Isotta Fraschini abandons plan for WEC debut in 2023
Isotta had hoped to race the Tipo 6 LMH Competizione at the Bahrain WEC finale in November on a non-points, invitational basis ahead of its full entry into the series with Vector Sport next year, though it had already backed away from a firm commitment to do so when it demonstrated the car at the […]
Tsugio Matsuda opens up on horror Suzuka crash
Matsuda was involved in an incident with two GT300 cars exiting the high-speed 130R in the closing stages of June’s third round of the season, the impact with the barriers and catch fencing destroying his NISMO-run Nissan Z. The two-time GT500 champion had to be airlifted to hospital, but Nissan reported he had avoided any significant […]
AWA lands new Corvettes for two-car, multi-year IMSA GTD program
Corvette previously announced that Pratt Miller Motorsport would field two of the new-for-2024 cars in the Pro class next season. AWA will run its cars in the pro-am division, with the driver line-up to be announced at a later date, and ensures that there will be four Corvettes on the grid. “We are happy to […]
SUPER GT reveals eight-round calendar for 2024
Announced on Thursday, the schedule has a similar look to this year’s version, with two visits each to Fuji and Suzuka and single fixtures for Okayama, Sugo, Autopolis and Motegi. Okayama keeps its traditional role as the curtain-raiser, and is set to host the opening race of the year on April 15, while the season […]
Fuji 450km SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list
A total of 42 cars, 15 in GT500 and 27 in GT300, are entered for Sunday’s 450km (100 lap) race. With three races down and five to go, it’s TOM’S Toyota pair Ritomo Miyata and Sho Tsuboi that hold the lead of the standings in GT500, having won on the championship’s previous visit to Fuji […]
Frijns joins BMW as works driver, will test WRT’s LMDh car
Frijns currently races with WRT in the LMP2 class, which will no longer form a part of the WEC from next year when the Belgian outfit steps up to the Hypercar class to run BMW’s M Hybrid V8. The LMDh racer has been fielded in the IMSA SportsCar Championship by the Rahal team this season, […]
Honda has more options to extract speed from Civic
The Civic Type R-GT test car that will form the basis of Honda’s 2024 challenger was revealed last week ahead of its first test outing at Okayama. Naoki Yamamoto and Tomoki Nojiri took turns behind the wheel of the carbon-liveried #99 machine across a largely smooth two days of running alongside 2024 models from Honda’s […]
Points leader Ritomo Miyata previews Fuji (video)
The third round of the season at Suzuka in June ended with a big crash and confusion surrounding the winners, but after the dust settled it was the Racing Project Bandoh Toyota of Yuji Kunimoto and Sena Sakaguchi that emerged with victory, the team’s first in seven years. Along with TOM’S team-mate Sho Tsuboi, Miyata […]
Toyota stalwart Yuji Tachikawa announces SUPER GT retirement
The announcement was made on Friday by his Cerumo team, for which the 48-year-old has driven continuously since the 1999 season. In that time, he scored three GT500 titles in 2001, ’05 and ’13 while racking up 19 wins, putting him second only to Tsugio Matsuda in the all-time list, and 24 pole positions, an […]