SUPER GT further postpones carbon-neutral fuel for GT300
While the top GT500 division has been using CNF since the start of the season, problems for some GT300 cars using the new ETS Racing Fuels-supplied product during pre-season testing prompted series organisers GTA to delay its introduction for the lower class. A two-day test was held at Suzuka following the most recent race at […]
DENSO and Toyota to hold live special event ahead of centenary Le Mans 24 Hours
This year’s running of the legendary Le Mans 24 Hours is just around the corner. This season’s race promises to be especially memorable as it marks the 100-year anniversary of the first-ever running of the La Sarthe endurance classic. On the 25th of May, just before this important milestone, DENSO, a Tier 1 technology partner […]
What next for Japan’s top female driver?
Koyama made headlines last year when she won the Formula Regional Japanese Championship title, making her the first-ever female champion of an FIA-sanctioned, mixed-gender single-seater championship anywhere in the world. This year she is taking on a different challenge as she leaves open-wheelers behind to race both in SUPER GT and the Toyota-backed GR86/BRZ Cup […]
Peugeot keeping focus on reliability above performance for Le Mans return
Olivier Jansonnie, technical director of the 9X8 project at Peugeot Sport, insisted that there is no change in direction at the team despite clean races for its pair of entries in the Hypercar class in each of the past two rounds of the World Endurance Championship at Portimao and then Spa last month. “We are […]
MotoGP legend Rossi feels he’s on course for 2024 Le Mans 24 debut
Rossi has revealed that he is targeting competing in the new LMGT3 class at the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship in 2024, which will follow his participation in the Road to Le Mans support race this year. “Le Mans is the most famous race in the world and for sure it is a […]
The forgotten success of an ex-Jordan F1 racer
Two decades ago this month, Firman scored his first and only point in F1 with an eighth-place finish in the Spanish Grand Prix. It turned out to be the high point of a tough campaign with Jordan, which by now was in its death throes ahead of being purchased by the Midland Group in early […]
Michelin explains reasoning for SUPER GT GT500 exit
The French tyre supplier made a shock announcement last week that the 2023 season will be its last in the top class of Japan’s top sportscar series, where it supplies Nissan’s two works NISMO Zs, although it plans to maintain a presence in the GT300 division. Michelin has said in the past that it uses […]
Wayne Taylor Racing to add second Acura in 2024 IMSA season
The announcement was made on Tuesday morning, two days after the outfit finished fourth at Laguna Seca with Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor at the wheel of its sole #10 Konica Minolta-sponsored LMDh car. WTRAndretti also revealed that Albuquerque and Taylor will continue to stay team-mates for a fourth consecutive season, having first joined forces […]
JDC-Miller Porsche 963 debut “better than expected” at Laguna
Veteran sportscar star Mike Rockenfeller and his teenaged team-mate Tijmen van der Helm steered the 963 to seventh in the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s fourth round, having been forced to miss the opening three races due to supply chain issues that delayed the build of Porsche’s customer chassis. Rockenfeller finished the race directly behind the Daytona […]