SUPER GT, DTM bosses meet to discuss successor to Class 1 cars
Masaaki Bandoh, chairman of SUPER GT promoter GTA, travelled to the ADAC’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany on February 28 to pitch a new category of cars that would sit above current GT3 machinery. The idea is to come up with a set of regulations that will be attractive to championships across the globe, including IMSA […]
Paul Dalla Lana retires from racing with immediate effect
Dalla Lana, 57, had contested the opening two rounds of the WEC alongside Aston factory driver Nicki Thiim and Zimbabwean Axcil Jeffries but steps away citing a desire to focus on business interests. The Canadian won the GTE Am drivers’ world championship crown in 2017 and claimed 17 class wins from 69 starts. He came […]
Aitken joins second Ganassi-run Cadillac line-up for Spa
Jack Aitken, part of the lineup that delivered the first victory with Cadllac’s V-Series.R last month in the 12 Hours of Sebring driving for Action Express Racing, will join Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in the #3 Cadillac for next week’s third round of the WEC at Spa-Francorchamps. The trio will race in […]
DTM champion Gotz unlikely to race at Le Mans with Glickenhaus
Team boss Jim Glickenhaus has revealed that the chances of the Mercedes factory driver, winner of the DTM in 2021, racing one of his two Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercars entered for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 10-11 June are receding. “I don’t see it happening, although there are still discussions,” […]
SUPER GT reveals discussions to bring back overseas races
The series has not held a race outside of Japan since it last visited Buriram in Thailand in the summer of 2019, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic causing races both there and at Sepang in Malaysia to be scratched from the 2020 calendar. However, over the last six months Japan has started dropping […]
The mothballed racer that became a double Le Mans winner
Audi didn’t have to look very far when it came to finding a race team for its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1999. Joest Racing would have been top of anyone’s list after back-to-back victories in the French enduro in 1996 and ’97. But how it came to be in that position […]
Lamborghini aims to run two cars at 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours
The Italian manufacturer has revealed an intent to make an additional Le Mans entry in the Hypercar class, for the car that Iron Lynx will run in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America alongside the LMDh fielded in the full WEC season. Lamborghini motorsport boss Giorgio Sanna confirmed the plan for a two-car assault […]
Long Beach GTP fastest lap shows it can ‘fight for wins’
BMW started the IMSA SportsCar Championship season on the back foot with the least-developed car against rivals Acura, Cadillac and Porsche. Its reality check came when it finished 15 laps behind the winner in the Daytona 24 Hours, leading to the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run team working tirelessly at Zionsville, Indiana in tandem with BMW’s headquarters […]
Austin, Interlagos on course to rejoin WEC calendar in 2024
Austin, which last hosted the WEC in 2020, looks to be favourite to take the all-important North American slot on the schedule in place of Sebring. Interlagos, which was on the calendar in 2012 to ’14, appears set to effectively replace Portimao when the series calendar goes back to its traditional eight races. WEC boss […]