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FALKEN unveils livery for 2012 Porsche 997 RSR
Tyre manufacturer Falken has rolled out its 2012 Porsche 997 RSR in full livery ahead of its second Sebring test on the 28th and 29th February. Bryan Sellers will share the new for 2012 car with Wolf Henzler in the ALMS season opener at the Florida venue on March 17th . The 2012 e... [Read More]
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Brabham adds United Autosports Blancpain Endurance Series bid to 2012 programme
David Brabham is ready to embark on one of the busiest seasons of his 29-year career in 2012. In addition to contesting the FIA World Endurance Championship with JRM Racing, the triple Le Mans 24 Hours winner and double American Le Mans Series Champion will also target the Blancpain Endurance... [Read More]
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Archie and Gulf Racing Show Great Pace in Dubai
The number nine Gulf Racing Lamborghini Gallardo, driven by Roald Goethe, Archie Hamilton, Stuart Hall and Mike Wainwright put in consistently fast lap times and at the end of the race had the third best lap time on the results sheet. The car suffered a mechanical failure and failed to reach the... [Read More]
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Archie Hamilton To Race In Dunlop 24H Dubai 2012
Archie Hamilton starts his 2012 campaign with a drive in the Dunlop 24 Hour Dubai 2012. The 20 year old from Basingstoke will drive the same Gulf Racing Lamborghini Gallardo that he drove with Stuart Hall in the NKG UAE GT Championship in November, also at the Dubai Autodrome, when they to... [Read More]
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FIA GT1 World Championship to adopt unified GT3 technical specifications
The FIA GT Commission proposes to harmonize the FIA GT1 World and FIA GT3 European Championship’s regulations as well as their calendars in Europe to guarantee the growth of the FIA GT sprint platform.
With so many GT3 cars having been homologated since SRO first proposed the category in 2005, GT... [Read More] |
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Archie Hamilton on podium after GT Race in Dubai
Archie Hamilton today celebrated a podium finish in the latest race of the NKG UAE GT Championship at the Dubai Autodrome. The 20-year-old from Basingstoke was sharing the Gulf Racing Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 with Stuart Hall in the one hour race.
The pairing were quick in testing on Thursday, bu... [Read More] |
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Zircotec ceramics provide an enduring cooling for JMW Motorsport
The ability to dramatically lower underbonnet and cockpit temperatures, as well as prevent damage to the surrounding bodywork has led Le Mans Series participant JMW Motorsport to use ThermoHold®, a ceramic thermal barrier coating technology from Zircotec. By lowering temperatures in... [Read More]
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Archie Hamilton heads to Dubai for GT Race
Archie Hamilton is ready for the next challenge in his motor racing career when he heads to Dubai next week to compete in the NGK UAE GT Championship race on the 25th November. This will be the first visit to the Dubai Autodrome for the 20-year-old from Basingstoke, who will be driving a G... [Read More]
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Double for Corvette as Hexis Secures Teams' World Title
Francesco Pastorelli and Yelmer Buurman in the Exim Bank Team China Corvette No.11 completed the double by winning the Championship Race in an incident-filled finale to the 2011 season in San Luis. The victory for the GT1 debutants was the second of the weekend after taking the honours in the... [Read More]
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Corvette Wins, Nissan Pair Celebrate World Title
Lucas Luhr and Michael Krumm have become the 2011 FIA GT1 World Champions after finishing second in the Qualifying Race at San Luis, Argentina. The German duo, in the nr23 JRM Nissan GT-R, finished three tenths of a second behind the nr11 Exim Bank Team China Corvette of GT1 World Rookies Yelmer... [Read More]
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FALKEN confirms ALMS campaign with 2012 Porsche GT3 RSR
Tyre manufacturer Falken has announced it will return to the ALMS (American Le Mans Series) next year with a 2012 specification Porsche GT3 RSR run by Derrick Walker. 2011 drivers Wolf Henzler and Brian Sellers also expected to return to the squad. “The new chassis makes us one of the fir... [Read More]
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Fierce Competition For Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Title
Three drivers head into the final round of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo at Barcelona, Spain, on 28-30 October 2011 with a realistic chance of claiming the highly-competitive Pro-Am Drivers’ title.
