[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours winner Guy Smith expects to continue racing after stepping down from the factory M-Sport Bentley team. The 43-year-old Briton, who won Le Mans with Bentley in 2003, told Autosport in the wake of his last outing with the

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 convert Jenson Button says he “couldn’t have wished for more” from his maiden Super GT campaign after taking the championship lead last weekend. Button and Kunimitsu team-mate Naoki Yamamoto finished second at Suzuka, behind the sister Honda of Tomoki Nojiri

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The new R-Motorsport Aston Martin team claimed a dominant first victory in the Silverstone round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The best of the Swiss entrant’s V12 Vantages shared by Matthieu Vaxiviere, Jake Dennis and Nicky Thiim led for the

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Jenson Button moved into the lead of the Super GT standings with his second podium finish of the season at Suzuka. Front-row starter Button, like several other Honda drivers, struggled for tyre temperatures at the start of the race,

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Honda will make its Blancpain GT Series debut at this year’s Spa 24 Hours with the first European appearance of its NSX GT3 car, taking the manufacturer count to 12. The car will be entered under the Castrol Racing Honda banner in

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours winner Martin Brundle will return to the event this June to compete in the Aston Martin support race together with record-breaking Olympian Sir Chris Hoy. They will share a Vantage GT4 in the Aston Martin Racing Festival one-make

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche will field a second factory car in the Suzuka 10 Hours round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in August. Craft-Bamboo Racing will enter a 911 GT3-R with a line-up of three works drivers in the Japanese fixture on August 26 alongside

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Bentley is aiming to return to the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 2019 after sitting out this year’s race. Bentley opted to focus on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in the development year for the second-generation Continental GT3. But Brian Gush, Bentley’s

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours winner Guy Smith will step down from the factory M-Sport Bentley team after this weekend’s Blancpain GT Series round at Silverstone. The 43-year-old, who was part of Bentley’s Le Mans-winning crew in 2003 with the Speed 8 LM-GTP

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The Manthey Porsche team scored its sixth Nurburgring 24 Hours victory in a nail-biting climax to a weather-affected race that had to be halted in the latter stages. A bold outside pass at Turns 1 and 2 of the Grand Prix loop

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The 46th running of the Nurburgring 24 Hours has been suspended with just over three hours remaining due to heavy rain and fog. Thunderstorms hit the Nordschleife overnight the night and soaked the track, but it wasn’t until sunrise that fog began

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche factory driver Laurens Vanthoor grabbed pole position for the Nurburgring 24 Hours after topping Friday evening’s qualifying shootout session. Vanthoor was only sixth fastest after the opening set of runs in his #911 Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3-R, but was quickest

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Williams Formula 1 young driver Oliver Rowland will make his GT racing debut at the Silverstone Blancpain GT Series round this month with the Strakka Mercedes team. The 25-year-old has been brought in to drive one of the British team’s factory-supported Mercedes-AMG

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. WRT’s Stuart Leonard and Frederic Vervisch converted pole into Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup victory at Brands Hatch in their Audi R8 LMS, the fourth different winners in as many races. Despite missing the first two races of the season at Zolder,

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will launch a new GT3 contender based on the World Endurance Championship Vantage GTE in the summer. The new car developed at the Prodrive-run Aston Martin Racing organisation will share the majority of its components with the second-generation Vantage WEC

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series has hit back at claims from the Grasser Lamborghini team that it was unfairly penalised under the Balance of Performance rules at last weekend’s Monza race. The reigning BGTS champion team claimed in a post-race statement that an

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The WRT Audi squad won the opening round of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Monza. The best of the Belgian team’s Audi R8 LMS GT3s driven by Christopher Mies, Alex Riberas and Dries Vanthoor came from fifth ahead of

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. All-six Aston Martin World Endurance Championship drivers will race for the British manufacturer in the Nurburgring 24 Hours next month. AMR will be making its first bid for outright honours with a GT3 car in the Nordschleife enduro in two years. The

[ad_1] Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. New Mercedes DTM test and reserve driver Christian Vietoris will race for the German manufacturer in this year’s Blancpain GT Series with the factory-supported Strakka squad. The German, whose return to the Mercedes DTM fold for 2018 was also announced today, will

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Attempto Audi drivers Kelvin van der Linde and Steijn Schothorst started the 2018 Blancpain Sprint Cup season with a victory in the main race at Zolder. Saturday race winners Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti were on pole position for the second

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button and his Team Kunimitsu teammate Naoki Yamamoto finished second in the Super GT season opener at Okayama, behind the victorious Real Racing Honda. Button had qualified the #100 Honda NSX-GT in fifth position in a

[ad_1] The reigning Blancpain GT Series champion Grasser Lamborghini squad will contest the Suzuka 10 Hours Intercontinental GT Challenge round in August. The Austrian team, which won the overall BGTS and Endurance Cup crowns, will field a solo Huracan GT3 alongside a pair of Lamborghinis entered by the Japanese Lamborghini Owners’ Club squad. Factory driver

[ad_1] New Audi DTM driver Robin Frijns will contest the Blancpain GT Series with the WRT Audi team in 2018. The Dutchman will dovetail his DTM campaign for the Abt team with a full Endurance Cup programme in one of WRT’s Audi R8 LMS GT3s and three races in the Sprint Cup segment of the

[ad_1] Mercedes factory drivers Maximilian Buhk and Maximilian Gotz will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with the Strakka Racing squad. Buhk and Gotz will be joined by Alvaro Parente, who raced a Strakka McLaren in last year’s BGTS Sprint Cup, in four of the five enduros in the British team’s pro class

[ad_1] The Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup is not in danger despite a dramatic fall in entries for 2018, championship boss Stephane Ratel has insisted. Just 20 cars have been registered for the full 2018 series, down from last year’s 32-strong field. Ratel claimed that the series “was not in the danger zone” even though

[ad_1] The Blancpain GT Series is aiming to open up the Spa 24 Hours to more strategy with the introduction of what are being termed joker pitstops. A yet to be determined number of jokers at the BGTS Endurance Cup centrepiece round would allow cars to pit without having to respect the minimum time mandated

[ad_1] Minimum production requirements have been put in place for the first time to stop the creation of what have been dubbed ‘GT3 prototypes’. A move that has been in the works for more than year was rubber-stamped by Friday’s meeting of the World Motor Sport Council and has been devised to help keep development

[ad_1] The new R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad run by the Arden and Jota teams has completed its Blancpain GT Series line-up with former GP3 frontrunner Marvin Kirchhofer. The German, who finished third in GP3 in 2015, will race one of R-Motorsport’s pair of Aston Martin V12 Vantages in the five Endurance Cup rounds of the

[ad_1] Ex-Formula 1 driver Vitaly Petrov will contest the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with SMP Racing alongside his World Endurance Championship LMP1 campaign with the Russian entrant. The GT rookie, who has raced in LMP2 in recent seasons, will drive a Mercedes-AMG GT3 run by the French Auto Sport Promotion squad in the five-race

[ad_1] Reigning British GT champion Seb Morris will drive a Team Parker racing Bentley in its return to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Morris competed for the team during his British GT3 title-winning season last year, before he then featured on the Celebs Go Dating TV show. The move also marks the Team Parker