Bathurst Councillor Warren Aubin has played down fears that the sale of the Bathurst 12 Hour to V8 Supercars may be unhealthy move for the event.In the past, the event has been co-promoted by Yeehah Events and the Bathurst Regional Council. However, it was last week announced that Supercars Events will now also take a stake […]
Motorsport.com’s German Editor Stefan Ziegler explains what Audi and its motorsport head Wolfgang Ullrich may have to face after that fateful DTM radio message: “Push him out”.A short radio message to Timo Scheider. A bit of contact between him and Robert Wickens, who hit series leader Pascal Wehrlein into the gravel bed too. And there […]
Two prominent guest drivers take on the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup challenge as it heads into the second half of the season after the summer break. At the race weekend in Belgium’s Spa (August 21-23 ), Patrick Dempsey returns to the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup after his debut last year at Hockenheim. […]
On Tuesday the World Endurance Championship held a star-studded press conference at the Nurburgring, one month before its inaugural race at the German track on Aug. 28 through 30. The press conference, held in front of a large gathering of German and international media, took place on the second of a two-day test. Of the […]
BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS won the Total 24 Hours of Spa today. Nick Catsburg, Lucas Luhr and Markus Palttala drove the #46 BMW Z4 GT3 to score the win for the Belgian outfit. However, the sister #45 car of Maxime Martin, Dirk Werner and Augusto Farfus did not make the finish, retiring with […]
The 67th running of the Total 24 Hours of Spa promises to be one of the highlights of the international motorsports season. With over a dozen candidates vying for the win, representing a plethora of prestigious manufacturers, the spectacle during the Ardennes endurance classic will be of the highest level. Whoever thought that last year’s […]
Two events into the 2015 GT Asia Series season, the championship has seen some incredible racing, with four different winners for the four rounds contested to date, including an historic first victory for Bentley in Asia three weeks ago in Okayama. This weekend the series returns to Japan, and to Fuji International Speedway, for the […]
Australian rally driver Molly Taylor has ditched the dirt for tarmac this month, joining a Lithuanian team for a 1000km endurance race. Molly Taylor will swap the gravel for the tarmac.Taylor, has signed with the Dynami:t Energy Team after a request from team owner Aleksandras Dainys, to contest the ENEOS 1000, the Baltic region’s biggest […]
Porsche maintained its success streak in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship this weekend. Two weeks after scoring a double victory at Watkins Glen, the 911 RSR campaigned by Porsche North America has now scored its second GTLM-class win of the season at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. On the challenging 3.957-kilometer circuit not far from […]
This week (10-12 July, 2015), Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet in the south of France will be hosting the inaugural Hankook 24H Circuit Paul Ricard. The 24-hour race for GTs, touring cars and 24H Specials marks the start of the second season half of the 2015 24H Series powered by Hankook and […]
As a result, the FIA has handed out a 50,000 Euro ($55,000) fine for the infringement, but most importantly, counted an additional engine used towards the new-for-2015 limit of five engines per car over the course of the season. While having effectively gone through four different engines in the first three events of 2015, the No. 7 […]
The newest version of the Volkswagen Golf is not aimed towards families looking for a practical ride with a low fuel consumption and it is actually the opposite of this.The model in question is nothing more than a race car concept which has been created by Volkswagen Motorsport. This is bringing an aggressive and aerodynamic […]
Some of the world’s best sports car drivers, including recent overall 24 Hours of Le Mans winners Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber, are competing in this weekend’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen.The International Motor Sports Association-sanctioned event, whose roots date back to 1968, runs through Sunday after getting started Thursday with practice sessions. It […]
The entry list for the 2015 Total 24 Hours of Spa is nearing its finalisation. Big names from endurance racing will join the Blancpain Endurance Series regulars at the end of July, to take part in what will certainly be a historic edition. With an unprecedented 28 cars entered in the Pro Cup, it is […]
After the high powered drama at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the focus now shifts to the next round of the World Endurance Championship and the new event on the calendar at Nürburgring in Germany, the home race for Audi and Porsche and close to Toyota’s base in Cologne. The results in Le Mans […]
Porsche will lead off the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours from the front of the field after firming up its 1-2-3 positions in final qualifying at the Circuit de la Sarthe.Having dominated proceedings in Q1, Porsche came into Q2 and Q3 as the manufacturer to overhaul, but on a day where few teams manage to […]
Adrian Zaugg and Mirko Bortolotti steered the new Lamborghini Huracán to a maiden race win on Sunday. Lamborghini put the rest of ADAC GT Masters field in the shade at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Adrian Zaugg (28) from South Africa and Mirko Bortolotti (25) from Trentino in northern Italy steered the new Lamborghini […]
The plans are in place for Ford to formally announce its return to international sports car racing at Le Mans next week with the Ford GT. A 3 p.m. Friday press conference is expected to confirm what RACER began reporting since last June, William Ford Jr. is set to wave the tricolore to start the […]
This week (Friday, 29 May and Saturday, 30 May), Circuit Park Zandvoort in The Netherlands will be the venue for the second running of the Hankook 12H ZANDVOORT, the third round of the 2015 24H SERIES powered by Hankook. In total, some 50 GTs, touring cars and 24H Specials will be on the grid for […]
Double Le Mans 24 Hour winner and 1985 World Sports Car Champion Hans-Joachim Stuck will succeed Sir Stirling Moss as the honoree for the international award winning Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance’s 21st edition on March 11-13, 2016. Stuck, a second generation racer is the son of Hans Stuck Sr. who raced for the vaunted Auto-Union […]
