Vautier, Hawksworth join Algarve Pro for 2023 ELMS season
Vautier and Hawksworth will share one of the Portuguese squad’s two Oreca 07-Gibsons with bronze-rated Fred Poordad as they tackle the Pro-am sub-division of the top LMP2 category in the ELMS. For factory Lexus driver Hawksworth, it marks a first foray into European racing since a partial campaign in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance […]
Stoffel Vandoorne joins Peugeot WEC team as reserve driver
The announcement follows Vandoorne leaving the Mercedes Formula E outfit with which he won the 2021/22 title to join DS Penske, which is part of the same Stellantis automotive group as Peugeot. The 30-year-old will take the place vacated by British driver James Rossiter, who announced his decision to step down from racing last year […]
Ex-Audi boss Gass joins JOTA to lead WEC Hypercar programme
Gass, who was head of motorsport at Audi in 2017-20, will lead the British operation’s assault on the top category of the 2023 WEC as team principal of Hertz Team JOTA. He joins the reigning LMP2 champion team from Audi where he was moved into an undisclosed role after being replaced as head of its […]
Alpine announces full driver line-up for two-car WEC LMP2 attack
The Signatech run-Alpine team will run two rebadged Oreca 07-Gibson cars in the LMP2 class of the WEC this year, a transition season for the team before it returns to the Hypercar category in 2024 with an LMDh contender. Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao, who raced for the team with a grandfathered LMP1 car alongside […]
Ranking the best GT500 line-ups for the 2023 SUPER GT season
5. Koudai Tsukakoshi/Nobuharu Matsushita #17 Real Racing Honda Real Racing’s pairing goes into a second season together this year, but slides two positions on these rankings compared to 12 months ago. That follows a 2022 campaign in which Matsushita didn’t quite deliver on the immense promise that he had shown in his debut GT500 season […]
Tsuchiya SUPER GT team reveals refreshed 2023 line-up
The Hoppy-sponsored #25 car will be driven by Toyota junior driver Seita Nonaka and Togo Suganami, who replaces Team Mach-bound Takamitsu Matsui. It marks a return to full-time SUPER GT action for 27-year-old Suganami, who spent most of last year on the sidelines after losing his seat at the LEON Racing Mercedes team. Team owner […]
Lapierre to skip 2023 WEC season as Alpine steps down to LMP2
The 38-year-old has been a mainstay of the WEC since the series’ inception, initially as a Toyota driver in the top LMP1 class until he was dropped by the marque in mid-2014. After a limited programme with the KCMG LMP2 team in 2015, which included his first Le Mans 24 Hours class win, Lapierre joined […]
How SUPER GT’s 2023 GT300 field is shaping up
K-tunes Racing, LEON Racing and Saitama Toyopet Green Brave have all announced their 2023 entries, bringing the number of confirmed entries for the upcoming season up to 13. However, there are doubts as to whether the entry list for the junior class will reach the 28 cars that made up last year’s grid. As expected, […]
“Too early” to think about potential replacement by Blomqvist
Castroneves is well-loved within the Meyer Shank organization, not least because he delivered the team’s first win, and in the biggest race in the world, the 2021 Indianapolis 500. But days after winning the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for MSR Acura, Blomqvist tested the squad’s MSR-Honda IndyCar at Sebring and proved sensationally fast. On the […]