Haas Formula 1 simulator driver Louis Deletraz is set to return to the GT ranks this season in the GT World Challenge Europe with the factory-backed GPX Racing squad. The Swiss, who will be racing in Formula 2 again this year with the Charouz team, has been pencilled in to drive one of the Dubai

The revised September date for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours has caused date clashes with British GT and Supercars, posing problems for teams and drivers planning to enter both. The final round of the British GT championship at Donington and the opening Supercars enduro, the OTR 500 at the Bend, now clash with the

Multiple British Touring Car Championship race winner Rob Collard will make the switch to endurance racing this season and compete in the British GT Championship with Barwell Motorsport. The 51-year-old will move away from the BTCC which he has competed in since 2000 – claiming the Independent’s Cup in 2003 – having raced predominately with

The Monza round of the renamed GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup next month has been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The cancellation of the opening round of what was formerly the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup scheduled for April 19 follows the announcement by the Italian government of strict quarantine rules

The GPX Racing Porsche squad that won last year’s Spa 24 Hours will mount a full assault on the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with factory backing. The Dubai entrant will field a pair of Porsche 911 GT3-Rs in the five-round series that incorporates the Spa enduro with a line-up boasting five factory drivers.

A contingency plan has been drawn up should the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup opener at Monza in April be cancelled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The plan has been put in place by series organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation following a concentration of coronavirus cases in Lombardy, the province in which

The team of which 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button is a partner is switching to McLaren from Honda for its 2020 GT World Challenge Europe campaign. Jenson Team Rocket RJN will field a solo McLaren 720S GT3 in the five races that make up the Endurance Cup segment of the GTWCE this season.

GT World Challenge series promoter SRO Motorsports has has donated fines incurred during the 2019 season to a selection of charitable causes. Six projects including a movement to continue the legacy of the late Maria de Villota and the rebuilding of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris will benefit from support from SRO, which organises series

Jules Gounon survived a late puncture to take a first Bathurst 12 Hour win for Bentley amid an ongoing threat of rain, alongside Maxime Soulet and Jordan Pepper. The #7 Continental was in the fight all afternoon, leading at both the race’s half and three-quarter marks during a see-sawing battle with the #999 GruppeM Mercedes.

The field for the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour has been depleted by the spectacular series of crashes across Saturday’s action. Three Class A cars and an Invitational entry are set to be missing from the grid when the race kicks off on Sunday morning, off the back of a spate of crashes in both practice

The field for the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour has been depleted by the spectacular series of crashes across Saturday’s action. Three Class A cars and an Invitational entry are set to be missing from the grid when the race kicks off on Sunday morning, off the back of a spate of crashes in both practice

Reigning Bathurst 12 Hour winner Matt Campbell put in a stunning Top 10 Shootout lap to secure pole in the #911 Absolute Porsche, while several big crashes rocked qualifying day. Both segments of qualifying were affected by significant crashes, with a frightening incident involving Sam Shahin and Tyler Everingham in the first session, followed by

Shane van Gisbergen and Anton De Pasquale put Triple Eight first and second as Friday practice came to a close at the Bathurst 12 Hour. The two Supercars regulars staged a late shootout in the final hour-long session of the day, trading fastest times in the closing minutes. It was van Gisbergen in the all-Pro

Tom Blomqvist has been named as part of McLaren’s Bathurst 12 Hour line-up alongside Alvaro Parente and Ben Barnicoat. The trio will drive for Australian squad 59Racing, which will pair the all-Pro entry with a Silver class car – the details of which will be announced on Tuesday. The race won’t just be Blomqvist’s Bathurst

The McLaren 720S GT3 will race in the renamed GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for the first time in 2020, including its debut in the blue-riband Spa 24 Hours. The first GT3 car developed in-house by McLaren, pictured racing in British GT above, will contest what was formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series

New rules have been introduced for the renamed GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and its blue-riband Spa 24 Hours round to encourage more strategic racing. The changes to the sporting regulations for the series formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup include re-introducing a competitive element to pitstops and new regulations governing

