Former Super GT500 champion Tadasuke Makino will spearhead Ponos Racing’s all-pro Ferrari line-up when the Japanese team contests the Suzuka 1000km in September. Makino will share the Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo with current Super GT300 championship leader Seita Nonaka and Ponos regular Takuro Shinohara. The trio brings considerable experience of Japanese motorsport to the entry…
AO Racing will make its Intercontinental GT Challenge debut at September’s Suzuka 1000km through a partnership with Absolute Racing and a new samurai-inspired Porsche character, Bushi Rex. The entry, competing as AO by Absolute, will feature an all-factory Porsche line-up of Laurin Heinrich, Alessio Picariello and Julien Andlauer. All three drivers have previously raced for…
The 2026 GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe powered by AWS season continued at Magny-Cours with the third Sprint Cup event of the campaign and the sixth round of the combined championship. Victories for Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella in Race 1 and Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus in Race 2 reshaped several Overall and Sprint…
GTWC Europe powered by AWS will conclude its 2026 Endurance Cup season on the evening of Saturday 17 October after SRO Motorsports Group revised the Portimão event timetable, to avoid a clash with the World Endurance Championship (WEC) 6 Hours of Barcelona. Organisers originally planned to hold the three-hour race on Sunday 18 October. However,…
Johor Motorsports Racing (JMR) will reunite Scott McLaughlin, Nicky Catsburg and Alexander Sims for its Pro-class challenge at the 2026 Suzuka 1000km. The trio took JMR’s Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R to third place at Suzuka last year during the team’s first appearance with an all-Pro line-up. JMR now returns with greater experience and aims to…
Bastian Buus and Ricardo Feller claimed victory in Race 2 at the GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup weekend at Magny-Cours after an exceptionally quick pit stop propelled the #80 Lionspeed GP Porsche from fourth place into the lead. Buus crossed the line 2.120 seconds ahead of Matisse Lismont, who secured the Silver Cup…
Nicki Thiim secured pole position for the second GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup race at Magny-Cours after the stewards cancelled Kelvin van der Linde’s times he set during Qualifying 2. The Southafrican had comfortably led the session in the #32 Team WRT BMW, but a technical infringement promoted the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston…
Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella delivered Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing its first overall GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe victory in Race 1 at Magny-Cours. The No. 3 Mercedes-AMG controlled the race from pole position before Juncadella resisted late pressure from Arthur Leclerc to win by 2.597 seconds. Thomas Neubauer and Leclerc charged from ninth on…
Jules Gounon secured pole position for the opening GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup race at Magny-Cours after setting the benchmark during Qualifying 1. The Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing driver recorded a 1:36.023 in the first half of the split qualifying session. Kiern Jewiss came closest to beating him during Q1B but finished 0.166…
Jamie Day put Walkenhorst Motorsport on top in GTWC Europe Sprint Cup Magny-Cours, as worsening rain brought the second practice session (FP2) to an early halt. The #34 Aston Martin driver set the benchmark with a 1:54.168, leading the session in difficult wet conditions. The lap sat far away from the dry pace seen earlier…
