ARTA reveals Honda liveries for 2023 SUPER GT season
ARTA took the covers off its new designs on the eve of this weekend’s final official pre-season test at Fuji Speedway, with its #8 and #16 cars sporting two different colour schemes representing ‘day and night’. The #8 NSX-GT retains the famous dayglo colouring of the team’s long-time title sponsor Autobacs, but now across the […]
Ferrari holds off on 499P Hypercar IMSA programme decision
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s sportscar racing boss, has stressed that the Italian manufacturer remains «totally concentrated on WEC» in the wake of the debut of its new Hypercar class prototype in last week’s Sebring 1000 Miles season-opener. He explained that a 2024 IMSA programme in GTP will not come onto the agenda until the summer, «probably […]
Joao Paulo de Oliveira expecting GT300 “shake-up”
Kondo Racing driver de Oliveira has been at the forefront of the GT300 class since he joined the team in 2020, winning that year’s title alongside Kiyoto Fujinami, finishing runner-up the following season and then prevailing in a nail-biting climax to the 2022 campaign. However, Kondo’s success has come against a backdrop of dissatisfaction about […]
How close is widespread adoption of hydrogen in motorsport?
Hydrogen has long been touted as the silver bullet to answer motorsport’s sustainability problem. Water is the sole byproduct of fuel cell vehicles using green hydrogen – that is, hydrogen produced by a process of electrolysis using renewable energy sources, rather than derived from natural gases where carbon monoxide is also emitted in its production […]
Ford Mustang GT3 breaks cover ahead of 2024 debut
The car based on the seventh-generation Mustang and developed by Ford Performance in conjunction with Multimatic Motorsports is undertaking it first track miles at Sebring over the course of a three-day test this week. Confirmation that the Mustang GT3 has started running came via a Twitter post of footage of the car on track at […]
Bruno Spengler says GT300 class on a par with IMSA
Former DTM champion Spengler had his first taste of the Team Studie BMW M4 GT3 he will drive alongside Seiji Ara in five of this year’s eight SUPER GT races at Okayama. Since exiting the DTM at the end of 2019, Spengler has focused mostly on GT racing, joining BMW’s IMSA programme with the M8 […]
Isotta Fraschini Hypercar test plan outlined ahead of Monza WEC debut
Development of the Tipo 6 LMH Competizione led by Michelotto in Italy has continued since the launch at the end of February of the completed car powered by a bespoke three-litre twin-turbo V6 developed by HWA and a hybrid system supplied by Williams Advanced Engineering. It is currently running on an all-wheel-drive dyno at automotive […]
Glickenhaus to miss Nurburgring 24 to focus on WEC campaign
Team owner Jim Glickenhaus told Motorsport.com that it would be «logistically too difficult» to undertake a Nurburgring programme with the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 004C GT car around the 24 Hours on 20/21 May at the same time as racing in the WEC with the 007 Le Mans Hypercar. «Our 004C is ready to go, but […]
Dunlop hopeful of improved 2023 after Mugen split
The tyre brand is back to supplying a single car in the top GT500 class this season, the #64 Nakajima Racing Honda NSX-GT, for the first time since 2020. It follows Mugen ending a two-year relationship with Dunlop in order to join forces with ARTA and field a two car team using Bridgestone rubber. Nakajima […]