Day: January 24, 2019

Record day at Daytona

Jens Jensen

The qualifying of the first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was run under beautiful blue sky and 23 degrees temperature at Daytona International Speedway. The track was dried up after a huge rain and thunderstorm Thursday morning local time, providing a nice condition for the quali. The GTD cars were the first to get 15 minutes on the track. Magnus Racing Lamborghini #44 was the first to set the fastest time. They were up against the likes of Ferraris, that were all quick. Mercedes and Acura also weren’t ones to be…

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Algarve Pro Racing announces 2019 ELMS drivers

Jens Jensen

Algarve Pro Racing are quick out of the blocks with their 2019 driver announcements for the European Le Mans Series. Two of the three are very well known faces at the Portuguese team, while they have a job of getting a new driver in LMP2 cars, up to speed. The defending ELMS LMP2 Champion Andrea Pizzitola will continue for the team. He won the title with G-Drive Racing, but has been racing for APR throughout the winter in the Asian Le Mans Series – which he also did in 2016/17.…

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TF Sport ready for British GT

Jens Jensen

TF Sport have their 2019 driver line-up ready for the British GT. That will be a good mix of new and old at the British team with the blue cars. Nicki Thiim will continue with Mark Farmer, while Jonny Adam and Graham Davidson are new in the GT3 cars. The GT3 cars are brand new from the Aston Martin factory. Thiim/Farmer werr close at grabbing the title in 2018, but with some dropout during the season, they ended up missing 19,5 to the first position. The title was won by…

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Berthon hired by Rebellion

Jens Jensen

Nathanael Berthon has signed a contract with Rebellion Racing. That was announced by the team in a press release today. The 29 year-old Frenchman has signed with the team for the rest of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 and the full 2019/20 season. He will be driving car #3, where a yet unnamed driver will have to leave the seat. Thomas Laurent, Mathias Beche and Gustavo Menezes had driven that car ever since it was launched at Paul Ricard in April 2018. Berthon was part of the FIA WEC…

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RLR MSport with Danish-English line up

Jens Jensen

The British RLR MSport team has signed Christian Stubbe Olsen, Martin Vedel Mortensen and Martin Rich for the upcoming 2019 European Le Mans Series. That brings us another Dane Train in international sportscar racing. Olsen got his debut in ELMS in 2018 for Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen, and currently races in the Asian Le Mans Series. He still opted to go for RLR MSport in 2019. He actually had his first LMP3 for the team about a year ago, before he signed for Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen. Christian has been through a huge development…

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Honda RC213V launched in Madrid

Jake Cooper

The Honda Racing Corporation launched their 2019 MotoGP Campaign challenge, with their presentation of the RC213V for upcoming season in Madrid, yesterday. The bike looked much the same as the previous years, as did the livery, so attention was very much focused on the “dream-team” aspect of the HRC Repsol outfit having the 5-time world champion Jorge Lorenzo and 7-times world champion Marc Márquez for 2019. Present at the event were ex-HRC champions Mick Doohan and Alex Crivillé, who gave their accounts of the difficulties and success of their respective…

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World Rally Championship 2019, season preview

Jens Jensen

Hello one and all, and welcome to Racing 24-7.net’s season preview of the 2019 World Rally Championship. In this piece we will focus on what the 2019 WRC season will bring over the next 14 WRC events, but first, a recap on the 2018 season. 2018 saw a Teutonic battle for the championship go down to the wire at the season finale in Australia, between Thierry Neuville, Ott Tanak and the evergreen Sebastian Ogier. In the end, it was Seb Ogier who predictably took another Championship title after a reliable,…

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