Day: December 5, 2018

FIA WEC gets succesballast

Jens Jensen

The FIA World Endurance Championship will start utilizing success ballast from 2019 onwards. That is one of the changes that was approved by the World Motorsport Council, at their meeting in Saint Petersburg. The success ballast will start from the 2019/20 season, but only in the GTE Am category. A similar rule has been announced in the European Le Mans Series. There won’t be any kind of success ballast at Le Mans, but only the regular BOP, that will be kept. The point scales will be adjusted, so they take…

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COTA removed from schedule

Jens Jensen

The World Motorsport Council has announced the FIA World Rallycross Championship schedule for 2019, and there is a significant change compared to what was posted by the series, just over a month ago. WMSC has chosen to remove  the COTA round at the end of September. It still means that the teams will have to leave Europe three times during the season. The World RX sport is in a deep crisis after Peugeot, Audi and Ford all have left the series during the last 12 months, and the privateers have…

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Canapino final Juncos driver

Jens Jensen

Agustin Canapino will be the fourth and final Juncos Racing driver at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The 28 year-old Argentinian from Buenos Aires has a whole host of Champions in his bag, with 12 wins over the last 11 years, including the Super TC2000 Championship in 2016. In 2018 alone, he has driven 44 races. He already has connections to Chevrolet in his home country, where several of the championships were won with the classic bow tie on the hood. He is only mentioned as a driver for the…

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