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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

Lights to flag victory for Clearwater Racing in the second race of the Blancpain GT Asia series at Fuji Speedway Race 2 of the Blancpain Asia GT Series saw Clearwater racing take their second victory of the weekend in their Sunseeker Singapore McLaren 570S GT4. Weng Sun Mok started the unusually hot and sunny race and drove at a stonking pace until the halfway mark before handing the Clearwater Racing machine over to Richard Wee who then went on to set the fastest GT4 lap o

Clearwater are back in style!! On their return to the Blancpain Asia GT Series, they qualified on Pole and won Race 1. Superb driving from Richard Wee and Weng Sun Mok brought the team its first pair of Blancpain trophies. And the Sunseeker Singapore McLaren 570S GT4 was faultless and ran error free. The teams managing director Arj commented "Our record with these amazing cars from Woking is something we're incredibly proud of: we've taken Pole Position and Won our first

Clearwater Racing set the pace on a drying track at the Fuji Raceway in free practice 2 for the Japan leg of the Blancpain GT Asia series. Images from @hitoshi0825 Running the only non Porsche entry in the GT4 class seems to be paying dividends as FIA GTE AM Drivers Championship leader; Weng Sun Mok set a lap time of 1m53.803s which was 0.569s faster than Ringo Chong’s HubAuto Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR and another half-second clear of Taiwan TopSpeed’s Keo Chang. The day’s e

Today Clearwater Racing announced that they will be competing in the Blancpain Asia GT Series in a McLaren 570s GT4 at the next round in Fuji. This will be the first non Porsche runner in the GT4 field. Piloting the car will be current FIA WEC GTE AM drivers championship leader Weng Sun Mok, and Le Mans Rookie Richard Wee. When announcing the news today, Arj Pillay Kulasegaram said " Its time to let the poorly concealed cat out of the fairly transparent bag....Clearwater Ra

This weekend sees the penultimate round of the 2017 British GT Championship and there is the potential of both classes being decided on the 2.4 mile Brands Hatch GP circuit. In the GT3 teams championship, Barwell Motorsport lead Team Parker Racing going into Round 8, but it is more likely this battle will continue on to the season finale at Donnington park in September. It is much closer however in GT4 with the point gap down to 2.5 between current leaders HHC Motorsport

Callum Macleod’s tale of down-and-out single-seater hopeful to British GT race winner is one to inspire other would-be professionals, reckons British GT's Tom Hornsby. ‘Talented single-seater racer seeks professional GT career’. It’s the headline etched on countless driver CVs thanks to the ever-growing popularity and factory contracts available in GT3 racing around the world. For younger drivers the GT4 class - now also swelled by manufacturer interest - offers an ideal pr

Irish racing driver Matt Griffin heads to Belgium this weekend for the iconic Spa 24, part of the Blancpain GT Series calendar and the biggest GT race in the world with an entry of 66 cars. Griffin will drive the number 52 AF Corse entered Ferrari 488 GT3, with teammates Duncan Cameron and Aaron Scott. This will be the Irishman’s 8th consecutive year racing in Spa 24, which includes a race win in 2013, and podium finishes in 2011 and 2015. "The 24h of Spa really is one of

It was the "fly away" race of the Ginetta GT5 Challenge season at the weekend. Hosted by the legendary Zandvoort Circuit as part of their British Race Festival Weekend. Qualifying took place on a damp track but a dry line in places. Matt gambled on it drying out and went out on slicks for the entire session. The gamble paid off and on the last lap of the session I put it on P4 for race 1. Race 1: Matt made a good start and was in touch with the top 3 for the majority of t

Pretty gloomy weather greeted the drivers in the opening round of the Protyre GT5 Ginetta Challenge on Bank Holiday Monday at Oulton Park. Matt Palmer did not fair too well in qualifying for race 1 in the wet saying that "Car set up was way off in quali and race 1, we need to work on a wet set up!" However from a qualifying position Matt was able to make up 6 places to finish 10th in race 1. In race 2, Matt gambled on slicks, as there was a dry line appearing, then it sta

On the 14th of March I went to Brands Hatch, Kent for the Ginetta Media day. This was my first trip to a circuit in 2017 and it was great to get back to a track! The day started with a welcome from the new in post Commercial Director Nick Portlock… we were warned those taking the chance of a passenger ride in the G55 where Michael Simpson was driving may see their coffee and croissant’s again! Looking around the room there were some familiar faces including Daily Sports