Day: February 9, 2018

Aston Martin Racing has announced their combinations for the GTE Pro cars in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 season. The WEC Champions from 2016, Marco Sørensen and Nicki Thiim, will be joined by 2017 Le Mans winner Darren Turner in car #95. Jonny Adam, who won Le Mans 2017 together with Turner, will be sharing #97 with the two new arrivals in the shape of Alex Lynn and Maxime Martin. It is a bit curious that neither Turner nor Adam is on the official FIA WEC entry list, but…

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When the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2018 will he run on 16-17 June, all garages will once again be completely occupied. 60 cars will start this year’s race, with numbers made up from the usual FIA WEC teams plus a further 24 invited teams. The ratio between LMP and GT cars is exactly 50/50, at least on the current list. There is also a reserve list with six LMP2 cars and three GTE Am cars, but we will get back to that list. The 10 LMP1 teams competing in…

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The FIA World Endurance Championship Super Season 2018/19 will be setting new records in sportscar racing. A total of 36 cars will be entered, when the season starts at Spa Francorchamps on 5 May, followed by Le Mans, Silverstone, Fuji, Shanghai, Sebring, with Spa and Le Mans being visited a second time, before the 2018/19 Champions will be crowned. The LMP1 category has had a huge boom, and it’s the complete opposite of what some nay-sayers feared, when Porsche announced their retirement from that category. Now we have 8 private…

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CEFC TRSM Racing, or what we previously knew as Manor, have their first driver ready for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 season. 25 year-old Oliver Rowland will be driving the brand new Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 car that the British-Chinese team have bought. Rowland has been through the single-seater ranks, and has driven almost everything but Formula 1. He won the Formula Renault 3.5 Championship in 2015, and finished second in the Formula 2 Championship 2017. He has been a front runner in both the Formula Renault UK and…

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