Five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon will make his Bathurst 12 Hours debut next year with the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad. The New Zealander is joining the Swiss entrant for the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge on February 2 as part of a deal that will also result in him sharing a car with

BMW has announced it will introduce a new GT3 model for the 2022 season, based on the upcoming next-generation M4 road car, to replace the ageing M6 GT3. The M6 GT3 has been in action since the 2016 season, and in that time it has taken two wins in the Spa 24 Hours and victory

Blancpain GT Series champion Mirko Bortolotti has departed the Lamborghini factory setup after five years to join sister brand Audi’s works roster. The 2017 Endurance Cup and overall Blancpain GT champion – alongside Christian Engelhart – joined Lamborghini after impressing in its single-make Trofeo Series. He won the Lamborghini World Finals in 2014 and proved

The 2019 Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy has been won by newly crowned British GT4 champion Tom Canning. Canning came out top of the field of 23 drivers aged between 17 and 25 racing Aston GT3 or GT4 machinery during 2020 who were part of the initiative. The 17-year-old was chosen by a panel of

Mercedes’ Raffaele Marciello put in a second flawless drive in as many days to secure the FIA GT World Cup crown in Macau. Like Saturday’s qualifying race Marciello against faced competition from a pair of Porsches, Laurens Vanthoor leading the charge for the Rowe squad after getting past team-mate Earl Bamber on the opening lap.

Mercedes driver Raffaele Marciello held off Earl Bamber’s Porsche to win the qualification race for the 2019 FIA GT World Cup in Macau. The 12-lap race got off to a wild start with Dries Vanthoor firing his Audi into the wall at Mandarin as he tried to get a run on the polesitting Mercedes. The

Formula 2 frontrunner Luca Ghiotto will make a switch to sportscar racing next season with the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad. The 24-year Italian, who lies third in the F2 points this season heading into the Abu Dhabi finale at the end of this month, will contest both the endurance and sprint segments of the 2020

Raffaele Marciello stormed to pole position for the FIA GT World Cup qualification race with a stunning late lap in his GruppeM Mercedes. The Italian couldn’t have left his run any later, charging to top spot right at the flag after failing to get a clean lap in between stoppages earlier in the session. The

This year’s title-winning Super GT outfit Team LeMans will not continue in the Toyota stable in 2020, Autosport has learned. Team LeMans won the GT500 title earlier this month at Motegi with Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita, adding to the All-Japan GT Championship success it earned back in 2002 with Akira Iida and now-team boss

Jenson Button says his SUPER GT season was compromised by Honda’s new 2019 aero package being too “unpredictable” to race, leaving his car short of upgrades to match the competition. Last year’s champions Button and Naoki Yamamoto endured a winless campaign in 2019, finishing eighth in the drivers’ standings with 37 points – less than

SUPER GT’s 2020-spec GT500 cars made their public debut in a demonstration run ahead of the final round of the season at Motegi on Sunday. The new cars, which conform to the Class One regulations SUPER GT will share with the DTM next year, were first unveiled in September and have since been tested behind

Team LeMans Lexus duo Kenta Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima won the 2019 SUPER GT title by finishing second behind championship rivals Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa in the Motegi season finale. While Hirakawa and Cassidy were able to recover from fourth on the grid to take their first victory of the 2019 season in the

Jenson Button finishes his two-year SUPER GT stint in the 2019 finale at Motegi on Sunday, and you can watch the race live on Autosport from 4.20am UK time. But while Button’s rookie campaign alongside Naoki Yamamoto last year resulted in a championship win at the first attempt, this time the pair are out of

Lexus locked out the front row for this weekend’s SUPER GT title decider at Motegi, as Kenta Yamashita put the points-leading Team LeMans LC500 second behind Yuhi Sekiguchi’s TOM’S entry. Sekiguchi posted a 1m35.964s in the #36 TOM’S Lexus he shares with Kazuki Nakajima in the dying moments of the pole shootout to take his

Frederik Schandorff clinched the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final title in dramatic fashion at Jerez after finishing tied on points with Sandy Mitchell and Andrea Amici. The Dane, who shared the #31 Target Racing machine with Jonathan Cecotto, won Saturday’s opener ahead of Mitchell and Amici’s Prestige Performance/Wayne Taylor Racing Huracan, with the places reversed

