How BMW rewrote GTP software to fix “serious issues” at Long Beach
Connor De Phillippi, who set fastest lap en route to the M Hybrid V8’s runner-up spot at the Californian street track, revealed that a major problem was encountered in opening practice and needed software for its hybrid system to be rewritten for the #25 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-run car to function properly. The LMDh machinery runs with […]
Porsche hands over first customer LMDh cars to JOTA, JDC-Miller
JOTA and JDC-Miller received one example each of Porsche’s hybrid contender on Friday, a day after Matt Campbell shook down both cars around the German marque’s Weissach testing facility. It makes Porsche the first manufacturer to supply an LMDh or an LMH car to a privateer, having stated from the very beginning of the project […]
Pacific to skip Fuji SUPER GT race after Okayama crash
The #9 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo shared by Ryohei Sakaguchi and Liang Jiatong was involved in an incident with the #88 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo late in the rain-soaked Okayama race, bringing out the safety car. Chinese driver Jiatong had been battling JLOC rival Takashi Kogure for sixth place at the time of the incident, […]
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 […]