Mark Lemmer says his Barwell Motorsport team has suggested safety tweaks to Dubai 24 Hours organiser Creventic following the “deeply regrettable” pitlane incident that went viral during last weekend’s race. The British GT regular squad (pictured above at the 2019 Spa round of that series) was leading the race when it was handed a four-minute

Three-time Supercars champion Craig Lowndes will contest next month’s Bathurst 12 Hour Intercontinental GT Challenge opener with two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Earl Bamber’s Porsche team. Lowndes will be bidding for a third victory in the event to go with his seven wins in the Bathurst 1000 touring car classic on February 2 at

British Touring Car Championship race winner Rory Butcher was forced to miss the Dubai 24 Hours after his flight was diverted to avoid airstrikes over Iraq. The reigning BTCC Independents Trophy winner, who last contested the Creventic-organised event in 2016, was due to share the #429 Century Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 with team owner Nathan

Ex-Formula 1 test driver James Rossiter has been dropped by Nissan in Super GT, while Honda has confirmed Jenson Button’s replacement in the series. Button announced last year he would not return alongside Naoki Yamamoto – with whom he won the 2018 Super GT title – in a Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX, paving the way

Former Audi LMP1 racer Oliver Jarvis will rejoin the factory M-Sport Bentley squad as part of a major reshuffle of the British manufacturer’s driver line-up. Jarvis, who races for Mazda in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, has been re-signed by Bentley for a full programme in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, two years after he was part

Lamborghini has announced its official factory line-up for 2020, with a graduate from its Young Drivers’ programme graduating to a works seat and opening the door for new talent. Unearthing the next generation of drivers is the lifeblood of any racing team or manufacturer programme in motorsport. In all the top categories of racing, fans

Lamborghini has announced its official factory line-up for 2020, with a graduate from its Young Drivers’ programme graduating to a works seat and opening the door for new talent. Unearthing the next generation of drivers is the lifeblood of any racing team or manufacturer programme in motorsport. In all the top categories of racing, fans

The SRT Viper GTS-R faced an uphill battle at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2013. Having only made its race debut in the American Le Mans Series at Mid-Ohio the previous August, it was still relatively early in its gestation by the time it rolled into France, and victory in the GTE-Pro class was

Formula 2 race winner Tadasuke Makino has emerged as the leading candidate to take Jenson Button’s seat at the Kunimitsu Honda Super GT outfit, Autosport has learned. Button announced his Super GT exit in October last year, ending a two-year stint in the series that included winning the 2018 GT500 title with Naoki Yamamoto. Takuya

Ex-Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan will step down from his Honda Super GT seat in 2020 to “continue his racing pursuits in other series”. Karthikeyan joined the Japanese series at the start of the 2019 season with Nakajima Racing, marking a major shift to sportscars after a career largely based in single-seaters. He and Nakajima

The Bathurst 12 Hour is expected to go ahead as planned, with organisers confirming there is currently no threat from the wildfires ravaging the Australian bushland. According to a statement from the event, officials are “monitoring the situation daily” as the state of New South Wales – on the eastern coast of the country –

Enzo Ide, the 2016 Blancpain GT Sprint champion, is now recovering at home after spending five months in an artificial coma. Ide was placed in the coma in August 2019 after being found in a confused state at home by his wife. He underwent several surgeries to treat a suspected head injury, and now that

Tom Blomqvist will join the R-Motorsport Aston Martin GT squad for 2020 after his departure from BMW. Blomqvist, who was released by the German manufacturer this month after five seasons, will race an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 for the squad jointly run by the Arden and Jota Sport teams in the GT World Challenge Europe

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi won the Pro-Am class for Ferrari in the Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi and finished third overall. Rossi was behind the wheel of the #46 Monster VR46 Kessel Ferrari 488 GT3 for the final stint, and took the chequered flag in third position, four laps down on the winning car