A podium and ninth place were hardly fair reward for a dominant performance by Richard Lyons in the opening two rounds of the GT Asia championship in Korea. Lyons, teamed with Hong Hong driver Frank Yu in the Craft Bamboo team’s Aston Martin Vantage, was fastest in all pre-race practice sessions and qualified on pole […]
The Big One will be a highlight of the 2015 season – and the hardest race of the year. The toughest and most daunting race track of them all will test the FIA World Touring Car Championship stars to the extreme next week when the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife – and its 170 demanding corners […]
By Andrew Kitchener, The Roar Toyota are in all sorts ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hour.Two races into the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship, and heading for Circuit de La Sarthe and the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans, how many out there thought that the defending world champions would be so far behind […]
Mark Webber and his Porsche team-mates Brendon Hartley and Timo Berhard scooped a podium finish at the 6-Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on Saturday, round two of the 2015 World Endurance Championship. Fastest in qualifying, Webber’s Porsche 919-Hybrid led at the start of the race, but dropped down the order following a stop-go penalty that […]
As precursors to the main even that is the Le Mans 24 Hours, the opening two rounds of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) have served perfectly to suggest that the battle in four weeks time at La Sarthe could be a real classic. Audi may have taken their second win of the season […]
Can SA-built Beemers reign in Spain? ADF Motorsport’s championship-winning BMW 335s will be back on track in the first weekend of September – taking on some of Europe’s fastest production tin-tops and sports coupes at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain, in the fifth round of the Hankook International Endurance Series. Team principal, Donovan van Heerden, […]
For the first time, Porsche will field three 919 Hybrids at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, in preparation for Le Mans in June.Porsche Team is ready to field its first three-car line-up this weekend at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the second round of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship, and the final event before the 24 Hours of […]
Paul Newman was on Viagra before there was Viagra. He was one hard dick brother.” So says groundbreaking African-American race car driver Willy T. Ribbs in the new documentary film “Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman,” a cinematic celebration of the legendary Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist’s storied motorsports career. “Winning” is directed by […]
The Suzuki Endurance Race Team of Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle and Etinne Masson scored a commanding victory in the 2015 Le Mans 24-Hour, beating second-place SRC Kawasaki by seven laps at the finish. Team Bollinger Switzerland rounded out the podium. Both SERT and SRC Kawasaki had early race troubles, with Delhalle of Sert and Fabien […]
By Andrew Kitchener: The ROAR There has been plenty said, scribbled and typed about the continuing growth of the World Endurance Championship, and the problems that Formula One is facing. I’m happy to say that the racing in the WEC this year has far outstripped what we’ve seen on the Grand Prix circuit and the […]
That Audi would mount a strong challenge in this year’s World Endurance Championship (WEC) was never in doubt, they have not dominated the top-end of sportscar racing for 14 years by accident but after a difficult run in 2014, that they should come out of the blocks with a win was proof again, were any […]
Toyota start their title defence at the Six Hours of Silverstone The World Endurance Championship roars into life with the Six Hours of Silverstone kicking off the 2015 season.The headline LMP1 category is bolstered this year by the return of Nissan – albeit their debut has been delayed until Le Mans – who join Toyota, […]
The Moroccan driver now wants to do his utmost in front of his home crowd. Following on a positive start in the World Touring Car Championship, one of the most important races of the season is already approaching for the Sébastien Loeb Racing. Indeed, since the WTCC’s second round takes place on Marrakech’s urban track, […]
Former 24 Hours of Nurburgring winner Sabine Schmitz has been announced as a wildcard entrant for ALL-INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport when the World Touring Car Championship returns to the German circuit. The famous television personality, dubbed the ‘Queen of the ‘Ring’, is an expert around the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife track, having grown up around the circuit […]
Better aerodynamics, efficiency and speed: the new R18 e-tron quattro. Audi is ready for the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). On Sunday, April 12, at Silverstone in the UK, the chase begins for the World Championship title that Audi won in 2012 and 2013. With two new R18 e-tron quattro cars and six successful […]
2014 FIA World Endurance Champion Anthony Davidson previews the new season, evaluates Toyota’s testing pace and shares his thoughts on the future of endurance racing coverage.With the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship just around the corner, TCF caught up with defending world champion Anthony Davidson at the series’ London launch. Davidson will share the #1 Toyota […]
Motorsport is taking a step into the 21st century as the World Endurance Championship has finally abolished their grid girls. About time too. Motorsport’s continuing reliance on grid girls sums up the sport’s attitude towards women For something that relies so heavily on the latest technology, motorsport can be worryingly backward. It’s terrific to see […]
The German equivalent of the MSA, the Deutsche Motor Sport Bund, has reacted to Saturday’s fatal accident on the Nurburgring by banning five of the fastest classes from the circuit until further notice. A spectator was killed during a VLN race on the Nordschleife after Jann Mardenborough took off at Flugplatz in his Nissan NISMO […]
Jann Mardenborough has been discharged from hospital following the accident during a VLN endurance race that left one spectator dead. The GP3 Series and Le Mans 24 Hours racer was driving a NISMO Nissan GT-R at the Nordschleife when he was involved in an incident at the Flugplatz portion of the circuit, the car vaulting […]
Can 2014’s champions reign supreme again? For the first time in his sports car career, Anthony Davidson is the driver to beat. He might have dominated in 2014, but 2015 is a new year, with new rivals and new challenges. Can Anthony and his Toyota Racing teammates hold onto their grasp of the title? […]