Porsche announces Le Mans drivers

Porsche has announced the twelve works drivers for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2020. The two FIA World Endurance Championship crews will remain unchanged, with Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz as the two full-season drivers, getting help from Fred Makowiecki, while Michael Christensen and Kevin Estre in #92 once again will be joined by Laurens Vanthoor. Those three drivers won the GTE Pro category in 2018 in the famous Pink Pig 911 RSR The drivers from IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will drive car #93 in the shape of Nick…

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Ferrari wins in Shanghai – three months ago

AF Corse Ferrari #51 has been declared winners of the 4 Hours of Shanghai FIA World Endurance Championship race in November 2019. The team with James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi crossed the finishing line as the first car in GTE Pro, and did stand on the top step. During the subsequent scrutineering, the FIA WEC officials found the car not to have a minimum clearance of 50mm. It was not specified exactly how much lower the car was found – just that it was too low. That resulted in…

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Kubica in private BMW

Robert Kubica will be running in the DTM 2020 in a private BMW M4 DTM. The 35-year-old Polish driver will race for ART Grand Prix, entering a single car, so we get to a total of seven BMW cars this year. Kubica has most recently raced in Formula 1 for Williams F1 Team, after being out of single-seaters for almost ten years due to his series accident in a rally car. While Kubica hasn’t raced in DTM previously, he did two seasons for Formula 3 Euro Series, which was a…

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Rebellion will say goodbye after four races

Rebellion has sent shockwaves in the motorsport world today, by issuing a press release at midday. The Swiss watch company, who is active in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Rebellion Racing, running two LMP1 cars, has chosen to end all their involvements within motorsport, once the chequered flag falls at the  24 Hours of Le Mans in June 2020. Today’s announcement came out of nowhere, especially since it’s just two months ago, that a partnership with Peugeot Sport and their new Hypercar programme were announced. Peugeot Sport was very…

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