RNW Staff

Rising sportscar star Ollie Wilkinson has been selected to join this year’s Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy, putting him in with a chance of landing a full junior factory driver contract for the 2020 season.

The 2019 Blancpain GT Sports Club entry list continues to grow ahead of the new campaign, with 14 confirmed so far for the opening round at the legendary Autodromo Nazionale Monza, in support of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.

Performance Tech Motorsports has spent its existence training to be victors.

Henrique Chaves was in the last two days at Paul Ricard for a testing session with the Teo Martín Motorsport’s McLaren 720S GT3. The goal was to begin his adaptation to the British car.

Panasonic Jaguar Racing and Nelson Piquet Jr have mutually agreed to part ways with immediate effect. An announcement on Nelson’s replacement will be made shortly.

The fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK, Porsche Carrera Cup GB, enters its 17th season with an exciting split of returning drivers and promising new talent. The grid of 485 hp second-generation 911 ‘Type 991’ GT3 Cup cars get their season underway at Brands Hatch on 6 / 7 April, kick-starting a 16 round calendar taking place across eight weekends. The championship’s blue riband event will support the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Silverstone this summer – underlining the championship’s position as part of the global Porsche Motorsport programme.

The 27-year-old Dane is one of the stars of North American motorsport. In 2016 and 2017, she won the GTD class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. This year, she is competing for the first time in a Mercedes-AMG GT3. After her debut in the 12h Bathurst, Christina will compete next weekend for STRAKKA Racing together with Dominik Baumann (AUT) and Adam Christodoulou (GBR) at the California 8 Hours of Laguna Seca, the second round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC).

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Will Owen will return to the team for the 2019 European Le Mans Series.

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) made its Nurburgring-Nordschleife race debut in the opening VLN round last weekend, and was pleased with the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3’s performance as the squad focused on preparations for the Nurburgring 24 Hours (20-23 June).

Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli’s 2019 world tour continues this weekend (March 28-30) at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca where a record eight full-season manufacturers will contest the California 8 Hours.

Around seven weeks after the 12 Hours of Bathurst (AUS), BMW teams are set to take on the second race of the season in the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC). The ‘8 Hours of California’ will be held at another legendary track this Saturday, the “WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca” (USA). BMW Team Schnitzer and Walkenhorst Motorsport will once again race with one BMW M6 GT3 each. The same six drivers that were behind the wheel in Bathurst will take it in turns in the cockpits.

Tockwith Motorsports is joining the inaugural season of GT4 South European Series with Trico sponsored Ginetta G50.

For many motorsport enthusiasts, the wait since the Hankook 24H DUBAI in early January has been quite long, but finally, the start of the 24H SERIES European Championship season beckons. This week’s Hankook 12H MUGELLO (29-30 March) sees the 24H TCE SERIES and the 24H GT SERIES, both powered by Hankook, returning to the beautiful circuit in the rolling hills of Tuscany after a one-year absence. An impressive field of almost 60 cars is expected for the race once around the clock. The A6 class is spearheading the GT field with 19 cars entered, the TCR class is at the top of the TCE field with no less than 13 cars.

Looking ahead to the second race of the 2019 Formula One season in Bahrain

After a perfect opening round to the Intercontinental GT Challenge season, Porsche aims to extend its championship lead at round two of the year in Laguna Seca (USA). At the twelve-hour race in Bathurst (Australia) on the spectacular Mount Panorama racetrack, works driver Dirk Werner (Germany) as well as Porsche Young Professionals Matt Campbell (Australia) and Dennis Olsen (Norway) clinched victory. Notching up the first win for Porsche at Bathurst, the trio not only gave a perfect maiden performance on the world stage with the customer team of works driver Earl Bamber (EBM), but also a fitting farewell to the 2018-spec Porsche 911 GT3 R. After celebrating its race debut at Daytona (USA) in January, the new version of the over 500 hp GT3 vehicle will be fielded at the eight-hour race in Laguna Seca. The U.S. Porsche customer squads Park Place Motorsports and Wright Motorsports each run a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the race on 30 March.

Modena Motorsports will make its Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia debut at Sepang on April 6/7 with two new-generation Porsche 911 GT3 R.