Day: March 27, 2019

RLR MSport looking towards Asia

Jens Jensen

There is a bit of tendency starting in European sportscar racing – a lot of people are starting to look towards the east. RLR MSport is the most recent team to announce their ambitions to participate in the Asian Le Mans Series 2019/20. The defending LMP3 Champions from the European Le Mans Series has already expanded their 2019 programme with a LMP2 car in ELMS, on top of their LMP3 effort once again. Furthermore they have a car running in the Michelin Le Mans Cup, where Christian Stubbe Olsen will…

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United Autosports with a complete line-up

Jens Jensen

United Autosports has signed all their drivers for the European Le Mans Series 2019. Will Owen has been re-elected on the English-American team, where he will share the car with Ryan Cullen and Alex Brundle in #32. That will be two brand new teammates for Owen, who previously has had Filipe Albuquerque, Hugo de Sadeleer, Juan Pablo Montoya and Wayne Boyd alongside him. Other than the UA programme, he is also contracted to Juncos Racing in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. There is a date clash between the ELMS opening round…

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The View From the Recliner

Jim Casey

This past weekend offered a true orgy of delights for fans of sports car racing, with not one, but two, major races at the Sebring race course in central Florida, home of America’s oldest endurance race. The IMSA-sanctioned traditional 12-hour race took place on Saturday, as is usual. This year the World Endurance Championship also ran a 1000 mile or 8-hour race on Friday, to get the weekend started. As someone who still has cable TV, I was able to watch both races almost in their entirety. The whole 8…

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