fia world endurance championship has issued an updated calendar for. Wec announces 201819 super season calendar and teams. This means that we will have to provide tires with technology and performance that are still up to the minute in over a years time.
The fia wec announced its final calendar for the 20182019 super season, which will kick off with the prologue at paul ricard france in april 2018 and finish at the 24 hours of le mans in 2019. Toyota adds wec to super gt points leader yamashitas schedule. As a result, the fia wec will receive more live tv coverage than any other fiasanctioned championship in north america. Anthony davidson dropped from fulltime toyota wec lineup. Ford will face stiff competition from ferrari, bmw, aston martin and porsche during the wec super season, with corvette joining the fight at le mans. Wec rule changes confirmed for super season after wmsc. Fia wec the date of the 2020 miles of sebring announced. Imsa and wec announce changes to super sebring schedule. The world endurance championship has revealed the provisional calendar for its 20192020 season. The super season will feature two visits to the 24 hours of le mans in june 2018 and june 2019 as well as two visits to spafrancorchamps, which is considered to be the traditional dress rehearsal for the big race the following month. The fia world motor sport council has confirmed the exciting and unique 201819 calendar for the world endurance championship which will see the wec switch to a new look championship that will end each season at the 24 hours of le mans.
The series announced a provisional schedule on 1 september 2017 that shifted the season calendar from a spring to autumn layout with the 24 hours of le mans marque event held in the middle of the championship, to one running from the may 2018 and to june 2019, including two runnings of le mans. The aco announced a provisional calendar on 22 september 2016, largely identical to the 2016 schedule. Stretching over 14 months in order to welcome in the crosscalendar year format, the season featured two visits to spa and le mans, a hugely successful return to sebring in the usa for a joint event with imsa, 86 hours of racing, two former f1 world champions on the entry list, incredible competition. We applied the super season where we were facing the quick withdrawal from porsche and audi in lmp1 and started a concept like this. Season 2019 2020 fia world endurance championship fia wec. Fia world endurance championship super season 2018 2019. Exactly one year later, at the penultimate round of the 20182019 super season, this major goal is ticked off. Season 9 will feature an additional european round at monza in october. Today, the wec has announced the teams wholl be driving this punishing super season which includes two separate runnings of the 24 hours of le mans and the official schedule. Ford gt to race le mans twice in fia wec super season. Alex lynn will join aston martin racing for 20182019 wec.
This allows the wec to place its jewel in the crown the legendary 24 hours of le mans as the super finale to the season. Wec fia world endurance championship 201819 super season. Ot alonso will race full 201819 wec super season for. The fifth race of the season will be at shanghai in november and will be the last of 2018 but the championship will go on with the sebring race before repeating the race at spafrancorchamps and the 24 hours of le mans that will bring the super season to an end. Dragonspeed goes lmp1 for fia wec super season endurance. The fia also moved the date back three weeks to avoid a cultural super bowl liv and a motorsport mexico city eprix conflict in february near austin. Fia world endurance championship 2017 schedule revealed. Fia wec inks landmark live tv deal with fox sports fox.
Next weekends seasonopening six hours of silverstone will see all six. After formula 1 announced their provisional 2019 schedule, the wec moved. Wec 20182019 wec super season tentenths motorsport forum. It will begin with a fourhour race at silverstone, shortened from the usual six hours. Wec reveals 201819 superseason schedule as part of. Wec reverts to calendar year season beginning in 2021. Last night the fia wec honoured its super season champions at a glittering prizegiving ceremony at the softel hotel in bahrain. The major change compared to the original schedule is the removal. Imsa and wec announce changes to super sebring schedule after close collaboration between the sanctioning bodies and track management, start times for two of the weekends four races have been changed, notably the wecs miles of sebring on friday, march 20 round 6 of wec season 8 which will now take place four hours earlier. The series was open to le mans prototypes and grand tourerstyle racing cars meeting four aco categories.
The season will start at spafrancorchamps in may 2018 and conclude at the 24 hours of le mans in june 2019. Wec issues revised calendar and drops super season format for. Five years ago, when the wec was created, we worked on the idea of finishing at le mans, but before it was not. This is where it slightly falls down it takes a long time and may be very expensive. The 201920 fia world endurance championship is the eighth season of the fia world. The prologue 4 hours of silverstone 6 hours of fuji. Alonso wins at le mans for second year in a row, secures. Fia world endurance championship announces revised season. Although potentially subject to change, the 201819 calendar is as follows. World championship titles will be awarded to the leading. Ford wec program confirmed for 20182019 super season.
The world endurance championship has published a revised season schedule that sees the 201920 campaign resume in august while the championship will. First wec winter season to feature between 79 rounds, kick off in september 2019. The 201819 fia world endurance championship was the seventh season of the fia world. The fia world endurance championship will return with a nearly identical schedule, with all nine rounds having been retained, but with a switch to monza for the prologue, following the release of. The super season starts at spa in may 2018, then le mans 24h, followed by silverstone in its new august home. Wec cuts some races to four hours on 20192020 calendar.
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