Jens Jensen

Perrodo with strong teammates at Daytona

Sunday January 15th, 2023 Jens Jensen

The defending FIA World Championship winner in LMP2 Pro/Aam, Francois Perrodo, will compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona 2023 with three very strong teammates. Perrodo will bring his Championship winning teammate from the previous three seasons, Nicklas Nielsen, with him. Nielsen is a Ferrari works driver, and part of their new Hypercar programme in the FIA WEC. Nielsen got his Ferrari breakthrough in GT racing, but moved into LMP2 for 2022, as a warm-up for Hypercar. Matthieu Vaxiviere has previously raced together with Perrodo, when he did LMP2 back…

Varrone goes to Corvette

Saturday January 14th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Corvette Racing has their 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship ready. It’s been known for a couple of months, that the team would move from the now-defunct GTE Pro category to GTE Am. During that announcement, it was revealed that Ben Keating and Nicky Catsburg would be the first drivers for the team. The name of the third and final driver has been released now. That will be Argentinian racer Nicolas Varonne. He has been racing in sportscars for the past few seasons, after a classic karting and single-seater background. He…

Cadillac shows colors

Thursday January 12th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Cadillac has shown the colours on their three brand new LMDh cars. All three cars will have their debut at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run at Daytona International Speedway on 28-29 January 2023, but with testing starting one weekend earlier at the very same track. Car #01 will be run by Chip Ganassi Racing, and will have Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais as the full-season drivers in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. They will be assisted by Scott Dixon for the endurance races. Car…

D’Station Racing joins for another FIA WEC season

Tuesday January 10th, 2023 Jens Jensen

D’Station Racing will join for another season of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The Japanese team will once again be run by TF Sport, who has run all their international programmes for the past seasons. Team owners Tomonobu Fujii and Satoshi Hoshino will once again share the car. They will however have a new teammate in the shape of British racer Casper Stevenson. The highlight for the team during the 2022 season was the podium at their home circuit at Fuji, with the dark green Aston Martin Vantage GTE being…

Prema doubles up for FIA WEC

Tuesday January 10th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Prema Racing will double their LMP2 effort for the FIA World Endurance Championship 2023. The team made their LMP2 debut in 2022, with a single car in the FIA WEC, and a single car in the European Le Mans Series. They won races and the Championship in ELMS, while they claimed a single podium finish at Le Mans 2022, which counted towards the FIA WEC season. Car #9 will have Juan Manuel Correa as one of the drivers. He will do a combined FIA WEC and FIA Formula 2 season.…

Ferrari announces Hypercar drivers

Tuesday January 10th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Ferrari has announced the six drivers, who will race the brand new Ferrari 499P in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Car #50 will be shared by Nicklas Nielsen, Miguel Molina and Antonio Fuoco, while car #51 will have the defending GTE Pro Champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, and the former Formula 1 driver Antonio Giovinazzi. Nielsen has won numerous races and titles, since he was hired by Ferrari. He was part of the Hypercar testing from the very start, being the second guy in the car, after the…

Magnus gets World Champion in the car at Daytona

Monday January 9th, 2023Tuesday January 10th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Magnus Racing with Flex-Box has sorted out their four drivers for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which will be run in just over three weeks’ time. John Potter, Andy Lally and Spencer Pumpelly will be sharing the car at the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, just like they did in 2022. The three regular drivers will be joined by a fourth in the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 for the 24 hours race at Daytona, who is no less than a World Champion. Nicki Thiim…

RWR ready for IMSA 2023

Sunday January 8th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Rick Ware Racing has announced their drivers for the upcoming 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The two full-season drivers will be Eric Lux and Pietro Fittipaldi, who will do all of the races with the ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 car #51. Lux has participated in the Daytona 24 hours race 12 times before, and is the defending winner of the race, having raced for DragonSpeed USA. This will be the first time that Fittipaldi will be racing at the event. Several members of his family have already won there,…

Danish-Brazilian trio at JOTA

Friday January 6th, 2023 Jens Jensen

JOTA has announced the three drivers, who will try to repeat the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 title in the 2023 season. Oliver Rasmussen will continue for the team, with David Heinemeier Hansson and Pietro Fittipaldi joining the Dane. Rasmussen raced for the team in 2022, with the big highlight being the third-place finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and another podium at the 6 Hours of Fuji. DHH has previously raced for JOTA, not only once by twice. His first time with the team was in 2018…

Beche new driver at Nielsen Racing

Thursday January 5th, 2023Friday January 6th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Mathias Beche is a new driver at Nielsen Racing. The Swiss racer will share the ORECA 07 Gibson with Ben Hanley and Rodrigo Sales in the upcoming Asian Le Mans Series, which starts on 11 February in Dubai. Beche has loads of sportscar experience. He has raced many LMP2 races, but was also part of the Rebellion LMP1 outfit. He took a break from ACO racing, but returned for the 2022 season with TDS Racing x Vaillante in the European Le Mans Series, and instantly returned to top form. He…

