Our journey begins in 2013, when brothers Dominic and Tobias Krause set their minds to solving a fundamental problem. By chance, the two Formula 1 fans stumbled across the newly founded World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) and immediately fell in love with the sport. But there is one thing that makes getting started extremely complicated: Nowhere is it explained what endurance racing actually is and how it works in detail.

This problem was the birth of our website. Under the name ‘WEC-Magazin’, we were the first and only website to publish articles and news about the FIA WEC.

Starting our own magazine helped us to find our way into the subject matter and to prepare the collected information for other fans for the first time. But what began as a purely German project by two brothers quickly grew into the English-speaking world in 2014. With the support of other dedicated fans (James and David), we began to bring together the best of the UK and Germany.

Our endurance family grew in the same year, and not just in the editorial area. Thanks to Walter and Ton, we were able to capture our own images for the first time in addition to the available press photos and share our impressions with the fans.

Since then, we have constantly reinvented ourselves, tried out new concepts and published exciting content, exclusive interviews and race reports about the WEC. At the centre of our work is always the founding idea of explaining endurance racing simply to everyone. Right from the start, we created all the content ourselves. On-site visits enable us to deliver first-class analyses and reports.

Our website is one of the few on the internet that reports exclusively and independently on the topic of endurance racing, in particular the FIA WEC. However, you can’t reach all fans equally with texts alone, which is why we published the first episode of our podcast in 2019. The programme was well received by fans and interested parties and has been published weekly since the 2023 season.

The next significant step in our journey marks the year 2025. For several years now, our focus has shifted from daily reports to sustainable and permanent content. The WEC Magazine is no longer the digital endurance newspaper it started out as, but rather a fully-fledged archive for endurance racing. To make this change visible, we have dropped our previous name and renamed our pages ‘Endurance Archive’. The work of the last few years will be retained and there will also be new content in the future.

Our mission remains unchanged after a decade: Preserving knowledge about endurance racing and making it freely accessible to everyone. We continue to deliberately avoid paywalls and other blockades – as befits an archive.