Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will launch a new GT3 contender based on the World Endurance Championship Vantage GTE in the summer. The new car developed at the Prodrive-run Aston Martin Racing organisation will share the majority of its components with the second-generation Vantage WEC

The Blancpain GT Series has hit back at claims from the Grasser Lamborghini team that it was unfairly penalised under the Balance of Performance rules at last weekend’s Monza race. The reigning BGTS champion team claimed in a post-race statement that an additional 15kg of ballast given to the Lamborghini Huracan GT3s ahead of qualifying

The WRT Audi squad won the opening round of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Monza. The best of the Belgian team’s Audi R8 LMS GT3s driven by Christopher Mies, Alex Riberas and Dries Vanthoor came from fifth ahead of the opening round of pitstops to take Audi’s first victory at Monza, the

All-six Aston Martin World Endurance Championship drivers will race for the British manufacturer in the Nurburgring 24 Hours next month. AMR will be making its first bid for outright honours with a GT3 car in the Nordschleife enduro in two years. The Prodrive-run AMR squad will field a sole V12 Vantage GT3 in the SP9

New Mercedes DTM test and reserve driver Christian Vietoris will race for the German manufacturer in this year’s Blancpain GT Series with the factory-supported Strakka squad. The German, whose return to the Mercedes DTM fold for 2018 was also announced today, will drive for Strakka Racing in the five BGTS Endurance Cup events, starting at

Attempto Audi drivers Kelvin van der Linde and Steijn Schothorst started the 2018 Blancpain Sprint Cup season with a victory in the main race at Zolder. Saturday race winners Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti were on pole position for the second event, with the latter establishing a comfortable seven-second lead in the first stint. But

One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button and his Team Kunimitsu teammate Naoki Yamamoto finished second in the Super GT season opener at Okayama, behind the victorious Real Racing Honda. Button had qualified the #100 Honda NSX-GT in fifth position in a wet qualifying on Saturday and also started Sunday’s race. While Button managed to get

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The reigning Blancpain GT Series champion Grasser Lamborghini squad will contest the Suzuka 10 Hours Intercontinental GT Challenge round in August. The Austrian team, which won the overall BGTS and Endurance Cup crowns, will field a solo Huracan GT3 alongside a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Audi DTM driver Robin Frijns will contest the Blancpain GT Series with the WRT Audi team in 2018. The Dutchman will dovetail his DTM campaign for the Abt team with a full Endurance Cup programme in one of WRT’s Audi

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes factory drivers Maximilian Buhk and Maximilian Gotz will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with the Strakka Racing squad. Buhk and Gotz will be joined by Alvaro Parente, who raced a Strakka McLaren in last year’s BGTS Sprint

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup is not in danger despite a dramatic fall in entries for 2018, championship boss Stephane Ratel has insisted. Just 20 cars have been registered for the full 2018 series, down from last year’s 32-strong field.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series is aiming to open up the Spa 24 Hours to more strategy with the introduction of what are being termed joker pitstops. A yet to be determined number of jokers at the BGTS Endurance Cup centrepiece round

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Minimum production requirements have been put in place for the first time to stop the creation of what have been dubbed ‘GT3 prototypes’. A move that has been in the works for more than year was rubber-stamped by Friday’s meeting of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad run by the Arden and Jota teams has completed its Blancpain GT Series line-up with former GP3 frontrunner Marvin Kirchhofer. The German, who finished third in GP3 in 2015, will race one of R-Motorsport’s pair

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Vitaly Petrov will contest the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with SMP Racing alongside his World Endurance Championship LMP1 campaign with the Russian entrant. The GT rookie, who has raced in LMP2 in recent seasons, will drive a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning British GT champion Seb Morris will drive a Team Parker racing Bentley in its return to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Morris competed for the team during his British GT3 title-winning season last year, before he then featured on

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Giancarlo Fisichella will return to the scene of one of his three Formula 1 grand prix wins with a drive in the Australian GP GT support races in Melbourne. The 2005 Albert Park F1 winner has secured a one-off drive with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Twelve manufacturers are represented on the first draft of the entry list for the Suzuka 10 Hours Intercontinental GT3 Challenge round in August. Four of the five manufacturers to register for the series that combines four of the big GT3 enduros

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Grasser Lamborghini squad will defend its Blancpain GT Series drivers’ titles with unchanged line-ups in 2018. Factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Christian Engelhart will bid to retain their BGTS Endurance Cup crown in the lead Grasser Racing Team

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. British Touring Car Championship race-winner Aron Taylor-Smith will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup with Team Parker Racing. Taylor-Smith will share a Team Parker Bentley Continental GT3s with Briton Josh Caygill for the full season in the silver cup

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new endurance race at Monza planned for early next month has been cancelled. A shortfall in entries has resulted in a race dubbed the Targa 6H Monza being shelved by organiser Driving Force Events, which runs the the Gulf 12

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lexus will join the Blancpain GT Series full-time in 2018. A pair of Lexus RC F GT3s will be entered in both the Endurance and Sprint Cup segments of the BGTS by the Swiss Emil Frey team. The full BGTS programme

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Japanese Super GT organisers have moved its Autopolis round to avoid a clash with the World Endurance Championship’s Fuji race, which was shifted to accommodate Fernando Alonso. The WEC moved its Japanese race so Formula 1 star Alonso could race with

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota star Kamui Kobayashi has been drafted into the marque’s Super GT line-up to form a new superteam with fellow ex-Formula 1 racer Heikki Kovalainen. Kobayashi, who has never contested a full season in Super GT before, will join 2016 champion

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ash Walsh has been released from hospital after undergoing minor surgery on his elbow following his monster Bathurst 12 Hour crash on Sunday evening. Having spun after tangling with a backmarker during the closing stages of the Intercontinental GT Challenge race,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bathurst 12 Hour winner Robin Frijns says his WRT Audi R8 LMS would likely have run out of fuel had the race not been interrupted before the finish. Last weekend’s epic contest at Mount Panorama boiled down to a tense fuel

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, and Dries Vanthoor won the 2018 Bathurst 12 Hour, after the race was declared early due to a massive final-stint crash. Frijns led the field during a final hour economy test, building to a tense showdown in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Supercars star Chaz Mostert put Schnitzer BMW on pole for the Bathurst 12 Hour, the opening round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge. Mostert ran second to last in the top 10 shootout after being second fastest in the initial qualifying

Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Matthieu Vaxiviere has been named as the latest addition to the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad for this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The French driver, who won five races in Formula Renault 3.5 and its Formula V8 3.5 successor, switched from

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new six-hour endurance race will take place at Monza for the first time this March. The Targa 6H Monza on March 10 will be an all-comers race open to GT3 and GT4 machinery, TCR touring cars and Group CN prototypes.