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Race leader Ollie Wilkinson was tagged by Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes driver Raffaele Marciello at the Dingle Dell righthander with approximately four minutes of the one-hour race left on the clock. The McLaren 720S GT3 that Ben Barnicoat had propelled into the lead on the opening lap turned sharp left into the barriers and ended

Second place aboard their Audi R8 LMS GT3 in the second of the two races at the British venue on Sunday was more than enough to give Vanthoor and Weerts the crown with two rounds left to run at Valencia next month. The Belgian duo moved up to the runner-up spot on the final lap

Barnicoat topped the times in Saturday’s opening qualifying session aboard the McLaren 720S GT3 he shares with Ollie Wilkinson to grab pole for the first of the two races on Sunday. It was the first time that a McLaren has qualified at the front of the field since 2016 when Alvaro Parente took the top

The Williams F1 reserve suffered fractures to his collarbone and vertebra in a violent multi-car accident in the opening laps of the GT World Challenge Europe blue ribband round, when his stricken Emil Frey Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo was hit by unsighted cars over the crest at Raidillon. Speaking for the first time at length since

Autosport has learned that Ray Mallock Limited is working on a Continental development car for Bentley built to the eGT regulations, which were released to interested parties by the FIA as early as last December. The Bentley test car exploits a route into eGT allowing a manufacturer to take an existing GT3 contender and fit

The invitational races on the 3.8-mile street Guia Circuit have traditionally attracted healthy entries from aspiring Formula 1 drivers seeking to win the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, and from GT manufacturers fielding works-supported GT3 cars. The final round of the WTCR championship is also traditionally held in Macau. However, with all international arrivals required to

Championship organisers SRO Motorsport Group have today confirmed the marque will enter the invitational class of the new GT2 series, with an appearance coming at Paul Ricard on 1-3 October this year, ahead of a full season as a homologated marque in 2022. The famous Brabham name returned to motor racing in 2019 through the

Alessandro Pier Guidi, Come Ledogar and Nicklas Nielsen once again earned maximum points for leading the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup blue riband after 12 hours, having done so earlier in the race for leading after the six-hour mark. The occupants of the #51 Ferrari 488 GT3 suffered a setback when they earned a

Vosse described the events that led up to the WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 with Dries Vanthoor at the wheel losing the lead to the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GTE Evo driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi with just 10 minutes to go as “a lot of fun”. “We all like to win and I like

Defending race winner Vanthoor was sharing the #47 KCMG Porsche 911 GT3 R with Nick Tandy and Maxime Martin. However, just beyond the 16-hour mark, Porsche announced that Vanthoor had been forced to withdraw from the remainder of the race, leaving team-mates Tandy and Martin to complete the race as a duo. Vanthoor subsequently tweeted

The #34 machine that South African van der Linde shared with David Pittard and Marco Wittmann had run third in the early laps after a bullish start from Pittard, but dropped back down the order with a puncture. However by nightfall the crew were back in contention for a podium, only for an engine failure

Andrea Piccini, a winner of the race as a driver with the Phoenix Audi squad in 2012, described Pier Guidi’s drive over the final half hour to haul the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo he shared with Nicklas Nielsen and Come Ledogar back into the lead as “unbelievable”. “We know we had a good

His injuries, which also include a minor lung contusion, were sustained when his Emil Frey Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo was involved in a multi-car incident in the opening hour of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The fractured vertebra was described as stable and Aitken is hoping to be discharged from hospital

Having secured maximum bonus points for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup by virtue of leading after both six hours and 12 hours, the #51 Ferrari 488 GT3 driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi, Come Ledogar and Nicklas Nielsen continued to head the field with six hours to run. Both the Iron Lynx car and

Pier Guidi went around the outside of the WRT Audi driven by Dries Vanthoor in wet conditions at the fast Blanchimont left-hander to reclaim the lead that the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo he shared with Nicklas Nielsen and Come Ledogar had held for much of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge

Aitken’s Emil Frey Lamborghini and Rigon’s Iron Lynx Ferrari were involved in a four-car accident at the top of Eau Rouge on the 10th lap of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe, which resulted in an extended period of yellow-flag running. The injuries of Aitken and Rigon were described by the race

