Day: January 16, 2019

RLR MSport hires former Formula 1 driver

Jens Jensen

The European Le Mans Series team RLR MSport has really caught a big fish in the net. The newly crowned 2018 Champions in LMP3 bought an ORECA 07 LMP2 car during last fall, with John Farano being one of the championship winning drivers. Farano will be part of the line-up as well, and was also part of crew testing the car. The team has signed a deal with the former Formula 1 driver, Bruno Senna, who will race 5 out of 6 rounds. Senna won’t be part of the line-up…

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Australia back on the sportscar world map

Jens Jensen

Australia will have some of the world’s best sportscar drivers visit them in 2020, in their primary machinery. The Asian Le Mans Series has announced that the Australian track The Bend Motorsport Park near Adelaide, will be hosting a round for the upcoming 2019/20 season. Australia was last visited by ACO race cars, which are cars like LMP2 and LMP3 cars, back in Year 2000, where the American Le Mans Series held their season finale in Adelaide, at the Race of a Thousand Years event. That race was run on…

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Exciting times ahead for 2019 Dunlop Endurance Championship, run by Britcar Endurance

Steve Tarrant

The recent Autosport International started what looks to be a busy but exciting season ahead for Managing Director Claire Hedley and her team at Britcar Endurance. Amongst the announcements made at the show was the return of reigning champion Sarah Moore, who will be returning to the championship along with new signing Moh Ritson in in one of Tockwith Motorsport’s Ginetta G50s. They are not strangers to each other, Sarah being 17-year-old Moh’s driver coach over the past season while he competed in the BARC’s Junior Saloons category, and therefore…

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Indycar announces new title sponsor

Jens Jensen

When the 2019 season starts in St. Petersburg 10 March, the Indycar series will have a new title sponsor. In a multiyear agreement, the new name will be NTT IndyCar Series. The deal includes sponsoring at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500 plus Brickyard 400. NTT is a North American technology company, who are active within network and clouding solutions amongst other things. The company has been sponsoring Chip Ganassi Racing for the past two seasons, where their logos has been present on Scott Dixon’s car. Dixon won the championship…

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