RNW Staff

Interest continues to grow for the L’autodromo del Mugello’s return to the 24H SERIES calendar. With just a little more than a month to go before the Hankook 12H MUGELLO on 29-30 March, provisional grid numbers for the 2019 European Championship season opener have already surpassed 50, and look set to increase further with entries still available for GT and TCE teams and drivers.

Formula E and Super GT racing will be among the highlights of Nissan and NISMO’s 2019 motorsports activities, along with the GT3 competition and the supply of engines to prototype sports cars.

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) is delighted to announce its entry into the 2019 VLN Endurance Championship, including the headline Nurburgring 24 Hours event, with two Michelin-shod Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 cars.

Former Welsh video gamer Jann Mardenborough continues his incredible career as a professional motorsport racer for Nissan in 2019 – his eighth season taking on and beating some of the world’s best drivers on the real world stage.

The stunning new McLaren 720S GT3 will make its CAMS Australian GT debut this season and is expected to immediately take the fight to the established teams, following on from the success of the mighty 650S GT3 which claimed multiple AGT victories and the 2016 title.

There is a new look to Nielsen Racing in 2019 as the team announce a two-car entry into the European Le Mans Series. The British-based team will field two LMP3 entries with Colin Noble and Tony Wells continuing their successful partnership, while James Littlejohn returns to the team and is joined by Nobuya Yamanaka in the sister entry.

Nobuya Yamanaka is delighted to confirm that he will compete in the European Le Mans Series this year with Nielsen Racing. This is the next step for the Japanese gentleman driver as he seeks to achieve his ambition in competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

United Autosports have confirmed their first entry into the 2019 Michelin Le Mans Cup as Garett Grist and Rob Hodes join the team in one of their Ligier JS P3s.

BMW works driver Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) attracted global attention with his start at the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) in the BMW M8 GTE. The Italian was the focus of reporting all over the world and was the fans’ favourite at Daytona. Run by BMW Team RLL, the #24 BMW M8 GTE that Zanardi shared with John Edwards (USA), Jesse Krohn (FIN) and Chaz Mostert (AUS), had been modified with a special hand-operated braking system by BMW M Motorsport. After several minor set-backs in the race, the quartet came home ninth in the GTLM class. Victory went to the sister car, the #25 BMW M8 GTE, with Connor De Phillippi (USA), Augusto Farfus (BRA), Philipp Eng (AUT) and Colton Herta (USA) at the wheel. In an interview, Zanardi looks back at the “24 Hours of Daytona” project.

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports announced today that it will expand its operations throughout the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship by adding a new LMP2 ORECA 07 in order to double up its LMP2 team and also adding a new LMP3 entry into the IMSA Prototype Challenge category.

After an intensive three-day selection procedure, the decision has been made: Erik Johansson (SWE) has been accepted onto the 2019 BMW Motorsport Junior Programme. The 22-year-old former BMW Customer Racing driver triumphed over three other candidates in Wednesday’s shoot-out in the BMW Motorsport simulator. As a reward, a substantial part of his training programme will see him contest the entire coming season of the Italian GT Championship at the wheel of the BMW Team Italia BMW M6 GT3. On Monday and Tuesday, 16 candidates underwent a comprehensive programme of physical, mental and communication tests. The top four participants then went through to the simulator shoot-out.

Un weekend meno positivo rispetto alle aspettative ha caratterizzato l'impegno dell'Alex Caffi Motorsportall'Autodrom Most (CZ), quarto round della Nascar Whelen Euro Series 2019.

Jody Fannin is delighted to announce that he will be joining Walkenhorst Motorsport for a VLN campaign in their BMW M6 GT3.

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Aston Martin’s increasing commitment to historic motorsport has been cemented with the creation of Aston Martin Heritage Racing – an over-arching brand that unites the company’s assorted historic motorsport activities under one banner.

T2 Motorsports will make its Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia comeback this season after confirming a full-season campaign with its distinctive blue and red Ferrari 488 GT3.

The 2019 Donington Historic Festival promises to be the most action-packed yet. Fifteen grids will take to the track across 18 races, when a hugely diverse range of more than 400 classic racing cars spanning nine decades converge on Donington Park from all over the world..

Miguel Cristóvão was one of the 2018 GT4 European Series Pro-Am title contenders. In 2019 he will be one of the names joining the GT4 South European Series, showing the enthusiasm around the recently launched series.

RLR MSport welcomes India’s Arjun Maini to the fold for its much-anticipated return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans (15-16 June) and the European Le Mans Series’ LMP2 class with a sole ORECA 07 prototype.

Craft-Bamboo Racing began its new partnership with Mercedes-AMG by delivering a solid performance at the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour. As a one-off collaboration, Craft-Bamboo Racing and Black Falcon joined forces to tackle this gruelling endurance race. Named Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Black Falcon, the two teams combined its efforts by integrating the team managers, engineers and mechanics to work in partnership, synergizing Black Falcons experience with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 and Craft-Bamboo Racing’s long standing experience at the Bathurst 12 Hour.