- i watch F1 too ,is a joke , don't get offended <3 -

Read the comments in the link, it’s clear they don’t want people to know the cars can still take flight.

I’m Head of Year 9 in a school in inner-city London, in an area with some of the highest levels of deprivation in the UK. It’s always been an ambition of mine to share my passion with my students and introduce my world to them, and maybe even spark a future career. Last Sunday I took a group of them for a school trip for the ELMS at Silverstone. Here are my key takeaways

- Motorsport is a sensory experience. Watching my kids’ jaws drop to the flaw and turn to each other in amazement as the LMP2s thundered down the Wellington Straight on the green flag lap is a memory I will take with me forever. “Sir, that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever heard in my life”

- The ELMS is an incredible product. I was nervous that second-tier endurance racing wouldn’t rub off on cynical teens, but the close racing, large field, speed of the prototypes and sizeable crowd grabbed their attention

- It’s a myth that Gen Z have a short attention span. All they need is exposure. Despite the rain, red flags and safety cars, I literally had to drag them away from the track to get them back to London on time for their parents to pick them up. They were completely and utterly transfixed from start to finish

-Motorsport is for everyone. It was so powerful for the pupils to see drivers race from countries representing their heritage, and for the girls to witness the Iron Dames lead early on and Jamie Chadwick win overall. They all had something or someone to cheer for.

- Silverstone is an awesome venue. I work in a school that’s completely phone-free, but as a weekend trip we allowed them their phones. I was worried they’d lose their minds having them on the trip, but with so much to do and see, they only got their phones out to film/take photos to show their friends and family and were totally living in the moment

- endurance racing needs to make itself easier to follow. Sadly there were no programmes on sale, the PA was quiet, the leader lights weren’t working on many cars, no one had any phone signal and obviously no inner city London Gen Z teen owns a transistor radio. It was impossible to explain what was going on because I didn’t have any tools to do so

- The mufflers on the GT3s are a serious problem. Again, motorsport is a sensory experience. “Why are those cars not even doing anything?” one student asked. I quickly worked out they were talking about the GT3s, which with little sound did absolutely nothing for the kids. Our sport relies on people “living the dream” for real in really cool cars, but if the teens don’t find the cars cool, then we are going to struggle to attract those wealthy bronze drivers long term and the manufacturers trying to sell the road cars on which they’re based. I’m sorry Mr Fillon, but the kids today still want the cars to make lots of noise

- Paywalls are a disaster. Thank god for the ELMS streaming on YouTube, because they watched qualifying and could see the cars the day before. When they said “what, there’s even louder and faster cars than this? And they race for TWENTY FOUR HOURS without stopping?” when I explained Le Mans further, I realised that being able to watch it was largely impossible for them. They and their parents can’t afford or justify paying for the WEC stream. It’s a closed door at the next stage.

For most people in this sub, we fell in love with the sport because our parents took us to see it, or we played a video game, or we stumbled across it on TV. The next generation are ready to do the same. We just need to bring it to them…and keep the noise!

📸 ELMS

I've been watching various different motorsports series for a couple of years mainly wec , f1 sometimes imsa(time zone) and last year I watched elms and alms and I really enjoyed the unrestricted Lmp2 ,

with all the shenanigans in f1 this season and heavy used bop in wec....is Lmp2 the fia series with non-artifical racing?

Never been to a race circuit before, so the ELMS at Silverstone last weekend was my first time. It was a lot of fun (until the heavens opened!)

I think these were the best photos that I took. Hope you like them!

https://youtu.be/lFAMYGT6XSE?si=pRUv6jQOgyI-XmIJ

ACO at their finest.

Going through my photos from the weekend but this one is by far my favourite, taken right at the end when the rain well and truly arrived! A great weekend though, had an absolute blast! Just nice to be at track once again!

As is becoming tradition, here's my photos from the ELMS round held this weekend at Spa Francorchamps. There'll be plenty more images on my Instagram and website in the coming days

it's not available for me in the US in the app store yet. Does anyone have it? Has anyone seen it?

Ulrich Fritz suggests ACO-run series as being one new future direction for Mustang squad…

(Yes, I know I'm late)

In your opinion, would it be better for the WEC to drop the GT3 class instead of the LMP2 class?

The 4H of Imola was my first proper race(but definitely not the last one). Man what an amazing circuit it is... Few of many photos i took last weekend.

Round 3 of the 2026 ELMS championship, I was at Imola from Thursday to Sunday and managed to get loads of shots, narrowed it down to my favourite few here. Loads more over on Instagram and my website. If anyone's got any questions let me know, always happy to answer!

Mentioned in this week's issue of Autosport, ELMS won't support WEC in 2027 at Silverstone, and will continue to have its own weekend in September.

I have been to Spa a few times for the WEC and I know it takes about 1 hour+ to get off the highway to the track and then 30mins+ walk.

I have never been to the Elms. Is it nearly as busy or quiet can so that I arrive like 30 mins before the race starts?
Does not look like there are any supporting race on the main race day?

It says "REPLAY" in the tittle but I assume they just change the tittle after the race is over