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Will Tregurtha and Stuart Middleton, the reigning British GT4 Champions, will open the next chapter in their respective motorsport careers little more than a week from now, over the weekend, 7th/8th April, when the eagerly awaited GT4 European Series gets underway at Zolder in Belgium. Following on from a truly sensational, history-making debut season in endurance racing last year, the HHC Motorsport team-mates are now ready to challenge the best drivers on the continent and

Matt Palmer is excited to announce that he will be joining the Assetto Motorsport team for the Ginetta GT5 Challenge in 2018. After winning consecutive titles in the Millers Oils Toyota MR2 Championship Matt made the step up to national racing in the Ginetta GT5 Challenge. Matt has been competing in his Ginetta GT5 as a privateer since 2015 where he finished as the top privateer in his opening season. Matt is planning to compete in the Oulton Park, Silverstone, Spa Franco

New British GT Championship team ERC Sport today confirmed that they will be running a Mercerdes AMG GT3 with Lee Mowle and Dutchman Yelmer Buurman at the helm. Source: British GT The Mercedes and Mowle return (it is the car that Mowle ran last year with AMDTuning.com) but now with ERC Sport who have Keith Cheatham as team manager. Molwe and Cheatham worked together at AMD and Triple Eight. Cheatham has also been involved with Trackspeed. Partnering Molwe is Buurman and he

Today saw the announcement that after a year away from the British GT scene, Beechdean AMR are back to contest the GT3 title. Source: British GT Double GT3 champion (2013 and 2015) team owner Andrew Howard is pairing up with Darren Turner (2017 Le Mans class winner) to drive the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 in its familiar blue and white livery which was last seen in the British GT in 2016. Howard is hoping to be the first driver to win three titles and with the support of

2016 GT4 Teams' champions confirm that it would be running a pair of Ginetta G55's in this years championship. Source: Ian Cutting Photography After winning the Teams' Championship in 2016 in their debut year, 2017 was a frustrating one for the Kent based outfit. Today's news also means that the championship will now have four confirmed Ginettas after HHC Motorsport already announced that they would also be running a pair. News of the driver line up is still to be announce

2017 British GT Champion Rick Parfitt Jnr is hoping to retain title with Team Parker Racing and new team mate Ryan Ratcliffe in the Bentley Continental GT3. Source: Ian Cutting Photography With the news that Seb Morris was leaving the UK scene to race in Europe Parfitt Jnr was looking for new driver to try and help retain the title. Ratcliffe seems like a natural partner as the pair won the GT4 class back in 2013. Team Parker, Bentley and Parfitt Jnr are about to emabrk on

The chance of showers for today continues in the latest forecast update for the Bathurst 12 Hour. Showers are expected to develop near the Blue Mountains in the late morning hours, then track toward the west through the afternoon. The time period when showers are most likely at Mount Panorama will be between noon and 5 pm. Qualifying for the race is scheduled between 11 am and 12:25 pm, so I think the chances of dry conditions for qualifying are good. The support races - Radi

Century Motorsport is switching from Ginettas to the brand new BMW M4 GT4 for 2018. After running Ginettas since 2009, Century Motorsport will now be running a pair of the brand new BMW M4 GT4's with Ben Tuck and Ben Green behind the wheel. The other BMW line up has yet to be announced. Tuck raced the Century Motorsport Ginetta GT3 at the last British GT event at Donington back in September and will now be racing all season for the team. His team mate, Ben Green, raced for

With announcements coming thick and fast over the last few days, we thought we would share what we know so far with regards teams and drivers. 2017 GT3 Runners-up Barwell Motorsport are expanding their squad of Lamborghini Huracans. They are keeping Jon Minshaw & Phil Keen who are hoping to go one better in 2018. The other cars will be driven by Jonny Cocker & Sam De Haan with Patrick Kujala & Leo Machitski. Optimum Motorsport move back into GT3 from GT4 with 2017 GTE Le Ma

Jaguar is to make its return to the British GT in the hands of a brand new team, Invictus Games Racing. The team have selected a group of wounded, injured and sick veterans from the British Armed Forces to pilot two F-Type SVR GT4’s. Unveiled today at the Autosport Show, this Jaguar GT4 is a joint effort between the Invictus Games Foundation and James Holder (Superdry co-founder) who managed to get the Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations on board to build the two F-Type SVR’

