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Richard Westbrook will partner Maxime Martin in the No. 97 Aston Martin Racing GTE Pro entry at this weekend’s 8 Hours of Bahrain, eight and final round of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship.

As the FIA World Endurance Championship prepares for its final race of Season 8 in Bahrain, it also marks the countdown to the final time that LMP1 will form the championship’s top-tier category before the introduction of the Hypercars in 2021.

The FIA World Endurance Championship returns to the Middle East for the second time during the 2019/20 season. The race in Bahrain was a feature of the championship from 2012 to 2017, was missing from the 2018/19 Super Season and returned as Round 4 during the 2019/20 championship as an eight-hour race instead of the six hours held at the previous events.

Revised power output for the LMP2 category has been agreed on, starting in 2021.

On Saturday 14 November the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship season will come to an end in the Middle East. With the destination of the LMP1 and LMGTE manufacturer and the Team and Driver titles in LMP2, the 8 Hours of Bahrain will be the deciding round for who will win the remaining ones, including the World Endurance Drivers' Championship titles in both LMP1 and LMGTE.

Team Owner Tom Ferrier has gone from a successful national motorsport career as a driver to running a championship winning race team, including lifting the inaugural Michelin Le Mans Cup GT3 teams title in 2016.

Here is what the winning crews from the four classes said after the 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

At the end of an adrenaline-fuelled 24 Hours of Le Mans, both FIA Women in Motorsport supported crews with the Richard Mille Racing Team and Iron Lynx in the Iron Dames project impressed and claimed top results in the 88th edition of the world’s greatest endurance race.

The 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, Round 7 of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship, finished with a third victory in a row for the no8 Toyota Gazoo Racing and for Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi, while Brendon Hartley celebrates his second overall win at La Sarthe, once with Porsche and now with Toyota.

As the sun rose above the Circuit de La Sarthe the big news of the last six hours was the no7 Toyota had to pit for a power issue that forced the team to make a lengthy pitstop to change the turbo. The TS050 Hybrid regained the track in 4th overall but six laps behind the leading no8 Toyota and two adrift of the third placed no3 Rebellion R13. The no1 Rebellion is second two laps behind the no8 Toyota.