Endurance Racing

Peugeot's eye-popping 9X8 hypercar is finally set to roll. It'll join the FIA World Endurance Championship for the season's fourth race at Monza in a couple of weeks, bringing a truly outrageous look to the hypercar class if nothing else.

The 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans happens this weekend, but Cadillac has us more interested in the 2023 event. This week, it previewed the Project GTP Hypercar it will be running in next year's FIA World Endurance Championship series, and it's an absolute stunner.

French company Gaussin is pushing hard on hydrogen-based long-haul trucking, and to prove it's ready to bang with the big boys, it's taking the first hydrogen race truck to the Dakar rally in Saudi Arabia next year for the ultimate torture test.

James Glickenhaus is aiming to show that his earlier ventures into the supercar and endurance racing world were not a flash in the pan. With US production now approved, the new 650 bhp SCG 004S will soon be added to the successful SCG 003 range.

Acura has used The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering at Monterey Car Week to unveil its latest endurance racer, the ARX-05. With power from a twin-turbo V6 and a dramatic aero setup, the company is gearing the car up for a tilt at the 2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

In a week and a half's time, Carl Reese is going to strap on a catheter, jump on a BMW K1600GT, start up a bunch of video gear and GPS trackers, pull on a helmet and try to ride more than 2,023 miles (3,545 km) in the space of 24 hours. And this ain't his first rodeo.

Cadillac Racing will return to endurance racing after a 14-year absence next year. Its slickly designed DPi-V.R race car is primed for what Cadillac calls "America's fastest and most technologically advanced sports car competition."

Mazda Motorsports unveiled a new race car for the Daytona Prototype international (DPi) rules. The RT24-P will compete in the Prototype class and is slated for extensive on-track testing in the coming weeks before the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.

Legendary sportscar manufacturer Alpine is continuing its Renault-driven renaissance with a World Endurance Championship competitor. The A460 will compete in the LMP2 class, with Renault Alpine hoping to carry on the legacy of the A441 that won the European Sport-Prototype Championship in 1974.

For the last decade and a half, Audi has dominated the World Endurance Championship racing. It would be easy to dismiss yesterday's 13th Le Mans 24 Hour Race win for the company in 16 years as , "same stuff, different year." In fact, yesterday's win is probably its finest achievement.

With the 2014 World Endurance Championship underway, all eyes are fixed on three mainstays of automotive engineering: Porsche, Audi and Toyota. At the 6 Hours of Spa-on the weekend it was the TS040 Hybrid that outperformed its counterparts to nab the Toyota team its second victory in as many starts.

Audi has unveiled the new R18, a closed carbon fiber monocoque coupe specifically developed for the Le Mans 24 Hours,