«I still feel I should be driving»
The 48-year-old Brazilian spent the past two seasons in the IndyCar Series running full-time with MSR following his record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 victory with the team in 2021. Now, though, the future looks slightly different with an ownership stake now in the team co-owned by Mike Shank and Jim Meyer, while also scaling back his […]
Gibson wins FIA tender for LMP2 engine supply for new rules cycle from 2026
Gibson has won the FIA tender to provide the engines for a five-year period from the beginning of the new rules cycle in 2026. The powerplant will be a 4.2-litre normally-aspirated V8, the same configuration as the spec GK428 unit it has supplied for the current P2 formula that began in 2017. The FIA statement […]
WEC to adopt Hyperpole qualifying format at all rounds from 2024
Each of the WEC’s two classes from next season, Hypercar and LMGT3, will have two sessions at each regular round: the fastest 10 cars from a 12-minute qualifying period will go through to the Hyperpole session lasting 10 minutes that sets the first five rows of the grid in each class. The new system mimics […]
Why outgoing modern day Le Mans ‘garagiste’ Glickenhaus deserves to be celebrated
Glickenhaus driver Olivier Pla took me to task for describing his employer as a garagiste a while back. It seems it’s a pejorative term for the French. Not so for we Brits. Quite the contrary: there’s something celebratory about it. And that’s why we should rejoice in the successes of the Glickenhaus Racing squad now […]
Mortara, Cairoli join Lamborghini for Jerez LMDh test
Both Mortara and Cairoli got their first runs behind the wheel of the under-development SC63 LMDh car at a recent test organised at the Jerez circuit in Spain. Motorsport.com understands that no contract has been signed with either Mortara or Cairoli, but Lamborghini is looking at them to fill the remaining seats in its driver […]
Blomqvist joins Action Express Racing for IMSA’s 2024 endurance rounds
Blomqvist, who will also race full-time in the IndyCar Series with Meyer Shank Racing, will drive #31 Cadillac V-Series.R for Action Express Racing, beginning with the 62nd Rolex 24 At Daytona, where Blomqvist co-drove to the overall victory in 2023 and ’22. The one endurance event known to be a clash for Blomqvist i the […]
Mick Schumacher completes first Alpine Hypercar test amid 2024 WEC links
Schumacher, who drove for Haas in F1 in 2021-22, sampled the Alpine A424 at the Jerez circuit on Tuesday as part of a multi-day test at the Spanish venue. It was the German’s first ever run behind the wheel of a prototype sportscar, with the 24-year-old spending the entirety of his racing career so far […]
Honda SUPER GT boss lavishes praise on GT500 rookies
Both top-class debutant Kimura in the #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda and Ota in the #64 Nakajima Racing NSX-GT were singled out for praise by Saiki in his post-race press conference following the penultimate round of the season. Kimura was drafted in to join the Kunimitsu squad alongside Tadasuke Makino for Autopolis and the season finale […]
Forte Racing still reeling from “amazing” maiden GTD win at Petit Le Mans
The #78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2, driven by Misha Goikhberg, Patrick Liddy and endurance team-mate Loris Spinelli endured a trio of drive-through penalties throughout the 10-hour contest, including two with roughly two hours remaining. Spinelli was charged with changing lanes during a restart procedure and was handed the first penalty. The second came after a […]