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United Autosports will contest their second Le Mans 24 Hours next week, as they prepare for the largest endurance race in the world with their pair of Ligier JS P217s. The team’s European Le Mans Series regulars, Phil Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque will be joined in the #22 Ligier by Phil’s IMSA team mate, Paul Di Resta as the trio team up for the first time. This will be the first time Paul has raced at Le Mans. The #32 Ligier will be piloted once again by Will Owen and Hugo

Mat Simpson will start the first of tomorrow’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car races from pole position, after blitzing the rest of...

For many years now, the name Andy Blackmore has become synonymous with the creation of spotters' guides and racecar liveries. This writer took the opportunity to ask Andy some questions on the lead up to this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans about how he started in this field and some of his achievements to date. Andy started designing liveries while at University in the UK on a Car Design degree. He won a competition to design a livery for Toyota's British Touring Car Championship

The ultimate fan favourite spotter guide by Andy Blackmore is set to return for 2018 supported by WeatherTech. The Spotter Guide series has become a very successful piece of art and visual aid in motor racing in recent years and is now the largest resource of its kind in the world. During 2014, there was over 100,000 unique downloads of the NISMO Le Mans Spotter Guide. Andy Blackmore is a successful Livery Designer and Automotive Stylists and produces the artwork for the Spo

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship resumes this weekend at the picturesque Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire. The circuit is a...

The serene countryside sounds were once again broken up by roaring engines in Hampshire as Thruxton celebrated their 50th Anniversary of...

Clear blue skies greeted the large crowd that flocked to the Circuit de la Sarthe today for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Official Test Day,...

Rick Mayer, race engineer of the Keating Motorsports/Risi Competizione No. 85 Ferrari 488 GTE-Am team, gives us a preview of this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, June 16-17, 2018. Giuseppe Risi and Ben Keating, both business owners and automotive dealers in the state of Texas with racing connections, have joined forces for this years’ 24-hour race at the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France. Keating, Jeroen Bleekemolen, and Luca Stolz will pilot the Keating Motorsports/Risi Co

Johan Kristoffersson extended his FIA World Rallycross Championship by taking his third win of the 2018 season at the inaugural Speedmachine Festival at Silverstone. Silverstone was host to the World RX of Great Britain, the fourth round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship where Kristoffersson took his third win in the PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Polo of the season to extend his championship lead despite ending up in the tyre wall in the semi-final. The semi-final was restart

The 24 Hours of Le Mans is not far away now and festivities begin this weekend with the Le Mans Test Day at Circuit de la Sarthe. There are two scheduled test sessions for Sunday, one from 9:00am-1:00pm and another from 2:00pm-6:00pm local time. An upper level low pressure system will move off the western coast of Europe, between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Celtic Sea, Saturday night into Sunday. To start test day, winds at the upper levels will be relatively calm and dr

Double victory for TF-Sport in GT3 while Tolman Motorsport and Century Motorsport claim GT4 wins in Snetterton double header. British GT. Source: Ian Cutting Photography Race 1 GT3 Starting from pole TF-Sport's Mark Farmer led the race early on in the Norfolk sunshine until lap nine when both the Jetstream Motorsport Aston Martin of Graham Davidson and the Team Parker Racing Bentley got the better of Farmer. Just a few minutes into the race later the Safety Car was sent o

We are just days away from the first FIA World Rallycross Championship to be hosted at Silverstone. But before things get underway, here is a roundup of what has happened in the first three rounds of the championship so far. Image FIA WRX Round 1: World RX of Spain There was drama at the opening round when it came to final. Petter Solberg in the PSRX Volkswagen Sweden was on pole with Mattias Ekstrӧm, the winner in Spain the two years previous, alongside him. Side-by-side

The GT4 Sprint Cup Europe powered by SRO Motorsports is the latest asset to the DTM support programme for the season finale held from 12th to 14th October, 2018. The cost-efficient GT-racing entry category, classified below the GT3 class, is gaining increasing popularity all over the world. The motor-racing enthusiasts at the Hockenheimring may look forward to quite a number of manufacturers. In addition to the GT4 vehicles of the manufacturers in DTM – BMW M4 GT4, Mercedes-

With the final phase of the works at the Porsche Curves complete, there have been many other improvements made by the ACO and the Syndicat Mixte. Two slogans for Ghislain Robert, COA Events and Infrastructure Manager: "Safety and Welcoming the Public". All the work done this year goes in this direction. First of all, with the last phase of the Porsche corner safety work (site started in 2015), under the contract of the Syndicat mixte. A large right turn exit corner was cre

It was a fantastic day of racing under the sunshine at the Thruxton circuit in Hampshire, which played host to rounds 7,8 and 9 of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. BTCC Thruxton. Source: Eric Barnes Photography It was the Halfords Yuasa Racing’s Matt Neal who claimed the early bragging rights as he converted his pole into a race win. Colin Turkington, who lined up alongside Neal, drew level with the Honda is both cars approached the first few corners, but it

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship qualifying session got underway under the blistering sunshine at the Thruxton circuit in Hampshire. Matt Neal BTCC. Source: Chequered Images This is a circuit which is notoriously hard and tyres and is the fastest circuit on the calender, so this was a chance for the cars, particularly with less ballast, to really make a run for the front and gain the advantage going into race day tomorrow. It was the Halfords Yuasa Honda Civi

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship heads to the Thruxton circuit in Hampshire this weekend for rounds 7,8 and 9 of the season. BTCC Donington. Source: Eric Barnes Photography So far we’ve seen a whole host of new faces grace the podium positions with somewhat of a changing of the guard in the Championship as the younger drivers are seizing the opportunity to take control of the championship fight this year. The average age of the top eight drivers in the standin

Wins for Team Abba Racing and FF Corse Britcar. Source: Ian Cutting Photography Race 1 Richard Neary in his Team Abba Racing Mercedes AMG takes the win from FF Corse Ferrari 488 with an audicious move round the outside of Copse Corner. Starting from fourth after picking up an early puncture and having to sit out rest of qualifying, Neary certainly was a man on a mission. Having quickly gotten past those ahead, he was soon on the tail of the Ferrari 488. After the pit stops,

Jean-Eric Vergne completed a dominant victory in the 4 Hours of Monza in the no26 G-Drive Racing and joined Roman Rusinov and Andrea Pizzitola on the top step of the podium one week after winning the FIA World Endurance Championship race at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend. The Franco-Russian crew finished nearly 30 seconds ahead of the no33 TDS Racing Oreca, which had started at the back of the LMP2 field, with the no28 IDEC Sport Oreca finishing 2.1 seconds behind TDS Racing

New luxury sports car to be presented for the first time on 15 June 2018, the eve of the legendary 24-hour race – parallel development of the production model and the BMW M8 GTE guarantees inspiring driving dynamics on the road as well. Munich. 24 hours and a great moment: On the eve of the legendary long-distance race at Le Mans, France, BMW will open a new chapter in the brand’s fascinating sports car history. On 15 June 2018, the countdown to the 24-hour Le Mans race will