The Grasser Lamborghini squad claimed pole position for Sunday’s Silverstone round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen took the top spot in the three-part qualifying session with a 1m59.690s average aboard their Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo to follow up on their pole for the Monza series opener

Audi sport chief Dieter Gass says differences in sporting regulations need to be ironed out before the manufacturer can commit to Japan’s Super GT Championship. Gass has identified the open-tyre rules in Japan and the testing restrictions in the DTM as potential obstacles for adding a Super GT programme with the RS5 DTM. That is

Reigning Super GT champion Jenson Button says he was concerned he might not even score points at Fuji after qualifying only 12th for the season’s second-longest race. Button and Kunimitsu Honda team-mate Naoki Yamamoto failed to progress to Q2 for the first time since last August’s Fuji 500-mile event, and 12th place marked their worst

Black Falcon Mercedes pair Maro Engel and Luca Stolz won the second Brands Hatch Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race of the season-opener, after surprise poleman Fabian Schiller dropped back. Reigning Endurance Cup champions Stolz and Engel had finished runner-up to Silver Cup competitors Nico Bastian and Thomas Neubauer in a Akka ASP Mercedes in

Silver Cup competitors Nico Bastian and Thomas Neubauer took a sensational Blancpain win in the Brands Hatch season-opener in a Akka ASP Mercedes, having seized the lead during the pitstops. Reigning Silver Cup champion Bastian ran a close third from the off in his #89 Mercedes, behind poleman and reigning Endurance Cup champion Luca Stolz,

Black Falcon’s Luca Stolz and Akka ASP’s Fabian Schiller – both in Mercedes – took the pole positions for tomorrow’s Brands Hatch Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe races after rain-impacted qualifying sessions. The opening round of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe season, which also kicks off a new era for what was formerly the

Defending Super GT champions Naoki Yamamoto and Jenson Button recovered from a sluggish start to grab the final podium spot in the Fuji 500km race, as the Cerumo Lexus won. Yamamoto was in the driving seat of the #1 Kunimitsu Honda for the first part of the race but struggled on a wet track, dropping

The factory Aston Martin Racing squad will not contest this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours in June with its new Vantage GT3. AMR has opted against trying to improve on last year’s fourth-place finish with the previous V12 Vantage racer in order to concentrate on its worldwide customer programmes with the new-generation GT3 and GT4 racers.

W Series driver Jamie Chadwick has landed an Aston Martin factory contract and will contest this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours with the British manufacturer. The 20-year-old, who won the GT4 class in the 2015 British GT Championship for the marque, has been made an Aston Martin Racing junior and will undertake multiple rounds of the

1 A.Rizzoli, K.Bachler, Z.Ashkanani Dinamic Motorsport Porsche 77 3h00m08.926s 2 A.Caldarelli, M.Mapelli, D.Lind Orange 1 FFF Racing Team Lamborghini 77 14.852s 3 Y.Buurman, M.Engel, L.Stolz Black Falcon Mercedes 77 17.193s 4 T.Boguslavskiy, F.Fraga, N.Bastian Akka ASP Team Mercedes 77 17.527s 5 H.Haupt, P.Assenheimer, G.Piana Black Falcon Mercedes 77 18.063s 6 A.Buncombe, A.Soucek, M.Soulet Bentley Team

Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto’s Super GT title defence got off to a bad start with their car being hit by another Honda while leading the rain-truncated Okayama opener. Nissan had dominated Saturday’s qualifying with a new lap record, but the wet conditions that prevailed on Sunday played into the hands of the Honda runners.

