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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

We are pleased to announce the launch of a range of exclusive images taken from the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. During the season we have taken many shots from around the world and would like to share these with you. We have selected some of our favourites to be produced and framed for you to enjoy. They include the 95 Aston Martin being pushed down the pit lane at the Nurburgring, a Gulf Porsche mechanic looking at his car and a Ferrari pit stop in mid-flight

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

What a race of mixed fortunes at Fuji 🇯🇵 We started from Pole Position in GTE AM, beautifully won by Matt Griffin but especially by Team Principal Weng Sun Mok who gave us the P1 with a superb lap in terrible conditions. Race day weather was predictably foul and Sawa San started the race for us under the Safety Car. Once the race proper started, the amazing Keita got the #61 Ferrari as high up as 20th overall, ahead of 3 cars in the GTE PRO class!!! But, an untimely Safe

The 2018 Fuji 6 Hours was moist… the race started under safety car as Patrick Dempsey waved the green flag. As the field went green the LMP2 pole sitter spun at T1. Image from the FIA Toyota and Porsche fought throughout the race, Toyota seeming to cope better in the wet and eventually the number 8 of Nakajima, Davidson and Buemi took the win in class and overall. In 2nd was the number 7 Toyota and 3rd was taken by the number 1 Porsche. The first red flag arrived just be

The outlook for the Six Hours of Fuji hasn't changed much in the past few days. It still looks like a very wet weekend as a front is expected to stall near the southern coastline of Japan. The one bright spot in this forecast update is that the impact of the rain on Saturday looks less than it did before. Today, radar shows that a solid line of showers will move across Fuji Speedway, associated with a cold front. As the front moves southeast, it will stall near the southern

Porsche LMP Team's Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley combined to take a second pole position of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship season at a wet Fuji Speedway this afternoon. The Kiwi duo set an average of 1m35.160s in the No.2 Porsche 919 Hybrid to head the sister No.1 car by just 0.071s in a thrilling session. The extra point achieved by the No.2 crew for pole today sees them extend their title lead to 52pts with just a maximum of 77 now to play for. This means th

Porsche GT Team's Frederic Makowiecki and Richard Lietz claimed a first pole position of the season at Fuji today after making the most of their mid-engined No.91 Porsche 911 RSR. Makowiecki set the outright quickest time of 1m47.573s before Lietz lapped a shade quicker to ensure an average of 1m47.577s. The French/Austrian alliance headed the GT points leading No.67 Ford Chip Ganassi pairing of Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell by 0.441s. While it was Makowiecki and Lietz

In 2016 we launched our first motorsport calendar in aid of Mission Motorsport - we to this day continue to support them with their great charity work. This year we have been closely involved with Clearwater Racing and their efforts in the FIA World Endurance Championship. We have met many people involved with the team and have taken an interest in their associations - in particular Smile Asia. Smile Asia is a global alliance of independent charities working together to t

Racing Ace Matt Griffin heads to Japan this week for the 7th round of the FIA World Endurance Championship being held at Fuji circuit. Griffin rejoins Clearwater Racing along with teammates Mok Weng Sun and Keita Sawa in their number 61 Ferrari 488 GTE. This is somewhat of a home race with the team being based in Asia and while it will be Griffins 4th time racing at Fuji, Mok Weng Sun and Keita Sawa are very experienced at the iconic circuit. “It is great to be back in Ja

Prescott Motorsport are proud to announce that in 2018 we will be brand ambassadors for the SPINE eyewear range. The product enjoys a revolutionary hinge based on the human spine moving in multiple directions. The hinge also had no screws to fall out or loosen & the arms are self closing! 86% less likely to need an adjustment throughout ownership! The lenses are also amazing using the latest super high definition optics (SHD) called Neuroscience & Neurogram. These lenses

UK based Ginetta Cars announced today that they have taken formal orders and deposits for the first three sales of their new for 2018 LMP1 endurance racing car. The cars, purchased by an as yet un-named single customer team, are bound for a proposed two car 2018/19 FIA WEC effort (including both the 2018 and 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours) with the third car intended as a spare. Lawrence Tomlinson, Ginetta Cars Chairman: “This is a big step forward for the programme, and will be g

Today saw the launch of the FIA World Endurance Championship "Global Fan Survey". Fans are invited to take part in the survey and contribute to the shape of the FIA WEC in years to come. “We want to hear from the fans,” said FIA World Endurance Championship CEO, Gérard Neveu. “Echoing the values and attitudes led by Jean Todt, President of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), and Pierre Fillon, President of the ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest), this has alw

The FIA World Motorsport Council have confirmed the dates for the FIA World Endurance Championship "Super Season" 2018/19 at their meeting today in Paris. Jean Todt, offered the FIA's full support to the FIA Endurance Commission in its efforts to further strengthen and promote the FIA WEC, saying that it is one of the FIA's most important assets. The Paul Riccard test day is scheduled to be run over the 6th and 7th April and will offer teams 36 hours of continuous running.

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

Apologies, our race report is later than usual… we actually spent a few days ‘post race’ enjoying the sights and sounds of Austin… what a great place… as they say… ‘Keep Austin Weird’! So you all know the result by now, under the scorching Texan sun the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid took the chequered flag at the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas. Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard and Earl Bamber gave the German marque their third in a row of 1-2 finishes with the #1 of Neel Jani, A

Aston Martin Racing has triumphed in Texas, as Paul Dalla Lana (C), Pedro Lamy (P) and Mathias Lauda (A) took GTE Am victory in the Six Hours of Circuit of The Americas. After taking pole position yesterday, their second win of the 2017 season ensured the trio both maximised their points haul for the weekend and regained the lead in both the team and drivers GT Am championships. After an early spin following contact from a rival cost Dalla Lana the lead early on, the trio

Porsche once again locked out the front row of the grid for this weekends Round 6 of the FIA World Endurance Championship at the Circuit of the Americas in a very hot and steamy Austin, Texas. The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Jani, Lotterer and Tandy will start from pole position after Britain's Nick Tandy put in a last minute dash to the line, after a previous lap was deleted due to exceeding track limits, to snatch pole away from the sister car, with a time of 1:44.741 around

Before this afternoon’s qualifying for the 6h of COTA, Prescott Motorsport grabbed a few words with Clearwater Racing’s Arj Pillay Kulasegaram. The team's hopes for qualifying: "With the speed of the Aston and Spirit of Race, we are hoping, and would be very happy with, third place in this afternoon’s qualifying." When asked about tyres: "Out of the two tyre choices available to us one is completely unuseable! Had we have known now what we knew when we made our choice w

We received some great news this morning that Adam has been chosen to be an ambassador for the British Photography Awards. The British Photography Awards are a fully independent body, run by volunteers and showcasing the finest photographs taken in England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. Their team administers a series of regional photography prizes in a range of categories that call for the very best of British photography. However, regional photography awards are onl