RNW Staff

In the Dubai 24-hour race, Mercedes-AMG is aiming at its fifth victory in the desert metropolis. The BLACK FALCON team already secured the overall win for the performance and sports car brand from Affalterbach in the years 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018. This year, the team is running the Mercedes-AMG GT3 with starting number 2 with last year’s race winners Abdulaziz Al Faisal (KSA), Hubert Haupt (GER) and Yelmer Buurman (NED), paired with their new teammate Saud Al Faisal (KSA). The sister car with starting number 3 that retired while on course for victory last year will have Khaled Al Qubaisi (KSA), Jeroen Bleekemolen (NED), Ben Keating (USA), Manuel Metzger (GER) and Luca Stolz (GER) as its drivers. Four additional Mercedes-AMG GT3s will be run by CP Racing, Hofor Racing, HTP Motorsport and MP Motorsport, among others with support from Mercedes-AMG Driver Bernd Schneider (GER).

United Autosports have confirmed that they will enter the 2019/2020 FIA World Endurance Championship.

For the upcoming European Le Mans Series season and the Le Mans 24 Hours (subject to ACO approval), the Ligier JS P217 # 23 line-up is now officially fully staffed. Julien Canal, with an impressive track record (3 wins at 24H of Le Mans , GTE AM and LMP2 World Champion in WEC…) joins his last year’s teammate, the Englishman Will Stevens, and the Austrian newcomer Rene Binder.

The team will field one of the cars in the fiercely contested Blancpain Endurance Series, which has its season-opener at Monza in Italy one week earlier (April 12-14).

Having claimed second position outright in the GT4 category in his maiden season of the CAMS Australian GT Championship, David Crampton is looking to take the striking bright orange Vantage Freight KTM X-Bow one better this year, the Sydney-sider admitting that 2018 was a real baptism of fire.

The 60th anniversary of the extraordinary Mini Minor will be celebrated with two record breaking races at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (26-28 July).

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports had an impressive first outing in the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship posting the fastest lap time of the LMP2 class with a 1:35.930 (133.591 mph) in the #52 ORECA.

New year, new challenge: After victory on its debut in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in December, the BMW i Andretti Motorsport Team is now focussing on the second race of the season in Marrakesh (MAR) this Saturday. António Félix da Costa (POR) leads the Drivers’ Championship with 28 points ahead of the Marrakesh E-Prix following his victory and pole position in Ad Diriyah (KSA). Alexander Sims (GBR), in the second BMW iFE.18, is out to pick up his first Formula E points in his second race in the series. The team and drivers have used the time since the successful season-opener to prepare meticulously for the coming races, as they set their sights on more top results.

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) gets its 2019 season underway this weekend with the Dubai 24 Hour (11-12 January), in which it will field a pair of Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 cars and a Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK7), as the Hong Kong squad aim for overall and class victories.

Caterham Motorsport will host its first ever multi-class endurance race, Caterham Motorsport Team Enduro, on Saturday 16th March at iconic British circuit, Silverstone, to act as the curtain raiser for the 2019 motorsport season.

Ferrari have officially confirmed that Mattia Binotto has replaced Maurizio Arrivabene as team principal.

After a strong showing in the opening round of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, the Nissan e.dams team now heads to the second of five continents on the season five schedule for this week’s Marrakesh ePrix.

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Ancora ottime prestazioni per Ac Racing Tecnolgy che ha chiuso l’ennesimo weekend di gare con un bottino soddisfacente di punti che garantiscono alla factory bresciana  posizioni di vertice nella  serie tricolore.

Weekend agro dolce per la Scuderia Vesuvio impegnata nel fine settimana ad Ascoli per il sesto round del Campionato Italiano Velocità Montagna. La soddisfazione  per gli ottimi risultati ottenuti grazie alle vittorie dei salernitani  Giovanni Loffredo e Antonio Vassallo ha in parte attenuato il dispiacere  per la mancata partecipazione alla gara di Giuseppe Vacca attuale protagonista di vertice della serie Tricolore.

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The dress rehearsal is over; now it won’t be long before Alessandro Zanardi‘s (ITA) next big challenge gets underway: the 24-hour of Daytona (USA) race on 26th and 27th January. At the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) season opener, Zanardi will share the cockpit of the BMW Team RLL #24 BMW M8 GTE with John Edwards (USA), Jesse Krohn (FIN) and Chaz Mostert (AUS). The car is equipped with a special brake lever that enables Zanardi to brake by hand.

Whelen Engineering Racing began the defense of its IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship DPi title on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, with Felipe Nasr recording the fifth-fastest lap in the Roar Before the Rolex 24 qualifying.

Performance Tech Motorsports showed strength finishing upfront while running the opening round of IMSA Prototype Challenge at Daytona International Speedway.

The 2019 motorsport year will begin in Africa for Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler: On Saturday, January 12, the second ABB FIA Formula E Championship race of the season will be held in Marrakesh (Morocco). Following two top-ten finishes at the season opener in December, Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi now aim to up the ante in the Audi e-tron FE05.