The Latest Breaking News from Cool Racing

2025 Le Mans 24 Hours invitations awarded to ELMS winners

AO by TF was one of several teams to secure an automatic invitation for the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours after it won the overall title in this year's European Le Mans Series.

Motorsport · Oct 21, 2024

ELMS titles sealed at Portimao, 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours invitations awarded

Lorenzo Fluxa, Ritomo Miyata and Malthe Jakobsen stood tall in the 4 Hours of Portimao, the European Le Mans Series season finale. In a grandstand conclusion to a tightly contested season, two of the championship battles were decided on the very last lap of the race.

Autosport · Oct 21, 2024

Retired Lapierre to become Alpine sporting director in WEC

Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre will take a new management role at Alpine’s World Endurance Championship team following his retirement from racing.

Motorsport · Oct 4, 2024

Peugeot explains decision not to use WEC reserve driver at Spa

A desire to maximise seat time for the regular drivers of its 2024-spec 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, which is making only its second race outing prior to next month's Le Mans 24 Hours, was cited by technical director Olivier Jansonnie as a justification for not giving reserve Malthe Jakobsen a…

Motorsport · May 9, 2024

F2 runner-up Vesti makes ELMS switch

Vesti is ending a remarkable junior formula career which saw him take the title in the 2019 Formula Regional European Championship and be a consistent frontrunner during his two years in Formula 3.

Autosport · Jan 11, 2024

Toyota protege Miyata signs for Rodin Carlin in maiden F2 campaign

Miyata, who became the youngest driver ever to win both of Japanese motorsport's two most prestigious series in the same year, will contest dual programmes in F2 and the European Le Mans Series with LMP2 outfit Cool Racing.

Autosport · Nov 28, 2023

Toyota protege Miyata signs for Carlin in maiden F2 campaign

Miyata, who became the youngest driver ever to win both of Japanese motorsport's two most prestigious series in the same year, will contest dual programmes in F2 and the European Le Mans Series with LMP2 outfit Cool Racing.

Motorsport · Nov 28, 2023

Hirakawa joins Miyata, Lawson in Super Formula exodus

Hirakawa, a mainstay of Team Impul since 2018, has made the decision to focus on his Toyota commitments in the World Endurance Championship and reserve driver duties in Formula 1 for McLaren.

Motorsport · Nov 22, 2023

The next Danish Le Mans hope seeking to follow in Kristensen's footsteps

Malthe Jakobsen was not even a year old when Tom Kristensen secured his record-equalling sixth victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2004. The Danish endurance legend pulled clear of Jacky Ickx’s tally over the coming years and by 2013 had amassed a remarkable nine in the world’s most…

Autosport · Jul 12, 2023

Could Le Mans 24 Hours safety car rule changes prompt an LMP2 upset?

For this year’s centenary edition of the endurance racing blue ribband, the previous system of splitting the field behind three safety cars spaced around the 8.467-mile circuit has been dropped and a single pace car will be used in the event of a serious incident.

Autosport · Jun 8, 2023