The traditional end-of-season fixture at the Yas Marina circuit will become an IGTC round for the first time as part of a calendar reshuffle in which the next edition of the nine-hour race at the former home of the South African Grand Prix has been pushed back to become round two of next year’s schedule

The new customer racing car that will replace the 488 GT3 Evo for 2023 has fully detachable front and rears ends in the name of increased serviceability, Ferrari revealed on the unveiling of the car ahead of this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The bodywork sections at the front

The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is central to the motor racing story of Thierry Tassin. It is where his love affair with the sport started, where he scored the biggest successes of his career with a quartet of victories in the Spa 24 Hours and where he is this weekend in his capacity as one of

Antonio Fuoco, Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra topped the times in the #71 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo during aggregate qualifying from which the quickest 20 cars made the cut for Friday evening’s Superpole session ahead of this weekend’s double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe. Fuoco set the fastest time of the

The Maserati MC20 GT2 was launched on Tuesday to coincide with the start of practice for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours, an event that the Italian manufacturer won three times with its MC12 GT1 racer in the 2000s. PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever The new car will be available to customers

Ratel believes moves announced earlier this month by WEC promoter and Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest to create a premium category based on GT3 to replace the current GTE class are positive. PLUS: When the moribund GTE Pro class stole the show at Le Mans “I’m supportive of it, because it

The former Sauber F1 racer will drive the EMA Porsche 911 GT3-R together with Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet in the Belgian enduro on 30-31 July, which is a round of both the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The trio have already won the GT Daytona Pro class of

The Porsche factory drivers will reunite for the Spa classic on 30-31 July aboard a Porsche 911 GT3-R run by ART Grand Prix as part of GPX’s assault on this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge. Estre, Christensen and Lietz, who all race for Porsche in the World Endurance Championship, came together for Spa in 2019 when

The 2015 Nurburgring winner had taken over the #911 Manthey Porsche from Kevin Estre and was battling for third with his younger brother’s Phoenix Audi on lap 23 when they made side-to-side contact in the fast sequence of bends approaching the Hohenrain chicane. The touch between the Audi’s left rear and Porsche’s right front caused

Kelvin van der Linde drove home the win for the Meuspath-based squad after 159 laps, equalling the race’s distance record. As ever, the race was not without drama with several contenders disappearing from the frontline before nightfall. After surviving the night, the Phoenix Audi still had two opponents to defeat, the two GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3s,

After a speeding violation forced the car he shared with Kevin Estre, Fred Makowiecki and Michael Christensen to start from the back of the GT3 field, Vanthoor was fighting over third place with his younger brother Dries Vanthoor’s Phoenix Audi. The pair duelled on the long Dottinger Hohe straight and continued to run side-by-side approaching

The 2015 ADAC GT Masters champion and son of three-times Le Mans 24 Hours winner Klaus, set an unbeatable time of 8m09.469s with the only sub 8m10s lap of the decisive session. Ludwig also posted an 8m10.406s effort that would have been good enough for pole in the car he shares with Bjorn Grossmann, Simon

Lotus. It is one of the most iconic names in the world of motorsport. And yet, despite its illustrious history, it has been over a decade since the brand released a new car dedicated to racing. But that long wait is finally over as, earlier this month, the next chapter of Lotus’s story began with

RAM Racing pair Ian Loggie and Jules Gounon won the race on the road after a red flag during the pitstop cycle meant the race was restarted in the pre-pitstop order. But they were classified fifth when British GT officials elected to add their seven-second pitstop success penalty – having finished second in race one

Juffali, who spent her formative seasons racing in British junior single-seaters, has established Theeba Motorsport for an assault on this year’s GT Open International series with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo shared with Adam Christodoulou. Theeba, which is racing under Saudi licence, will make its debut this weekend at Paul Ricard at the second GT Open

