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The most eagerly-awaited sportscar season ever

The World Endurance Championship kicks off this weekend at Silverstone, with new cars, new rules and, most significantly, with Porsche on the grid. GARY WATKINS previews what promises to be an intense season of racing

Gary Watkins Apr 17, 2014, 8:54 PM

Porsche's return, a new set of revolutionary regulations for LMP1, fresh privateer challengers on the way and a wave of new P2 machinery coming must make this the most eagerly-anticipated season of international sportscar racing ever.

There's just so much going on in the World Endurance Championship, which kicks off at Silverstone this weekend, to excite sportscar fans.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.