1 January 2018 Archives

Thanks for 2017 – full throttle ahead in 2018

Monday January 1st, 2018 Jens Jensen

2017 has been an amazing year for Racing24-7.net. The amount of visitors has almost been tripled during the last 12 months. Of course June was a massive month due to our 24 Hours of Le Mans coverage, but to our surprise, the numbers didn’t drop off too much afterwards and kept rising for the rest of the year. It is great to witness that so many people want to read about motorsport news – in both Danish and English – and it makes all the travels and long hours behind…

50 cars ready for Daytona test

Monday January 1st, 2018Monday January 1st, 2018 Jens Jensen

50 cars will share the Daytona International Speedway in the upcoming weekend, when the ROAR test will be run on the legendary race track in Florida. It will be 56th running of the Daytona 24 Hours, with this mandatory test being run at warm up to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season starting at the end of January. 20 of the cars will run in the Prototype category, while 9 cars are starting the GTLM category and a massive 21 starts in the GTD category. The Prototype category is a good…

Brothers starting at Daytona

Monday January 1st, 2018Sunday December 31st, 2017 Jens Jensen

When the ROAR test ahead of the Daytona 24 Hours starts this Friday, two brothers will share one of the race cars. Big brother Kelvin van der Linde will have smaller brother Sheldon in the white and green Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi R8 LMS #29, while they will be joined by the two Audi experts Christopher Mies and Jeffrey Schmidt. The team had their debut at the Daytona track in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2017, where they finished second, only 0,293 of a second from the win in the GTD…