FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 2024
Phil is back for his 5th season of the World Endurance Championship, this year joining Hertz Team JOTA in the Hypercar class, climbing behind the wheel of one of the teams’ Porsche 963s.
Phil is back for his 5th season of the World Endurance Championship, this year joining Hertz Team JOTA in the Hypercar class, climbing behind the wheel of one of the teams’ Porsche 963s.
Phil is delighted to be joining JDC-Miller MotorSports’ Porsche 963 GTP programme for all five 2024 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup events.
Phil is back for his 4th season of the World Endurance Championship with United Autosports. After a couple of difficult seasons, his hunger grows to regain his world championship title.
After a 3rd place finish in the 2022 European Le Mans Series season, Phil is once again back with United Autosports to hunt down his second ELMS title.
Having won the Asian Le Mans Series both in LMP3, and LMP2, Phil returns for a 3rd Season in Asia. This time round he is joined by an amateur in an attempt to conquer the LMP2 Pro/AM championship.
With a disappointing end to the 2021 WEC championship, Phil is back again for United Autosports in 2022 to challenge for his former World Championship title.
After finishing 2nd in the 2021 European Le Mans Series season, Phil is once again back with United Autosports for this year's ELMS championship.
After taking the FIA World Endurance Championship title in 2020, Phil again raced for United Autosports in 2021 with his longtime teammate Filipe Albuquerque and new United driver Fabio Scherer. The team finished 4th in the championship.
After winning the championship with teammate Filipe Albuquerque in 2020, Phil again competed for United Autosports in an Oreca 07 in the 2021 season with teammates Tom Gamble and Jonathan Aberdein. Together they finished the championship in 2nd place.
Although 2019/2020 was only Phil's first full FIA World Endurance Championship campaign, he proceeded to win the entire championship in a United Autosports ORECA-Gibson 07.
With his teammate Filipe Albuquerque, Phil came 4th in the 2019 European Le Mans Series (ELMS). For the third consecutive year, Phil raced for United Autosports in an Oreca 07 and proceeded to win the 2020 championship outright.
Phil Hanson claimed an excellent fourth LMP2 class placing in the Le Mans 24 Hours – the British teenager’s ninth overall finish lowering the record he set on his debut in the world-famous sportscar endurance race in 2017. The Ascot-based 19-year-old, the youngest driver in the 183-driver, 61-car field in 2019, had become the youngest overall finisher by placing 11th in 2017. Read the full race review here.
Phil competed in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), a Europe-based sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), and for a second consecutive year, for United Autosports. He raced a Ligier JS P2 in the opening three races before switching to an Oreca 07.
Phil won the 2018-19 Asian Le Mans Series outright sharing a United Autosports entered Ligier JS P2 with Paul Di Resta (GB). Phil became the youngest Asian Le Mans Series champion (2016-17). The series, contested between November 2018 and February 2019 saw Phil race at Shanghai for the first time, and return to Fuji, Buriram and Sepang.
In what was his maiden race for United Autosports, Phil lined-up in a star-studded driver roster sharing a Ligier JS P217 sports-prototype with Spain’s double former F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso, and McLaren F1’s 2018 official test and reserve driver Lando Norris for the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
For the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, Phil teamed-up with ex-Formula 1 and DTM champion Paul Di Resta (GB) plus Alex Brundle (GB). In the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen, Phil was teamed again with Di Resta with Bruno Senna making up the three-man line-up.
After becoming the youngest overall finisher in the 94-year history of the annual Le Mans race on his début in 2017 by placing 11th, Phil suffered heartache in 2018 when the Ligier JS P217 he shared with Filipe Albuquerque (PT) and Paul Di Resta (GB) suffered major damage when Di Resta crashed out of fourth place with less than five hours to run. Read the full race review here.
In 2018, Phil raced the #22 United Autosports Ligier JS P217 and was partnered by Filipe Albuquerque in five races while Bruno Senna deputised for Filipe in the opening race. The #22 endured appalling luck in the opening races but finished on a high with two consecutive wins on the bounce!
In 2017, Phil raced with Tockwith Motorsports and completed three European Le Mans Series races - Silverstone, Monza and Red Bull Ring - in a LMP2 Ligier JS P217.
Racing with Tockwith again, Phil contested 3 FIA World Endurance Championship races - Spa-Francorchamps, Le Mans & Nürburgring in a LMP2 Ligier JS P217.
Phil became the youngest overall finisher in the 94-year history of the annual Le Mans race on his début in 2017 by placing 11th (9th LMP2). Phil raced alongside co-drivers Nigel Moore (GB) and Karun Chandhok (IND).
Phil remained with Tockwith Motorsports when he stepped up to LMP3 in late 2016. He became the youngest Asian Le Mans Series champion when he won the 2016-17 LMP3 title.
Driving a Ligier JS P3, he scored three podiums including two wins (Fuji and Sepang) in the four-race series.
Phil contested the inaugural British LMP3 Cup race in a Tockwith Motorsport-entered Ligier JS P3 with Nigel Moore (GB). They won from pole-position - Phil's maiden sports-prototype race.
Phil participated in three MLMC races in the same Tockwith Audi R8 LMS with Nigel Moore (GB) that he was racing in the Dunlop Endurance Championship that year. 2016 also marked Phil's début at the world-famous Le Mans circuit.
Phil switched from karts to car racing in 2016 and won Dunlop Endurance Championship class honours in a Tockwith Motorsports entered Audi R8 LMS with Nigel Moore (GB), scoring six class podiums – five class wins in the eight-race series.