12 drivers announced at Iron Lynx

Thursday January 5th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Iron Lynx has announced their drivers for the 24 hours of Daytona. The Italian team has moved from the Italian Ferrari brand, to their fellow countrymen at Lamborghini. Car #19 will be shared by Claudio Schiavoni, Rolf Ineichen, Franck Perera and Raffaele Giammaria. Car #63 will have Romain Grosjean, Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper sharing the Huracan GT3 EVO 2, while the Iron Dames #83 will consist of well-known Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting, Doriane Pin and Sarah Bovy, who won the Spa 24 Hours in 2022. Iron Lynx…

Gradient with two new drivers

Thursday January 5th, 2023 Jens Jensen

Gradient Racing will enter the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023, with two new drivers to the team. Sheena Monk and Katherine Legge will be the two drivers, racing the white and green Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 in all the IMSA rounds in the GTD category. They will be joined at the opening round at Daytona by Mario Farnbacher and Marc Miller. This will be the first full season for Gradient Racing. They have slowly added more and more races to their programme, making the very grand step now. Monk…

Vector Sport partners up with Isotta Fraschini

Friday December 30th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Vector Sport has signed a deal to partner up with the Italian car manufacturer Isotta Fraschini, and will become an official works team. The collaboration will be in the FIA World Endurance Championship, where their brand-new Hypercar is going to participate. The first car is currently being built, and is expected to make its debut at Spa Francorchamps, with the aim to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Vector Sport made their FIA WEC debut in 2022, where they ran an ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 car,…

WTR and Andretti in new collaboration

Wednesday December 28th, 2022Friday December 30th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Wayne Taylor Racing and Andretti Autosport have started a brand new collaboration in the sportscar world. The two teams will work together in the coming IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship seasons, as well as in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America, in which WTR has been active for several years. The team will run under the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport banner, regarding the Konica Minolta-sponsored Acura ARX-06 #10 LMDh car, while Harrison Contracting Company Acura NSX #93 will run in the GTD category at the 24 Hours of Daytona…

Three LMP3 teams will full line ups

Saturday December 24th, 2022Sunday December 25th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Another three teams in the 2023 Asian Le Mans Series have filled all their LMP3 seats. Nielsen Racing will bring Tony Well another time. This will be the fifth season for Wells in Asian LMS, where he previously always raced with Colin Noble as his teammate. Matt Bell will jump from the LMP2 car into the LMP3 car. This will be the third season for Bell in Asian LMS with Nielsen Racing, where the first season was with LMP3 material, before moving into LMP2, claiming a Le Mans entry in…

Shahin, Patterson and Jarvis for UA

Saturday December 24th, 2022Sunday December 25th, 2022 Jens Jensen

United Autosports has announced the three drivers for their second entry in the 2023 Asian Le Mans Series. Oliver Jarvis will be the experienced driver in the car, and he will guide Yasser Shahin and Garnet Patterson to success with the #23 ORECA 07 Gibson. Shahin and Patterson tested for the team during the Rookie test in Bahrain in November. Shahin has a lot of experience in GT racing in Australia, where he has won several championships. On top of that, he is the part owner of The Bend Motorsports…

Era Motorsport stays in IMSA

Sunday December 18th, 2022Sunday December 18th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Era Motorsport will do another season of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship racing. The team from Indianapolis will start their fourth season in LMP2 racing with a well-known full-season lineup. That will be Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel who will race the blue car #18 throughout the 7 race weekends. The season starts with the 24 hours race at Daytona International Speedway, and they have once again decided to call up Christian Rasmussen. The Dane made his debut for the team at the 2022 final at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta this…

963’s drivers divided, new junior assigned

Saturday December 17th, 2022Saturday December 17th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Porsche has held their Night of Champions celebrations, with their 2023 programmes being announced, and how the drivers are going to be divided between the cars. The very big programme for Porsche will be their new 963 LMDh car, which will run under the Porsche Penske Motorsport banner in both the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Car #6 in IMSA will have Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy as the full-season drivers. They will be joined by Dane Cameron for the 24 hours race at Daytona.…

Keating goes for MEC once again

Saturday December 17th, 2022 Jens Jensen

PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports will once again have Ben Keating behind the wheel at the four IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Michelin Endurance Cup rounds. The Texan racer is double defending MEC Championship in the LMP2 category, in addition to the overall LMP2 Championship in the 2021 season, and has chosen to combine these four IMSA rounds with his FIA WEC programme for Corvette Racing in GTE Am. He will however be teamed up with two brand-new teammates throughout the 2023 MEC season. Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen have moved on to…

Wright with a superteam for Daytona

Thursday December 15th, 2022Thursday December 15th, 2022 Jens Jensen

Wright Motorsports shows up with what can be seen as a superteam for Rolex 24 at Daytona in January 2023. The defending race winner comes with some of the strongest line-ups that can be found within the GT race. Ryan Hardwick, Jan Heylen, Zacherie Robichon and Dennis Olsen are the four chosen drivers for the opening race of the 2023 season. The only change is that Olsen will be replacing Richard Lietz. Hardwick, Heylen and Robichon will also share the brand new Porsche 911 GT3-R car in the 992 version…