Supercars ace Shane van Gisbergen will join Townsend Bell and Frankie Montecalvo in AIM Vasser Sullivan’s #12 Lexus RC F in next month’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Van Gisbergen will be making his fifth Rolex 24 start, the first three of which were in an Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 and resulted in a […]
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Supercars star Rick Kelly will return to the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour in 2020, driving a Castrol-backed Aston Martin. The two-time Bathurst 1000 winner has joined R Motorsport, driving alongside five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon and DTM star Jake Dennis. Dennis led the team’s attack on the 2019 Bathurst endurance classic, finishing second on his […]
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Three of the most successful drivers in the modern era of the Porsche factory driver roster will step away from full-time race duties with the marque in 2020. Brendon Hartley, two-time World Champion Driver in the FIA WEC with Porsche, and 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours winner will go forward in his career with multiple […]
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THe #31 Frikadelli Racing Porsche of Dennis Olsen, Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet has won the Kyalami 9 Hour, the IGTC season finale. This victory means that Olsen has been crowned IGTC Drivers’ Champion and Porsche has taken the Manufacturers’ crown. “Finally, this has been the longest nine hours of my life!” Olsen, who won […]
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Lexus Team KeePer TOM’s driver Nick Cassidy converted pole position into a race one victory at the DTM/SuperGT ‘Dream Race’ at Fuji Speedway, ahead of Honda Keihin Real Racing’s Kudai Tsukakoshi and Honda Team Kunimitsu’s Naoki Yamamoto. Drama before the grid formed as Audi Sport Team Phoenix’s Loïc Duval who was due to start from […]
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After two days of testing and practice in very mixed conditions – with clear and sunny skies on Thursday giving way to torrential rain and fog on Friday – the time had come for the first qualifying session to set Saturday afternoon’s grid for the first round of the Super GT x DTM Dream Race […]
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Tom Alexander will start Saturday’s ECB SuperUtes Series opener in Newcastle from pole, having topped ARMOR ALL Qualifying on Friday. The Ross Stone Racing driver put in a 1:28.5090s just after the halfway point of the 20-minute session in the Caltex-backed Isuzu D-MAX. That was good enough for top spot, leading defending champion Ryal Harris […]
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Marciello Sweeps Weekend for First FIA GT World Cup Win; Earl Bamber Frantically Challenges For Lead
Raffaele Marciello claimed his first FIA GT World Cup victory by leading all of Sunday’s Main Race at Macau for Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing. The Italian swept the weekend by taking pole on Friday, leading all of the Qualifying Race on Saturday and pulling off a similar feat in the Main Race. He wasn’t without […]
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Raffaele Marciello led lights-to-flag in Saturday’s 12-lap qualifying race for the FIA GT World Cup at Macau, surviving late-race pressure from both ROWE Racing drivers. Marciello started from pole in the No. 999 GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and remained out front for the full 12 laps of the Guia Circuit, holding off repeated attempts for […]
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Peugeot has announced it will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship’s top class beginning in 2022 with a hybrid-powered hypercar. The French manufacturer, which has been absent from top-level endurance racing since the demise of its 908 LMP1 program in early 2012, has confirmed its return to sports car racing in a brief statement released […]
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