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Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Nick Yelloly described the inclement weather that caused the race to be red-flagged for nine hours on Saturday evening as “the worst conditions I have experienced”. The BMW factory driver joined ROWE Racing team-mates Alexander Sims and Nicky Catsburg to score BMW’s 20th success in the event, 50 years on from

BMW scored its first victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours since 2010 as ROWE Racing’s #99 entry driven by Nick Catsburg, Nick Yelloly and Alexander Sims prevailed in wet/dry conditions. The trio’s BMW M6 overcame the #3 Car Collection Motorsport Audi R8 LMS driven by three-time winner Markus Winkelhock, Mirko Bortolotti and Christopher Haase after

After a red flag interruption of nine and a half hours due to rain, the Nurburgring 24 Hours has restarted on Sunday morning. The race was halted shortly after seven hours of running by heavy rainfall, while drama unfolded as the two leading Mercedes-AMG GT3 challengers crashed out while leading. Initially Haupt Racing Team lost

Mercedes-AMG driver Maro Engel took pole position for the Nurburgring 24 Hours in dominant fashion under difficult mixed conditions on Friday evening. The 35-year-old German, who is teamed with Adam Christodoulou, Manuel Metzger and Luca Stolz, first had to qualify for the second session due to the event’s all-new MotoGP-inspired two-part Top Qualifying session. This

Audi driver Robin Frijns has been forced to withdraw from this weekend’s Nurburgring 24 Hours due to what the German manufacturer has called a ‘flu-like infection’. DTM and Formula E regular Frijns was due to contest the German endurance classic for the Car Collection Motorsport team, sharing the #3 Audi R8 LMS with Mirko Bortolotti,

Toyota World Endurance Championship racer Kamui Kobayashi will return to the Spa 24 Hours next month driving a Ferrari 488 GT3 for the HubAuto Corsa team. Kobayashi, who took his third pole in four years at the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend, will team up with 2018 Spa 24 winner Tom Blomqvist and Marcos

The Bathurst 12 Hour is unlikely to happen as an international GT race next year, according to Supercars boss Sean Seamer. The Supercars-run event has staged the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in recent years, with teams representing manufacturers participating in the SRO-organised series flocking to Mount Panorama from around the world. This

Porsche has withdrawn the Manthey Racing squad and a number of its works drivers from this weekend’s Nurburgring 24 Hours over COVID-19 fears. The German manufacturer took the decision in the wake of positive COVID tests being returned during routine checks in the wake of last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, where Manthey ran the

Haupt Racing Team’s Maro Engel and Luca Stolz closed on the lead of the GT World Challenge Europe standings with victory and a third in the Sprint Cup at Magny-Cours. The Mercedes pair, who were narrowly beaten to both the overall and sprint titles last season, claimed a routine win in race one, with race

Dinamic Motorport’s Christian Engelhart, Matteo Cairoli and Sven Muller utterly dominated the second GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup round of the season at the Nurburgring for Porsche. The trio started second on the grid following Saturday evening’s qualifying but made the most of a chaotic opening lap in which the polesitting GPX Porsche of

Brands Hatch will return to the GT World Challenge Europe next year as part of calendar largely unchanged from the original 2020 schedule. The British circuit will host a Sprint Cup round of the GTWCE, formerly known as the Blancpain Endurance Series, in the traditional early-May slot it has occupied on the calendar since 2014.

Bentley will defend its Intercontinental GT Challenge points lead over the remainder of the series, despite axing its factory assault with M-Sport back in June. The British manufacturer has announced a new customer programme that will reunite the winning Bentley Team M-Sport crew of Jules Gounon, Maxim Soulet and Jordan Pepper from the Bathurst 12

Porsche works driver Simona de Silvestro will make her debut in the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup in next weekend’s Nurburgring round with the ROWE Racing team. De Silvestro was added to Porsche’s roster of factory drivers late last year when she took up a development role for the Weissach marque’s Formula E team, marking

Four-time British GT champion Jonny Adam will return to the championship in a one-off appearance at Brands Hatch, reprising his partnership with Andrew Howard that yielded the 2015 title. Aston Martin factory driver Adam was due to defend the title he won with Graham Davidson last year alongside Ahmad al-Harthy in a TF Sport Aston

