Day: March 4, 2019

Bentley not to compete in VLN and Nürburgring 24 Hours in 2019

Stefan Schneider

Bentley Motorsport has decided to not compete in VLN and the Nürburgring 24 Hours race 2019, just like in the previous year. But it might be possible that they will return the following year with the new Continental GT3. That is at least what Brian Gush, Bentley’s Director of Motorsport, said – according to Motorsport-Total.com. „At this moment there are no plans that we would race on Nürburgring. However, we would like to do that in the coming season.” Brian Gush also mentioned that this plan for the coming year would…

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Aston Martin has done their first meters

Jens Jensen

R-Motorsport has done the first laps in their brand new Aston Martin DTM car. Paul Di Resta left the pits on Monday afternoon, to do a few laps on the Jerez circuit in the south of Spain. There has been 90 days of development of the car – with the small asterisk, that the car is based on the Mercedes chassis, that R-Motorsport partner HWA built for the German brand. The two cars have some similarities, but have a significantly different front bumper, in the characteristic Aston Martin Vantage shape,…

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BWT Mücke Motorsport upgrades

Jens Jensen

BWT Mücke Motorsport are doing upgrades ahead of the ADAC GT Masters 2019 season. There is a smaller update on the driver line-up, but primarily on the three cars, that the team enters. All their Audi R8 LMS cars will have the brand new Evo kit from Audi Sport, so the cars will have a bit more performance, and a bit better cooling on warm days. Just like last season, the team will run two pink BWT cars and a single orange kfzteile24 car. The orange #24 will be driven…

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Three men continue at United Autosports

Jens Jensen

United Autosports have the drivers ready for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship 2019/20 season, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019. And it will be three well known faces. Phil Hanson, Filipe Albuquerque and Paul Di Resta will share the Ligier JS P217 Gibson #22. It’s is a combination of their European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series drivers. The three have shared the car for the last few years at UA, where Hanson has been the common factor in all the equations, while Albuquerque and…

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2019 Moto GP Season Preview

Jake Cooper

A new challenge In our 2019 preview, we’ll note all the runners and riders and do our best to showcase what to watch and who to watch. 2019 holds the prospect to be a great season, with two Multiple Premier Class World Champions in the same team once again and a whole roster of huge talent across the whole grid, avid and casual fans of motorcycle racing are surely in for a season full of two-wheel drifts, fender rubbing, drama filled action on the cloud 9 of top level sport.…

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2017 champions reunite for centenary GT3 assault

Steve Tarrant

Rick Parfitt Jnr, Seb Morris and Bentley will reprise their championship-winning partnership in 2019 after joining forces with former GT1 world champions, JRM. The Pro-Am duo claimed 2017’s British GT3 crown aboard a Team Parker Racing-run first generation Continental GT3. Now, after a season spent contesting different series, they’re back with Bentley’s latest specification GT3 car, which has been made available to customers for the first time. The deal also sees JRM return to British GT for the first time since the end of 2017 when it made a one-off…

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