Following ratification by the FIA World Motor Sport Council this week, the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar in addition to a number of future regulatory modifications have been outlined on the ACO Press Convention previous the 92nd operating of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

EIGHT ROUNDS MAINTAINED FOR 2025 AS IMOLA SECURES MULTI-YEAR EXTENSION
Because the FIA World Endurance Championship continues to go from power to power, the 2025 season will see the championship preserve the identical eight occasions held throughout 4 continents that fashioned this 12 months’s schedule. The FIA WEC promoter has additionally signed a contract with Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari that may maintain the Italian circuit on the calendar till 2028.
Mohammed ben Sulayem, FIA President, stated: “Over the past couple of years the FIA World Endurance Championship has been having fun with an unimaginable interval of development when it comes to each sporting stage in addition to recognition. With this got here the calendar growth and, final 12 months, the sequence settled for an eight-round schedule that gives it with each geographical variety as properly a line-up of world-class racing venues to stage the occasions. It’s subsequently nice information to have the identical schedule confirmed for 2025, which for the FIA WEC means a secure base on which it might develop even additional.”
Pierre Fillon, President of the Vehicle Membership de l’Ouest (ACO), stated: “The 2025 FIA WEC calendar is a continuity of 2024, with eight rounds scheduled on a few of the world’s most well-known circuits. This season is about stability and publicity in key geographical areas. 2023 was distinctive, 2024 excellent. In 2025, we will attain new heights, notably with Aston Martin becoming a member of Hypercar. See you subsequent 12 months for an additional superb episode in motor sport historical past.”
Richard Mille, FIA Endurance Fee President, stated: “The 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar may be finest summarised by the favored saying – ‘if it ain’t broke, do not repair it’. The eight rounds that we all know from this 12 months supply an excellent combination of well-established circuits and provides the sequence presence in each the Americas, Asia, Europe and within the Center East, offering the right stage for the occasions of the golden period of endurance racing to unfold. On the identical time, being in so many corners of the globe is nice for the sequence, for the followers and for the producers concerned, giving them the possibility to showcase their dream automobiles at so many markets.”
Frédéric Lequien, FIA World Endurance Championship CEO, stated: “The 2025 FIA WEC calendar is about consolidation and making a schedule that works for each our groups and followers. The FIA WEC is rising at a unprecedented charge however we should stay humble and by sustaining eight rounds, we’re listening to our groups, stakeholders and companions by additionally retaining finances in thoughts. It is vital for the FIA WEC to succeed in as large an viewers as potential and with eight races throughout 5 completely different areas, we’ll proceed to attain this. We’re delighted that Imola has dedicated to the FIA WEC till not less than 2028 – the circuit and metropolis Mayor Marco Panieri have been an amazing assist and this 12 months’s inaugural FIA WEC race there was an enormous success, which we sit up for emulating in 2025 and past.”
BIGGER GRIDS AND NO SINGLE-CAR MANUFACTURER ENTRIES IN HYPERCAR
New grid necessities have been validated for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship season. To be able to improve sporting equity and optimise stage taking part in discipline every producer must enter a minimal of two automobiles within the Hypercar class. Two-car entries shall be obligatory to attain factors within the FIA Hypercar World Endurance Producers’ Championship, whereas any extra automobiles from a given producer will participate within the FIA World Cup for Hypercar Groups. Because of this, but in addition to accommodate the arrival of recent producers, the utmost grid dimension is elevated to 40 automobiles, relevant to all FIA WEC races apart from the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is able to proceed to host greater girds.
HYPERCAR HOMOLOGATION CYCLE EXTENDED
Guaranteeing stability of technical rules amid new producers becoming a member of the competitors every year, the present homologation cycle for the Hypercar class automobiles has been prolonged till the top of 2029, with two further growth jokers, relevant for the 2028 and 2029 seasons, added.
ARRIVAL OF NEXT GEN LMP2 POSTPONED
Bearing in mind the continued recognition of the present LMP2 bundle, it was determined to postpone the introduction of the following technology of the LMP2 class automobile to 2028 (as an alternative of the initially deliberate 2026), with new chassis and engine but to be chosen. The present technology of the LMP2 automobile was launched in 2017. As a result of excessive quantity of entries within the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class, the LMP2 class was suspended from the sequence in 2024, nevertheless, the automobiles maintained their FIA homologation. In addition they proceed to participate within the 24 Hours of Le Mans in addition to in European Le Mans Sequence, Asian Le Mans Sequence and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.