Ferrari has revealed an updated version of its 488 GT3 racer, the EVO 2020, which will be eligible for international competition next year. The third generation of the car, first released in 2016 and updated in 2018, was unveiled at Ferrari’s Finali Mondiali at Mugello, and will be available as a new car or an

Following a steward’s review, Louis Prette won the Ferrari Challenge Europe championship in Mugello, despite a 25-second penalty that relegated him from second to 27th. Prette had a 13-point advantage over title rival and pole-sitter Niccolo Schiro heading into the final race, and looked to have secured the championship with second, behind Schiro, when a

All three regional Lamborghini Super Trofeo titles went down to the wire as the European, North American and Asian seasons reached their conclusion at Jerez. Bonaldi Motorsport pairing Danny Kroes and Sergey Afanasiev secured the Europe crown with second place to team-mates Stuart Middleton and Jack Bartholomew, while former Superleague Formula driver Chris van der

Adam Carroll led from lights to flag in the Ferrari Challenge Europe opener at Mugello, as Louis Prette extended his championship lead over Niccolo Schiro. A1GP champion Carroll, who joined the championship for round three at Spielberg, converted pole to a comfortable victory in his Ferrari Budapest-backed FF Corse entry, finishing 1.2s ahead of Octane

The major GT series in Europe, North America and Asia run by the Stephane Ratel Organisation will no longer bear the Blancpain name from next season. The Swiss watchmaker has not renewed a deal that gave it title sponsorship of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in Europe, as well as SRO’s GT World Challenge

Eleven factory drivers from four manufacturers will battle it out in the GT World Cup at Macau next month. The works contingent from Mercedes, Audi, Porsche and BMW, which includes four former winners with eight wins in the event between them, is part of a 17-car entry for the GT3 shootout on the Macau Formula

Five-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Emanuele Pirro will make his Super Trofeo debut at the Lamborghini World Finals at Jerez, alongside motocross legend Tony Cairoli. The pair will race in the pro-am category for the Super Trofeo Asia season-finale races on the Friday of the event, before entering the World Finals as wildcards. Pirro,

Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award finalist Enaam Ahmed will make his sportscar debut with the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad at next month’s Intercontinental GT Challenge finale at Kyalami. Ahmed will drive one of two cars confirmed by the Swiss entrant for the Kyalami 9 Hours on November 23. The Japanese Formula 3 race winner Ahmed

FFF Racing Lamborghini’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli took an unlikely sweep of Blancpain GT Series titles by winning a tense Barcelona season finale, pipping SMP Racing by one point. Caldarelli and Mapelli – joined in the #563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 by Albert Costa, with regular co-driver Dennis Lind out with illness – took their

B-Max pair Frederic Makowiecki and Kohei Hirate delivered Nissan’s first 2019 SUPER GT win in a rain-hit race at Sugo as early leaders Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished eighth. As the race got under way after three laps behind the safety car, front-row starter Button immediately sprinted past polesitter Koudai Tsukakoshi into Turn 1,

The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s Sugo round live on Autosport. Honda was considered the firm favourite heading into the penultimate round of the season, and lived up to the expectation by locking out the front row in Saturday’s qualifying session.

Koudai Tsukakoshi and Bertrand Baguette dominated SUPER GT qualifying at Sugo, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto secured their first front-row start of 2019. Having topped the sole practice on Saturday morning for the penultimate round of the season, Honda squad Real Racing lowered the previous lap record by over half a second

Precision Performance Motorsport’s Brandon Gdovic moved to within just six points of the lead of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America championship after a double win at Laguna Seca. Gdovic, who shared the #46 Huracan with IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly, got the better of the championship-leading Change Racing pairing of Richard Antinucci and Corey

R-Motorsport has unveiled the new Aston Martin Vantage Cup one-make series beginning in 2020, while also reiterating its commitment to the DTM and hinting at a World Endurance Championship future. The outfit, which holds the Aston Martin license in the DTM and races in the Blancpain GT Series, will first launch its one-make series in

In a U-turn for the manufacturer, Honda has revealed a new front-engined layout for its 2019 SUPER GT car, as Toyota and Nissan also unveiled its cars for next season. The SUPER GT version of the NSX has always had the same mid-engined layout of its road-going sibling, with the series using weight adjustments to