Toyota LMP1 driver Jose Maria Lopez has dropped out of a planned appearance in the Spa 24 Hours with Audi. The Argentinian driver had been announced as part of the Land Motorsport’s line-up for the Belgian endurance classic, and was due to join Christopher Mies and Ricardo Feller in the team’s Audi R8 LMS in

A pair of superb stints from Christopher Haase and Simon Gachet gave Sainteloc Racing its first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe win of the season in the second Zandvoort race. The Audi R8 pairing led comfortably throughout with Haase building a mammoth 13-second advantage ahead of the mandatory pit-stops. Gachet continued the domination in the

Akka ASP duo Vincent Abril and Raffaele Marciello claimed their first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe victory of the season in the opening race at Zandvoort. The pole-sitting #88 Mercedes-AMG built a lead either side of the mandatory pit-stop to beat the Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart by over eight

The architect of Bentley’s 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours victory and its current GT3 programme will retire at the end of this month. Brian Gush is stepping down from the position of director of motorsport he has held since the beginning of the programme that climaxed with Le Mans victory for Tom Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello

Manthey Racing’s second-placed Porsche 911 GT3 R has been disqualified from the results of the Nurburgring 24 Hours. The #911 Porsche shared by Laurens Vanthoor, Earl Bamber, Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre, was found to have irregularities in its engine performance during post-race scrutineering checks. A dyno test showed the car exceeded the 494bhp (including

Audi has unveiled a new contender for the forthcoming GT2 class pioneered by sportscar promoter Stephane Ratel. The Audi R8 LMS GT2 will race in a category aimed at amateur drivers and will be pitched against GT3 machinery in the Stephane Ratel Organisation’s sprint series around the world, including the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe

A full-factory Ferrari is among the 72 cars on the entry for the Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT Series blue riband event later this month. The AF Corse works squad has entered a Ferrari 488 GT3 to be driven by World Endurance Championship regulars James Calado, Sam Bird and Alessandro Pier Guidi in the Belgian

World Endurance Championship GTE Pro title winners Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen will race together in this month’s Spa 24 Hours. The Porsche factory pairing, who sealed the WEC GTE crown at the Le Mans 24 Hours last month, will race one of the German manufacturer’s 911 GT3-Rs for the Dubai-based GPX Racing team in

Toyota World Endurance Championship driver Jose Maria Lopez will make his Spa 24 Hours debut in an Audi later this month. Lopez, who is also racing in Formula E with the Dragon team in 2018/19, will race an Audi R8 LMS for the Land Motorsport squad in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup double-points round

Jenson Button says the “terrible” crash that ended his SUPER GT race in Thailand was a racing incident, with the 2009 Formula 1 champion now 24-points adrift in the championship. Kunimitsu Honda driver Button collided side-on with Daisuke Nakajima heading into Turn 7, pitching his former team-mate’s NSX-GT into a spin and immediately out of

Imperiale Racing duo Vito Postiglione and Kikko Galbiati extended their lead in the Super Trofeo Europe standings after a clean sweep of wins at Misano. Galbiati made the most of a late-race slip-up from Polish team-mate Bartosz Paziewski to win Saturday evening’s opening encounter. Postiglione then withstood a fierce charge from Basz in the afternoon

Audi’s Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor made amends for their race one retirement by taking their first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe win of 2019 in race two at Misano. The pair qualified second on the grid and Vanthoor held that position behind the leading Akka ASP Mercedes AMG GT3 of Raffaele Marciello in the

Lexus locked out the podium spots in the Thailand round of SUPER GT, while Jenson Button endured his first official retirement of the season. For the most part, the race appeared to be a two-horse race between the pole-sitting LeMans Lexus and similar LC500 of #36 TOM’S pairing Kazuki Nakajima and Yuhi Sekiguchi. Although Nakajima

The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s Buriram race live on Autosport too. Lexus locked out the front row of the grid in Thailand after Team LeMans’s new recruit Kenta Yamashita broke the lap record in a closely-fought qualifying session. Nissan topped

Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli overcame two safety car interventions and a surge from Rafaele Marciello at Misano to hand FFF Racing a maiden Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe victory. The Italian duo brought their #563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 home just eight-tenths of a second ahead of the #88 Akka ASP Mercedes AMG, as Maro

