Sebastien Buemi’s third win in a row too. Heading into the final hour it looked like the #7 of Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi would lead home the formation finish, but an issue with the car’s floor left Kobayashi with no option but to relinquish the position to Buemi who took the […]

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As expected, today’s WEC qualifying session ended with a 1-2 for Toyota, ahead of tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Silverstone. Jose Maria Lopez, and Mike Conway set pole position in the #7 TS050 with an average lap time of 1:36.895 and a fastest lap of 1:36.769 set by Conway. It is the third consecutive pole position […]

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This year’s Total 24 Hours of Spa was a hard fought battle that swung one way, then another right down to the final hours, the 70th running of the endurance classic severely affected by caution periods that dominated the race. Helped by the problems of their rivals, the BMW M6 GT3’s of Walkenhorst Motorsport and […]

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News reached the Spa press room this morning which will affect the starting grid for this afternoon’s Total 24 Hours of Spa, specifically pole position. Two stewards’ decisions have been published affecting the the #1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT R8 GT3, principally removing the car from its pole position. Dries Vanthoor’s time is annulled […]

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After Land Motorsport and WRT Audi R8s set the pace in today’s early sessions, it was Walkenhorst Motorsport’s BMW M6 GT3 that emerged as the fastest car during the evening’s four-part Qualifying session at Spa, which sets the grid from 21st down, and decides which 20 cars make tomorrow’s Super Pole. The combined time from […]

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On Wednesday, 4 July, the 33-car provisional entry list for the 2018 Suzuka 10 Hours was published by Suzuka Circuit and Mobilityland Corporation. 25 teams, representing 12 different manufacturers, and fielded from 9 different countries, will take part in the 47th Summer Endurance sports car race at Suzuka Circuit, which has a rich history spanning […]

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This year’s Total 24 Hours of Spa is set to run with 68 cars, SRO revealing the full list of entrants during today’s pre-event Test Day. The list is once again huge, and features 30 Pro cars, 16 Pro-Am cars, nine in the Silver and Am Cup and four in the Groupe National category. In […]

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Many had wondered, after three races in the 2018 Autobacs Super GT Series, when the Lexus LC500s that so thoroughly dominated GT500 in their debut year of 2017 would return to form and get back to winning races. They did so in Thailand on Sunday, and with plenty of fireworks involved. Heikki Kovalainen and Kamui […]

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Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Evo has broken the Nürburgring-Nordschleife lap record, Timo Bernhard setting an astonishing 5:19.55 lap of the 20.8km-long German circuit this morning. Bernhard’s time eclipsed that of Stefan Bellof, who managed to set a 6:11.13 lap with a Porsche 956 C, a time which stood as the lap record for 35 years. The […]

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Romain Dumas has become the first man ever to beat the 8 minute mark for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. In competition today the twice Le Mans 24 Hours winner and 2016 WEC Champion, already an overall winner of the event three times, took his Norma chassied full EV 2018 Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak up the now fully […]

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