RNW Staff

After five successful years, Team Parker Racing’s Bentley racing programme has come to a close after making its debut appearance at the Gulf 12 Hours Bahrain last weekend (January 7-9).

Reigning Rolex 24 at Daytona winners and Michelin Endurance Cup champions, Paul Miller Racing, will be back to contest the full IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2021 with a quartet of race and championship-winning drivers. 

The start of the 2021 motorsport year already has some major events in store: with the Dubai 24 Hours (14-16 January) and the Rolex 24 At Daytona (28-31 January), Mercedes-AMG Motorsport and the Customer Racing Teams are facing two highlights right away. Strong driver and team line-ups are in place to make the start of the season, in which Mercedes-AMG will again be competing for race wins and titles all over the world, a successful one.

Sean Creech Motorsports (SCM) will contest the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a full-season campaign in the LMP3 class, starting with the Rolex 24 At Daytona.

The last round of the GT4 South and the first event of the GT Winter Series join forces in the Algarve with 29 teams. On the 23rd and 24th of January, GT4 South European will have its decisive last 2020 race. At the same time, the winter competition GT Winter Series 2021 will have its first 2021 race.

New year, new car. Meyer Shank Racing is just two weeks away from returning to the top Prototype category in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the No. 60 SiriusXM / AutoNation Acura ARX-05 DPi. 

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Manuel Maldonado will join United Autosports for both the Asian Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series in 2021.

The Classic this summer (30 July – 1 August) is eagerly anticipated,  serving up a double dose of automotive anniversaries with all of 2021’s major marque and model milestones added to those rolled over from last year’s postponed staging of the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival. 

Swiss outfit COOL Racing will run independently from 2021 for its various prototype and GT racing programmes, with team management headed by Alexandre Coigny and Nicolas Lapierre.

Scotland’s Finlay Hutchison will make his fist race appearance of the New Year at the annual Hankook 24H Dubai, which gets underway at Dubai Autodrome next Friday, 15th January, after this morning confirming a deal with top Audi Sport squad Attempto Racing.

WeatherTech Racing will move up to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM Class with Porsche and Proton Competition for the 2021 season.

Team Parker Racing is delighted to announce that it will make its debut appearance at the challenging Gulf 12 Hours Bahrain as Derek Pierce, Andy Meyrick, and Euan McKay compete in a second-generation Bentley Continental GT3.

The 2020 ADAC GT Masters was a season of superlatives, with more race winners than ever before and the closest qualifying in history of the series. We take a look at the statistics and the results from the 14th Super Sports Car League campaign, in particular at the factors that contributed to Michael Ammermüller and Christian Engelhart in the Porsche of Team SSR Performance taking the title this time.

United Autosports are pleased to confirm that Phil Hanson and Job van Uitert will return to the team for the 2021 European Le Mans Series.

With Christmas approaching rapidly, BMW Junior Team can look back on an eventful first year of training. Dan Harper (GBR), Max Hesse (GER) and Neil Verhagen (USA) have overcome the challenges thrown up by the pandemic, which could not have been foreseen at the start of the year, have grown together as a team, and have achieved great sporting success. What started with a training camp with Formula Medicine in January reached its high point with class victory in the BMW M4 GT4 at the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER). BMW Junior Team and its mentor Jochen Neerpasch are now looking forward to stepping up to the BMW M6 GT3 next season.

K-PAX Racing, entering its 15th season of operation, announced Monday an exciting extension of its legacy by transitioning to Lamborghini Squadra Corse for the 2021 season. The team will enter a two-car effort in the premiere Pro category of GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS, retracing its strong heritage back into the United States as the focal point for the season.

Team Cetilar Racing is set for a new challenge, making its debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona scheduled for the last week of January. The race of Florida – IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2021 season opener – will mark the last official appearance of the #47 Dallara LMP2 carfielded by the Roberto Lacorte’s squad, following the FIA WEC campaign ended last month with the 8 Hours of Bahrain and four consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans participation.

Reigning NASCAR champion Chase Elliott will join Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani and Mike Conway in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 At Daytona Jan. 29-31.

Eight teams representing 14 entries have already confirmed they will be taking part in GT Sports Club’s exciting new championships in 2021, with seven set to take part in the highly anticipated GT2 European Series and seven lining up in the GT Rebellion Series.

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Fabio Scherer will be joining reigning FIA World Endurance LMP2 Champions Phil Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque for the 2021 season.