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New Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Callum Ilott will race for the Italian manufacturer in this year’s GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with the Iron Lynx squad. The Briton will be part of a two-car factory attack on the five-round endurance leg of the GTWCE in 2021 by Iron Lynx as Ferrari defends the

New Mercedes drivers Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon will join Raffaelo Marciello for the French Auto Sport Promotion team’s defence of its GT World Challenge Europe crown in 2021. Former DTM driver Juncadella and Gounon, winner of last year’s Bathurst 12 Hours with Bentley, will drive with ASP regular Marciello in the team’s solo pro

Championship-winning British GT outfit Team Parker Racing will switch from Bentley to Porsche for its assault on this year’s GT3 class title. The team behind Seb Morris and Rick Parfitt Jr’s 2017 championship run has campaigned Bentley machinery in British GT since 2016, but changes to the 911 GT3 R in 2021 to align with

The Paddock Motorsport team co-founded by British GT racers Kelvin Fletcher and Martin Plowman will enter a team of McLaren 570S GT4s in the GT Cup this season. The 2019 GT4 Pro-Am class champions set up the team in 2020 to contest the Mazda MX-5 Supercup, and has expanded its programme to run two McLarens

DTM race winner Peter Dumbreck is standing down from the Falken Motorsports team’s Nurburgring 24 Hours line-up after 14 consecutive appearances in the German enduro. The 47-year-old Briton, who raced for Mercedes and Opel in the DTM, will continue his relationship with a team for which he has driven Nissan, Porsche and BMW machinery in

Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Callum Ilott is set to embark on a GT racing programme in 2021 that will see him appear in a number of undisclosed sportscar races. Ilott finished as runner-up in last year’s Formula 2 championship behind fellow Ferrari Driver Academy member Mick Schumacher, but confirmed he would not be returning

British sportscar racer Jann Mardenborough has lost his SUPER GT drive with Kondo Racing and been left without a seat in Nissan’s GT500 roster for 2021. The 29-year-old has been affiliated with the Japanese marque since he became the third winner of the Nissan-backed GT Academy gamer-to-racer competition in 2011, and was the last of

The latest addition to Lamborghini’s factory GT roster faced the tough prospect of abandoning his F1 dream while still at school. But 2020 British GT champion Sandy Mitchell has proved that the move was absolutely the right one, as he told JAMES NEWBOLD The news shortly before Christmas that Sandy Mitchell had been appointed as

Former IndyCar racer Ed Jones will make his sportscar return in this weekend’s Gulf 12 Hour enduro in Bahrain, joining British GT outfit 2Seas Motorsport. The Dubai-born Brit, who finished third in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 but controversially lost out on rookie of the year honours to non-finisher Fernando Alonso, hasn’t raced since the conclusion

Toyota brand Lexus has ended factory support of its racing programme with the RC F GT3 contender in Europe. Lexus Europe announced on Wednesday that it has “reached the natural end to its direct support of GT3 racing projects in Europe”, which in 2020 centred on the Tech 1-run Panis Racing squad’s campaign in the

New Intercontinental GT Challenge champion Nicky Castsburg has revealed that he went off track multiple times under full course yellow conditions on the way to victory in Saturday’s Kyalami finale. Catsburg told Autosport that he ended up off the circuit “at least four times” in the heavy rain of the final hour of a race

Honda’s defeat in last weekend’s Kyalami 9 Hour was “hard to take” after it commanded the first eight hours of the Intercontinental GT Challenge season finale, says Bertrand Baguette. The works Honda NSX GT3 shared by Baguette, Renger van der Zande and Mario Farnbacher had been firmly in control of Saturday’s race, leading by as

BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and Nicky Catsburg snatched the Intercontinental GT Challenge title with victory in the series finale at Kyalami together with Sheldon van der Linde. Their Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 came out on top in a confused climax to the Kyalami 9 Hours, which finished behind the safety car after a protracted

Walter Lechner, who twice raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours and founded his eponymous team best-known for its dominant success in the Porsche Supercup, has died aged 71. The Austrian’s squad became the pre-eminent force in the spec Formula 1 support championship following the introduction of the 997-generation Porsche 911 in 2005. In the

BMW will end its relationship with the Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Schnitzer Motorsport squad after more than 50 years. The German squad, whose successes with the Bavarian marque also include victory in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship and the 2012 DTM, will not be given a works programme by BMW for 2021, Autosport has

