WEC: Prologue points to competitive campaign as BMW tops times

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WEC is anyone’s game after the Prologue

With 14 hours of Prologue testing in the books, there’s plenty to analyze during the off-days to come before the 36 FIA World Endurance Championship cars fire up again in the paddock on Wednesday for the first Free Practice session of the 2025 season. You can never read too much into testing, especially in a Balance of Performance-governed formula. But you can get a feel for what’s to come by combining the data at hand with conversations in the …

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Four test sessions and four different cars at the top of the timesheet. For the final run of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) prologue, the BMW #20 has achieved the best brand. BMW shows itself, Cadillac and Ferrari confirm. This is what we can remember from this fourth and final session of the prologue. A fourth different car achieved the best time of these rides organized upstream of the first round of the season. Discreet until then, th…

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Robin Frijns achieved the best time in the official preseason test of the sports car World Cup (FIA WEC) in Qatar and shows that the BMW M Hybrid V8 has increased further. Cadillac and Ferrari are also in the top five.

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WEC: Prologue points to competitive campaign as BMW tops times

BMW emerged from the FIA World Endurance Championship’s traditional Prologue test with pre-season bragging rights after Robin Frijns topped the timesheets for the German manufacturer, as the leading contenders proved to be extremely evenly-matched

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Robin Frijns fastest for BMW WRT in final WEC Prologue session

Robin Frijns was fastest for BMW WRT in the fourth and final FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue pre-season test session. The final four hours of the 2025 WEC Prologue took place in the evening at the Lusail International Circuit which will host the season-opener next week. After the disruption from yesterday and this morning’s session, Hypercar and LMGT3 teams valued all the time available during green flag running. The first FCY was depl…