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9-time grand prix bike world champion Rossi was scheduled to make his now-regular Gulf 12 Hours look in Abu Dhabi with the Kessel Racing squad in a Ferrari 488 GT3. A category winner and general podium finisher at earlier occasions, Rossi was set to share a automotive with shut pal Alessio Salucci and half-brother and

The British squad has revealed that it’s going to subject a pair of McLaren 720S GT3s within the two-weekend Asian Le Mans Sequence in February and can proceed with the brand new vehicles for additional GT3 campaigns by the 12 months that might be introduced at a later date. Storage 59 group principal Andrew Kirkaldy

The Kiwi has loved success in Europe previously, notably throughout his time as a manufacturing unit McLaren GT driver. He received the 2016 Blancpain GT Sequence Endurance Cup with Rob Bell and Come Ledogar for Storage 59, due to race victories at Monza and Paul Ricard. That very same season he completed third within the

The previous Lamborghini manufacturing facility driver will be part of an all-Professional lineup because the German-based squad steps up from Worldwide GT Open with two McLaren 720S GT3s. Lind will be part of staff common Christian Klien and 2015 Blancpain Dash champion Vincent Abril, who took a finest end of fourth within the DTM this

Vosse made the declare after Rossi examined one in every of WRT’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evos at Valencia final week and revealed that he’s working in direction of operating the seven-time MotoGP world champion within the Professional class of subsequent 12 months’s GT World Problem Europe. “Valentino is a legendary rider, however he’s additionally

The announcement from IGTC organiser the Stephane Ratel Organiser on Tuesday follows final week’s postponement of the South African collection finale from its four December date this weekend because of the imposition of worldwide journey restrictions to and from the nation. They adopted the identification of the brand new Omicron COVID variant in South Africa

The 27-year-old German has agreed his first producer deal following 5 seasons of GT racing after calling time on a single-seater profession that included two third-place championship finishes in GP3 in 2014 and 2015. His successes within the GT3 enviornment embrace a second-place end within the Bathurst 12 Hours and a GT World Problem Europe

ORECA has gained the tender to assemble the brand new contender beneath growth on an as-yet-to-be disclosed automotive from Ferrari’s mannequin vary, in addition to to supply after-sales service. The Paul Ricard-based organisation led by Hugues de Chaunac is taking up from Michelotto, which has constructed Ferrari’s GT3 challengers because the 458 Italia GT3 that

The Kyalami 9 Hours won’t happen on its unique date of four December on account of restrictions imposed on journey to and from South Africa by a number of nations following the detection of a brand new pressure of the coronavirus within the nation. A brand new date of the Africa IGTC spherical, formally known

To seek out out what it takes to be a mechanic for a GT3 automobile, we spoke to Todd Pannell – a #1 Mechanic for Jota Sport – to learn the way to change into a mechanic, what it takes, and what expertise you’ll want to succeed. What’s your function? My function as a #1

The 39-year-old Briton was a mainstay of the DTM for 16 steady seasons between 2005 and 2020, scoring 17 wins for Mercedes and Audi and ending second within the standings in 2015. However since his Audi manufacturing facility deal concluded on the finish of 2020, the 2004 Formulation three Euroseries champion has solely raced as

Final month, it was revealed the Australian event would reprise its traditional status as the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge season following the cancellation of the 2021 occasion because of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit with a later-than-usual date of the 20th March. That put the Bathurst race heading in the right direction to

On Thursday previous to the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix, Norris stated he lately despatched Rossi a “heartfelt” message forward of the nine-time grand prix bike world champion’s retirement this weekend in Valencia. Norris revealed that he retains in common contact with Rossi – who’s the McLaren’s driver’s private hero – and defined that both have discussed

Ratel’s eponymous organisation will work with the Asian arm of the ACO-owned Le Mans Endurance Administration organisation to run the ALMS from the top of subsequent 12 months as a part of a wide-reaching settlement. The ALMS and the Stephane Ratel Organisation’s GT World Problem Asia will mix in the identical because the GTWC Europe

The success comes only one week after VS Racing wrapped up the Worldwide GT Open championship title, which caps off a sensational season for the workforce. North America took house the remainder of the silverware. Precision Efficiency Motorsport’s Brandon Gdovic and Bryan Ortiz received the Professional-Am title, Victor Gomez (Change Racing) the Am crown and

