Nissan has made its debut in the ABB FIA Formula E championship with former series champion Sebastien Buemi tasked with shaking down both cars today at Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
Lexus will partner with AIM VASSER SULLIVAN to campaign two Lexus RC F GT3 race cars in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the 2019 season.
The big moment has arrived: the 2018 season is about to come to an end! As per tradition, it is the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya hosting the final and decisive round. No less customary is indeed the fact that the title is decided at Montmeló. It has been the case in 12 out of 13 editions so far, including the current one, which will offer an exciting three-way battle. The overall crown is not the only one still at stake: the battle is going to be close and fierce also in the Pro-Am and Am classes and in the Teams’ standings.
Sean Walkinshaw, leader of the GT300 class in the ultra-competitive Super GT Championship, is eyeing consistency and a sustained challenge for major points when the penultimate round of the 2018 season takes place at Autopolis in Japan this weekend, 20th/21st October.
While the teams of the Intercontinental GT Challenge are heading to the Laguna Seca raceway for the 2018 season finale, preparations for the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener at the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour are in full swing. Here’s a round-up of the latest news on the Australian endurance classic.
Brazilian driver Christian Hahn will make his International GT Open debut next weekend at the wheel of a Drivex-entered Mercedes AMG GT3. This event will be Hahn’s first attempt of GT3 racing after the 20-year-old driver spent two seasons involved in Formula 3 with Drivex. Hahn has now set his sight on following his father Marcelo Hahn into the International GT Open at the wheel of a Mercedes-built car.
AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports started the final round of the 2018 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship strong but were unable to finish all 10 hours of racing after a crash in the 8th hour.
Gustavo Menezes has promised to ‘come back stronger’ in the next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, after his bid for a fourth consecutive top three finish in sportscar racing’s premier global series came unstuck in challenging conditions at Fuji Speedway last weekend (12-14 October).
Rebel Rock Racing saw its day cut short at Road Atlanta this weekend after the No. #71 Rebel Rock Racing Camaro GT4.R was caught up in several incidents not of its making during the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSC) Fox Factory 120 on Friday.
Nissan’s Formula E journey begins tomorrow at Valencia in Spain when Sebastien Buemi and Alex Albon turn their first laps at the ABB FIA Formula E pre-season test.
Alexander Sims claimed a fourth-place finish in the GTLM class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the final round of the season on 14 October 2018. The Warwickshire-based driver and his BMW Team RLL team-mates guided the No. 25 BMW M8 GTE around the Road Atlanta track in Georgia, USA, for the ten-hour Motul Petit Le Mans endurance event, completing 419 laps of the 2.54-mile, 12-turn circuit.
Lexus and 3GT Racing competed in the Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta on Saturday. The 10-hour endurance event closed out the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 11-race season for the Lexus RC F GT3.
Racing Point Force India reserve and test driver, Nicholas Latifi, will see plenty of free practice action in the final rounds of the 2018 championship with the young Canadian taking part in three further FP1 sessions before the end of the season.
The fourth meeting of the FIA WEC Super Season started on Friday, October 12th with the first two free practices. Both sessions were disrupted by red flags because of track problems, making the preparation of the cars more complicated than expected. Following the third and final free practice, a technical problem was detected on the R-13 N.3 and required the intervention of the entire Team to change both the engine block and the gearbox. The teams worked for nearly three hours to put the car back on track for the qualifying session and managed to achieve the fourth overall time.
Weiron Tan is tearing up the history books almost as quickly as he is tearing around the racetrack in the FIA World Endurance Championship this year, and he continued that trend last weekend (12-14 October), playing a key role in the first-ever victory for an all-Malaysian crew in an international FIA-sanctioned event with a peerless performance at Fuji Speedway.