Double Formula 1 champion Mika Hakkinen will contest the Suzuka 10 Hours in a McLaren 720S GT3. The ex-DTM driver and 20-time grand prix winner will be partnered by Katsuaki Kubota and Hiroaki Ishiura for the August 23-25 event, which is a round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The team he will compete with is

The Garage 59 team has revealed a driver line-up including Top Gear’s Chris Harris and factory racer Jonny Adam for its first campaign with Aston Martin. They will each drive one of the pair of Aston Martin Vantage GT3s the team is fielding in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup after its swap from McLaren

The HubAuto Corsa Ferrari 488 of Nick Foster, Tim Slade and Miguel Molina won the second round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at Laguna Seca. The KCMG Nissan GT-R of Alex Buncombe, Kastsumasa Chiyo and Joshua Burdon led the opening hour of what would turn out to be a caution-free race, after Buncombe deposed the

Aston Martin has selected 23 drivers to take part in its revived academy scheme offering a factory contract to the winner at the end of the season. The 23 who will take part in the Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy were selected from applicants aged between 17 and 25 who are due to compete in

McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Tom Gamble will switch codes from single-seaters to GT racing with the WRT Audi squad this season. The 17-year-old is moving to Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe to race a WRT Audi R8 LMS after his maiden single-seater campaign last year in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship. He will

Honda will enter a factory car in the remaining races of this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge season. The JAS Motorsport squad, which played a key role in development of the Japanese manufacturer’s NSX GT3, will field a solo Evo version of the car in the remaining four IGTC events under the Honda Racing banner. The

Reigning DTM champion and HWA Formula E driver Gary Paffett will complete the Intercontinental GT Challenge in a Strakka Mercedes-AMG GT3. After Mercedes pulled out of the DTM, Paffett made the switch to Formula E for 2018/19, where his HWA team has struggled and he lies 17th. He is one spot ahead of his team-mate,

Crack touring car squad Triple Eight Race Engineering will field a Mercedes in Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia in its first major GT programme. Triple Eight will run all six rounds of the championship with a driver line-up consisting of Prince Jefri Ibrahim and LMP2 regular Jazeman Jaafar, while its Supercars driver Shane van Gisbergen

The new McLaren 720S GT3 car will race for the first time in the hands of a customer on the support package of next weekend’s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. The car, which has been developed in-house by the new motorsport department at McLaren Automotive, will be given its customer debut in Melbourne on March

Fabian Vettel, brother of Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian, will pilot a Mercedes-AMG GT3 car in the German ADAC GT Masters series in 2019. Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel has been the dominant works Mercedes team’s main rival in grand prix racing in the past two years as he finished runner-up in the championship twice

Former Nissan GT1 team will return to full-time motorsport competition in the 2019 British GT Championship with a new Bentley Continental GT3. The long-time Nismo technical partner, which won the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship with a Nissan GTR driven by Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr, had last contested a full season of racing in

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin factory driver Alex Lynn will join an expanded Blancpain GT Series campaign by the R-Motorsport squad in 2019. The former Williams Formula 1 development driver will contest the five BGTS Endurance rounds in one of the two new

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The organisation behind McLaren’s first two generations of GT3 contender will run Aston Martins in 2019 following its split from its former partner. The company formerly known as CRS, which developed the MP4-12C and 650S GT3 racers as McLaren GT,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sometime GP2 racer and Racing Point Formula 1 test and simulator driver Nick Yelloly has been named a BMW factory driver for the 2019 season. Yelloly, 28, made two race appearances for BMW last year in the Blancpain GT Series

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series Mercedes seat alongside reigning champion Raffaele Marciello has been filled by Vincent Abril, whose departure from Bentley was announced this week. Abril, who had been due to be part of the factory Bentley line-up in 2019,

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nissan refugees Lucas Ordonez and Alex Buncombe will join Bentley’s expanded assault on this year’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT Series blue riband event. Ordonez and Buncombe, who were released by Nissan after the end of its BGTS programme under

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will return to Super GT for the first time in five years with a factory-supported Vantage GT3 in the GT300 class. The latest-generation Vantage will be driven by multiple GT300 race winner Tomonobu Fujii and ex-Nissan stalwart Joao

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The sportscar team run by ex-Formula 1 driver Olivier Panis will expand into the GT3 arena with Lexus in Blancpain championships this season. Panis-Barthez Competition, which works together with the Tech 1 Racing squad, has announced plans to run the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button is linking up with the RJN Motorsport squad to field a Honda NSX in this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Honda Super GT Series driver Button, who is an ambassador for the Japanese