RNW Staff

Montaplast by Land-Motorsport have big ambitions for the start of their fourth season in the ADAC GT Masters and hope to again play an important role in the title fight with their newly formed squad of drivers – 2016 champion Christopher Mies (29, DEU) will line up for the first time with Max Hofer (19, A) while Ricardo Feller (18, CH) and Dries Vanthoor (20, B) will drive the team’s second Audi R8 LMS. The Super Sports Car League season will get underway in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, 26th – 28th April.

Excited for the challenge of the upcoming 2019 Formula One season, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport ran its all-new F1 car for the first time today

New format and record attendance for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East, which for the third year provides the season-opener for the Sant’Agata Bolognese constructor’s one-make championship, now reaching its eleventh edition. Two rounds, with race weekends organised around three races each, with 20 Huracán Super Trofeo Evo cars lining up on the starting grid. What’s more, for the first time the winners of each class will automatically progress to the World Final, to be held on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Spain on 26 and 27 October.

The GT4 South European Series is generating great interest amongst teams and drivers, as Team Novadriver confirms the intention to to take part in the Race Ready organized series.

Audi Sport customer racing relies on a versatile driver lineup in 2019. Twelve male drivers and one fast lady will represent Audi Sport this season at strategic events of its own and in support of customers worldwide.

The Festival of Speed is evolving into even more of a motoring mecca in 2019. Changes to the physical layout, with the relocation of the road car paddocks, will make way for an all-new live action arena guaranteed to thrill spectators. The four-day Festival, this year taking place on 4-7 July, is always looking to the future in making sure the newest and most exciting cars, bikes and technologies are very much part of the mix.

For 2019, the Porsche Carrera Cup GB blue-riband event will now be held in support the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Silverstone on 30 August and 1 September.

United Autosports can confirm that Alex Brundle and Ryan Cullen will join their LMP2 team for the 2019 European Le Mans Series and pending entry confirmation, the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Chinese internet sensation Liu Zexuan has joined the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup’s eighth season to compete in the GT4 Cup. The 30 year-old driver will be aiming to build on his impressive Cup debut in 2018 with Absolute Racing, when he secured back-to-back wins in Shanghai. Liu has become an online celebrity in China, appearing in a number of popular online reality shows, winning himself a legion of fans and followers.

B-Quik Racing Co. Ltd. TM (“B-Quik Racing”) is pleased to announce the drivers and racing programme for “Tier 2” of the “B-Quik Junior Programme” this season after just kicking off the year with a productive test session at Bira Circuit, which also saw an evolved technical support package being phased in.

As sports car racing begins to kick off the 2019 race season across North America, Nicolai Elghanayan has announced his return to the SRO Motorsports GT4 America series, formally the Pirelli World Challenge GTS class. Racing the No. 71 KTM X-Bow with MarcoPolo Motorsports, Elghanayan will run the full sprint season, consisting of eight double header race weekends.

Former Formula E driver Salvador Durán will return to his home track this weekend as the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY VIP driver.  The Mexican, who raced in season one and two of the electric street racing series, completes the twelve car grid for the second round of the ten race series.

Nissan e.dams is taking its Formula E challenge to new heights – literally – after an impressive round in Chile, where the team started on pole and led two-thirds of the race.

DS TECHEETAH heads to Mexico City with hopes to score more valuable points at the fourth round of the 2018/2019 ABB FIA Formula E championship that is taking place on 16 February 2019.

Having started the season with three impressive displays, the BMW i Andretti Motorsport team now travels to the Mexico City E-Prix, with its sights set on challenging for top results with both BMW iFE.18s in round four of this season’s ABB FIA Formula E Championship. The BMW i8 Coupe Safety Car is also set to attract its fair share of attention, as it sports its new design for the first time at the race weekend in Mexico.

There are not many tracks that Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi have such fond memories as in Mexico: Both drivers of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team have previously celebrated victories here and have set their sights on claiming the top spot again at the next round on Saturday (February 16).

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.