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PORSCHE 2020 MOTORSPORT PROGRAMME: FIRM COMMITMENT TO GT SPORT AND FORMULA E
On the occasion of the Night of Champions motorsport gala at Weissach, Porsche reflected on its 2019 motor racing year. The past season was one of the most successful in the history of the company, with titles in three of the world’s most important GT racing series, many other victories in championships and individual events … Continue reading
BMW SPORTS TROPHY PRESENTATION: GABRIELE PIANA AND HOFER RACING WIN THE DRIVERS’ AND TEAMS COMPETITIONS
Gabriele Piana (ITA) and Hofor Racing are the winners of the Drivers’ and Team competitions in this year’s BMW Sports Trophy. BMW Motorsport traditionally honours the most successful privateers from the previous season at the end of the year. The ‘Night of Trophies’ at BMW Group Classic in Munich (GER) on Friday saw the coveted … Continue reading
BMW M4 GT3 TO TAKE TO THE TRACK IN 2022
The customer racing range of products in the BMW M Motorsport programme is getting a new top-of-the-range model. From the 2022 season, privateers and privateer teams around the world will have the opportunity to do battle for wins and titles in a GT3 model based on the next generation of the BMW M4. The BMW … Continue reading
BENTLEY MOTORSPORT ACADEMY TO DEVELOP FUTURE MOTORSPORT TALENT WITH TEAM PARKER RACING
Bentley Motorsport has launched a new initiative in partnership with customer team Team Parker Racing, to nurture new racing talent and provide a pathway to GT racing with the brand. The Bentley Motorsport Academy will provide three aspiring drivers – selected from a pool of eight – with a bespoke programme of on-track activity including … Continue reading
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING BACK IN BAHRAIN
The team returns for the 8 Hours of Bahrain as World Champions and in pole position to retain both drivers’ and teams’ titles, with two wins to their credit so far and five races remaining. TOYOTA GAZOO Racing leads its standings by 27 points while the #8 TS050 HYBRID crew of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima … Continue reading
WEATHERTECH RACING ROLLS OUT NEW FERRARI 488 GT3 EVO
WeatherTech Racing rolled out the team’s new Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo this morning at the Ferrari Fiorano test track in Maranello, Italy. Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill), the first one to turn laps, and Toni Vilander (Kankaanpää, Finland) put in over 60 laps on the all-new WeatherTech Racing Ferrari 488 Evo this morning. MacNeil came away … Continue reading
DATE CONFIRMED FOR LANDMARK 30th ANNIVERSARY SILVERSTONE CLASSIC
Next summer’s Silverstone Classic is now confirmed for the weekend of Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August. The date had already been announced but remained ‘provisional’ until Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, formally ratified its 2019 calendar at yesterday’s (4 December) meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in Paris. With the British … Continue reading
PERFORMANCE TECH MOTORSPORTS GIVES THANKS FOR THE 2019 SEASON
Performance Tech Motorsports is throwing it in reverse to look back on the 2019 calendar. Amidst the bustling holiday season comes the dawn of the 2020 season for Performance Tech Motorsports. Often the achievements of the previous season are lost amidst the hustle of preparation and planning for next year. Before the sun sets on … Continue reading
SHANGHAI 888 HEADLINES GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA’S REVAMPED 2020 CALENDAR
One of the region’s biggest endurance races, the Shanghai 888, will headline GT World Challenge Asia’s fourth season next year following confirmation of the championship’s 2020 calendar. Updates to the provisional schedule issued in July see Thailand’s round at Buriram reinstated and Shanghai now hosting separate sprint and endurance events. Its second, the season-ending Shanghai … Continue reading
PEUGEOT TO ‘REBEL’ IN ENDURANCE RACING
PEUGEOT and REBELLION Corporation are pleased to announce that they will be joining forces to tackle the challenges of the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) and the Le Mans 24 Hours. From 2022, the two companies will focus their shared passion for racing, their respective success in the discipline and their sporting and technological … Continue reading
