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PETALUMA, CA: The TRG-Aston Martin Racing team is set to launch the Pirelli World Challenge season with one of its strongest lineups to date. With three powerful Aston Martin Vantage cars competing in two classes, the team is prepared to surpass their nine podiums and six wins from the 2015 PWC season. TRG-AMR welcomes the return of drivers Derek DeBoer, Jason Alexandridis, Duncan Ende, and Max Riddle to the 2016 season opener in Austin, Texas on March 4-6th. A full season

Manor welcomes back former-IndyCar driver, James Jakes, as the team extends its 2016 driver line up. British driver, James Jakes, will return to Manor this season for his debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship. James had previously driven with the team during 2007 in Formula 3 and 2010 in the GP3 series, visiting the podium a number of times, before heading to the USA to compete in the IndyCar Series for the past 4 seasons. This will be James’ debut into

Former FORMULA 1 driver, Will Stevens, joins Manor as the team expands its entry in the WEC to two cars. Former FORMULA 1 driver, Will Stevens, joins Manor as the team expands its entry in the WEC to two cars. Only a few weeks after confirming its entry into WEC, the team is now pleased to reveal the first in a series of announcements to be made between now and The Prologue. Bringing strength, speed and an excellent working relationship with the team is former F1 dr

As part of our '90 Seconds with...' feature we spoke to Connor De Phillippi. At the age of 4 Connor wasn’t asking for a Tonka Truck or a Matchbox car, his toy came with a real engine and tires that needed changing. After seeing a neighborhood boy driving a go-kart on his street, he knew he needed to have one of his own. On his 5th Birthday Connors dream came true, when his grandfather got him his very own Tony Kart with a 50cc Comer engine. His foot hit the accelerator for th

Dion von Moltke, who over the past four seasons has become the most experienced American driver behind the wheel of an Audi R8 LMS, now officially joins Audi of America as Sportscar Brand Ambassador. von Moltke’s new role will see him extend his professional abilities on and off the racetrack. As the winner of several races, most notably the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona, von Moltke will be able to apply his unique experience behind the wheel of the R8 LMS at major US automotiv

As the last Land Rover Defender rolled off the production line in Solihull, one company in the UK are ensuring the marque lives on in a totally different way - Twisted. Started in 2000, Twisted take your standard Land Rover Defender to the next level, or 2... or 3... spending upwards of 300 man hrs per vehicle, they line all the panels, make sure all the doors shut properly, all the seals work, change fittings for stainless steel ones, the chassis is coated - and t

A lot of times we get asked to explain what the FIA World Endurance Championship is all about, so we tell people and they seem to understand - one thing that you can't get over is the passion and emotion of it. Thankfully the FIA have a video that shows this - so sit back and enjoy... Witness the spirit of Le Mans, feel the emotion, experience the state-of-the-art technological performance here in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship action video #fiawec #wec #LeMan

Simpson Motorsport today announced their return to the British GT Series with the new Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport, with Nick Jones and Scot Malvern behind the wheel. During the series' 24 year history Simpson Motorsport have been seen competing in various exotica such as the Ferrari F40 and 348LM along with the Porsche 911 RSR GT2. Two seasons racing Radicals and Jones is now ready for the step up into the British GT - “ I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to c

Ever wondered what the differences are between LMP1 and F1? Well we did so we thought we would share our findings with you! Let’s first of all point out that this is an exercise in comparison and not a scientific study, and we will put aside the open / closed wheel layouts… So first a little history; LMP as a class was first seen at the 1992 24h Le Mans when the ACO was trying to increase the field of Group C cars that the World Sportscar Championship had to offer. D

Yesterday at their press conference in Paris the ACO announced that there will be 60 cars entered to start the 84th running of the world famous 24 hours at Le Sarthe circuit, in France on the weekend of 18th-19th of June 2016. So in the third round of the World Endurnace Championship there will be 9 LMP1, 22 LMP, 14 GTE Pro and 14 GTE Am cars running along with the garage 56 entry of Frédéric Sausset who had all 4 limbs amputated due to an illness. A full list of entri