Audi has named nine former winners of the Nurburgring 24 Hours across its three-car factory assault on this year’s German enduro in September. The nine are part of a 12-strong line-up in the trio of R8 LMS GT3s entered under the Audi Sport banner by the same three teams that represented the German manufacturer in

Team WRT Audi duo Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts recorded two out of three race wins as the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup kicked off at Misano. With the original Sprint calendar reduced by one weekend due to the outbreak of COVID-19, three races were held in a single weekend for the first in

McLaren 720S GT3 outfit 2 Seas Motorsport has announced its drivers for the 2020 British GT season, completing a reduced 21-car grid for this weekend’s season opener at Oulton Park. The Bahrani-backed squad has signed 2018 GT4 champion Jack Mitchell and Jordan Witt to drive its second car, entered in the Silver Cup, joining the

Audi claimed victory in the opening GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup round of the season at Imola courtesy of its Team WRT squad. In the hands of Matthieu Vaxiviere, Kelvin van der Linde and Mirko Bortolotti, the #31 Audi R8 took the lead in the second hour after a sensational stint from van der

The Nurburgring 24 Hours will take place behind closed doors this year, following the latest restrictions issued by the German government in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Following postponements to the 2020 race due to the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Nordschleife event has been moved to the weekend of 24-27 September, but the organisers have

Kelvin Fletcher and Martin Plowman will not contest the 2020 British GT championship in a JRM Bentley Continental GT3 and instead plan to defer their entry to 2021. Soap actor Fletcher, who won BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing competition last year, has raced with former IndyCar racer Plowman since 2018 and the pair combined to win

Nico Hulkenberg will make his first race appearance since he left the Renault Formula 1 team in the ADAC GT Masters series at the Nurburgring on 15-16 August. The 2015 Le Mans 24 Hour winner will drive a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo entered by championship newcomer mcchip-dkr. He recently tested the car at the same

The 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge will remain at four rounds with the decision not to replace the cancelled Suzuka event. Series organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation had revealed an intent to replace the Suzuka 10 Hours scheduled for 23 August with another round in Asia when its cancellation was confirmed in May. Now, it has

The GT World Challenge Europe remains “very healthy” despite the downturn in entries resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, according to series boss Stephane Ratel. The revised entry lists for the Endurance and Sprint Cup legs of the GTWCE are down by approximately 10 cars each on the figures released in March prior to the series

Former Williams Formula 1 driver Sergey Sirotkin will make his GT3 debut with SMP Racing in the endurance rounds of this year’s GT World Challenge Europe. Sirotkin will share a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 in the Pro class with Ferrari works GT drivers Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina, who finished second in last year’s

The team in which 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button is a partner will race in British GT this year after abandoning its planned GT World Challenge Europe campaign. Jenson Team Rocket RJN had switched its Honda NSX GT3 for a McLaren 720S GT3 after one season, but will now enter it in the

The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns. The race-winning team, whose Aston Martin Vantage GT3s are jointly run by the British Arden and Jota Sport operations, has opted to put its racing activities on hold as a result of the

The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns. The race-winning team, whose Aston Martin Vantage GT3s are jointly run by the British Arden and Jota Sport operations, has opted to put its racing activities on hold as a result of the

Defending British GT championship-winning outfit TF Sport has been forced to withdraw both its GT3 Aston Martin Vantages due to factors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Four-time series champion Jonny Adam was due to share with 2014 runner-up Ahmad al-Harthy in one car, while Adam’s co-champion last year Graham Davidson was due to share another

The withdrawal of TF Sport and multiple champion Jonny Adam from British GT improves the prospects of its rivals, but underscores that the championship hasn’t got away from COVID-19 completely unscathed Imagine if Mercedes took a year out of Formula 1 on the eve of the season and Lewis Hamilton was unable to defend his

Four-time British GT champion Jonny Adam says he has “still got the hunger” to win a record-breaking fifth title next year after his planned entry this season was withdrawn. Aston Martin factory driver Adam, who claimed his fourth crown with as many different amateur co-drivers last year alongside Graham Davidson, was set to return in