24 January 2020 Archives

IMSA and ACO agreement on new top category

Friday January 24th, 2020Saturday January 25th, 2020 Jens Jensen

Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) and International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) have agreed on a common future in sportscar racing. The the organizing bodies have signed an agreement, that it will be possible, from September 2021 in FIA WEC and January 2022 in IMSA, to race with the “American” DPi cars and “European” Hypercars in the same category. The category will be named LMDh – Le Mans Daytona hybrid. The cars will be based on the LMP2 cars, just like we know from today, with Ligier, Dallara, Multimatic and ORECA…

R-Motorsport pulls the plug on DTM programme

Friday January 24th, 2020Saturday January 25th, 2020 Jens Jensen

R-Motorsport has chosen to end their DTM commitment, after only a single season. The Swiss team made a very swift entry to the German series, following the departure of Mercedes-AMG pulling out at the end of 2019. R-Motorsport struck a deal with HWA, who build and ran the Mercedes cars, but since they had close ties to Aston Martin, they got an AM body shell on the Dallara chassis, so it looked like a Vantage. The team had a lot of technical issues, with only a few highlights, where they…