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Weather was the deciding factor in the 20-car Top Qualifying 2 shootout at the Nordschleife, with the Eifel region being subjected to heavy rainfall. Race control decided to start the second section about half an hour later than planned, but the track conditions were still treacherously slippery in places. Yelloly, who claimed victory in the

Markus Flasch, who is now in charge of BMW Motorsport as boss of the marque’s sporting M brand, has revealed that both the LMDh prototype category and the new-for-2023 eGT series are on its radar. Flasch stressed that no decisions have been made, but he strongly suggested that BMW will have a factory involvement in

The Danish duo will race in the blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup on 31 July 31-1 August along with fellow works driver Ross Gunn at the wheel of an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 fielded under the Garage 59 banner.  The Belgian enduro will be Thiim and Sorensen’s first race

Brown and his partner in the reigning World Endurance Championship LMP2 title-winning squad, Richard Dean, will share a McLaren 570S in the Dutch round of the GT4 European Series on 19/20 June. It will be the first time that Brown has raced a contemporary McLaren since a partial campaign in the British GT Championship in

In something of a slow burner, the race came alive in the final hour as the #63 Lamborghini partnership of Andrea Caldarelli, Mirko Bortolotti and Marco Mapelli – which had dominated proceedings for close to five hours – began to struggle with pace. Bortolotti started the car from pole and was comfortably in charge at

Aitken, who will contest both the Endurance and Sprint Cup legs of the series aboard a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO, explained that there is “a lot to be learned by doing something a bit different”. The 25-year-old will make his GT racing debut in this weekend’s opening round of the Endurance Cup segment of the

The long-awaited competition debut of the new E-type Jaguar has been made at last. Two of the magnificent Coventry machines appeared in the main race of the day at the British Automobile Racing Club national meeting at Oulton Park. Their first appearance was an impressive one, both cars being in virtually standard trim and leading

The former March, Brabham, Shadow and ATS Formula 1 racer will make his first racing appearance since 2017 at the wheel of a KTM X-Bow GT2, specially developed for the am-focused series created for high powered machines not as reliant on downforce as GT3 cars by prolific GT racing promoter SRO. PLUS: The high-power solution

The bid on the Time Attack 1 class for production-based machinery at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb on 27 June will be made under the Bentley Motorsport banner by 2015 event winner Rhys Millen, son of former course record holder Rod. Renewable biofuel will power the Continental in line with Bentley’s Beyond100 strategy, under which

Over 140 cars – including 28 in the SP9 category for GT3s – were entered for the four-hour race on the Nordschleife, but the event was abandoned due to heavy snow that descended on the Eifel region prior to qualifying on Saturday morning. Alfa Romeo Formula 1 reserve Kubica, who will race in the European

The 2011 FIA GT1 world championship finale in San Luis was the end of an era, but also the dawn of a new one. The last hurrah for the expensive and increasingly long-in-the-tooth GT1 machinery that was due to be phased out for 2012, it marked the dawn of Yelmer Buurman’s successful GT career that

The Asian round of the IGTC, which links the major GT3 enduros around the world, was schedule for 22 August and is a casualty of “domestic and international travel restrictions”, according to a statement. Series organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation said that it is planning to replace the cancelled event with a new round in

Schmitz became the first woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 1996, taking two victories in the historic sportscar race before enjoying a long career intrinsically linked to the circuit, as well as becoming known for her features on BBC programme Top Gear. In a statement issued by Frikadelli Racing – the team she

New Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Callum Ilott will race for the Italian manufacturer in this year’s GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with the Iron Lynx squad. The Briton will be part of a two-car factory attack on the five-round endurance leg of the GTWCE in 2021 by Iron Lynx as Ferrari defends the

New Mercedes drivers Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon will join Raffaelo Marciello for the French Auto Sport Promotion team’s defence of its GT World Challenge Europe crown in 2021. Former DTM driver Juncadella and Gounon, winner of last year’s Bathurst 12 Hours with Bentley, will drive with ASP regular Marciello in the team’s solo pro

Championship-winning British GT outfit Team Parker Racing will switch from Bentley to Porsche for its assault on this year’s GT3 class title. The team behind Seb Morris and Rick Parfitt Jr’s 2017 championship run has campaigned Bentley machinery in British GT since 2016, but changes to the 911 GT3 R in 2021 to align with

