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Five of the drivers competing in this weekend’s 6 Hours of Monza, Round 3 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship, answered some questions in the pre event press conference.

The first session of the 6 Hours of Monza weekend saw the no7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010-Hybrid set the fastest lap, with Jose Maria Lopez posting 1m38.401 lap, 0.134s ahead of Brendon Hartley in the no8 Toyota and 0.152s ahead of the no36 Alpine A480-Gibson. The two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs were 4th and 5th fastest with the no709 finishing four hundredths ahead of the no708.

Round 3 of the FIA World Endurance Championship will take place at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Italy. While The Prologue, the official preseason test, was held at Monza in 2017, the FIA WEC has never raced at Italy’s premier race circuit.

In early 2020, the FIA, the ACO and IMSA announced their intention to work hand-in-hand to create a joint top class for Endurance racing. The three parties have now come to an agreement on the technical specifications for the new category.

John Elkann, Chairman of Ferrari, will be the official starter at the 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, waving the French flag at 16:00 CET on August 21 to unleash the field of 62 cars.

Round five of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 6 Hours of Fuji, has been canceled and will be replaced by an additional six-hour race in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Peugeot has taken the wraps off the new 9X8, its Le Mans Hypercar challenger poised to make its competitive debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2022.

Next month’s round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 6 Hours of Monza, is set to welcome a limited number of spectators.

The class winners took part in the post race press conference after the 8 Hours of Portimao.

Round 2 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship saw an epic battle for victory in each of the classes, with Toyota Gazoo Racing taking a 1-2 at the head of the 32 car field at the end of the 8 Hours of Portimão. The #8 Toyota GR010-Hybrid, driven by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Kazuki Nakajima, took a last gasp win after being challenged by the #7 Toyota in the final 15 minutes of the race and a race long challenge by the #36 Alpine Elf Matmut A480-Gibson.