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Bentley will end its factory programme with the Continental racer at the end of this year as part of a phased withdrawal from the GT3 category. The British manufacturer has opted against restarting its works assault on the Intercontinental GT Challenge with M-Sport, which was put on ice in the summer, and is releasing the

Ye Hongli put in a commanding performance on the Guia circuit to claim a crash-shortened 2020 Macau GT Cup. The TORO Racing Mercedes driver was in a class of his own over the 12-lap journey, his cause helped by weekend-long pacesetter Darryl O’Young starting back in 11th due a qualifying race penalty. That left Ye

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi will return to the Gulf 12 Hours in Bahrain in January with his Avintia-bound half-brother Luca Marini joining him in a Ferrari 488 GT3. Rossi contested the 12-hour event at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi last year in a Kessel Racing-run 488 Ferrari partnered by Marini and his long-time

Ferrari’s Alessandro Pier Guidi, Come Ledogar and Tom Blomqvist claimed victory in the Paul Ricard 1000km as AKKA ASP’s Timur Boguslavskiy clinched the overall GT World Challenge Europe title. The makeshift AF Corse crew, with Pier Guidi’s regular co-drivers James Calado and Nicklas Nielsen on duty in yesterday’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain, started

Rob Collard said winning the British GT championship was vindication of his decision to switch from the British Touring Car Championship after coming close to retiring from motorsport in 2019. The veteran 52-year-old and Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini team-mate Sandy Mitchell took their second win of the season in the title-deciding round at Silverstone to seal

Jenson Button says he would do more testing if he were to return to GT3 racing in future after a tough debut weekend in the British GT championship at Silverstone. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion finished 14th on his GT3 debut in a McLaren 720S GT3 he shared with his Jenson Team Rocket RJN

Barwell Motorsport pair Rob Collard and Sandy Mitchell wrapped up the British GT title with victory in the deciding round at Silverstone as Jenson Button finished 14th on his debut. Collard and Mitchell qualified on pole for the three-hour season finale, giving the Lamborghini Huracan drivers the best possible chance of overhauling the six-point lead

British GT faced an anxious wait to see whether its championship decider could go ahead this weekend. Now that it has been given the green light, a familiar predicament rears its head, says JAMES NEWBOLD. Is it better to be the hunter, or hunted? “We need to just take points when we can and if

This weekend’s British GT finale at Silverstone will boast a season-high grid of 38 cars, including 20 GT3s, boosted by a plethora of new and returning entries. The three-hour race was placed in doubt by the UK government announcing a four-week national lockdown, which is set to commence on Friday, but it was given the

British GT championship organiser SRO is “hopeful” of being able to stage its final round at Silverstone next weekend, despite the UK government announcing a four-week national lockdown from Thursday. Amid rising coronavirus cases, it was confirmed on Saturday that a second lockdown will commence on 5 November, two days before British GT’s season finale,

Porsche driver Nick Tandy has revealed that he cried with emotion as he completed victory in last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours with the Rowe Racing team. The Briton told Autosport that he was “emotionally wrecked” as he crossed the line to win the GT World Challenge Europe round with Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor to

Stephane Ratel has admitted to concerns that this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours would be cancelled as the result of the worsening COVID-19 situation in Belgium. The boss of the GT World Challenge Europe, of which the Belgian fixture is the blue riband round, explained that the imposition of new restrictions in the country gave him

Porsche came from behind on a wet track to win the Spa 24 Hours with the factory Rowe Racing entry driven by Nick Tandy, Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor. Tandy propelled the best of the German team’s Porsche 911 GT3-Rs to the front after taking over from Bamber early in the 21st hour of the

Audi ran one-two in the Spa 24 Hours at the three-quarter mark with its factory entries from the Sainteloc and Attempto teams. Christopher Haase held a narrow lead in Sainteloc Audi R8 LMS he shares with Markus Winkelhock and Dorian Boccolacci after the race went green following the 10th safety car of the GT World

