Two brothers and an idea for their own magazine
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.

2013
The WEC-Magazin is launched
The site changes, but the goal remains the same
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.
2025
The magazine becomes an archive

Our team

Tobias Krause
CHIEF EDITOR
Tobias is editor-in-chief and one of the co-founders of Endurance Archive. Motorsport has always been a huge part of his life – after growing up with Formula 1, Michael Schumacher and Ferrari, it wasn’t long before Tobias discovered the wonders of endurance racing.
Tobias has travelled to racetracks all across Europe and visited countless motorsport events. Even though he has attended multiple WEC events in recent years, Tobias still has to tick off The Big One: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Attending the world’s greatest endurance race is top of his list of priorities.

David Tunnicliffe
english content & Podcast
David heads up our English-language editorial team and is also in charge of maintaining the statistics side of Endurance Archive. Hailing originally from Kenilworth in the UK, David has lived in Sonneberg, Germany for almost a decade. He grew up watching an old VHS copy of Steve McQueen’s Le Mans and early-hour wake-up calls to watch the likes of Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill win F1 world titles.
David’s first visit to Le Mans came in 2011 with the seminal Audi-Peugeot battle. Needless to say he was hooked right there and then! Since then, he has returned to the Circuit de la Sarthe on four more occasions and also travelled to numerous other FIA WEC races to cover the race action for Endurance Archive.

Dominic Krause
Finance & Marketing
Dominic has been an integral part of the Endurance Archive team since day one. Together with Tobias, Dominic laid the foundation for the first independent WEC website in 2013. In addition to his passion for editorial work, Dominic focuses on marketing activities for the external appearance of the Endurance Archive.
Having grown up watching Formula 1 on Sundays in front of the TV, Dominic has been traveling to a variety of race tracks every year since 2013. He is very enthusiastic about junior series and is always the editors’ first source when a new driver moves up to the WEC.

Walter Schruff
CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
Walter is Endurance Archive’s chief photographer and provides the editorial team with exclusive images from the majority of races in the WEC season. A seasoned sportscar fan, Walter first travelled to Le Mans in 1983 and has returned every single year since – meaning 2021 will be his 39th 24 Heures du Mans in succession!
Based in the far west of Germany, Spa-Francorchamps and the Nürburgring are practically Walter’s back yard and his intimate sportscar knowledge and photographic skills are key to the website running smoothly. He annual Le Mans visits are complemented by regular trips to Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps, as well as selected long-haul races towards the end of the season.

Ton Kerdijk
PHOTOGRAPHER
Ton is the second photographer here at Endurance Archive. The Dutchman lives in southern Netherlands just 35km from the German border and only a short distance away from the cult circuits at Spa-Francorchamps and the Nürburgring.
A huge Fiat fan back home, Ton has been travelling to the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2009, supporting the numerous Dutch drivers and teams that take part every year. He has joined Walter on trips to WEC races and capture the action and is often seen marching up and down the pitlane in his bright Oranje helmet.

Maksym Lobachov
PHOTOGRAPHER
Maksym is a freelance photographer from Leipzig, who already has a lot of experience in the field of automotive, event and sports photography. He is working with us for the first time in the 2024 season to immerse himself in endurance motorsport.
He will support our photographers Walter and Ton at selected races on location. We are looking forward to his new approaches and fresh ideas to make our content even more versatile.