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When Autosport speaks to Gary Davies, the chief engineer of fast-growing sportscar outfit Greystone GT, he has simply completed portray his workplace within the crew’s new workshop. Given he’s race engineering automobiles in GT Cup and European GT4, overseeing its maiden assault on British GT, and constructing the technical construction of an outfit that began

The crew made the announcement within the wake of final weekend’s Spa 24 Hours spherical of the GT World Problem spherical, a race it has gained two instances with the German producer. WRT’s successes with two generations of Audi R8 GT3 contender because the crew’s inception forward of the 2010 season embrace victories within the

Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella took a 30-second victory over the GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 shared by Luca Stolz, Maximilian Gotz and Steijn Schothorst on the finish of the double-points spherical of the GT World Problem Europe. The 2 Mercs had been on totally different pitstop methods over the ultimate hours of the race,

The Ok-Pax Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo during which Andrea Caldarelli topped the occasions in Superpole qualifying on Friday has been excluded from the session after failing scrutineering. The working parameters of the Lamborghini’s engine had been discovered not be in keeping with these when the Steadiness of Efficiency check was undertaken forward of the season.

The purpose throughout design and improvement of the brand new automotive primarily based on the 992-shape 911 was to make it “quick for longer,” based on Sebastian Golz, venture supervisor on the latest-generation 911 GT3-R. “Our job was much less about making the brand new 911 GT3-R even sooner – the classification inside efficiency home

Caldarelli posted a 2m16.221s on the wheel of his Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO on the second of his two flying laps to stop Mercedes driver Raffaele Marciello taking a 3rd consecutive pole for the blue riband spherical of the GT World Problem Europe. Marciello had gone quickest in his manufacturing unit Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG

The normal end-of-season fixture on the Yas Marina circuit will grow to be an IGTC spherical for the primary time as a part of a calendar reshuffle through which the following version of the nine-hour race on the former house of the South African Grand Prix has been pushed again to grow to be spherical

The brand new buyer racing automotive that can exchange the 488 GT3 Evo for 2023 has absolutely removable entrance and rears ends within the title of elevated serviceability, Ferrari revealed on the revealing of the automotive forward of this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours spherical of the GT World Problem Europe. The bodywork sections on the

The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is central to the motor racing story of Thierry Tassin. It’s the place his love affair with the game began, the place he scored the most important successes of his profession with a quartet of victories within the Spa 24 Hours and the place he’s this weekend in his capability as

The Maserati MC20 GT2 was launched on Tuesday to coincide with the beginning of apply for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours, an occasion that the Italian producer received thrice with its MC12 GT1 racer within the 2000s. PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever The brand new automobile will likely be out there

Ratel believes strikes introduced earlier this month by WEC promoter and Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Car Membership de l’Ouest to create a premium class primarily based on GT3 to replace the current GTE class are constructive. PLUS: When the moribund GTE Pro class stole the show at Le Mans “I’m supportive of it, as

The previous Sauber F1 racer will drive the EMA Porsche 911 GT3-R along with Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet within the Belgian enduro on 30-31 July, which is a spherical of each the GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup and the Intercontinental GT Problem. The trio have already gained the GT Daytona Professional class of

The Porsche manufacturing facility drivers will reunite for the Spa traditional on 30-31 July aboard a Porsche 911 GT3-R run by ART Grand Prix as a part of GPX’s assault on this yr’s Intercontinental GT Problem. Estre, Christensen and Lietz, who all race for Porsche within the World Endurance Championship, got here collectively for Spa

The 2015 Nurburgring winner had taken over the #911 Manthey Porsche from Kevin Estre and was battling for third along with his youthful brother’s Phoenix Audi on lap 23 once they made side-to-side contact within the quick sequence of bends approaching the Hohenrain chicane. The contact between the Audi’s left rear and Porsche’s proper entrance

Kelvin van der Linde drove dwelling the win for the Meuspath-based squad after 159 laps, equalling the race’s distance document. As ever, the race was not with out drama with a number of contenders disappearing from the frontline earlier than dusk. After surviving the night time, the Phoenix Audi nonetheless had two opponents to defeat,

