Review World Endurance Championship 2029 (PDF)

Eighteen seasons at the heart of the World Endurance Championship

Created in 2012 by the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the FIA World Endurance Championship has established itself as one of the major international endurance racing championships. As the successor to the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, it has brought together leading manufacturers, teams and endurance specialists around an international calendar centred on the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The inaugural season saw Audi take the championship with the R18 e-tron quattro, while Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer became the first World Endurance Champions. Since 2012, the championship has gone through several generations of prototypes, major regulatory changes and the arrival of numerous manufacturers that have helped shape the modern history of endurance racing.

Review World Endurance Championship 2029 documents the 2029 season session by session while bringing together the results from the eighteen seasons covered by the book, from 2012 to 2029. The book therefore combines detailed coverage of a complete season with a historical archive tracing the development of the FIA WEC across almost two decades.

Audi, Toyota, Porsche, Ferrari, Peugeot, Alpine, Cadillac, BMW, Aston Martin, Ford and other manufacturers have all played important roles during different periods of the championship. The drivers and crews who have won world titles and major endurance classics are equally central to this history. The evolution of the categories, prototypes and Grand Touring cars also reflects the technical and sporting transformation of the FIA WEC.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans naturally remains one of the key reference points of this archive. Around the French endurance classic, the championship has developed an international calendar featuring circuits such as Spa-Francorchamps, Sebring, Fuji, Bahrain, São Paulo, Imola and the Circuit of The Americas. Each venue creates its own challenges and provides another opportunity to compare the performance of different generations of cars and crews.

The modern era of the FIA WEC has been particularly shaped by the development of the Hypercar category and the arrival of an increasing number of manufacturers. The LMGT3 class has also added another dimension to the field, bringing together Grand Touring cars from several manufacturers. This combination of prototypes and GT machinery has become one of the defining characteristics of the championship.

Review World Endurance Championship 2029 brings these different dimensions together in a single archive: practice sessions, qualifying, Hyperpole, races, results, drivers, crews, teams, manufacturers, categories, circuits and statistics. It allows readers to find a race, compare different seasons, follow the career of a driver or crew, or measure the evolution of a manufacturer over time.

Like the other Reviews in the Red Books collection, this book is not simply a journalistic account of the season. It is designed as a physical, structured and lasting archive, preserving the essential data and reference points from the history of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

With Review World Endurance Championship 2029, the collection covers eighteen FIA World Endurance Championship seasons, from 2012 to 2029, while adding another detailed season to an archive designed to continue growing year after year.

Eighteen seasons. Hundreds of races. Leading manufacturers, drivers and crews. Prototypes and GT cars. An archive of the World Endurance Championship, with the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the heart of its history.