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 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 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

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

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

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 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

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

Two-time Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Black Falcon is withdrawing from top-line GT3 racing and will be replaced in the Mercedes factory roster by a new operation. The Nurburgring-based squad has withdrawn its factory-backed entries from the Nurburgring 24 Hours, the sister Nurburgring Long-distance Series (formerly the VLN) and the GT World Challenge Europe. Its programmes

The Nurburgring 24 Hours remains scheduled to take place in September despite a ban on major events being held in Germany until October. Organiser ADAC Nordrhein is considering a number of options to enable the race to go ahead as planned on 24-27 September – despite the ban on major events imposed by the German

Bentley has called time on its factory race programme with the M-Sport team in this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge with immediate effect. The axing of the two-car IGTC effort after victory in the season-opening Bathurst 12 Hours in February is the result of multiple factors, according to Bentley motorsport director Paul Williams. He explained that

The Suzuka 10 Hours round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in August is the latest casualty of the COVID-19 crisis. What would have been the second round of the IGTC after February’s Bathurst 12 Hours has been cancelled. The move announced by IGTC promoter the Stephane Ratel Organisation on Friday said that circuit owner the

The rescheduled Spa 24 Hours blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe in October will go ahead with or without spectators, series boss Stephane Ratel has vowed. Ratel made the claim after confirming that the two Italian rounds due to kick off the revised GTWCE schedule announced last week will take place behind

Toyota Gazoo Racing has pulled out of this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours due to the coronavirus pandemic, but has vowed to return to the race in 2021. Toyota has been competing on the Nordschleife since 2007 and had already announced plans to compete in this year’s event with a Lexus LC in the SP-PRO class.

It might have been a proven package, but the Jamie Campbell-Walter-driven Lister was not the favourite to win the 2002 FIA GT season-opener at Magny-Cours. Yet, despite amateur co-driver Nicolaus Springer losing a minute during his middle stint, that’s exactly what it did, thanks to inspired driving and clever strategy Laurence Pearce likes to tell

Stephane Ratel believes the current coronavirus crisis is not only reshaping the 2020 season but also the direction of technology, with a future of electric and customer racing on the horizon. With all motorsport having been hit by postponements during the coronavirus pandemic, while NASCAR became the first series to make a tentative return behind

A revised GT World Challenge Europe schedule due to begin in July includes a second six-hour race at the Nurburgring. The German fixture, which maintains its September 6 date, has been extended in duration and joins the already-rescheduled Paul Ricard 1000Km six-hour race in November on what is now an eight-weekend calendar. GTWCE organiser the

A Le Mans Series class victory for an all-Geordie line-up in the unloved Panoz at Donington Park in 2006 is the latest instalment in the series celebrating underdog achievements in motorsport Aside from the instantly identifiable Newcastle United livery adorning the Lister Storm team at Le Mans in 1996, it’s fair to say the North

The Spa 24 Hours centre-piece round of the GT World Challenge Europe has been rescheduled for October. The new date for the Belgian enduro, which is also part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, is October 24/25. Originally scheduled in its traditional slot on the last weekend of July, the double-points Endurance Cup round of the

The Spa 24 Hours blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe has been postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Race organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation has announced that the GTWCE Endurance Cup race set for 25/26 July will be put back after the Belgian government announced today an extension of its

The Paul Ricard GT World Challenge Europe event set for May is the latest round of the series be put back or cancelled as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The six-hour GTWCE Endurance Cup round promoted as the Paul Ricard 1000Km scheduled for May 30 has been postponed until November 15 following an announcement