Europe’s leading short-circuit car constructor and race engineers RCE will field a pair of G40s in the 2018 Ginetta Junior Championship with support from experienced racer Tim Sugden. Sugden, a winner in both BTCC and GTs as well as a manager for drivers including Sam Tordoff and Will Stevens, will bring over 30 years’ of knowledge of the sport to help the team’s young drivers to make the transition from karting or just start circuit racing. “From being a driver himself to n

Throughout a thrilling evening in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in the heart of London, R-Motorsport, AF Racing’s motorsport arm, has announced its first participation in the 2018 Blancpain GT Endurance Series and their new driver line-up with young drivers Alex Brundle and Jake Dennis. The R-Motorsport team will partner with established outfit Arden Motorsport. Founded by former British Racing Driver and Team Principal of Red Bull Racing Christian Horner, and his father G

Tom Onslow-Cole will finish his successful 2017 season at Anglesey Circuit in North Wales, where he will compete in the Mission Motorsport Race of Remembrance in one of two Milltek Sport Toyota GT86s. It’s the fourth year of running for the Race of Remembrance, a 12-hour race that brings together ex-servicemen and women to compete for class and/or overall honours, and OC has offered his support in every event. “I’ve seen first-hand how Mission Motorsport has benefitted those

Strakka Racing today announced it will expand its GT activities beyond Europe in 2018, forming a new partnership with Mercedes-AMG which will see them carry Performance Team status for the German marque. The Silverstone-based team will run three new Mercedes-AMG GT3s in the Intercontinental GT Challenge alongside Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Strakka will debut with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in February at the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at Bathurst,

United Autosports has won the European Le Mans Series LMP3 Teams’ title for a second consecutive year – second place in the sixth and final round of the championship in Portugal today (22 Oct) also earning American duo John Falb and Sean Rayhall the Driver’s LMP3 crown as the sister Wayne Boyd/Christian England/Mark Patterson Ligier scored its first LMP3 race win of the season. But it was disappointment for the Anglo-American team in attempting to win LMP2 at its first attemp

Irish GT racing driver, Matt Griffin is in the Algarve ready for this weekend’s final round of the 2017 European Le Mans Series being held at Portimao Circuit. Griffin rejoins his regular teammates; Duncan Cameron and Aaron Scott in their Iconic British Racing Green Ferrari 488 Gte, entered by Spirit of Race at the track that saw him take the win in the International GT Open in 2013. So far the ELMS season has been going well for the Cork based driver having already won t

Reigning and double Le Mans 24 Hours winner Earl Bamber heads a raft of debutants competing in Blancpain GT Series Asia’s penultimate event of the season at Shanghai this weekend (September 23/24). The Porsche LMP1 factory ace usually races in the FIA World Endurance Championship but will swap back to the German manufacturer’s customer GT3 programme this weekend as part of Arrows Racing’s re-jigged Pro/Am line-up. The Kiwi, who earned a factory call-up after winning Porsch

Bentley will make its Blancpain GT Series Asia debut at Shanghai International Circuit next weekend (September 23/24) after official customer squad Absolute Racing confirmed that two of its Continental GT3s would be competing in rounds nine and 10. The Shanghai-based squad has run several Audi R8 LMS GT3s in each of the pan-continental championship’s four events so far this season but also campaigns its British-built supercars in Pirelli World Challenge and China GT. Now t

BMW Motorsport presented its new top-of-the-range model for the international GT racing scene at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main: the BMW M8 GTE. Before the BMW 8 Series Coupé goes on sale, the race car will compete on the track next season, including in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC). It is with this series that BMW Motorsport will also make its return to the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans (FRA). Technology meets tradition: BMW Motorspor

Motul Sepang 12 Hours organisers SRO Motorsports Group have renewed their partnership with Super GT promoter, GT Association, in a bid to encourage more Japanese teams and drivers to compete in Asia’s only Intercontinental GT Challenge round on December 7-10. Malaysia’s Formula 1 venue plays host to the 2017 campaign’s fourth and final endurance race later this year following stops in Australia, Europe and North America. The event’s proximity to Japan - where the same FIA