Brazilian substitute for Dutchman

DragonSpeed has found the substitute, when one of their regular LMP1 drivers has to race elsewhere. Brazillian Pietro Fittipaldi will replace Renger van der Zande at Round 1 and 4 of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 season. Van der Zande has two date clashes with his WeatherTech SportsCar Championship commitment, where he races for Konica Minolta Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing. Initially, only one round was clashing between the FIA WEC opening round at Spa Francorchamps and the Mid-Ohio IMSA race, but after the Fuji FIA WEC round was moved,…

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Sarrazin new SMP driver

Stephane Sarrazin will be racing for SMP Racing in the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 season. The 42 year-old racing driver has participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans 16 times so far, and therefore will be one of the most experienced drivers on the starting grid, when his 17th and 18th Le Mans races will be run this year and next year. Sarrazin started at the Chrysler works team in 2001, before he raced one year for ORECA – who by the way, was running the Chrysler…

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Peugeot enters works team in World RX

There will be one more works team in the FIA World Rallycross Championship when the season gets rolling in just over one month’s time in Barcelona. Team Peugeot Total will enter three cars in this year’s World RX Championship, where they will take over the spot from Team Peugeot-Hansen. Sebastien Loeb and Timmy Hansen will run with brand newly developed Peugeot 208 WRX cars, while Kevin Hansen will run an updated 2017 version of the same model. The father of Timmy and Kevin, Kenneth Hansen, will still be team boss…

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