The 36-year-old Scot was forced to skip last weekend’s British GT round at Spa, with fellow works driver Ross Gunn filling in at Beechdean AMR alongside team patron Andrew Howard. Now Adam, who also leads the GTWCE Endurance Cup and overall GTWCE Pro-Am standings with Garage 59, will also have to miss the blue ribband

Entering the Porsche Supercup this year means we’ve now got every step on the Porsche pyramid covered – we’ve got the Caymans in the Porsche Sprint Challenge, the GT3 Cup cars in Carrera Cup and now the Supercup, and the GT3-R in British GT. We’ve entered a partnership with Revs Motorsport for the Supercup –

Four-time series champion Adam, who returned to British GT this season to partner Andrew Howard after the pandemic prompted the withdrawal of the TF Sport entry he was due to race in 2020, has scored two podiums from the first three rounds in Beechdean’s Aston Martin Vantage GT3 . Reuniting with team boss Howard for

Frikadelli had planned to run two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs for the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener on 31 July-1 August in the Belgian Ardennes. Dennis Olsen, Frederic Makowiecki and Patrick Pilet were set to share driving duties in the #3 car, while 2019 winner Michael Christensen, Thomas Preining and Julien Andlauer were set to pilot

The second generation R8 LMS was launched in 2015 and received its first ‘Evo’ kit four years later, primarily aimed at improving drivability for amateur drivers as well as a more durable transmission system. The release of the Ingolstadt marque’s revised model, the Audi R8 LMS Evo II, comes as rival marque BMW plans to

Ten cars were eliminated in the first 30 minutes of the two-hour race after three multi-car crashes depleted the field. Brands Hatch winner Michael Igoe was tagged at the first corner by Nick Jones and then hit by Leo Machitski, bringing out the first of four safety cars. Two GT4 crashes in quick succession then

She died at the age of 51 after a long battle against cancer. A native of nearby Adenau, Schmitz was an immensely popular figure at the Nurburgring who became the first female winner of the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 1996 before taking a second victory the following year. She was also famous for her BMW

But the diverse career of Nelson Piquet Jr, who finished second to GP2 rival Lewis Hamilton in the 2008 German Grand Prix, has entered a new chapter as the Brazilian returns to GT racing in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series with ANSA Motorsports. The inaugural Formula E champion in 2014-15 has focused primarily

Tandy and Vanthoor, who combined with Earl Bamber to win the Belgian classic with Rowe Racing last year, will be joined by 2016 Spa winner Maxime Martin behind the wheel of KCMG’s #18 Porsche 911 GT3 R. The Rowe squad is not defending its Spa victory as Hans-Peter Naundorf’s squad has switched its focus from

Rowe’s #98 machine finished a close second in what was the shortest-ever running of the German endurance classic last weekend, less than nine seconds behind the winning Manthey Racing Porsche in a three-and-a-half hour sprint to the flag. The sister #1 M6 that had started on pole and led when the race was resumed after

Back in March, it was announced the Suzuka IGTC fixture planned for 20-22 August had been scrubbed from the IGTC schedule for a second year in a row owing to the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, the championship said the 10-hour race would be replaced with a new event in the Middle

Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen and Matteo Cairoli took the ‘Grello’ #911 Porsche 911 GT3 R to victory by a little under nine seconds over the #98 ROWE Racing BMW machine shared by Sheldon van der Linde, Connor de Phillippi, Marco Wittmann and Martin Tomczyk. With just 59 laps completed, the race was the shortest in

Stephane Ratel declared the entry list for the 2013 World Challenge FIA GT Series finale around the streets of Baku as “the best GT sprint grid since the days of the FIA GT1 World Championship”. He was “bang on with his assessment”, wrote Autosport at the time. Rally legend Sebastien Loeb and ex-F1 driver Ricardo

The replacement to the M6 model was revealed in its full M Motorsport livery ahead of this weekend’s Nurburgring 24 Hour race at the famed Nordschleife venue, where several BMW-supported teams are in attendance. BMW said the M4 will continue to undergo more test and race outings for the rest of the year before the