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In Their first qualifying session of the season, Aston Martin’s three beauties qualified P5 and P6 in GTE Pro and P6 in GTE Am. On an extremely wet track (it had been snowing for over an hour!), the #97 of Fernando Rees and Richie Stanaway set a combined average lap time of 2m 21.626 to place them P5 in class. Richie comments ‘We are still in a learning period with our new tyres and the unique ambient and track temperatures made this session extremely difficult. We ran t

'Hugely frustrating' and 'we will urgently seek to address the issues' were phrases used in Toyota Gazoo Racing's post qualifying press release. With gaps of 4.996 for the #6 and 6.905 for #5 off the pole time, the two TS050 hybrids proved to be uncompetitive. Unsuitable control settings for the conditions gave the drivers no chance in today's wet 20 minute qualifying session. ‘It has been a challenging day weather-wise and that has put us a bit out of synch with the set

In what can only be described as challenging conditions, Audi got the best possible start to their 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship with a qualifying 1-2 for the Ingolstadt team. Sleet then snow, which in turn saw the cancellation of FP3, was not how anyone expected their day to begin but Audi played their hand perfectly. ‘The Audi R18 practically has not a single bolt in common anymore with its predecessor’ commented Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich. ‘C

The two Porsche 919 hybrids will start the 6 hours at Silverstone from the second row of the grid. On a drying track the No.1 of Bernhard, Hartley and Webber qualified ahead of their teammates by a mere .116 of a second. 'The conditions were very cold and it was even snowing in the morning - we made the right call to keep our full wets on' said Hartley. German Marc Lieb of the No.2 Porsche commented 'We went in a slightly different direction on set-up to that of our sist

After a wintery start to the day at Silverstone with temperatures not peaking over 4 degrees the cars started to go out on track, with the number five Toyota of Anthony Davidson taking the first early running. A series of off track excursions be felt the early runners and the track was red flagged after 6 min with the number five Toyota being unceremoniously removed from a gravel trap on the end of a JCB. With 40 minutes of the session remaining all of the LMP1-H cars hav

The FIA World Endurance Championship’s App has received many plaudits for its range of entertaining and informative content, ease of use, and availability on multiple platforms. Now, for 2016, it has been upgraded further with a new design and features, better integration and new content so that fans of the best endurance racing in the world don’t have to miss a minute of the action. We rely more and more heavily on small screen technology in our everyday lives, with many

Aston Martin Racing is set to kick off its 2016 campaign this weekend (17 April), as the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) takes place at Silverstone. With the team looking to claim a strong finish in this weekend’s race, Aston Martin Racing Team Principal Paul Howarth knows the importance of claiming points consistently across what is tipped to be the FIA WEC’s most competitive season to date. “We’re in a great place ahead of Silverstone,” he comme

Max heads to the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach high on confidence after a sensational IndyCar oval debut in Phoenix where he picked up a universally acclaimed 7th place. Long Beach is one of the jewels in the Verizon IndyCar calendar and is a return to a street course providing a totally different challenge to the short and speedy Phoenix Oval. Over 200,000 fans are expected to turn out under the Californian sun when the cars take to the track on Sunday at 13:45 local tim

More than 55 teams have already signed up to compete in the Hankook 12H ZANDVOORT (May 6-7, 2016), the fourth round of the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook. The final grid slots are still available, but filling up fast. Teams wanting to be part of the action in the endurance race for GTs, touring cars and 24H Specials at the famous circuit in the Dutch dunes are advised to act quickly. “For us, the Zandvoort round is our home race, so it really is something special,” says Natash

With the opening round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship just around the corner, here is our quick guide to the Championship and its classes. If you have never seen a WEC race before the most important thing to know is that there are four classes of cars racing on the same track at the same time. Also, a common factor throughout the four classes is that one team of drivers compete in the same car; two or three drivers take turns in the car completing “stints” of

