Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The WRT Audi team will slim down its attack on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup this season in a bid to win an eighth title in the championship. The Belgian team, which has won three drivers’ and four teams’ titles

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has revealed how 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will fit into its line-up for his first full season in Japan’s Super GT series. After a debut outing in Super GT’s showpiece Suzuka 1000km race last year, Button set

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jaguar has taken the wraps off its first GT car developed in-house for more than 50 years. The new GT4 car, based on the V8-engined F-type, was unveiled at Autosport International on Thursday as part of a British GT Championship programme

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Maxime Martin will race for the R-Motorsport Blancpain GT Series squad jointly run by the British Arden and Jota teams in 2018. Thiim, World Endurance Championship GT title winner in 2016, and new Aston

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former World Endurance Championship GT title-winning pairing Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen will race in British GT for TF Sport in 2018. The Danish Aston Martin drivers, who won the WEC GT drivers’ crown together in 2016, will join Tom Ferrier’s

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Supercars aces Craig Lowndes and Shane van Gisbergen will drive a factory-backed McLaren at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT race next year. Reigning winner Lowndes will switch from the 2017 race-winning Maranello Motorsport squad to the factory-backed YNA Autosports McLaren outfit.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Belgian WRT squad will represent the Audi factory when it makes its debut in the Bathurst 12 Hours in February next year. The team’s pair of R8 LMS GT3 cars will be entered under the Audi Sport Team WRT banner

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dries Vanthoor has emulated his brother Laurens by becoming an Audi factory driver. The 19-year-old Belgian, who has raced Audi GT3 machinery for the past two years, has been named as one of two newcomers on the German manufacturer’s GT driver

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bentley has announced Spa 24 Hours winner Jules Gounon as the replacement for Oliver Jarvis in the team’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and Intercontinental GT Challenge line-ups for 2018. The son of nine-time grand prix starter Jean-Marc, Gounon partnered Markus

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock will make a second attempt at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT race with BMW in 2018. DTM frontrunner Glock and 2016 Spa 24 Hours winner Philipp Eng will join four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Steve Richards in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche will mount its first full-season factory campaign in the history of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup next year. The factory Manthey Racing squad will run a solo Porsche 911 GT-R in the BGTS enduros as part of an increased

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andre Lotterer is aiming to add to his three Le Mans 24 Hours wins with another twice-around-the-clock victory on the Nurburgring-Nordschleife next year. Lotterer, who now races in Formula E with Techeetah, is hoping that he will line up with Porsche

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button says his “love for motor racing is back” after spending a year away from Formula 1, ahead of his return to full-time competition in Super GT in 2018. The 2009 F1 world champion announced at the weekend that he

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button has signed a deal to drive for Honda in the Japanese Super GT series in 2018. Button had made it clear he would “definitely” be making a full-time return to motorsport next year and was

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The British Arden squad is joining forces with a Swiss entrant to mount Aston Martin’s first pro class assault on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in seven years. The stalwart single-seater squad will field a pair of Aston Martin Vantage

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A plan for a GT3 Cup of Nations at Sochi in 2018 has been announced by the architect of the category, Stephane Ratel. The SRO Motorsports Group chief has revealed that he has made a bid to organise the separate pro-am

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is developing a new GT3 racer based on its latest 720S sportscar in-house for 2019. The 720S GT3 built by McLaren Motorsport will replace the 650S developed by the CRS organisation that traded under the McLaren GT name. McLaren Automotive

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Garage 59 McLaren factory squad that won the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in 2016 will return to the championship next year. Garage 59, which is run by the independent McLaren GT operation that has developed the British marque’s GT3

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA GT World Cup winner Edoardo Mortara says his Macau race start strategy was “pretty stupid” after running into a barrier while trying to sprint away from Augusto Farfus. The Mercedes driver started Sunday’s race from pole having won the qualifying

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Edoardo Mortara claimed his fourth GT victory in Macau in a fascinating FIA GT World Cup race. The Mercedes driver started on pole after winning the qualifying race on Saturday and was never headed as he beat the charging pair of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula E champion Lucas di Grassi said he cannot recall a crazier crash than the one that wiped out half the field in the FIA GT World Cup race in Macau. The Brazilian was caught right in the middle of the

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Edoardo Mortara won a bizarre FIA GT World Cup qualifying race in Macau in which just eight cars finished. The race was suspended for more than half an hour after a huge pileup at Police Bend accounted for 12

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA GT World Cup qualifying race at Macau was suspended after a huge pile-up on the opening lap of the race. In total, 16 cars were caught up in the collision at Police bend – one of the tightest parts

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Edoardo Mortara claimed pole position for the FIA GT World Cup qualification race in Macau as Mercedes locked out the top four positions in a flat-out session. Mortara, a winner of five races in Macau previously, led for much of qualifying

Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa clinched the 2017 Super GT championship after finishing second in the final round of the season at Motegi. The #37 TOM’S Lexus duo needed to finish in the top-two to claim the title, irrespective of how their rivals performed. They qualified third and dispatched the sister #6 Lexus of Team

Bentley has unveiled a new Continental GT3 that will begin racing next season. The car has been developed by M-Sport, which was responsible for the original Continental GT3 first raced at the end of 2013, in conjunction with Bentley Motorsport at company headquarters in Crewe. It is based on the all-new Continental road car, which

The Strakka Racing GT squad will switch from McLaren to Mercedes machinery for the 2018 season, and will contest the Intercontinental GT Challenge for the first time. After quitting the LMP2 division of the World Endurance Championship at the end of 2016, Strakka turned its focus towards the Blancpain Endurance and Sprint categories, contesting both

Formula 1 design legend Gordon Murray could return to motorsport with a new sportscar. The multiple title-winning ex-Brabham and McLaren designer revealed plans for the car at an exhibition at Dunsfold Park marking his 50 years of vehicle design. The as-yet unnamed project will be the first produced by Gordon Murray Automotive under the IGM

The final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at Sepang next month has been cancelled. The Sepang 12 Hours, the fourth event on the IGTC schedule set for December 10 at the outgoing home of the Malaysian Grand Prix, has been axed after organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation failed to achieve its 20-car entry target.

Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg will take a behind-the-scenes advisory role in the expansion of his father Keke’s Team Rosberg outfit into GT racing next year. Team Rosberg won the DTM this year with series rookie Rene Rast and has purchased a pair of Lamborghini Huracan GT3s to enter in the German ADAC GT