The GT Winter Series (GTWS) presents itself as the highlight of the 2024 racing year by Gedlich Racing – at least as far as the vehicles are concerned. Only racing cars from the GTX, GT3, Porsche Cup, Ferrari Challenge and Lamborghini Supertrofeo categories are permitted. “With a field full of cars made primarily for amateur
Month: November 2023
Maserati’s huge success with the MC12 GT1 over a decade ago meant the Italian manufacturer’s follow-up was always going to be keenly anticipated. PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever Based on the road going MC20, the new Maserati GT2 made its competition debut at Paul Ricard in the final GT2 European Series round
O’Ward impressed on his latest appearance in McLaren’s F1 machinery by finishing second in Abu Dhabi’s post-season test, completing 103 laps in the 2023 MCL60 to put himself just 0.269s behind Alpine’s leading Esteban Ocon. His outing came days after being announced as one of McLaren’s 2024 reserve drivers, having already completed private tests in
Toyota unveiled a newly designed Camry XSE car that will make its debut in the 2024 NASCAR Cup season. The Camry XSE Next Gen follows the Toyota Camry TRD Next Gen, which produced 18 victories and 25 poles during the last two seasons of competition. Earlier this month, Ford Performance unveiled a new-version Mustang for
Walkenhorst Motorsport, winner of the blue riband Spa round of the GTWCE in 2018, will field a solo Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in the Pro class of the Endurance Cup segment of the series next year. The German team will also undertake a campaign with an all-pro line-up in the Nurburgring Long-distance Series (NLS) around
From pole position, Marciello was never seriously threatened at the head of the field over the course of the 16-lap race, ultimately winning by a comfortable margin of 2.5 seconds in his Team Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3. It means the Italian/Swiss driver becomes the first repeat winner of the FIA GT World Cup since its inception
Defending World Cup winner Marciello led the 12-lap race throughout in his Team Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3, staving off a stern challenge from brand stablemate Maro Engel. Edoardo Mortara completed the podium in his Audi R8 LMS GT3, having been passed by Engel on the run down to Lisboa at the start of the race. Poleman
Marciello, who will leave the marque after this weekend ahead of an anticipated move to BMW, left it until the very end of the 30-minute session to set the fastest time, a 2m14.542s, in his Team Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3. That was more than a second underneath the existing lap record, set by the Italian/Swiss driver
Button will partner Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz and Colton Herta aboard the team’s #40 Acura ARX-06 GTP, as the four-time Daytona 24 Hours winning squad expands to two cars for the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship season. It will be the 2009 Formula 1 champion’s second IMSA outing after making his debut in a JDC-Miller Motorsports Porsche
The 34-year-old Ohio native is coming off a rollercoaster campaign in 2023, which included failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 before subbing for an injured Stefan Wilson at Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in a one-off appearance in the race. A resurgence in form included Rahal claiming two of the final four poles on the
Marciello will bring the curtain down on a six-season stint as a factory driver with Mercedes in this weekend’s fifth edition of the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, having first joined the German manufacturer’s works roster in 2018. The Italian will pay tribute to Mercedes by sporting a special black-and-silver helmet livery on the
There is no one who had quite the impact on the career of Helio Castroneves as Gil de Ferran did. The two Brazilians first met in the mid-1990s. Castroneves joined Paul Stewart Racing for British Formula 3 in 1995 just as de Ferran left the squad’s Formula 3000 operation for his rookie CART season, and
The Brazilian grandsons of two-time Formula champion, double Indy 500 winner and 1989 IndyCar champion Emerson Fittipaldi shared the track for the very first time on the 1.7-mile short course at Sebring International Raceway on Wednesday. Enzo, 22, teamed up with DCR as Pietro, 27, had his first outing in an IndyCar since the 2021 Indianapolis
The 2023 IndyCar Series season was dominated by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou, but the Spaniard didn’t have a monopoly on top-drawer performances on his way to sealing a second title. Insight: The factors that fuelled Palou’s 2023 IndyCar domination It was Palou who topped our ranking of the year’s 10 best performers, which you can
The 22-year-old Kentucky native drove the family-owned #51 entry to four podiums and one pole en route to fifth in the 2023 Indy NXT championship standings and finally received a late call-up to pound laps around Sebring’s 1.7-mile short course. Equipped with five sets of tires and race engineer Alex Athanasiadis on the timing stand,
The New Zealander finished eighth in two previous appearances, including his debut in 2018 in the old-style Formula 3 machinery. This year, he will drive the #29 entry for MP Motorsport. Now, though, Armstrong comes in with a deeper well of experience as the 2023 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year. “I feel like I
The two manufacturers are represented by sister brands Cadillac and Acura, respectively, in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, where they just completed the maiden season of a hybrid-infused GTP class over nine races in 2023. In the build-up, the series allowed each manufacturer to create its own powerplant, with rules in place such as a total
Grosjean – who has 1.4million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter – will join Canapino, the 33-year-old former Argentinian Touring Car sensation at Juncos-Holinger following his split with Andretti Autosport. Canapino remains in the team’s Chevrolet-powered #78 entry for his second season in IndyCar after scoring a best finish of 12th at St Petersburg, Texas and
After IndyCar’s Indianapolis Road Course race in May, Romain Grosjean was fourth in points with only Alex Palou, Pato O’Ward and Marcus Ericsson ahead of him. He’d scored two poles and two runner-up finishes, even though he’d been taken out of the lead battle in the St Petersburg season opener by Scott McLaughlin, and crashed
The former Formula 1 driver will race the #77 Chevrolet-powered entry, replacing the recently vacated seat of Callum Ilott and teaming alongside soon-to-be series sophomore Argentinian former touring car star Agustin Canapino. “I’ve been closely following JHR’s ascension in the past few seasons,” Grosjean said. “The team has showcased significant growth, and I am eager
Ford Performance unveiled a new-version Mustang to compete in the Cup Series beginning next season which is based on the Mustang ‘Dark Horse,’ the seventh generation Mustang. The new version will make its on-track debut on 4 February 2024, at the pre-season exhibition Clash race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “What a crazy year