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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

Strakka Racing’s 2017 comprehensive 14 driver line-up will blend experience and young talent as it embarks on its first year in the Blancpain GT Series. Alongside highly experienced sportscar drivers and rising stars from McLaren’s GT Driver Academy, the Silverstone-based team will also run single seater and touring car converts across its quartet of 650S GT3s in its bid to retain McLaren’s GT crown. Team founder Nick Leventis and 2016 Strakka WEC driver Lewis Williamson s

In the new racing season, Falken will line up on the grid with not one, but two racing cars from premium German manufacturers. Last year saw the debut of the Falken Porsche 911 GT3 R (Type 991), which simultaneously scooped the title of fastest Porsche in the 24h-Race on Nürburgring and ended up in ninth place overall. This season it will be joined by team-mate Falken BMW M6 GT3 – the first time the tyre manufacturer has fielded two vehicles in motorsports challenges. Falken

Next season’s British GT Championship Media Day will take place at Snetterton on Tuesday 28 March. The Norfolk venue, which also hosted 2016’s pre-season gathering, will welcome back a wide variety of GT3 and GT4 machinery less than three weeks before Oulton Park stages the 25th campaign’s opening round on April 15 & 17. While the day’s precise entry list will remain TBC until nearer the time, members of the media will have an opportunity to catch up with new and returning

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2016 BTCC runner-up Sam Tordoff will switch his attention to sportscars next season after being announced alongside Liam Griffin in the second of Barwell Motorsport’s British GT-entered Lamborghini Huracan GT3s. The news comes just one week after Barwell confirmed this year’s British GT runners-up, Jon Minshaw and Phil Keen, would be returning for a third year with the team. Tordoff’s future has been the subject of much speculation since the end of this year’s tin-top campa

Flying Lizard Motorsports has announced the addition of a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to its NASA 25 Hours of Thunderhill presented by Hawk Performance roster with Toyo Tires. The new arrival will join the 2015 race winning Audi R8 LMS, complete with a matching blue and white Toyo Tires/Flying Lizard livery. Tommy Sadler, Andy Wilzoch, Charlie Hayes, and Will Owen will complete the driver lineup, racing a 2009 chassis from Sadler's own collection, brought out of storage and rebuilt f

Both the GT Cup and Prototype Cup calendars have been announced today with both series run by Bute Motorsport it's not co-incidental that at of the dates match up, with both series heading out to Spa Francorchamps in June, the week before Le Mans. Talking about the Prototype Cup, Bute Motorsport Director Hanna Wilson said " We are really happy with the calendar. The Bute Motorsport team have worked very hard with MSVR to get all the dates and circuits we wanted. We've had

Former Chip Ganassi Racing driver Pablo Pérez Company has been spotted testing the $1.5 million Pagani Zonda at the Sebring Raceway in Florida. Pablo signed with Chip Ganassi Racing for 2007 in the Indy Pro Series. In his first race for the team at Homestead-Miami Speedway he made contact with Sean Guthrie's car on lap 47. His car launched over Guthrie and into the catch fence where the footbox of his car was sheared off, resulting in what an observer termed as "gruesome"

Minshaw and Keen picked up their second win of the day by four seconds from TF Sport’s Derek Johnston and Jonny Adam after overcoming a 10-second success penalty in the pits for winning the day’s opening race. Keen’s pole lap offered them a chance to limit the damage at the start, and he duly obliged by maintaining the lead into Turn 1. Meanwhile Adam, who lost the championship lead for the first time this season after race one, gave chase but couldn’t dislodge the Huracan ov