Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin’s new Vantage GT3 will make its official race debut in the VLN Endurance Series at the Nurburgring Nordschleife next weekend. The V8-powered car, which is derived from the manufacturer’s World Endurance Championship GTE model, replaces the V12 Vantage that has

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick is ready to begin his comeback from the injuries sustained in the Spa 24 Hours in July that hospitalised him for five days. Meyrick, who raced for the M-Sport Bentley squad in 2013-15, has recovered from

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Super GT frontrunner and Nissan driver Jann Mardenborough will make his first Blancpain GT Series start in nearly three years at next weekend’s Endurance title decider at Barcelona. Mardenborough has been drafted in as a replacement for the injured Lucas Ordonez by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Spa 24 Hours winners Tom Blomqvist and Philipp Eng will join the factory BMW Rowe squad in a bid for the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title at the Barcelona finale. The two BMW works drivers will each race one of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button admits his switch from Formula 1 to the Japanese Super GT series has been tougher than he expected, following his maiden win in the championship last weekend. The 2009 F1 world champion claimed victory and the points lead alongside team-mate

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows snatched the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup championship victory with a win in the second Nurburgring race. The victorious #88 ASP Mercedes started the race in second and spent much of the afternoon behind

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver and 2009 world champion Jenson Button earned a maiden Super GT victory at Sugo to take the lead of the championship, alongside co-driver Naoki Yamamoto. Yamamoto started the race from pole position in the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas have been awarded the win of the opening Nurburgring Blancpain GT Sprint Cup race after a 30-second post-race penalty was applied to the original victor. The post-race call is enough to lift the Audi pairing of Mies

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lamborghini drivers Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart have taken their third Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup victory of 2018 in the opening Nurburgring race of the weekend. The #63 Huracan GT3 of started on pole and make a clean getaway to remain

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Formula 1 driver Jenson Button claimed his first pole position in Super GT after team-mate Naoki Yamamoto set the fastest lap in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sugo. It was the sister ARTA-run Honda of Tomoki Nojiri and Takuya Izawa that led

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin is relaunching its Young Driver Academy scheme in a bid to find a new factory driver. It has revived the programme from which Ross Gunn graduated with a factory contract ahead of the 2016 season. The previous scheme, known as

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. ASP Mercedes’ Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows took a commanding victory in a rain-affected Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup race at the Hungaroring. The duo converted pole position into Mercedes’ first sprint win of 2018 to draw level on points with the

Lamborghini duo Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti dominated the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup opener at the Hungaroring, beating pre-race favourite Mercedes. Engelhart launched his Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 into the lead just seconds into the race despite starting fifth on the grid. Heavy storm prior to the race left the track damp, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will remain committed to GT racing even if it enters either the new hypercar concept class in the World Endurance Championship or the DTM. David King, president of Aston Martin Racing, is insistent that the British marque will “always race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes dominated the first running of the Suzuka 10 Hours, with the GruppeM squad leading a one-two finish for the German manufacturer. The #888 trio of Raffaele Marciello, Maro Engel and Tristan Vautier moved into the lead at the start of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Taiwanese squad HubAuto Corse claimed pole position for the Intercontinental GT Challenge’s inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours with its Pro-Am Ferrari in a truncated qualifying session on Saturday. The #28 488 GT3 of Nick Foster, David Perel and Hiroki Yoshida topped the group

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new McLaren 720S GT3 has begun an extensive testing programme ahead of its full race debut in 2019. The first GT3 machine to be developed in-house at McLaren Automotive’s new GT facility in Woking, taking over from Andrew Kirkaldy’s CRS organisation

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Raffaele Marciello will contest this month’s Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round with the GruppeM Mercedes squad. The 2013 Formula 3 Euro Series title winner, who is racing for GruppeM in the Blancpain GT Series Asia this year, will drive the team’s solo

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Audi will field a trio of factory entries in the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The Belgian WRT team will enter two Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars in the new Suzuka 10 Hours race on August 26

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. There could be as many as five or six new GT2 supercars ready to race by the second half of next year, according to class instigator Stephane Ratel. Ratel, who announced plans for the new class that is aimed at amateur drivers

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams Formula 1 young driver Oliver Rowland will return to the factory-backed Strakka Mercedes team for the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The 25-year-old will drive one of two pro class Mercedes-AMG GT3s entered by the German

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick is returning home to recover from the injuries he sustained in last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours. The 32-year-old Briton is travelling back to the UK on Friday after spending six days in intensive care in a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Walkenhorst BMW driven by Philipp Eng, Tom Blomqvist and Christian Krognes came out on top in a tight late-race battle to win the Spa 24 Hours. The Nurburgring-Nordschleife specialist, which was fielding a pro class car in the Blancpain GT Series

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Sainteloc Audi driven by Markus Winkelhock, Christopher Haase and Frederic Vervisch leads the Spa 24 Hours at three-quarters distance. Vervisch ducked into the pits in the French team’s R8 LMS as the blue-riband round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Audi leads the Spa 24 Hours after six hours despite its R8 LMS receiving a Balance of Performance hit ahead of the race. The Land Motorsport Audi driven by brothers Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde and Jeffrey Schmidt held a lead

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The pole-winning factory WRT Audi has lost pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours for a technical infringement. The two laps good enough for pole set by Dries Vanthoor in the top-20 ‘superpole’ session yesterday evening have been wiped out because

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new category for high-powered supercars that revives the GT2 name has been announced by the Stephane Ratel Organisation. The idea is for the new breed of car to become the basis of the amateur classes as a complement to GT3 in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Local driver Dries Vanthoor took pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT round for the WRT Audi team. The 20-year-old Belgian topped the ‘superpole’ session for the fastest 20 cars from Thursday’s aggregate qualifying in the factory Audi R8

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 venue Kyalami will join the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2019 with the revival of the South African track’s historic nine-hour sportscar fixture. The event will put Africa on the IGTC calendar for the first time, joining the Spa 24 Hours,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Six-time Formula 1 grand prix winner Riccardo Patrese was motivated to make a comeback in this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours to “put some adrenalin back” in his life. The 64-year-old Italian explained that his appearance in the blue riband Blancpain GT Series