Porsche leads Acura in opening practice
GTP Campbell, the 28-year-old Aussie, extracted a flying lap of 1m15.184s around the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course to put the Porsche 963 alone at the top. Filipe Albuquerque (Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport) kept it close, trailing by 0.022 of a second in the #10 Acura ARX-06. Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande […]
JOTA closing on deal to run second Porsche LMDh in WEC 2024
The team has never made any secret of its desire to field an additional 963 in 2024 in the same ‘Hertz Racing Gold’ livery as the car that made its debut at the Spa WEC round this year and has now revealed that an order has already been placed for the extra chassis. JOTA boss […]
JLOC delays Lamborghini Evo2 upgrade for #87 car
For last month’s fourth round of the season at Fuji Speedway, JLOC brought one of its two GT300 contenders, the #88 entry, in Evo2 spec for the first time, having made the upgrade during the two-month break that followed the previous race at Suzuka. However, the team elected to keep the #87 car in its […]
Sugo SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list
A total of 40 cars, 15 in GT500 and 25 in GT300, are entered for the sixth round of the season, slated to begin at 1.30pm local time on Sunday (GMT +9). After a run of four 450km events, SUPER GT reverts to its traditional 300km event for Sugo, with no three-driver crews. But that […]
10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 6 Hours of Fuji
The World Endurance Championship’s two-month summer break ended with its annual trip to Fuji, where Toyota continued an unbeaten stretch dating back to 2016 with a 1-2 finish. But the Japanese marque didn’t have it as easy as the result on paper suggested, as Porsche emerged as GR010 HYBRID’s closest challenger to lead the most […]
Cadillac hurt by mid-season IMSA tire switch, says Bourdais
Bourdais, co-driver of the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R with Renger van der Zande, made the remark as he shared his thoughts on the team’s progress ahead of the Battle on the Bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course on September 17. The 44-year-old Frenchman said something that has caught his attention in […]
WEC grid could expand to 40 cars for 2024 season
The planned move up from the 36 cars accepted for this year’s series is a reaction to a significant increase in entries in the Hypercar class and a desire to find room for multiple manufacturers in the new LMGT3 category that replaces GTE Am for next season. There looks certain to be in excess of […]
What we learned about SUPER GT’s 2024 cars in Motegi test
After two days of running at Okayama in late July, the 2024 GT500 machines of Nissan, Honda and Toyota again shared the track last week at Motegi, as the final 2023 tyre test involving all four manufacturers also took place. Seven current GT500 cars shared the track with the new cars for a total of […]
Aston Martin close to reviving Valkyrie LMH project for 2025 WEC, IMSA
The Valkyrie LMH programme is set to be reactivated after more than three years on the back-burner as Aston and US-based team Heart of Racing ramp up a relationship that already straddles the GT arenas in IMSA and WEC. Motorsport.com has learned that Aston and Heart of Racing, which is backed by computer games tycoon […]