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Qualifying for the 4 Hours of Monza took place under sunny skies with three drama filled sessions. The LMP2 Grid will be headed by the no33 TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson of Matthieu Vaxiviere. The young French driver set a 1m35.456 lap, 0.381 seconds faster than the nearest rival, the no21 DragonSpeed Oreca of Ben Hanley, in a session interrupted by a red flag to recover a stopped car. The session also concluded with a red flag after the chequered flag was shown when the no25

Championship challenging GT4 European Series rookies Will Tregurtha and Stuart Middleton scorched to their second victory of the 2018 season at a very warm and sunny Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit on Sunday, 6th May – on a weekend which looked to have delivered a winning double. Following a stunning performance in qualifying at the Kent venue on Saturday, 5th May, where the HHC Motorsport duo secured pole position for both one-hour contests, a potential victory in the first

A technical infringement has meant that the number 1 Rebellion Racing car has been disqualified from 3rd place in the FIA WEC Total 6 Hours of Spa. At 22:45 the team were handed the penalty after the scrutineers found the skid block on the car did not conform to the required thickness, it was found to be 1.2mm to thin thus meaning that Lotterer, Jani and Senna score no points. This moves the number 3 Rebellion into 3rd overall.

The FIA World Endurance Championship finally began today in a beautifully sunny Spa-Francorchamps. The fans flocked to the Ardennes in their thousands to watch the inaugural round of the new Superseason, seeing the Championship race not once but twice at the Belgium circuit. And they were not disappointed! LMP1 Starting from an unexpected pole position due to it’s sister car receiving a penalty late last night, the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Naka

Ginetta Cars has released the following statement confirming that the first two G60-LT-P1 LMP1 cars will not start the 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps race this weekend, the opening round of the 2018/19 FIA WEC. It is with great disappointment that we have to announce that Ginetta will not be releasing the two LMP1 cars that successfully ran at the FIA WEC Prologue at Paul Ricard earlier this month. Unfortunately, funds promised have not arrived from TRS (China) to CEFC TRSM Ra

Apologies for the lateness of this update - I was sick in bed with the flu all day yesterday. But the good news is that the forecast for the Six Hours of Spa is looking better and better. Considering the typical cool and wet conditions that the race can often have, the weather this weekend looks spectacular. A high pressure system at the surface will be shifting northeast across northern Europe through Friday and Saturday, from off the west coast of France early Friday to the

Victories for ERC Sport and HHC Motorsport in the seasons first two hour endurance race. British GT. Source: Ian Cutting Photography Starting from pole, Jon Minshaw in the Barwell Motorsport lead the way until the first of four safety cars was deployed. Oulton Park winner Optimum's Flick Haigh was chasing Minshaw, but lost out to the sister Barwell Motorsport of Sam De Hann. Shaun Balfe's stricken McLaren at Turn 12 after hitting it was the cause for this safety car. Racing

The WEC Super Season begins this weekend at the beautiful Circuit Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Overall, the weather looks pretty good, but there are some caveats with that. Forecasting for Belgium can be very tricky due to its proximity to the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south, and southern Belgium has quite a varied terrain itself. The details of the weather conditions can vary greatly on a local scale, and I'm certainly not a local expert. Plus, the models a

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship burst back into life for the second weekend of the year at the Leicestershire circuit of Donington Park. Josh Cook. Source: Eric Barnes Photography The first encounter of the day saw pole man Josh Cook make a decent getaway off the line, but was briefly demoted by BTC Norlin’s Chris Smiley who also started on the front row. The pair then swapped places again going down the Craner Curves and Cook re-took the lead. As the race w

Power Maxed Racing’s Josh Cook showed impressive pace during the Saturday qualifying for the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship to take pole position and have the early advantage going into Sunday’s three mouthwatering races. Josh Cook. Source: Chequered Images Cook left it until the final moments of the session to nail together what was a incredible lap in mixed conditions and fend off the likes of BTC Norlin’s Chris Smiley who was on course for his own maiden pole

2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button has been announced as the latest driver to take on the challenge of the FIA World Endurance Championship and top tier sports prototype racing. The British driver will race for the full Super Season (except except for the TOTAL 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2018 which clashes with the second round of the Super GT Series) for SMP Racing in the LMP1 category alongside Mikhail Aleshin and Vitaly Petrov and against a strong field which i

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship arrives at Donington Park this weekend after an eventful and breathtaking opening weekend at Brands Hatch last time out. Source: Eric Barnes Photography Three thrilling races produced three different winners on the opening weekend of the year and it is something that we’ll be looking to expect yet again at the undulating Leicestershire circuit. Jack Goff, Senna Proctor and Tom Ingram were all winners last time out and will be

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Richard Neary wins both races in his Team Abba Racing Mercedes AMG in the Sprint Category, while in the Endurance Category Black Mamba won both races with their separate crews. Team Abba Racing. Source: Ian Cutting Photography Race 1 Sprint Category Starting from pole the FF Corse Ferrari 458 GT3 of Ross Wylie made a good start and was out in front of the striking Mercedes AMG GT3. By the time the pitstops came around the lead was just under 24s as the Ferrari made their dr

Caitlin Wood is looking to become the first Australian woman to win the Le Mans 24 Hour. Caitlin started racing on her 7th birthday in karts, and at the age of 15 she progressed into Formula Ford racing her brother’s old Spirit WL06 car which, with the help of her brother and father, they put back together one Christmas break. At the end of her first Formula Ford season she had progressed beyond the capabilities of the old Spirit and joined Synergy Motorsport. Here she stay

As part of our build up to the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, we take a look at the famous Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Designed in 1920 by Jules de Thier and Henri Langlois Van Ophem, the original triangle-shaped course used public roads between the Belgian towns of Francorchamps, Malmedy, and Stavelot. The track was intended to have hosted its inaugural race in August 1921, however this event had to be cancelled as there was only one entran

Ginetta G60-LT-P1 customers, CEFC TRSM, have completed their driver line-up for the 2018/19 FIA WEC Super Season with the announcement of Oliver Turvey. Image - Ginetta Oliver is the sixth and final driver to be confirmed for CEFC TRSM’s two-car entry into the 2018/19 FIA WEC Super Season, which gets underway at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium next month. He will join Oliver Rowland and Alex Brundle in car six. Previously announced Charlie Robertson, Leo Roussel and Dean Stonem

If the news coming from Auto Hebdo in France is to be believed then this could be true. The French news agency were reporting that Button is in talks with the SMP Racing Team to drive their BR1 LMP1 prototype at this years race. The 2009 Formula One world champion is rumoured to be in talks to join Mikhail Aleshin and Vitaly Petrov in the #11 car that finished the 30 hour WEC Prologue test earlier this month. This car had the fastest non-hybrid time, and indeed topped the tim

From now until 2020, the Porsche 911 Turbo will be the safety car for the Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC). The all-wheel-drive 911 produces 540 hp (397 kW) and sprints from zero to 100 km/h in 3.0 seconds. Technologically, the safety car corresponds largely to the production vehicle. Only a few race specific modifications were added, such as the light bar on the roof and a radio for contacting the race director, with the brakes and suspension optimised for the r

Now there has been time for the dust to settle, here is our report from the 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue which was held at the Paul Ricard Circuit, France. In some ways it was like the first day back at school, some new teams joining the World Endurance Championship and old friends meeting up after the break. The same true for the media and FIA staff, greetings were exchanged and hopes for the upcoming season expressed. The mood was relaxed in the pit lan