Lexus locked out the front-row in qualifying for Super GT’s Thailand round, as Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto claimed the honour of being the top Honda drivers in seventh. It was TOM’S Lexus driver Kazuki Nakajima who set the first competitive lap in Q2, clocking a time of 1m23.457s to go to the top of

Three-time Sebring 12 Hours winner Pipo Derani has filled the final seat in Bentley’s expanded assault on the Spa 24 Hours next month. The IMSA SportsCar Championship regular, who is leading this year’s points with Action Express Racing, will drive one of the four factory M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3s entered for the Blancpain GT Series

Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick will return to the Spa 24 Hours next month, 12 months after breaking his back in the Blancpain GT Series blue-riband round. The Briton, who drove for the works M-Sport Bentley operation in 2013-15, will race for the Team Parker Racing squad with which he contested last year’s event.

Audi Team Phoenix secured its fifth win in the Nurburgring 24 Hours after the leading #911 Manthey Porsche was hit with a hefty penalty in the final hours of the race. Dries Vanthoor brought the #4 Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS to the finish after keeping a furious Kevin Estre in the #911 Manthey Racing

Chris van der Drift and Evan Chen made amends for disqualification in the opening race to claim their third Super Trofeo Asia victory of the season at Suzuka. The Gama Racing pairing were stripped of their on-the-road win on Saturday after failing ride height checks, handing VSR duo Alex Au and Yuki Nemoto victory. But

Mercedes’ Maro Engel secured pole position for the Nurburgring 24 Hours in an enthralling qualifying shootout session on Friday evening. Engel, who is spearheading the Black Falcon Mercedes outfit’s assault on the Nordschleife, topped the session with a 8m10.910s on his second flying lap and was marginally quicker than Maximilian Gotz – who sealed an

Bentley made up for its 2018 disappointment at Paul Ricard by dominating this year’s edition of the Blancpain GT Endurance Cup’s 1000km race. Jordan Pepper, Steven Kane, and Jules Gounon missed out on victory 12 months ago after being overtaken by the Emil Frey Lexus with three corners to go. This year they dominated from

Bentley Team M-Sport claimed a maiden pole position for the 1000-kilometre Blancpain GT Endurance Cup race at the Paul Ricard Circuit. Jordan Pepper, Steven Kane, and Jules Gounon took the top spot in the three-part qualifying session with a 1m53.338s average aboard their Bentley Continental GT3 and claimed Team M-Sport’s first pole position. Their average

MotoGP star Valentino Rossi will contest this year’s Gulf 12 Hours alongside his half-brother Luca Marini and his long-time advisor and friend Uccio Salucci in Ferrari 488 GT3. Rossi told Sky Italia that the trio will share the car for the event, which will take place at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi on

We’ve teamed up with the British GT Championship to offer you a once-in-a-lifetime experience at its most prestigious event – the Silverstone 500 – on June 9! One lucky winner will take a pre-race ride in the McLaren safety car, wave the chequered flag as the winners cross the line, and present the event’s historic

Lexus took a 1-2-3 finish in the Suzuka SUPER GT race, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished a lap down after incurring a puncture. Yamamoto had started the race from seventh on the grid in the Kunimitsu Honda, and took little time to overtake Hideki Mutoh, barging past the Mugen Honda driver

Le Mans 24 Hours winner Kazuki Nakajima and team-mate Yuhi Sekiguchi claimed pole position for SUPER GT’s annual Suzuka round, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto qualified seventh. Fresh from his against the odds Super Formula win at Autopolis last weekend, Sekiguchi clocked a time of 1m45.775s in the dying minutes of the

McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Tom Gamble will race on the Le Mans 24 Hours undercard next month in an Aston Martin. The 17-year-old Briton, who won last year’s edition of what has now become the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award, will contest the Road to Le Mans races open

The Bathurst 12 Hour will revert back to a three-day event in 2020 and keep its now-traditional early February date. Having experimented with a four-day format in 2019, organisers have opted to return to the three-day set-up for 2020 and will start proceedings with practice on Friday. That means no active track action on the

Ferrari claimed a first Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup victory in six years at Silverstone with the SMP Racing squad. The Russian entrant’s Ferrari 488 GT3 shared by Mikhail Aleshin, Miguel Molina and Davide Rigon came from 10th on the grid to score a 2.6-second victory over the best of the FFF Racing Team Lamborghinis