Andrew Kirkaldy’s team won the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup outright with the McLaren 650S GT3 and returned to the marque in 2022 to run its 720S after three years with Aston Martin. The season yielded the Pro Am title in the GTWCE Sprint Cup with Dean Macdonald and Miguel Ramos, whose results in

The Northern Irishman has signed a deal to race a BMW M4 GT3 for the Belgian squad in the Bronze Cup class for Platinum-Silver-Bronze lineups alongside his regular partner in the 2022 GT4 European championship Tim Whale and team returnee Lewis Proctor. The team had announced in December that MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, Maxime Martin

The Californian squad, which has taken GT World Challenge America spoils in each of the last two seasons, will be back for the full GTWCE season for the first time since it managed a best finish of sixth running Bentleys in the COVID-impacted 2020 season. It also entered last year’s Spa 24 Hours with Orange1,

The Scot claimed his maiden British GT title at the Donington Park finale last year after taking two wins and a further four podiums during the campaign at the wheel of a RAM Racing-run Mercedes-AMG. Insight: How a Pro mindset finally secured a British GT Am an overdue title Having raced with the squad since

The elder of the van der Linde brothers was absent from Audi’s customer racing announcement on Tuesday, where it named 14 drivers as part of its factory line-up for 2023. He leaves Audi after nearly a decade under its umbrella, winning the GT Masters title in 2014 and 2019 and coming close to clinching the

The Brackley squad is now known as One Motorsport, and will continue to field Honda Civic Type R machinery in the BTCC this season. Current team owner Steve Dudman bought out BTC founder in Bert Taylor in 2019, although Taylor stayed on at the squad until the end of the 2020 season. The renaming removes

While most of the focus in endurance racing has been on the new LMDh offerings, that’s certainly not to say there’s no new developments in the world of GT4 competition, with the McLaren Artura and new BMW M4 set to race across the globe in 2023. McLaren’s previous model, the 570S, was released in 2016,

Belgians Vanthoor and Weerts formed a successful duo at Audi team WRT in the GT World Challenge Europe, taking three consecutive Sprint Cup titles in the Audi R8 LMS as well as an overall title in 2021. Along with the Vincent Vosse-led team, the pair have moved to BMW for 2023, defending the Bavarian brand’s

There are an almost infinite number of set-up combinations available to competitors in motorsport that can be tailored for track conditions, driver preferences and car characteristics. The exact same solution is unlikely to be found between two cars from the same one-make series, let alone between factory teams in international GT racing and an amateur

The Mercedes outfit led by 13-times Le Mans starter Jerome Policand won the Spa 24 Hours and GTWCE Endurance Cup titles this year with Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella, and secured the GTWCE overall title with Marciello after he finished second in the Sprint Cup. ASP has made one previous Le Mans appearance

“I loved the cars that gave you an advantage. Unfortunately, whenever I had one of those something seemed to go wrong and we didn’t win anyway!” Notwithstanding his 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours victory in a Porsche 917, Richard Attwood didn’t always have the best luck during a career that spanned Formula 1 and sportscar

The shortened eight-lapper got off to a thrilling start thanks to Mercedes pair Engel and Marciello. They went through the first two corners side-by-side as they squabbled over critical track position, Marciello winning out through Mandarin to grab the lead. He was able to immediately put some breathing space between his TORO Racing-run AMG and

There was confusion before the race even got going, with polesitter Edoardo Mortara misjudging the start of the formation lap. The Audi driver took off behind the safety car, however the field was yet to be given the green light. After completing a lonely lap of the Guia circuit, he returned to the front row

No details about Martin’s exact race programme for 2023 were announced, but options could range from the final vacant seat in BMW’s line-up for the Daytona 24 Hours to any of the marque’s factory-supported entries in GT3 championships such as the DTM. The announcement marks a homecoming of sorts for the Belgian driver, who enjoyed

There had been plenty of speculation regarding Audi Sport in 2022, with many citing the impending end of the R8 supercar’s production as an indication that its customer division would be wound up in the coming years. The rumours came against the backdrop of other changes in Audi’s motorsport portfolio, with the under-development LMDh project

