Day: October 30, 2019

MSR with power pairing

Jens Jensen

Meyer Shank Racing have announced their first driver pairing for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2020. And it’s quite a power pairing in the Acura NSX GT3 Evo #86. The newly crowned GTD champions will keep Mario Farnbacher onboard, while they have signed Matt McMurry as his new teammate. That will be the third season for Farnbacher at MSR, where he started out as an endurance driver, until he got a full season seat in 2019 – where he grabbed the title in his first go. McMurry won the LMP2…

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McLaren hires two young drivers and sacks veteran

Jens Jensen

Arrow McLaren Schmidt Peterson has announced their drivers for the 2020 season in the NTT IndyCar Series. They have decided to hire two young drivers, leaving no space for one of the veterans in the field. Patricio O’Ward and Oliver Askew will be the two full season drivers for the 2020 season. Mexican O’Ward did 7 Indycar races in 2019 for Carlin, before Red Bull signed him, and send him off to Japan for the Super Formula (previously known as Formula Nippon). The original plan for the 2018 Indy Lights…

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BTCC 2020 rule tweaks announced, changes to tyres, ballast & qualifying.

Stephen Hodges

In preparation for the upcoming 2020 season TOCA, the governing body for the BTCC have announced a raft of rule changes and tweaks. The biggest change for 2020 will be the change from long standing tyre partner Dunlop over to Goodyear for the 2020 season. There are further changes relating to the tyre regulations for next year, teams will be required to run all 3 tyre compounds at Snetterton like in this years edition, but this will be replicated at Croft for the 2020 season. Additional changes include changes to…

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