In less than 3 hrs the FIA will be announcing the entries for the World Endurance Championship live at their press conference in Paris. Prescott motorpsort will be comentating via our twitter feed @FromTheTribune so where ever you are you can keep up with the breaking news. #fiawec #fia #24hlemans #lemans #lm24 #LeMans

At the end of 24hrs of racing the finish saw the closest winning margin in the races history between the #3 and #4 Corvette racing cars of Oliver Gavin and Antonio Garcia at a mere 0.034 seconds! “ What you saw today was simply the two best road racers in the world with the two best cars in the world ,” said Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing program manager. “ You’d be hard pressed to find a better race than this. You don’t spend 23.5 hours working this hard and not let those

Thirteen, unlucky for some, is the amount of years Bentley has been absent from the world of prototype racing! Their last outing was in 2003 when Rinaldo Capello, Guy Smith and the legendary Tom Kristensen, driving the Bentley Speed 8, won the most prestigious race of them all, the Le Mans 24 Hours. Some claim just a rumour, Bentley boss Wolfgang Durheimer says ‘it is a good idea’, but Prescott Motorsport has learnt we could see the iconic British marque return for t

Johnny Mowlem captured his second-consecutive Prototype Challenge (PC) TOTAL Pole Award at Daytona for the Rolex 24, running a lap of 2:06.312 (101.951 mph) in the No. 20 BAR1 Motorsports Zoolander/Southwest Realty Advisors/Top 1 Oil ORECA FLM09. He will share the car with NASCAR veteran Brendan Gaughan, as well as Marc Drumwright, Tomy Drissi and Ricardo Vera. “I had a really great qualifying last year and it came down to the final lap,” Mowlem said. “The conditions

Nick Tandy captured the GT Le Mans pole for the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. Driving the No. 911 Porsche North America with teammate and last year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM champion, Patrick Pilet, Tandy – a two-time GTLM pole winner in 2015 and the reigning 24 Hours of Le Mans overall champion – posted a best time of 2:01.408 (105.561 mph). Frédéric Makowiecki qualified second in GTLM with a time of 2:02.364 (104.737 mph) in the

Well the covers have finally come off the new Ginetta G57 as Chairman Lawrence Tomlinson revealed the 580bhp prototype to much applause. Dubbed by Ginetta “as one of the fastest track day cars you can buy”, it’s still not entirely clear where this car will fit into the existing series racing, however has been accepted into the VdeV series in France, with other series’ sure to follow. Lawrence Tomlinson, Chairman of Ginetta explained “European Le Mans Series provided the

Studio G24 have been hard at work on the most comprensive renders to date of what the new Ford GT might look like with the iconic Gulf Oils Livery, and I would like to thank Luis Lara at Studio G24 for sending me these and I have the privilage of letting you see these images, and to see my previous article on the livery please take a look here . If you like to look of these creations please check out G24 Studio's website

The latest turbodiesel LMP1 racer to carry the R18 e-tron quattro name will race in the six megajoule hybrid sub-class next year rather than the 4MJ division in which it competed in 2015. Audi has abandoned the flywheel energy storage or mechanical battery system used since the arrival of the first R18 hybrid in 2012 in favour of a lithium-ion battery, the same technology used by 2015 WEC champion Porsche. The move to 6MJ should put the Audi on a par in terms of the Equ

The iconic Gulf livery colours originated with the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1967, when its Vice President, Grady Davis, entered his own GT40 as an independent at both Daytona and Sebring. Originally the car was finished in the standard Gulf Oil colours of dark blue with orange trim, during this year Ford USA withdrew from sports car racing and in turn Gulf Oil corp. took over the sponsorship of the newly created GT40 team – John Wyer Automotive Engineering. The first offi

So the Six Hours of Bahrain…. The question is where to start! From the start of the race there were battles all through the 4 classes! Right from the first corner Audi and Porsche were battling, the No. 17 Porsche having taking pole and with the sister car of 18 alongside all the work had to be done by Audi should they want to win the driver championship. In the first hour a mechanical problem for the championship leading 17 Porsche sent the car 4 laps down and to