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After almost a decade being involved with North American Motorsport, the Tequila Patrón brand has announced that is will cease all involvement at the end of 2018. Most notably the brand was involved with the IMSA series and the Extreme Speed Motorsports team (ESM). Together with Tequila Patrón, ESM burst onto the sports car racing scene in 2010 in the American Le Mans Series, and in the eight years to follow, has earned coveted wins at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Twelve Hour

Where a safety car stood in the way of a good result in the DTM race on Saturday, nothing could stop the reigning DTM-champion René Rast in his Audi RS5 from taking the chequered flag in the second DTM race on Sunday. He grabbed not only his first victory of the season, but also Audi’s first win of the year. Sunday qualifying led us to believe that the second race of the weekend could play out the same way as the first. Gary Paffett managed to score his second pole of the wee

Text and images: Rick Kiewiet Where the English football team couldn’t bring sportive success, it had to come from somewhere else for the English. And it did: Gary Paffett won the first race through the Dutch Dunes in Zandvoort in a race that was dominated by Mercedes. The first non-Mercedes was found on 5th place, which ‘lokalmatador’ Robin Frijns secured in his Audi RS5. Paffett lay the foundation for his 23rd career win (in 174 races) already in quali where he snatched Pol

Gary Paffett will remember this race Saturday at Zandvoort for a long time to come: having started from pole position, the Mercedes-AMG driver won the ninth race of the season in The Netherlands and thus extended his lead in the DTM drivers’ standings. For the Brit, it was the 23rd win in his 174th DTM race. With his third win of the season, he is now also tied with Audi legend Mattias Ekström in the all-time statistics. Both are now in third place behind Bernd Schneider (43

For the fifth race weekend of the 2018 DTM season, BMW M Motorsport heads to the North Sea where races nine and ten will be held at Zandvoort (NED). The “Circuit Park” there is an iconic track in the dunes – demanding and fast in equal measure. BMW drivers have brought home a total of four wins there since 2012 and are eager to end the first half of the 2018 season with a strong performance. BMW Team RMG’s Marco Wittmann (GER) is currently the best-placed BMW driver in the ov

Johan Kristoffersson wins his home event at Holjes, his fifth victory of the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship. In the opening day...

Best time on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife: Timo Bernhard beats six-minute mark with the 919 Hybrid Evo in the “Green Hell”. With 5 minutes and 19.55 seconds on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard (37, Germany) crossed the finish line of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife this morning at the wheel of the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. With this achievement, the two-times Le Mans winner and reigning World Endurance Champion has beaten the lap record on the revered 20.8 kilometre long German race ci

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship battle resumed at Croft in North Yorkshire for rounds 13,14 and 15 of the season. The...

Ferrari Junior Callum Ilott, secured his first win in the GP3 category with an emphatic Sprint Race victory at his team’s home track, Paul Ricard this weekend. Coupled with a points-paying eighth in Saturday’s race, Ilott leaves the French Grand Prix venue fourth in the standings. “Getting my first GP3 sprint win, at ART’s home race, somehow feels like the right thing,” says Ilott. “Big thanks to ART as the car felt really good and so I was able to showcase a little more of w

Reigning champion Ash Sutton topped the timing screens at the end of today’s qualifying session ahead of team mate Jason Plato. The...

Chevrolet announced today that Corvette Racing will close its 20th season of competition in grand style by competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) 2018 race in Shanghai. The C7.R racecar, which will wear a special Redline livery for the competition, will be the first factory-run Corvette to race in Asia. The 6 Hours of Shanghai will take place from November 16-18 at the 16-turn, 5.45-km Shanghai International Circuit. Built in 2004, the venue plays host to a n

So the 86th running of the Le Mans 24 hours is over and we think the dust has settled on this, the first of two visits to Le Mans during this FIA World Endurance Championship super season. Way back on the Sunday of scrutineering, as the cars arrived to a wet Place de la Republic, we may have been forgiven for thinking that the result was already known and that Toyota would win the race… but what would be in store for the teams and drivers on their journey to the flag… remembe

The 86th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours will see an all Toyota front row as the #8 TS050 Hybrid of Kazuki Nakajima (Sébastien Buemi and Fernando Alonso) took the team’s fourth pole with a 3:15:377. It was Kazuki’s second Le Mans career pole: “ I was pushing hard and it was a clean lap... I think we have a really good balance for the race so I am pleased with what we have done so far. Qualifying is only maybe 1% of the whole weekend but this pole position is nice for the team

In his 4th year at Le Mans, Ben Keating will be driving the number 85 Risi Competizione supported Keating Motorsports Ferrari 488 GTE in the AM class, alongside him in the car will be Jeroen Bleekemolen and Luca Stolz. “It’s interesting as this is my 4th Le Mans, I feel the prior experience (in LMP2) makes a difference as I know where I can make up time and where the Prototype cars will be quicker and like to overtake. Also I find it is easier for me to have confidence on tra

Longtime Le Mans team owner Giuseppe Risi and Ben Keating, both business owners and automotive dealers in the state of Texas with racing connections, partnered for this years’ 24 Hours of Le Mans race, June 16-17. Keating, who was honored with the Bob Akin Award IMSA entry for this year’s 86th running of the historic twice- around-the-clock endurance race will have regular Dutch teammate Jeroen Bleekemolen, and German Le Mans rookie Luca Stolz as co-drivers in the Keating Mot

TF-Sport claim a second win in GT3 while BMW victorious in GT4 with back-to-back wins. Starting from pole and with no success pitstop...

The fourth weekend in this years Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season produced some brilliant and frenetic racing in front...

We took a moment to catch up with Eddie Cheever III as he prepares for his first Le Mans, read on and find out how the driver of the #70 MR Racing is feeling before the big day. First Le Mans, How does it feel? It’s exciting, its going to be a long week, there is so much going on, its good that I have somebody who has so much experience like Olivier in the car and who can talk me through what I have to do during the week. Its very important to get as much adapted as you can,

Rick Mayer, race engineer of the Keating Motorsports/Risi Competizione No. 85 Ferrari 488 GTE-Am team, gives us an updated preview of this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, June 16-17, 2018, following the recent Le Mans Test. Drivers Ben Keating, Jeroen Bleekemolen, and Luca Stolz all drove the No. 85 Keating Motorsports/Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE at the recent Le Mans Test and will be the driver line-up for the twice-around-the-clock endurance race. NOTES FROM THE ENGINEER:

As they prepare for race week, Prescott Motorsport grabbed a few minutes ‘in the booth’ with Radio Le Mans John ‘Hindy’ Hindhaugh, Shea Adam and ‘Brilliant Bob’. Hindy came to his first Le Mans in 1989 and has not looked back since! He and his superb team will provide somewhere in the region of 28 hours straight through uninterrupted live coverage of the race, and that doesn’t include practice, qualifying and warm up sessions! We asked what the biggest change was he had seen