13 August 2019 Archives

Powell new Acura driver

Tuesday August 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen

Alice Powell was on top of the podium just a few days ago, when W-Series held their final race of 2019 at Brands Hatch. In 10 days time, she will be in a race car in the USA. Powell has been hired by Heinricher Racing w/Meyer Shank Racing, to race the yellow and black Acura #57 alongside Katherine Legge at Virginia International Raceway. There has been quite a few changes on the driver front in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship team. Legge has been there since the beginning of the…

LNT announces the first 6 drivers

Tuesday August 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen

Team LNT has announced the 6 drivers for their LMP1 effort at the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The team enters two Ginetta G60-LT-P1 AER LMP1 cars, and for the opening round at Silverstone, they will enter with what easily can be described as the “young boys” and the “old boys” car. Ben Hanley, Egor Orudzhev and Charlie Robertson will share #5. Ben Hanley arrives from the DragonSpeed team, where he raced in the LMP1 category wit their BR1 Engineering. Hanley has also flirted a bit with…

Changes to the Ferrari WEC team

Tuesday August 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen

AF Corse has announced the drivers for the two GTE Pro cars, for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship 2019/20 season. The pairing will remain unchanged in the #51, where 2017 Champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi will share the car once again. This will be the third season together for them, who other than becoming World Champions in 2017, also secured the Le Mans victory in June 2019. Davide Rigon will remain in the #71, but he will be joined by Miguel Molina. The former Audi works driver,…

Aston Martin with huge push in WEC

Tuesday August 13th, 2019Tuesday August 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen

Aston Martin Racing is really gearing up for the upcoming FIA World Endurance Championship season. When the 2019/20 season starts at Silverstone in just over two weeks’ time, they will field the probably strongest line-up in many years. The two GTE Pro cars will still be driven by Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen in #95, while Maxime Martin og Alexander Lynn will share #97. Those were the four drivers who secured two victories for the AMR team in the 2018/19 season, and they were key elements in developing the latest…