Autocarrozzeria Imperiale S.R.L.’s Matteo Zucchi leads the way in the standings, but the I... [Read More] |
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Pittard on the podium in season finale at Brands Hatch
His Championship title hopes may have been over, but Brunel University student David Pittard headed to the Kent based circuit of Brands Hatch determined to leave his mark on the final round of the Sports 2000 Championship as it supported the famous Formula Ford Festival. With the disappoin... [Read More]
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Lyons takes stunning podium in FIA GT3 finale
Only one week on from Michael Lyons’ race at Silverstone Circuit where he secured third place in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship in his debut year in the series, the 20-year old Essex-based professional racing driver was racing again, but this time with a second appearance in the FI... [Read More]
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Ellis Denied Final Season Podium At Snetterton
Bradley Ellis secured his eighth top 10 Dunlop Radical UK Cup finish with eighth in class in round 13 of the series around the new Snetterton 300 circuit on Sunday, October 16. The sportscar ace was looking strong to seal his season with another Supersport podium when the low oil pressure safety... [Read More]
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Home Win for Van Splunteren as Prospeed Porsche takes victory at Zandvoort
Paul van Splunteren and Maxime Soulet took their second victory of the 2011 season in the nr1 Prospeed Competition Porsche 911 GT3 R. Starting from pole position 2010 FIA GT3 Vice Champion van Splunteren took control of the race to lead until the pitstops and hand over to his Belgian co-driver, who... [Read More]
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Lamborghini and Mercedes Lead the Way in Zandvoort
At the end of day of the final weekend of the 2011 FIA GT3 European Championship it was the nr24 Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo of Albert von Thurn und Taxis and Nikolaus Meyr-Melholf which set the fastest time of the day, in the first Free Practice session. In Free Practice 2 it was the... [Read More]
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Babini Clinches Lamborghini Crown In Style
Fabio Babini won the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Pro Drivers’ title at Germany’s Hockenheimring on 2 October 2011, clinching two wins from the weekend’s three races in the process to seal the glory in style.
The series welcomed 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner Tomáš Enge, who joined ... [Read More] |
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Closing on the Ultimate Goal for 2012
A meeting held in Brussels yesterday, between current, returning and prospective GT1 team owners, as well as the FIA and Championship organiser SRO, saw the 2012 FIA GT World project take a significant step towards the ultimate goal of bringing together ten teams, representing ten different brands,... [Read More]
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Castellacci and Leo Prepare for Dutch Title Showdown
Italian racing duo Francesco Castellacci and Federico Leo are preparing for the biggest weekend of their racing careers as they head to Zandvoort as Championship leaders for the final two races of the season on the 15-16 October.
Castellacci and Leo, who are racing a AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia,... [Read More] |
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Team FALKEN Tire scores its second victory of the season at Baltimore American Le Mans Series race
FALKEN drivers Wolf Henzler and Brian Sellers swept to victory at the weekend’s American Le Mans Series race in Baltimore. Watched by a crowd of over 150,000 spectators, the inaugural street race in Baltimore brought the Derrick Walker-run Porsche its second GT win in the series following... [Read More]
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Makowiecki and Martin's Mongolian Victory for Ford
Fred Makowiecki and Maxime Martin underlined the Ford GT's liking for the tight confines of the Ordos International Circuit to record a lights-to-flag victory in the Qualifying Race. Starting from pole, the Marc VDS nr41 driver pair led home the JRM Racing nr22 Nissan GT-R of Peter Dumbreck and... [Read More]
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First Pole for Ford in 2011 at Ordos
Maxime Martin and Fred Makowiecki in the nr41 Marc VDS Ford GT secured pole position with a last-gasp effort in Qualifying at the Ordos International Circuit. In overcast conditions, and with the temperature at 22C, Martin set the fastest time of 1:38.535 on the last lap of the session.
The Ford... [Read More] |
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First ever GT victory for FALKEN Porsche in ALMS
The FALKEN Porsche 911 GT3 RSR achieved the first GT class win for Porsche in the fifth race of the 2011 ALMS season. FALKEN drivers Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers emerge victorious at the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) by virtue of their superior driving skills and perfect choice of tyre... [Read More]
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Frustration for Geddie & Brown at Paul Ricard
Aberdeen's Glynn Geddie and co-driver Dan Brown endured a character-building two races in Rounds 7 and 8 of the FIA GT3 European Championship at Paul Ricard last weekend. The AF Corse pairing were forced to start the weekend on the back foot after an upright failure in Free Practice 1 on Friday... [Read More]
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