Day: January 18, 2019

Classic Nissan colours return

Jens Jensen

The memories will come flowing back, when the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season gets going. This is the 50th year of IMSA, and several teams have used that opportunity to put classic designs on the cars. Some teams only do it for the opening round at Daytona, while others plans to use it throughout the season. CORE autosport is amongst the latter category, and after acquiring the Nissan ONROAK DPi cars from the new closed down ESM operation, it all of a sudden gave the team a new opportunity.…

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DTM turns up the wick

Jens Jensen

DTM 2019 will be the fastest season in the 35 years of series history. As previously mentioned on Racing24-7.net, there will be new cars and new engines. While the cars basically looks the same – at least a few metres away, there will be a totally different type of engine in the cars. A two litres, four cylinders turbo engine will produce just over 600 bhp, and with the minimum weight going down to just 981 kg excluding the driver, things will really be spiced up. That gives a power…

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Sheldon van der Linde new DTM driver

Jens Jensen

History will be made in DTM, when the season starts at Hockenheim in May 2019. Sheldon van der Linde has signed a deal with BMW Motorsport, and will be the first South African driver in the series, in its 35-year long history. The only 19 year-old racing driver has taken the jump from an Audi seat in the ADAC GT Masters amongst other things, where he most recently has been driving with his brother Kelvin at Montaplast by Land-Motorsport. So it was a bit of a surprise, when his name…

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