Mercedes led the Spa 24 Hours after six hours with the Auto Sport Promotion line-up of Raffaele Marciello, Felipe Fraga and Timur Boguslavskiy at the six-hour mark. The French team’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 moved back to the top of the leaderboard with Fraga at the wheel just over 20 minutes before the first cut-off at which

The start of the Spa 24 Hours has been delayed after an accident in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo support race in which a driver sustained a suspected broken leg. The double-points GT World Challenge Europe round will now begin at 4pm local time rather than 3:30pm to enable barrier repairs to be completed. An extended

Spa 24 Hours organisers have issued a clampdown on track limits ahead of this weekend’s race after the majority of cars repeatedly ran off circuit during practice and qualifying. The move is the result of what race director Alain Adam described as “exaggerated abuse” of the original guidance issued during the pre-event driver briefing. The

Brexit has been blamed for the disappearance of Silverstone from the GT World Challenge Europe schedule for next season by series boss Stephane Ratel. He revealed that uncertainty over the terms of the UK’s exit deal from the European Union explained why his Stephane Ratel Organisation had decided not go with Silverstone to fill a

Raffaele Marciello claimed pole position ahead of this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe for the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes team. The Italian posted a 2m32.166s during the Super Pole session held on Friday evening to claim the top spot in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Felipe Fraga and

The WRT Audi squad topped opening qualifying for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The Belgian squad’s #31 factory Audi R8 LMS driven by Dries Vanthoor, Christopher Mies and Kelvin van der Linde ended up nearly two tenths clear at the head of the times in the night-time aggregate

Australia’s closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced event organisers to cancel the 2021 Bathurst 12 Hour. The opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge is generally held on the first weekend of February, Mount Panorama hosting GT teams and drivers from around the world. However, with Australia’s border shut for the foreseeable

Jens Marquardt is set to step down from his role as the director of BMW Motorsport with an official announcement expected later on Friday, Autosport can reveal. This could prelude to a major overhaul within BMW that could see all its factory and customer racing programmes being transferred under its high-performance M division. This echoes

British GT will scrap its GT3 Silver class next year, with Silver-graded drivers able to compete only alongside a Bronze-graded amateur in a move designed to keep pro-am pairings competitive. Six cars have been entered in the Silver category this year, comprising over half of the GT3 grid after several withdrawals from prominent pro-am entries

One-time Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will make a one-off British GT appearance in the championship’s final round at Silverstone next month. The 2009 champion and 15-times grand prix winner will drive a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by the Jenson Team Rocket RJN outfit he co-owns with RJN boss Bob Neville and lifelong friend

Team WRT Audi’s Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts clinched the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup title in the final round of the season at Barcelona. Vanthoor and Weerts entered the weekend 6.5 points ahead of the Haupt Racing Team Mercedes partnership of Maro Engel and Luca Stolz, with a further 15 crews mathematically in

Porsche factory drivers Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen and Richard Lietz will defend their Spa 24 Hours crown with the KCMG squad later this month. The trio of World Endurance Championship regulars have moved over to one of the Porsche 911 GT3-Rs fielded by the Hong Kong entrant for the rescheduled centrepiece round of the GT

Plans for the Spa 24 Hours GT World Challenge Europe blue riband to run to 25 hours have been scrapped, while the event will now be held behind closed doors. It was announced in June that the race would be extended in duration by an hour. Series boss Stephane Ratel said that he wanted to

After some stunning recent performances in the GT World Challenge Europe series, we meet Britain’s latest rising star, in association with Sky The name Christopher Froggatt isn’t immediately familiar in the way that his Tempesta Racing team-mate, two-time grand prix winner Giancarlo Fisichella is. But that’s perhaps to be expected given that that the 26-year-old

Edoardo Mortara will return to race an Audi in next month’s Spa 24 Hours, the first time in four years that the former DTM racer will have represented the marque. The Venturi Formula E driver was named in one of four WRT Audi R8 LMS entries for the centrepiece round of the GT World Challenge

Le Mans 24 Hours class winner United Autosports is targeting an Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign in 2022 as part of its latest expansion. The British-based squad, which won the LMP2 division at Le Mans earlier this month, announced last week that it will return to the GT ranks next season with a programme in the