Wakefield-based Optimum Motorsport has announced it will return to the British GT Championship in 2017 to defend its GT4 title. Graham Johnson and Mike Robinson will again team up to drive the Ginetta G55 GT4 in the premier national GT championship. Johnson and Robinson will spend the winter preparing to take on the GT4 class […]
Month: September 2016
BMW To Enter FIA World Endurance Championship And Le Mans In 2018 (27.09.16)
BMW has announced that it will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2018, alongside the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship. It will also offer a BMW M4 GT4 as the company seeks to explore exciting opportunities in GT racing. The announcements came within a wide-ranging brief which outlines BMW’s strategic realignment of its motorsport activities. […]
DragonSpeed Takes Maiden Win AtELMS Round 5 At Circuit De Spa-Francorchamps – LMP2 Report (26.09.16)
West Palm beach, Florida-based DragonSpeed, with its #21 Nissan-powered ORECA 05, earned a convincing win at the fifth round of the 2016 European Le mans Series at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The #21 car, piloted by Henrik Hedman, Nicolas Lapierre and Ben Hanley started on pole and was rarely running outside the top three in a […]
Victory For DragonSpeed In European le Mans Series Round Five At Spa (25.09.16)
DragonSpeed, with its #21 Nissan-powered ORECA 05 took the win at Round Five of the 2016 European Le Mans Series with Nicolas Lapierre bringing the car home after an eventful 4 hours of racing in the Ardennes. The victory was especially notable for the team, 2016 being its debut season in the premier European prototype […]
SMP Racing Makes It Three In A Row In Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup R5 At Spa (24.09.16)
SMP Racing, with its #72 Ferrari F488 driven by Aleksey Basov and Victor Shaitar made itn three in a row after taking the chequered flag to win Round Five of the new-for-2016 Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. In a close second place was the #88 Mentos Racing Porshe 911 RSR driven […]
The European Le Mans Series Returns To Spa For Round Five (23.09.16)
The 2016 European le Mans Series pays its annual visit to the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for Round Five of a closely fought season. Racing has been highly competitive across all three classes, none more so than LMP2 where Thiriet by TDS Racing took the victory last time out and now lead G-Drive Racing by nine […]