Pole position, fastest lap and victory by leading every lap was about as unequivocal as you could get in race two of the Magny-Cours weekend. And perhaps the most concerning aspect for ASP’s rivals was that the result barely looked in doubt throughout the one-hour encounter. “The car was amazing all weekend, and when it’s

It was an action-packed 12 hours for the quartet, particularly during a wild stint from Habul early in the race that included two drive-through penalties for restart infringements and a spin at the final corner. However the car stayed on the lead lap all day, before flawless stints from Stolz and Gounon in the last

As predicted, it was a difficult start to the round-the-clock race with more than an hour of full pre-dawn running in foggy conditions. However race control has mostly let the race run despite the obvious visibility challenges, the safety car only used to retrieve a crashed MARC car from the top of the Mountain. That

The cooler autumn temperatures and ban on tyre warmers under the event’s temporary Pro-Am rules meant drivers were able to constantly improve on a single tyre set during the two 15-minute qualifying sessions. The organisers had originally planned to stage a top 10 shootout, before concerns over the operating window for the Pirelli tyres prompted a meeting

You’d be forgiven for thinking that British Touring Car Championship star Josh Cook would name Thruxton – scene of seven of his 13 race wins in the series – as his favourite circuit. But while the West Countryman indeed has a soft spot for the Hampshire speedbowl, his local BTCC venue, it’s a track he

The event, billed the BMW M Race of Legends, will commemorate the 50th running of the round-the-clock enduro on the Nurburgring Nordschleife that was first held in 1972 and the half century of BMW’s M division. The international field of drivers will drive 365 horsepower BMW M2 CS Racing models, each sporting an iconic BMW

British GT was stuck between a rock and a hard place at Silverstone last weekend. With the National Court hearing into RAM Racing’s appeal of Oulton Park race two unable to be held before the weekend, and the classification of that race still to be finalised, it did the only thing it could and opted

Series boss Stephane Ratel has outlined a firm intent for 2023 to hold five rounds of the IGTC, which links the big GT3 enduros around the world, after a four-race series without Suzuka was announced for this year. He explained that he wants to restore the Suzuka 10 Hours fixture, which was part of the

The 2020 running of the race was one of the last international events held in Australia before the pandemic took hold and the borders were closed. The border closures ultimately put paid to the 2021 running of the event, which was cancelled and effectively replaced by the opening round of the Supercars season, the Mount

The Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 follows the 2019 evolution of a car that started racing back in 2016 and will come on stream one year after the sister Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II introduced this season. The EVO2 developed by Lamborghini Squadra Corse at company headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese incorporates a new aerodynamic concept, which

The seven-time MotoGP world champion made the acknowledgement ahead of last weekend’s GTWCE Sprint Cup round at Brands Hatch, in which he was setting competitive times at the end of race two, as he scored his first championship points in eighth place together with Frederic Vervisch in their WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II.

Howard, who won the 2013 and 2015 titles with his own Prodrive-operated Beechdean AMR Aston Martin team, has switched to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup this year and taken a planned one-year British GT sabbatical. However Howard will step back into the series in the unfamiliar surroundings of the McLaren 720S GT3 –

AF Corse Ferrari duo Ulysse de Pauw and Pierre-Alexandre Jean took a narrow win in the first of the two races at the opening weekend of the sprint segment of the GTWCE. De Pauw led from pole position in their Ferrari 488 GT3, a Silver Cup class entry, prior to a short safety-car period following

Rossi described the 2.43-mile circuit on which he never competed during his bike career as “a great track, fantastic” ahead of the start of his assault with the WRT Audi squad on the Sprint Cup segment of this year’s GTWCE. “The layout is interesting, it is a very old-style track,” said the seven-time MotoGP champion,

Middleton, who won the British GT4 championship in 2018, was set to take over from Imperiale Racing team-mate Alberto di Folco in the first of two one-hour Sprint Cup races but was clipped by the oncoming BMW M4 GT3 of Jens Klingmann which pulled into the box in front. “The BMW was sort of on