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Strakka Racing takes its third consecutive fourth place finish, battling through rain showers in the inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship race in Mexico City Continuing its string of top four finishes since the Le Mans 24 Hours back in June, Strakka Racing finished just shy of the podium yet again in the first ever FIA WEC round at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit, located in the heart of Mexico City. After securing third on the grid thanks to his superb lap

On the eve of the Hankook 24H BARCELONA, the penultimate round of this year’s 24H SERIES powered by Hankook, promoters and organisers CREVENTIC have announced the calendars for 2017 for both the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook and the Touring Car Endurance Series powered by Hankook. With a total of twelve rounds between the two series, the calendar includes as many as six new venues. The 24H SERIES will be visiting the circuits of Monza and Imola in Italy and Portimão in Portug

The number 6 Toyota Gazoo Racing will miss the free practice 1 and 2 sessions according to the team as they rush to replace a damaged monocoque following Stephane Sarrazin's spin into the pit wall at the circuit Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in the "collective test" session. Stephane is unhurt, but the car has sustained heavy damage meaning that the monocoque needs to be repaired prior to FP3 and Qualifying. Picture from DailySportsCar.com

Strakka Racing was set up in 2007 to provide a platform for a young rising star, Nick Leventis, to compete in GT racing. After a successful appearance in the then Le Mans Endurance Series, Strakka competed in the 2008 Le Mans 24 hour race in association with Vitaphone. In 2010 whilst competing in the 1000kms at the Hunagaroring Strakka entered the history books when they became to first team in LMS history to take the overall win in an LMP2 car. In 2016 Strakka are comp

Tuesday 30 August, Banbury: Aston Martin Racing returns to the track this week, as the FIA World Endurance Championship heads to Mexico for its inaugural visit to the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City. Despite stormy conditions forecast for this week’s round of the WEC, the team will be hoping for smooth sailing following its double podium success last time out at the Nürburgring. The team sit just 8 points behind the lead in the FIA WEC GT Manufacturers trophy and b

Just one month before the factory opening, Audi starts the crucial phase of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Mexico. Five of the nine championship races on the calendar are held between September and November. The world tour begins with the first ever world championship race in Mexico City on September 3. For drivers and engineers alike, it is the altitude of the 4.304 kilometer long track that represents the biggest change: at a height of more than 2,000 meters

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With a pole position and second and fourth, 17 year old Callum Ilott enjoyed success at the Masters of F3 event in Zandvoort, Holland but ultimately hoped for more from the weekend. The annual event, founded in 1991 and counting Lewis Hamilton and Jules Bianchi as past winners, sees F3 drivers compete in two events on an alternative Kumho tyre for the Masters of F3 title. Ilott was able to seize the advantage in Friday’s Free Practice and qualifying, topping all the sessions

The 6 Hours of Mexico presented by AT&T is almost upon us. The exciting and challenging Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez beckons for the bumper grid of FIA World Endurance Championship cars early next month. FIA WEC fans are notorious for their depth of knowledge but here are a few extra facts and points of interest to impress your friends and colleagues as the countdown to the big race continues. The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez sits in the original Magdalena Mixhuca Sports C

Manor have signed Alfonso “Picho” Toledano Guerra to compete in his home race at the 6hrs of Mexico in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Beginning his racing career in Karts, becoming 100cc Champion in Mexico in 2004, Picho changed to single-seater racing in 2005. Since 2005 he has raced in many formulas including Formula BMW and Formula 3. Manor will race one car in Mexico whilst focussing on solving some issues which have robbed the team of podium finishes in recent WE

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"

DTM driver Mike Rockenfeller provides a personal perspective of the upcoming races at Moscow Raceway. How did you spend the DTM summer break? With the team we continued to work on improving the set-up for the next races. In addition, I had a number of commitments including events with our partner Schaeffler and at Audi in Neuburg. Naturally, I spent as much time as possible with my family at Lake Constance. A few days ago, our second son, Paul, was born – he’s doing well an

The 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule unveiled today in Road America’s new Victory Lane in front of an audience of stakeholders, media and race fans features venue stability – all 12 racetracks that have hosted WeatherTech Championship events since the 2015 season are on next year’s schedule. However, the schedule does include a few notable alterations and date shifts for two events. The event at Circuit of The Americas – which has been run in September

Triumph Motorcycles held the title of “World’s Fastest Motorcycle” from 1955 to 1970 with the exception of a brief 33-day period. The Triumph streamliners to carry world records were the Devil’s Arrow, Texas Cee-gar, Dudek Streamliner and Gyronaut X1, the last being at 245.60 mph (395.28 km/h). Today's bar now sits at 376.363 mph (605.697 km/h). Now Triumph has teamed up with Matt Markstaller and Bob Carpenter and pulled together a team to restore Triumph Motorcycles’ lega

The Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner has become the world’s fastest ever Triumph by achieving a speed of 274.2 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Piloted by TT legend Guy Martin, the streamliner smashed the previous official Triumph record that stood at 245.667 mph as well as the unofficial Triumph Record of 264mph, both set by Bob Leppan, in the Gyronaut X-1. This record run is further proof of Guy’s growing confidence on the salt and commitment to breaking the World Land

In a month’s time the inaugural 6 Hours of Mexico Presented by AT&T will almost be upon us and the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will be echoing with the glorious sounds of the 34 prototypes and GT cars from the FIA World Endurance Championship. Until that time teams, drivers, and almost everyone else in the WEC paddock is enjoying some holiday time with families and friends. Enjoy the break everyone and come back rested and stronger than ever! Provisional entry list for

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

The 68th running of the Spa 24 Hour is the headline act in a thrilling Blancpain Endurance calendar. The annual event which has been held at Spa-Francorchamps since 1923 in various guises will present a host of new challenges for Moore in what will be his 24 hour debut as he negotiates the 7km, 21 turn circuit with teammates Alex Fontana and Andrew Watson. Last years race was won by BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS with Nick Catsburg, Lucas Luhr and Markus Palttala at the w

On the back of their win at Le Mans the LMP2 class was won by the #36 Signatech Alpine of Nicolas Lapierre, Stephane Richelmi and Gustavo Menezes. The #36 took over the lead going into the fourth hour when the #26 G-Drive of Alex Brundle, Rene Rast and Romain Rusinov retired with a gearbox failure. Taking second some 16.478 behind was the RGR Sport Ligier of Bruno Senna, Filipe Albuquerque and Ricardo Gonzalez. Ryan Dalziel and Jonny Kane gave the crowd a last lap battle

The #1 Porsche of reigning world champions Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber claimed their first victory of the season at the 6 hours of Nürburgring in front of a weekend crowd of 58,000. In a race which witnessed some immense battles, particular that of the sister car driven by Roman Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb going into the last hour against the #7 Audi of André Lotterer and Marcel Fässler (sadly for him Benoit Treluyer had to sit out this race whilst re