Half of the 2020 British GT3 grid consisted of Silver-Silver pairings. But the decision to outlaw such combinations, and return to its Pro-Am roots, will have a mixed impact as key championship stakeholders told JAMES NEWBOLD “It’s been difficult, maybe a bit too difficult, to manage the balance between the Silver pairings and the Pro-Am,

Bentley will end its factory programme with the Continental racer at the end of this year as part of a phased withdrawal from the GT3 category. The British manufacturer has opted against restarting its works assault on the Intercontinental GT Challenge with M-Sport, which was put on ice in the summer, and is releasing the

Ye Hongli put in a commanding performance on the Guia circuit to claim a crash-shortened 2020 Macau GT Cup. The TORO Racing Mercedes driver was in a class of his own over the 12-lap journey, his cause helped by weekend-long pacesetter Darryl O’Young starting back in 11th due a qualifying race penalty. That left Ye

MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi will return to the Gulf 12 Hours in Bahrain in January with his Avintia-bound half-brother Luca Marini joining him in a Ferrari 488 GT3. Rossi contested the 12-hour event at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi last year in a Kessel Racing-run 488 Ferrari partnered by Marini and his long-time

Ferrari’s Alessandro Pier Guidi, Come Ledogar and Tom Blomqvist claimed victory in the Paul Ricard 1000km as AKKA ASP’s Timur Boguslavskiy clinched the overall GT World Challenge Europe title. The makeshift AF Corse crew, with Pier Guidi’s regular co-drivers James Calado and Nicklas Nielsen on duty in yesterday’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain, started

Rob Collard said winning the British GT championship was vindication of his decision to switch from the British Touring Car Championship after coming close to retiring from motorsport in 2019. The veteran 52-year-old and Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini team-mate Sandy Mitchell took their second win of the season in the title-deciding round at Silverstone to seal

Jenson Button says he would do more testing if he were to return to GT3 racing in future after a tough debut weekend in the British GT championship at Silverstone. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion finished 14th on his GT3 debut in a McLaren 720S GT3 he shared with his Jenson Team Rocket RJN

Barwell Motorsport pair Rob Collard and Sandy Mitchell wrapped up the British GT title with victory in the deciding round at Silverstone as Jenson Button finished 14th on his debut. Collard and Mitchell qualified on pole for the three-hour season finale, giving the Lamborghini Huracan drivers the best possible chance of overhauling the six-point lead

British GT faced an anxious wait to see whether its championship decider could go ahead this weekend. Now that it has been given the green light, a familiar predicament rears its head, says JAMES NEWBOLD. Is it better to be the hunter, or hunted? “We need to just take points when we can and if

This weekend’s British GT finale at Silverstone will boast a season-high grid of 38 cars, including 20 GT3s, boosted by a plethora of new and returning entries. The three-hour race was placed in doubt by the UK government announcing a four-week national lockdown, which is set to commence on Friday, but it was given the

British GT championship organiser SRO is “hopeful” of being able to stage its final round at Silverstone next weekend, despite the UK government announcing a four-week national lockdown from Thursday. Amid rising coronavirus cases, it was confirmed on Saturday that a second lockdown will commence on 5 November, two days before British GT’s season finale,

Porsche driver Nick Tandy has revealed that he cried with emotion as he completed victory in last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours with the Rowe Racing team. The Briton told Autosport that he was “emotionally wrecked” as he crossed the line to win the GT World Challenge Europe round with Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor to

Stephane Ratel has admitted to concerns that this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours would be cancelled as the result of the worsening COVID-19 situation in Belgium. The boss of the GT World Challenge Europe, of which the Belgian fixture is the blue riband round, explained that the imposition of new restrictions in the country gave him

Audi ran one-two in the Spa 24 Hours at the three-quarter mark with its factory entries from the Sainteloc and Attempto teams. Christopher Haase held a narrow lead in Sainteloc Audi R8 LMS he shares with Markus Winkelhock and Dorian Boccolacci after the race went green following the 10th safety car of the GT World

Porsche came from behind on a wet track to win the Spa 24 Hours with the factory Rowe Racing entry driven by Nick Tandy, Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor. Tandy propelled the best of the German team’s Porsche 911 GT3-Rs to the front after taking over from Bamber early in the 21st hour of the