Sir Chris Hoy, eleven-time world champion and most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time has signed with Portuguese-based Algarve Pro Racing for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. Hoy will drive a Nissan-powered Ligier JS P2 in the French classic and at the opening two rounds of the European Le Mans Series. He completes […]
The European Le Mans Series held its annual pre-season Test at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet on March 22 and 23. In LMP2, 13 of the 15 full season entries were present for the test, the missing cars being the #1 Greaves Motorsport Gibson 015S – Nissan and the #21 DragonSpeed ORECA 05-Nissan. […]
Beechdean Aston Martin Racing has announced that it will contest the full 2016 European Le Mans Series with its factory Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GTE. Jonny Adam will be teaming back up with team owner and driver Andrew Howard and former Aston Martin Racing GTE driver Alex McDowall for the team’s first full season […]
FALKEN Motorsports has announced that it will contest the 2016 VLN Endurance Championship and Nürburgring 24h-Race in a new Porsche 911 GT3R (991). It is confident that its driver line-up of Wolf Henzler, Peter Dumbreck, Martin Ragginger and Alexandre Imperatori will be challenging for podium places at each of this season’s outings. The FALKEN Porsche […]
The 2016 British GT Championship was launched today at Media Day at Snetterton. Both Benjamin Franassovice, Championship Manager, and Stephane Ratel, SRO Motorsport Group Founder and CEO spoke about their satisfaction at the way the series has developed. “Entry wise we’ve progressed quantities there,” said Franassovice. “The diversity is also there. We have some new […]
Panis-Barthez Compétition has announced that Timothé Buret will join the team for the 2016 European Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans as part of the driver line-up in its Ligier JS P2, Fabien Barthez having already been confirmed. Buret, from Montpelier, France, contested the 2015 Pro Mazda Championship with Juncos Racing, […]
