When the green flag fell on the 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona last January, it not only started the race, but started a new tradition – the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship series. At the end of the 2013 season, the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am series combined into the TUDOR Championship, meaning […]
Defending 13-time World Endurance Champions Suzuki Endurance Racing Team turned its 2014 season around with a stunning display of speed and consistency to win the final round of the series on home soil at the Le Mans 24-Hour race in France today; as Suzuki’s Junior Team LMS clinched the FIM Superstock World Cup. Vincent Philippe, […]
The title chase in the ADAC GT Masters is Reaching a climax. In Saturday’s race at the Sachsenring, the current top three in the championship table were battling it out for victory. In a thrilling duel at the front, championship leader Kelvin van der Linde (18, ZA) and René Rast (27, Germany) in their Prosperia […]
Yamaha prepares for the final round of the 2014 FIM Endurance World Championship, the famous Le Mans 24 Hours du Moto, held this Saturday and Sunday, the 20th and 21st of September. This final stage of the championship promises to be a hard-fought battle as seven among the 56 competing team are still in the […]
• 18-year-old Kelvin van der Linde and René Rast top the table • Audi duo take championship lead for the third time this season • Youngest race winner in the history of the ADAC GT Masters When he claimed his first pole position and his first victory in the ADAC GT Masters, Kelvin van der […]
Patrick Dempsey’s character in “Can’t Buy Me Love” spent all summer mowing lawns to save up for a telescope.Dempsey didn’t need the science instrument to set his sights on the object he really wanted: a Porsche 356.With his first paycheck from the 1980s teen flick, Dempsey didn’t go for any old beater, he went big […]
Saturday will see round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship, with the championship heading to the USA’s Circuit Of The Americas headlining the “Lone Star Le Mans” event alongside the USA’s own TUDOR United Sportscar Championship and Continental Tyre Sportscar Challenge. The WEC will see 31 entries spread across four classes. In LMP1, the […]
Pole position, victory and the fastest race lap: for the Scuderia Praha, the 24H BARCELONA was an undisputed success. With the Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 (#4, Písarík/ Jirík/ Malucelli/ Kox), the team racked up a total of 653 laps of the 4.655 kilometres long Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, equalling a total of 3,039.715 kilometres. […]
Nissan Motorsport will mark 30 years since Nissan’s first Bathurst 1000 pole position with a retro-themed livery at this year’s Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Michael Caruso and Dean Fiore’s #36 Norton Nissan Altima will run the distinctive ‘blue and red’ factory stripes worn on George Fury’s record-breaking 1984 Nissan Bluebird. Fury’s turbo-powered entry clocked a […]
Credit: DPPI/OnRoak 0 After a three month break the FIA World Endurance Championship returns to action at the Circuit of the America’s in Austin, Texas, in two weeks time, a gap that G-Drive Racing has used to transition from their old Morgan-Nissan to the teams brand new Ligier JS P2 built by OnRoak Automotive.The transition, which […]
Britain’s Oliver Gavin faces a challenging next couple of months with five races on two continents in the space of seven weeks, but it is a challenge he is relishing wholeheartedly…not to mention the air miles! The Corvette Racing factory driver has two rounds of the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship still to run in North […]
LADA takes the wraps off the new Vesta WTCC, the car it has designed and built specifically to maximise its competitiveness in the WTCC. LADA has pulled the wraps off its brand-new contender for the FIA World Touring Car Championship, the Vesta. The Russian firm, which recently celebrated its maiden WTCC podium result with […]
We like the 24 Hours of Le Mans just fine. With the world’s manufacturers in attendance and a varied field of classes and cars circling a high-speed circuit that’s partially hewn from public roads, the appeal of the crown jewel of endurance racing is obvious. But, if you’re tired of all the Le Mans love, […]
This weekend’s stop of the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship sees Ferrari return to the site of a victory for the Prancing Horse in the 2013 American Le Mans Series. The three teams competing with the Ferrari 458 Italia at this weekend’s TUDOR United Sportscar Championship round at Virginia International Raceway are banking on the superior […]
The provisional entry list for Round 4 of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, has been unveiled with 29 cars due to take the start on Saturday, September 20th. Three teams from the U.S. will be joining the grid, one each in LMP2, LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am. […]