After a rushing violation compelled the automotive he shared with Kevin Estre, Fred Makowiecki and Michael Christensen to start out from the again of the GT3 subject, Vanthoor was preventing over third place together with his youthful brother Dries Vanthoor’s Phoenix Audi. The pair duelled on the lengthy Dottinger Hohe straight and continued to run

The 2015 ADAC GT Masters champion and son of three-times Le Mans 24 Hours winner Klaus, set an unbeatable time of 8m09.469s with the one sub 8m10s lap of the decisive session. Ludwig additionally posted an 8m10.406s effort that may have been adequate for pole within the automotive he shares with Bjorn Grossmann, Simon Trummer

Lotus. It is likely one of the most iconic names on this planet of motorsport. And but, regardless of its illustrious historical past, it has been over a decade for the reason that model launched a brand new automobile devoted to racing. However that lengthy wait is lastly over as, earlier this month, the following

RAM Racing pair Ian Loggie and Jules Gounon received the race on the highway after a purple flag in the course of the pitstop cycle meant the race was restarted within the pre-pitstop order. However they had been labeled fifth when British GT officers elected so as to add their seven-second pitstop success penalty –

Juffali, who spent her formative seasons racing in British junior single-seaters, has established Theeba Motorsport for an assault on this 12 months’s GT Open Worldwide collection with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo shared with Adam Christodoulou. Theeba, which is racing below Saudi licence, will make its debut this weekend at Paul Ricard on the second GT

Pole place, quickest lap and victory by main each lap was about as unequivocal as you could possibly get in race two of the Magny-Cours weekend. And maybe essentially the most regarding side for ASP’s rivals was that the outcome barely seemed unsure all through the one-hour encounter. “The automotive was superb all weekend, and

It was an action-packed 12 hours for the quartet, significantly throughout a wild stint from Habul early within the race that included two drive-through penalties for restart infringements and a spin on the closing nook. Nonetheless the automobile stayed on the lead lap all day, earlier than flawless stints from Stolz and Gounon within the

As predicted, it was a tough begin to the round the clock race with greater than an hour of full pre-dawn operating in foggy circumstances. Nonetheless race management has principally let the race run regardless of the apparent visibility challenges, the security automobile solely used to retrieve a crashed MARC automobile from the highest of

The cooler autumn temperatures and ban on tyre heaters beneath the occasion’s momentary Professional-Am guidelines meant drivers had been in a position to continually enhance on a single tyre set through the two 15-minute qualifying periods. The organisers had initially deliberate to stage a high 10 shootout, earlier than issues over the working window for the

British GT was caught between a rock and a tough place at Silverstone final weekend. With the Nationwide Courtroom listening to into RAM Racing’s enchantment of Oulton Park race two unable to be held earlier than the weekend, and the classification of that race nonetheless to be finalised, it did the one factor it might

The Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 follows the 2019 evolution of a automotive that began racing again in 2016 and can come on stream one 12 months after the sister Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II launched this season. The EVO2 developed by Lamborghini Squadra Corse at firm headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese incorporates a brand new aerodynamic

The seven-time MotoGP world champion made the acknowledgement forward of final weekend’s GTWCE Dash Cup spherical at Manufacturers Hatch, wherein he was setting aggressive instances on the finish of race two, as he scored his first championship factors in eighth place along with Frederic Vervisch of their WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II. Rossi

Howard, who gained the 2013 and 2015 titles together with his personal Prodrive-operated Beechdean AMR Aston Martin workforce, has switched to the GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup this yr and brought a deliberate one-year British GT sabbatical. Nevertheless Howard will step again into the sequence within the unfamiliar environment of the McLaren 720S GT3

AF Corse Ferrari duo Ulysse de Pauw and Pierre-Alexandre Jean took a slim win within the first of the 2 races on the opening weekend of the dash phase of the GTWCE. De Pauw led from pole place of their Ferrari 488 GT3, a Silver Cup class entry, previous to a brief safety-car interval following

Rossi described the two.43-mile circuit on which he by no means competed throughout his bike profession as “an incredible observe, improbable” forward of the beginning of his assault with the WRT Audi squad on the Dash Cup section of this yr’s GTWCE. “The format is attention-grabbing, it’s a very old-style observe,” mentioned the seven-time MotoGP