The McLaren DDP programme, first run in 2018, entails 4 drivers being positioned with a associate crew within the British GT Championship’s GT4 division, break up into two automobile crews. The programme was managed in 2018 and 2019 by Tolman Motorsport, then by Crew Rocket RJN in 2021 after a one-year hiatus for the scheme

Splitting his time between driving Mercedes and Aston Martins at grand prix weekends, 2003 British Formulation three champion Alan van der Merwe has a job that will be the envy of many. However, whereas his function as Formulation 1’s medical driver means he’s not actively racing anymore, the 41-year-old does have expertise of racing an Aston

The Dane claimed quickest laps in six of the 9 races in 2021 and netted the title alongside Barwell Motorsport team-mate Leo Machitski with a fourth-place end in final weekend’s Donington Park season finale. However Lind instructed Autosport after sealing the championship that, following his break up with WPI Motorsport early in 2020 and subsequent

The game’s governing physique has acknowledged that will probably be reviewing the way it classifies drivers into the 4 gradings — platinum, gold, silver and bronzes — for worldwide sportscar racing earlier than the publication of subsequent 12 months’s checklist of categorisations on 15 November. Affirmation that the system is underneath overview follows GT promoter

Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini pair Machitski and Lind held an 18.5-point benefit into the title decider over nearest rivals Ian Loggie and Yelmer Buurman’s Mercedes, and had no success seconds to serve of their mid-race pitstop. Regardless of an off in Machitski’s qualifying session on the Esses which prompted a pink flag, the championship leaders lined

He has put ahead a collection of adjustments to the FIA as a result of he believes the present construction threatens the way forward for his GT World Problem Europe collection in addition to a few of his different championships. Ratel desires to cast off the excellence between the platinum and gold rankings because it

The Australian enduro has been given a March 20 date for 2022, six weeks later than its conventional calendar slot on the primary weekend of February. IGTC boss Stephane Ratel stated on the announcement of the date throughout his eponymous organisation’s annual press convention on the Barcelona GT World Problem Europe spherical on Sunday: “It’s

The Italian producer has determined to ship the works AF Corse workforce to the Indianapolis eight Hour later this month after which the Kyalami 9 Hour in December after winning the series-opening Spa 24 Hours in the summer with the AF-supported Iron Lynx squad.  AF will enter a pair of Ferrari 488 GT3 Evos within the

Will probably be the primary time that the second-generation Vantage GT3 has raced on the Nordschleife because the formal debut of the automotive in what was then often called the VLN in October 2018. The looks additionally marks the primary time that the Prodrive-run Aston Martin Racing squad has run a automotive with an all-professional

Do you like the McLaren F1 GTR or Panoz GTR-1? Each 1990s vehicles at the moment are fondly remembered, however you’d most likely not have thought twice about which one you’d moderately drive heading into the 1997 FIA GT Championship. David Brabham was in that type of place and it appeared like a simple choice.

The M4 GT3, which replaces the venerable M6 that has been in service since 2016, was due to make its debut on the Nurburgring Nordschleife in June however this was postponed after a technical fault prompted Sheldon van der Linde to crash in follow. The automobile had beforehand appeared on the official Spa 24 Hours check day,

For a lot of sportscar drivers, the upcoming producer inflow into the highest courses at Le Mans poses a possible career-making alternative. Manufacturing facility BMW GT driver Nick Yelloly makes no bones about his want to race the Munich marque’s LMDh automotive that can debut in 2023, not least as a result of his solely

Based mostly on the Emira highway automobile, which was debuted in July on the firm’s Hethel check monitor by 2009 Formulation 1 world champion Jenson Button, the race mannequin is powered by a three.5-litre Toyota V6 engine and might be eligible for GT4 championships together with GT4 European Collection, British GT, ADAC GT4, DTM Trophy

When strapped right into a Maserati MC12, Michael Bartels was some of the prolific drivers of the GT1 period, amassing 4 drivers’ titles between 2006 and 2010, and tallying three victories within the Spa 24 Hours between 2005 and 2008. However his profession additionally straddled one other well-known period, the German having made his sportscar

The Bahrain ProAm 1000 set for 11 December is the brainchild of the British-based Driving Drive Occasions organisation that has run the Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi since 2012. The 1000km occasion will probably be open solely to novice and pro-am driver line-ups racing GT3 and GT4 equipment, as properly vehicles from one-make sportscar