RNW Staff

The early details of the 2019 event include a celebration of 50 years of Formula Ford at the Wiltshire track, an all-Alfa Romeo race and displays to mark 60 years of Marcos.

Next summer’s Silverstone Classic is now confirmed for the weekend of 26-28 July. 

Formulated to recreate the spirit of 1950s clubman motorsport, Equipe Pre ‘63 certainly captured the imagination of drivers and spectators alike this year – its inaugural season. It features a wide spread of marques including Aston Martin, Austin-Healey, Jaguar, Lotus, MG and Morgan, and among the many immaculately-prepared cars already to contest the series are a number of genuine ex-works examples. In addition to the Silverstone and Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuits, 2019 competitors will do battle at the perennially popular UK club venues of Donington, Oulton Park and Snetterton.

The 2019 Radical Australia Cup calendar has been unveiled with an exciting six round championship to highlight the eleventh season of the popular one-make prototype Series that just recently saw a change in management along with the signing of a new Category Management Agreement with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.

Pasin Lathouras was pleased to be back on track last weekend to drive for “Team Thailand” in the inaugural FIA GT Nations Cup extravaganza in Bahrain.

Motorsport-wise 2018 was a multifaceted year for Nova Race: the Italian outfit took part to its domestic GT series as well as to the most appealing rounds of Michelin Le Mans Cup and Creventic 24h Series, jockeying amid categories as different a LMP3, GT3 and GT4. As 2019 looms, the team will go back to its origins, focusing mainly on GT4 and its fleet of G55 Ginettas, albeit the Audi R8 LMS Ultra and the LMP3 may again appear in hand-picked meetings. Once the main race programme choice was made, the team executives started to feel the relentless ‘gravity pull’ of the best GT4 showcases: the European championship and France’s FFSA GT, both run by Stefan Ratel’s SRO organization.

Sant’Agata Bolognese 3 December 2018 – For the 2019 season, Lamborghini Squadra Corse will have a new factory driver. Dennis Lind from Denmark will be an official Lamborghini driver, along with Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli, Marco Mapelli, Giovanni Venturini, and new acquisitions Phil Keen and Franck Perera.

Bentley Motorsport will enter both the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2019 with a four-car Pro-class entry in the season’s longest and largest race, 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

BWT Mücke Motorsport aim to move mountains in the desert! The illustrious Berlin-based team are going to contest the famous 24-Hours of Dubai for a second time. The team will fight for a top result in their kfzteile24 Audi R8 LMS at Dubai’s Autodrome with a crack squad of drivers at the wheel of their orange racing car – Audi Sport’s Markus Winkelhock, Ford works driver Stefan Mücke plus Mike David Ortmann, Ricardo Feller and Andreas Weishaupt (10th – 12th January 2019). 

O’Brien fell just two points shy of the Drivers’ title during a debut campaign that saw he and Charlie Fagg finish third in the standings with Tolman Motorsport. Now the 24-year-old is remaining at the wheel of a 570S GT4 for his sophomore British GT season, albeit in the Pro/Am ranks with Balfe.

While heavy cloud cover meant more than 30,000 fans could not see Mount Fuji, fans did get to see more than 60 years of Nissan’s incredible racing history and gain insight into its exciting future at the 2018 NISMO Festival.

ADAC GT Masters with strong package of motorsport racing in 2019. The new ADAC GT4 Germany, the ADAC TCR Germany, the ADAC Formula 4 and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland will all compete under the banner of the ADAC GT Masters next year. The programme will deviate slightly from the norm for the first two meetings only. Overall, fans have got seven events and 76 races to look forward to. Teams can enrol in any of the four ADAC series from 3rd December onwards, and the season opens on the weekend of 27th – 29th April in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. 

KCMG has completed its debut year campaigning the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 with a strong showing the FIA GT Nations Cup held at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Audi R8 LMS GT3