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WEC Champions honoured across Europe FIA World Endurance Champions past and present have been honoured at ceremonies all over Europe in the past 10 days, beginning with the FIA's prize giving ceremony in Vienna, moving onto Great Britain, Italy and Germany. Read more about when Porsche's victorious drivers received their World Championship trophies at the Imperial Hofburg Palace HERE Photo shows from left to right: Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1 Porsche Team, Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas   Retrouvez ICI tous les articles de notre site en version française

How the 2016 WEC Championship titles were won  We took at look at how each of the WEC championship titles were won through all the categories.  To refresh your memories you can find the links as follows: FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONS - Porsche Team's Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas HERE LMP1 Private Teams - Rebellion / Alexandre Imperatori, Dominik Kraihamer, Matheo Tuscher - HERE  LMP2 - Signatech Alpine / Gustavo Menezes, Nicolas Lapierre, Stéphane Richemli - HERE FIA WEC GT MANUFACTURERS - Ferrari HERE LMGTE PRO - Aston Martin Racing / Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen HERE LMGTE AM - AF Corse / François Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard, Rui Aguas HERE

Audi era celebrated Where to begin when evaluating Audi’s commitment and achievements over the last 18 seasons in endurance racing? It is an unenviable task.  True epochs are rare in motorsport but the span from 1999 to present day, with a short break in 2004/5 aside, Audi Sport has been a titan of one of racing’s toughest disciplines and it has a strike rate at La Sarthe which is unlikely to ever be beaten in the same time frame.  Audi's immense contribution to endurance racing has been celebrated in two parts on the WEC website.  You can enjoy it again, PART ONE HERE and PART TWO HERE

Interview with Kyle Wilson-Clarke, engineer Porsche No.2 Mark Webber’s final race in his illustrious career was the 6 Hours of Bahrain, and we know now that his place in the No.2 Porsche 919 Hybrid will be taken in 2017 by New Zealander Earl Bamber.  The last round of the 2016 FIA WEC signalled an end to a career which began in the early nineties with Webber’s Australian Formula Ford debut through to the defence this season of his hard-won 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship title.  One man who is in a perfect position to reminisce about Webber’s time at Porsche is his engineer Kyle-Wilson Clarke who was part of the team who clinched the 2015 world championship titles. To read the whole story, CLICK HERE

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