The father-son duo will drive a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo entered by the MDK Motorsports team at the Yas Marina Circuit on 9-11 December, just three weeks after the F1 finale at the same venue in Abu Dhabi. They will be joined in the final round of the 2022 Intercontinental GT Challenge by team owner

This year we’re mainly focused on the GT World Challenge, after a year and a half of driving on the Nordschleife in the NLS. The first year was cut short with COVID, and this year we did the ones prior to the 24-hour race. Everybody looking to compete in the Nurburgring 24 Hours will most

The move to BMW for the Spa and Nurburgring 24 Hours-winning squad has been an open secret since August on the twin announcements of its split with Audi in the GT ranks and its new partnership with the Munich marque in the World Endurance Championship from 2024 with the M Hybrid LMDh prototype. Team boss

The British manufacturer has announced that it will part company with the 36-year-old Belgian after five seasons, which included GTE Pro victory at the 2020 Le Mans driving an Aston Martin Vantage GTE shared with Alex Lynn and Harry Tincknell. Martin followed up on the announcement on Monday afternoon via his Instagram account, but did

The 2023 edition of the Spa GT3 classic, a round of both the GT World Challenge Europe and the Intercontinental GT Challenge, had been announced for 29/30 July on the eve of this year’s event. The scheduling of the Belgian GP on that weekend, confirmed with the publication of the 2023 Formula 1 calendar on

The 18-time grand prix winner, who started 322 races between 1993 and 2011, struck a late deal to join Scuderia Baldini alongside another former F1 driver, Giancarlo Fisichella at the wheel of a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo. “It’s just an amazing feeling to be back driving a Ferrari and to be alongside my great friend

Third in the opening one-hour encounter, which was won by AF Corse Ferrari pairing Pierre-Alexandre Jean and Ulysse de Pauw, was enough to secure the crown, while a thrilling final-lap victory on Sunday put the icing well and truly on the cake. Coming into the last Sprint Cup round of the season in Spain, Weerts

The 40-year-old will call time on a decade-long partnership with the German manufacturer after this month’s final round of the Italian GT sprint series at Mugello with Roberto Ravaglia’s Ceccato Motors team. Writing on his Instagram page, Glock said sharing a BMW Z4 GT3 with Bruno Spengler and Alex Zanardi at the 2015 Spa 24

When Porsche won Petit Le Mans outright in 2015 with a 911 RSR GTE against hordes of prototypes, it was a homage to another great giantkilling feat performed 15 years previously. Porsche’s feat had been achieved over a rain-shortened event – just 7 hours and 51 minutes of the originally scheduled 10 hours were completed

When Autosport speaks to Gary Davies, the chief engineer of fast-growing sportscar outfit Greystone GT, he has just finished painting his office in the team’s new workshop. Given he’s race engineering cars in GT Cup and European GT4, overseeing its maiden assault on British GT, and building the technical structure of an outfit that started

The team made the announcement in the wake of last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge round, a race it has won two times with the German manufacturer. WRT’s successes with two generations of Audi R8 GT3 contender since the team’s inception ahead of the 2010 season include victories in the

Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella took a 30-second victory over the GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 shared by Luca Stolz, Maximilian Gotz and Steijn Schothorst at the end of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The two Mercs were on different pitstop strategies over the final hours of the race, but the

The K-Pax Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo in which Andrea Caldarelli topped the times in Superpole qualifying on Friday has been excluded from the session after failing scrutineering. The operating parameters of the Lamborghini’s engine were found not be in line with those when the Balance of Performance test was undertaken ahead of the season. Caldarelli’s

The aim during design and development of the new car based on the 992-shape 911 was to make it “fast for longer,” according to Sebastian Golz, project manager on the latest-generation 911 GT3-R. “Our task was less about making the new 911 GT3-R even faster – the classification within performance windows set by the Balance

Caldarelli posted a 2m16.221s at the wheel of his Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO on the second of his two flying laps to prevent Mercedes driver Raffaele Marciello taking a third consecutive pole for the blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe. Marciello had gone fastest in his factory Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG GT3