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News Outlets

Generally, news outlets are sparse if you compare it to Formula 1, for example, so I try not to be as picky lol.

dailysportscar.com - probably my favorite motorsport news site. Their editor is Graham Goodwin, who also does commentary for WEC. Good sources, good information allround nice experience.

sportscar365.com - also a very good website. Also a good place for driver interviews session recaps etc. In recent years they have written speculation as fact a few times but in recent times I have not found anything like that.

endurance-info.com - interesting website to me, risen to 'fame' in recent times. Originally in French and I have also linked the French website. They write in English too but not all articles, so I usually just use the browser translate option. A lot of their content is behind a pay wall but they did manage to spoil some big news stories.

motorsport-total.com - covers a lot of motorsport, including WEC and the 24H of Le Mans. Not their main priority, though, but does come with original stories at times.

endurance24.fr - In French, personally don't use it as much but provides a lot of coverage

Twitter Accounts

Still the easiest form of social media to follow updates on to me. Most of these accounts aren't on blue sky and idk about threads cuz I don’t have it.

Only Endurance - Many updates, news, on track action etc

Endurance24 - In French, but the translation option exists!

24H of Le Mans - There's an extra twitter account for the race aside from the official WEC account

WEC Data - For cool and fun facts

Eve Hewitt/Radio Le Mans - For radiolemans updates

Sportcars 365 - News outlet

Daily Sportscar - News outlet

FIA WEC - Official WEC account ofc

Endurance-Info - News outlet, often French, also sometimes in English

Sound

Radio Le Mans - Live radio coverage of every single session (including test days). + Several preview shows of which quite a few they post to Spotify as a podcast. (Also on SiriusXM 202 & on 91.2 FM trackside.)

TWISC - I'm assuming they will drop some podcasts the upcoming month previewing and reviewing Le Mans.

Midweek Motorsport - Every Wednesday, you can also listen live on Radio Le Mans

SC365 Double Stint - Also some good recaps.

Live Timing

FIAWEC+ - Live Timing obviously also always helps to follow.

Results Page - Posted quickly after each session, Results in PDF form. Several options such as times per class, per driver etc.

Lastly, not to talk too much about myself.. but I will be posting session updates at least for the test day sessions but if people want I can also update on the other sessions throughout the week!

Also handy to follow, but not up yet for this year is the r/wec scratchpad. I will link it as soon as it's out. Here's a screenshot as an example. It keeps track of all notable events.

André Lotterer, Charles Swolsman & Narain Karthikeyan (as pictured above in order), were set to compete in the race's 2009 edition. The team qualified 14th overall. Narain Karthikeyan was set to start the race, but quickly had to visit the restroom before the race would go underway.

With just 10 minutes left to go, he jumped over the pit wall to enter the pit lane. But he tripped, and fell dislocating his left shoulder. Below, a recording of the broadcast as they found out what happened.

Karthikeyan was immediately seen by the Audi doctor who re-located his shoulder and put it in a sling.The Audi doctor then cleared him the race, but the doctor at the circuit did not. Which meant Swolsman and Lotterer would have to complete the race with each other.

A few other cars were also left without a third driver, the eventual winner in GT1. The #63 Corvette of Magnussen, O'Connel & Garcia, was only able to utilize Magnussen during the first half of the race as he fell sick during the latter half. And the #009 entry of Hall, Primat & Kox had to miss out on Hall for the latter half of the race. Stuart Hall, was involved in an accident with the #26 LMP2. And while he initially was allowed to continue, the ACO deemed the incident his fault, and he was penalised for it. A heavy penalty at that as he was excluded from the race.

More recently, in 2014, the #79 Porsche was entered in the GTE-Am class. Its bronze driver, Bret Curtis, crashed the car during qualifying. The chassis was irreparable and Curtis was hospitalized. The team managed to find a new chassis but their replacement bronze driver, Sebastien Crubile was denied by the ACO to take part in the race as he did not have any night time driving laps.

This meant Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil would have to drive the race without a third driver. As they were both Pros they were moved to the GTE-Pro class and would eventually finish the race in the top 5.

A similar case came relatively recently when Philippe Cimadomo was excluded from the 2022 24H of Le Mans due to a concern for safety.

For a moment it seemed like the car would not be able to compete in the race due to this but Nyck de Vries was called up to compete in the race. This meant the car moved up from LMP2 Pro/Am to LMP2

A substitute driver is defined in the Le Mans regulations as only being allowed after the opening of scrutineering if due to force majeure. But the replacement driver has to conform to these regulations as written below.