Two-time World Endurance Championship title winner Timo Bernhard’s Porsche team has scratched plans to contest the rescheduled Spa 24 Hours in October. The German revealed that Team 75 Bernhard had filed a one-off entry for the fourth year in a row, but has now been forced to withdraw the Porsche 911 GT3-R from the blue
The rescheduled Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe in October has been extended by one hour to become a 25-hour race. Series boss Stephane Ratel told Autosport that he wants the event to become a “race to remember that we talk about in years to come” on what is the first
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The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns.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
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 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
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
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 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
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
Rising World Rally Championship star Oliver Solberg will return to his roots by racing in the opening rounds of RallyX Nordic at Holjes in Sweden next week. Son of 2003 WRC champion Petter Solberg, Oliver began his career racing crosskarts in Scandinavia, then became the youngest ever Supercar competitor by racing a rallycross Supercar in
Prodrive says it will be “disappointed” if its rivals don’t perceive it as a “potential winner” when it makes its Dakar debut next year under the Bahrain Raid Xtreme banner. Prodrive announced in February that it will enter the prestigious rally raid from 2021 in a joint venture with Bahrain’s sovereign wealth Mumtalakat, and it
Organisers of Rally New Zealand fear it could be “cast into the wilderness” after it failed to appear on the draft calendar of events for next year’s World Rally Championship. Last Friday, the World Motor Sport Council named the nine locations that have contracts to stage a round of the series in 2021, including Monte
Updated FIA guidelines designed to allow future rounds of the World Rally Championship to be held safely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have been welcomed by team bosses. The list of measures set out in the 81-page ‘Return To Motor Sport’ paper are “sensible” according to M-Sport’s Richard Millener, while his counterpart at
The World Rally Championship has revealed a revised calendar for the coronavirus-halted 2020 season, with the campaign now set to resume in Estonia in September. The 2020 season was put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic after just three rounds and several ensuing rallies have since been cancelled, including Finland, New Zealand and Rally GB,
Former Hyundai World Rally Championship competitor Andreas Mikkelsen believes his new role as Pirelli’s tyre development driver will aid his attempts to secure a full-time seat in the series again. October’s Wales Rally GB was the last time Mikkelsen competed in the category, with his sixth-place finish bringing the curtain down on a turbulent two-year
Ott Tanak says the resumption of the World Rally Championship in his Estonian homeland in September is the perfect opportunity to reignite his drivers’ title defence with new employer Hyundai. Having run as a successful promotional event last year, the East European country made the step up to the top flight earlier this month, striking
The World Rally Championship has revised the starting order rules for the series’ return to action on the gravel of Estonia in September. The WRC has been on hiatus since Rally Mexico in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and has seen landmark events including Argentina, Finland, New Zealand, Wales and the returning Safari Rally
Sebastien Ogier is poised to stay in the World Rally Championship in 2021, with a new deal with current employer Toyota close to being signed. Six-time WRC champion Ogier stated in August last year that he would retire from the sport at the end of the 2020 season, although at that point he hadn’t left
The World Rally Championship’s new managing director says the flexibility of Rally Turkey organisers in changing dates should help allow at least one extra round to join this season’s calendar. Originally due to run from 25-27 September, the Marmaris-based event has been brought forward by a week by the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED), paving
The news that MotoGP champion Marc Marquez is set to miss several races after a second surgery on his broken arm presents a huge opportunity for his rivals. But any claims that the 2020 season will be devalued simply don’t wash with three-time 500cc world champion Wayne Rainey, as he told LEWIS DUNCAN Much has
This weekend’s MotoGP Czech Grand Prix will be notable for the absence of the reigning world champion Marc Marquez for the second race in a row. Marquez had to undergo a second operation on his broken right arm on Monday owing to stress damage on the titanium plate inserted in the first operation he had
After a brief pause for breath, the reshuffled 2020 MotoGP season resumes with the Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno. Reigning world champion Marc Marquez has already been ruled out of action for Repsol Honda having undergone a second surgery on his broken right arm, which sees HRC test rider Stefan Bradl stepping in. But
Petronas Sprinta Moto3 rider John McPhee feels he is “proving the performance is there” to make the step to Moto2 in 2021. Britain’s McPhee made his full-time debut in Moto3 in 2013 and has since won two grands prix in the lightweight class, becoming the first Scottish rider to win a race in any grand
Honda MotoGP boss Alberto Puig says Marc Marquez broke the plate in his right arm “trying to open a window” at home, which led to a second operation on Monday. The reigning world champion broke his right arm in a heavy crash during the Spanish Grand Prix last month, which required surgery to have a
LCR MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow doesn’t believe Honda will change its philosophy to make a more user-friendly bike in light of Marc Marquez’s injury, and doesn’t think it needs to. The reigning world champion broke his right humerus in a crash during the Spanish Grand Prix while recovering from a spectacular front-end slide while leading
Current MotoGP points leader Fabio Quartararo says it’s “not correct” to start thinking about the championship after two races despite Marc Marquez’s absence strengthening the Frenchman’s position. Petronas SRT rider Quartararo won the first two rounds of the delayed 2020 season at Jerez, and now leads the standings by 10 points over factory Yamaha counterpart
Leading MotoGP riders have admitted Racing Point Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez’s positive COVID-19 test last weekend ahead of the British Grand Prix left them “worried”. Perez was forced to miss the British GP and could sit out this weekend’s 70th Anniversary GP at Silverstone after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 last Thursday. In keeping
Valentino Rossi says the relationship between Ducati and MotoGP riders is often “difficult”, referencing his own experiences in 2011 and 2012 in relation to Andrea Dovizioso’s current contract situation. Talks between Dovizioso and Ducati for the 2021 season are currently on hold, with the pair not seeing eye to eye on the financial side of
Jack Miller says his crash from the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix was his only acceptable mistake this season, and believes he can still be a title threat. The Pramac Ducati rider declared ahead of the second Jerez race last month – and following reigning world champion Marc Marquez’s withdrawal through injury – that he was
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