The Paddock Motorsport team co-founded by British GT racers Kelvin Fletcher and Martin Plowman will enter a team of McLaren 570S GT4s in the GT Cup this season. The 2019 GT4 Pro-Am class champions set up the team in 2020 to contest the Mazda MX-5 Supercup, and has expanded its programme to run two McLarens

DTM race winner Peter Dumbreck is standing down from the Falken Motorsports team’s Nurburgring 24 Hours line-up after 14 consecutive appearances in the German enduro. The 47-year-old Briton, who raced for Mercedes and Opel in the DTM, will continue his relationship with a team for which he has driven Nissan, Porsche and BMW machinery in

Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Callum Ilott is set to embark on a GT racing programme in 2021 that will see him appear in a number of undisclosed sportscar races. Ilott finished as runner-up in last year’s Formula 2 championship behind fellow Ferrari Driver Academy member Mick Schumacher, but confirmed he would not be returning

British sportscar racer Jann Mardenborough has lost his SUPER GT drive with Kondo Racing and been left without a seat in Nissan’s GT500 roster for 2021. The 29-year-old has been affiliated with the Japanese marque since he became the third winner of the Nissan-backed GT Academy gamer-to-racer competition in 2011, and was the last of

The latest addition to Lamborghini’s factory GT roster faced the tough prospect of abandoning his F1 dream while still at school. But 2020 British GT champion Sandy Mitchell has proved that the move was absolutely the right one, as he told JAMES NEWBOLD The news shortly before Christmas that Sandy Mitchell had been appointed as

Former IndyCar racer Ed Jones will make his sportscar return in this weekend’s Gulf 12 Hour enduro in Bahrain, joining British GT outfit 2Seas Motorsport. The Dubai-born Brit, who finished third in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 but controversially lost out on rookie of the year honours to non-finisher Fernando Alonso, hasn’t raced since the conclusion

Former IndyCar racer Ed Jones will make his sportscar race debut in this weekend’s Gulf 12 Hour enduro in Bahrain, joining British GT outfit 2Seas Motorsport. The Dubai-born Brit, who finished third in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 but controversially lost out on rookie of the year honours to non-finisher Fernando Alonso, hasn’t raced since the

Toyota brand Lexus has ended factory support of its racing programme with the RC F GT3 contender in Europe. Lexus Europe announced on Wednesday that it has “reached the natural end to its direct support of GT3 racing projects in Europe”, which in 2020 centred on the Tech 1-run Panis Racing squad’s campaign in the

New Intercontinental GT Challenge champion Nicky Castsburg has revealed that he went off track multiple times under full course yellow conditions on the way to victory in Saturday’s Kyalami finale. Catsburg told Autosport that he ended up off the circuit “at least four times” in the heavy rain of the final hour of a race

Honda’s defeat in last weekend’s Kyalami 9 Hour was “hard to take” after it commanded the first eight hours of the Intercontinental GT Challenge season finale, says Bertrand Baguette. The works Honda NSX GT3 shared by Baguette, Renger van der Zande and Mario Farnbacher had been firmly in control of Saturday’s race, leading by as

BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and Nicky Catsburg snatched the Intercontinental GT Challenge title with victory in the series finale at Kyalami together with Sheldon van der Linde. Their Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 came out on top in a confused climax to the Kyalami 9 Hours, which finished behind the safety car after a protracted

Walter Lechner, who twice raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours and founded his eponymous team best-known for its dominant success in the Porsche Supercup, has died aged 71. The Austrian’s squad became the pre-eminent force in the spec Formula 1 support championship following the introduction of the 997-generation Porsche 911 in 2005. In the

BMW will end its relationship with the Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Schnitzer Motorsport squad after more than 50 years. The German squad, whose successes with the Bavarian marque also include victory in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship and the 2012 DTM, will not be given a works programme by BMW for 2021, Autosport has

Half of the 2020 British GT3 grid consisted of Silver-Silver pairings. But the decision to outlaw such combinations, and return to its Pro-Am roots, will have a mixed impact as key championship stakeholders told JAMES NEWBOLD “It’s been difficult, maybe a bit too difficult, to manage the balance between the Silver pairings and the Pro-Am,