The FIA World Endurance Championship is back at Silverstone for its now-traditional season-opening festival of sports car racing, and there’s more than ever on offer to entertain the whole family. More cars, more racing, famous drivers and lots to see and do on and off track. The 6 Hours of Silverstone (15-17 April) is the opening round of the nine race world championship and a great opportunity to witness the spirit of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the UK. There is a full w

Jersey born Struan Moore has immediately impressed team bosses following the conclusion of pre-season testing in Monza. The McLaren GT Academy ace will line up alongside Alex Fontana and Andrew Watson in the #59 McLaren 650S GT3 machine when he takes to the grid at the same track. 2016 marks a significant year for Struan, who graduated through single seaters with Lanan racing in BRDC F4 before making a move to Japanese F3 with KCMG before switching to sportscars and landing

Following his successful Verizon IndyCar debut at St Petersburg, Max shone in his first oval outing at the Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix. His pace was quick all weekend and he was first to break the 190mph barrier in the lead up to the 250 lap race. Max has shown a natural ability to adapt to the oval courses following an IndyLights win at Iowa's oval speedway in 2015 with British team Carlin. This time out with his #8 Chip Ganassi car, he was fighting at t

SILVERSTONE (April 03, 2016) - The Team ABBA with Rollcentre Racing BMW M3 V8 (#246, Richard Roberts/Charles Lamb/Martin Short/Richard Neary) has won the Hankook 24H SILVERSTONE. The English team went from last to first after not having been able to set a qualifying time due to a broken driveshaft. After 512 laps on the 5.980 kilometres long Grand Prix circuit and a total distance of 3,061 kilometres, Richard Roberts drove the SP-Touring car over the finish line. Three laps d

The RS Connect Seat Leon Cup Racer (#144, Lea Hodson/Jacob Hodson/Adam Jones/Gavin Jones) topped the Qualifying for the Hankook 24H SILVERSTONE, the debut of Creventic's new Touring Car Endurance Series (TCES) powered by Hankook. Adam Jones set the quickest lap around the cold but dry British Grand Prix track in 2:16.295 minutes. The Red Camel-Jordans.nl Seat (#303, Bert de Huis/Ivo Breukers/Rik Breukers) missed the pole by 0.471 seconds in second place. Behind the two TCR-sp

This weekend’s inaugural Hankook 24H SILVERSTONE (April 1-3, 2016) will mark the start of the new Touring Car Endurance Series powered by Hankook. Reviving the tradition of 24-hour racing at Silverstone, Dutch agency CREVENTIC has taken over the role as the promoter and organiser of the event and has set itself the goal to secure the long-term future of the race by raising its international status. The number of 21 different nationalities represented among the teams and drive

20 year old Jersey born racer Struan Moore competed in the 2014 BRDC F4 Championship securing 7 podium finishes and a race win. In 2015 he signed with KCMG to drive in the Japanese F3 Series where he impressed all season often out pacing more experienced rivals. In late 2015 Struan had a test drive with the McLaren GT team in Barcelona and a few weeks later was annouced as their representative for the Academy Driver Programme in the Blancpain Endurance Series alongside Ale

After 17 hours of running and thousands of kilometres track testing, the 29 cars entered for the Prologue at Circuit Paul Ricard have now parked their cars in the pit boxes and the engineers have started to analyse and study the data this evening. It is difficult to make any true conclusions, however, as the poker faces and mind games of the teams often mask the true hierarchy of pace and positions throughout the classes. What we can say is that 2016 looks set to be a ste

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The anticipation and waiting is over. The FIA WEC cars and drivers blew the dust off the long winter and made sure it was a very Good Friday indeed at Circuit Paul Ricard today. Fine spring conditions in the South of France welcomed the 29 cars as they took to the track and welcomed in the fifth edition of the WEC, as preparations continued for the first round at Silverstone in three weeks’ time. The opening day was broken down in to three sessions – morning, afternoon and n