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Owing to two all-female line-ups, representing the Richard Mille Racing Team and Iron Lynx, in the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship season, history is about to be made with six females for the first time competing full-time in any FIA-sanctioned World Championship-level competition.

Below is a summary of a Q&A session with Marek Nawarecki, the FIA's Director of Sport and Touring Cars, and Thierry Bouvet, the ACO’s Director of Competition, following the Prologue – the official FIA WEC pre-season test – which was staged at Spa-Francorchamps earlier this week.

As part of the build-up to the new season, some of the cars taking part in Round 1 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps took to the track for the travelling shots.

The 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship is set to start with the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps this Saturday.

European Le Mans Series LMP3 champion and 24 Hours of the Nürburgring class winner Alex Brundle joins Polish outfit Inter Europol Competition in their debut FIA World Endurance Championship season, starting this weekend with the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

The Prologue concluded this evening with the no8 Toyota GR010-Hybrid Hypercar finishing the fourth and final session of the two-day official test at the top of the timing screens, with Sebastien Buemi posting a 2m04.669 lap.

Britain’s Mike Conway, alongside teammates Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, took the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship title in the final season of the LMP1 Toyota TS050-Hybrid. Now, at Spa-Francorchamp,s Toyota will be out on track with the new for 2021 Toyota GR010-Hybrid Le Mans Hypercar ahead of the first race of the season, the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday 1 May.

The cars gathered at La Source at Spa-Francorchamps for the traditional preseason group shot. Thirty-five cars lined up at the world-famous corner with the new for 2021 season Toyota GR010-Hybrid Hypercars at the front.

The opening round of the six race 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship will take place in Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday 1 May.

The ACO and L’Equipe have announced today a new three-year free-to-air broadcast agreement for the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.