FFF Racing’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli claimed the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe title on countback after finishing tied on points with Black Falcon Mercedes at the Hungaroring. The Lamborghini duo beat the pairing of Maro Engel and Luca Stolz to the championship after recording two wins to Engel/Stolz’s one. Raffaele Marciello and Vincent

Chris van der Drift and Evan Chen moved to within two points of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia points lead after recording a fifth win of the year in Shanghai. The Gama Racing pair came into the weekend four points adrift of FFF Racing’s Juuso Puhakka and Takashi Kasai, a gap which stretched to seven

SARD Lexus duo Heikki Kovalainen and Yuichi Nakayama took an unlikely SUPER GT victory at Autopolis after gambling on wet tyres just before the midpoint of the race. Koudai Tsukakoshi had led by the best part of 10 seconds in the polesitting Real Racing Honda ahead of the Kondo Nissan of Jann Mardenborough in the

The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s Autopolis round live on Autosport too. Honda swept the front row of the grid after a dominant showing in qualifying, but a first victory since the Okayama opener in April is anything but guaranteed due

Honda locked out the front row at Autopolis for the second year running as Real Racing led last year’s polesitting ARTA team in SUPER GT qualifying. Koudai Tsukakoshi underlined the chart-topping pace shown by Real Racing in both practice and Q1, clocking a time of 1m33.262s in the #17 NSX he shares with Bertrand Baguette.

Ricky Collard and Marvin Kirchhofer claimed victory in the second Blancpain GT World Challenge race at the Nurburgring for R-Motorsport after the leading WRT Audi team-mates took each other out. Dries Vanthoor had led the majority of the race from pole in the #1 Audi R8 and the car maintained that place after the mandatory

Imperiale Racing duo Vito Postiglione and Kikki Galbiati closed to within just five points of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo points lead following a pair of dominant victories at the Nurburgring. The Bonaldi Motorsport crew of Danny Kroes and Sergei Afanasiev continue to lead the championship ahead of the final two rounds at Jerez next month,

FFF Racing’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli moved into the lead of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe after leading a Lamborghini one-two in the first race at the Nurburgring. The #563 Huracan GT3 started sixth on the grid but made inroads into the advantage of the leading Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart

Grasser Racing’s Mirko Bortolotti claimed pole position for the opening Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race at the Nurburgring. Bortolotti set a best time of 1m54.926s to put his #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 just six hundredths of a second clear of the championship-leading Black Falcon Mercedes of Luca Stolz. The similar Lamborghini of Marco Mapelli

Enzo Ide, the 2016 Blancpain GT Sprint champion, is in an artificial coma in Bruges following an accident at home, but his condition is reported to be stable. Ide, who won his title in a WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3, was found at home by his wife in a confused state on August 13 and

WRT gave Audi its first Intercontinental GT Challenge victory of 2019 following a dominant showing in the second running of the Suzuka 10 Hours. The #25 crew comprising Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and Frederic Vervisch took the chequered flag 40 seconds clear of the #999 GruppeM Mercedes that won the event last year.

Ex-Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve will race against Prince Carl Philip of Sweden in the Scandinavian Porsche Carrera Cup this weekend. Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 champion, made his Carrera Cup Scandinavia debut earlier this year in the opening round of the season and Knutstorp as a guest entry. He has been invited back to

Heikki Kovalainen will join fellow ex-McLaren Formula 1 driver Mika Hakkinen competing in the Suzuka 10 Hours, driving a Ferrari 488 GT3. Kovalainen will share HubAuto’s #27 Ferrari with fellow Super GT champion Nick Cassidy and team regular Nick Foster on August 23-25. Meanwhile double F1 champion Hakkinen is making his first international racing start

Jenson Button says it will be “difficult” for he and Naoki Yamamoto to defend their SUPER GT title, despite returning to the podium in last weekend’s Fuji 500-mile round. The Kunimitsu Honda duo charged from 10th on the grid to finish second in the bonus-points race, accumulating 18 points to move up to fifth in

Sandy Mitchell and Andrea Amici moved to within five points of Corey Lewis and Richard Antinucci after claiming a double Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America victory at Road America. The Prestige Performance/Wayne Taylor Racing duo profited from a well-timed mandatory pit-stop during a full course caution to claim their first series win in Saturday’s opening

The LeMans Lexus team took a shock victory in Fuji 500-mile from 11th on the grid, while Kunimitsu Honda duo Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished second to keep their SUPER GT championship hopes alive. LeMans’ Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita were left to squabble in the lower reaches of the top 10 in the

FFF Racing’s Juuso Puhakka and Takashi Kasai extended their Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia points lead with a first overall victory of the year at the Korea International Circuit. The pair grabbed two extra points by claiming pole for Saturday’s opening encounter at the former Formula 1 venue, and now hold a five-point cushion over the

The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s prestigious Fuji 500-mile race live on Autosport too. Nissan is aiming to score its first GT500 victory of the season after locking out the front row of the grid for the bonus-points race. But a

Nissan locked out the front row for SUPER GT’s Fuji 500-mile race after the qualifying session was ended prematurely following a major crash for Honda runner Koudai Tsukakoshi. Tsukakoshi’s Real Racing Honda suffered a braking problem on the approach to Turn 1, slamming the barriers hard and bringing out a red flag. Just 20 seconds

The Le Mans-winning Team Goh McLaren squad has withdrawn from this month’s Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge event and played down its plans for a full-season campaign in 2020. Goh has axed its Suzuka 10 Hours assault on August 25 with a pair of 720S GT3s entered under the McLaren Customer Racing Japan banner, citing concerns

The R-Motorsport Aston Martin team will contest November’s Kyalami round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge ahead of a potential full-series entry in 2020. The Swiss DTM entrant has revealed that it will field two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s in the IGTC finale in South Africa on November 23 after the climax of its twin programmes

Porsche secured its first victory in the Spa 24 Hours since 2010 thanks to the GPX Racing squad at the end of a disrupted, rain-affected race. Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen, Richard Lietz took honours in the Gulf-liveried #20 Porsche 911 GT3-R, leading a one-two for the Weissach marque ahead of the #998 ROWE Racing car

The Grasser Lamborghini squad led the Spa 24 Hours when the race was red-flagged shortly after the 13-hour mark as the weather conditions deteriorated. Heavy rain resulted in the stoppage at approximately 5:40am local time after a lengthy full-course yellow virtual safety car period, with Christian Engelhart out front in the #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3

The Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup points-leading SMP Racing Ferrari held a narrow advantage in the Spa 24 Hours after six hours. SMP trio Mikhail Aleshin, Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina had cycled into the lead in the #72 Ferrari 488 GT3 at the one-quarter mark at Spa, with Aleshin staying out on slick tyres

Bonaldi Motorsport’s Danny Kroes and Sergey Afanasiev moved into the lead of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe standings after claiming a win and second place at Spa. Having taken over from Afanasiev following the mandatory pitstop, Kroes made two decisive overtakes at Les Combes on team-mate and race one winner Jack Bartholomew and the polesitting

Bentley has hit out at the Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours after none of its four factory cars qualified in the top 20. Bentley motorsport boss Brian Gush questioned a 20kg swing in minimum weight for this weekend’s blue-riband round of the Blancpain GT Series between the marque’s Continental GT3, the

Black Falcon Mercedes driver Maro Engel secured pole for the Spa 24 Hours after edging out Porsche driver Laurens Vanthoor by just 0.017 seconds in Friday’s superpole session. As Black Falcon’s #4 Mercedes AMG-GT3 had topped Thursday night’s first qualifying session, Engel was the 20th and final driver to head out and set his two

Indianapolis will host the American round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2020. The eight-hour event is moving to the 2.61-mile road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, used for Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix in 2000-07 and an IndyCar round since 2014, from Laguna Seca. The event will take place on October 4

The Black Falcon Mercedes squad topped the times in first qualifying for the Spa 24 Hours ahead of the superpole session that determines the first 20 places on the grid. Factory drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz claimed the provisional pole for the blue-riband Blancpain GT Series round in the aggregate session on

Strakka Racing GT driver Nick Leventis has been banned from motorsport for four years by the FIA for an anti-doping violation, but has confirmed that he has “retired from motorsport”. Following the California 8 Hours in 2018, where Leventis had scored eighth overall in a Strakka Mercedes-AMG GT3 at Laguna Seca (pictured below), Leventis tested