Day: February 19, 2020

At least three races for Hinchcliffe

Jens Jensen

James Hinchcliffe will do at least three races in the NTT IndyCar Series 2020 season. The Canadian has made a deal with Andretti Autosport, where he will race car #29. His first race will be the GMR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis road course early May, Indy 500 at the end of May, and the Texas 600 on early June. Hinchcliffe lost an otherwise secure seat at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (SPM), when McLaren got involved in the team, resulting in a change from Honda to Chevrolet engines. Hinch is synonymous…

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Aston Martin puts Hypercar programme on pause

Jens Jensen

Aston Martin will put their planned FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar programme on pause indefinitely. The British car manufacturer has stated that it’s down to the LMDh category being introduced, and will wait and see what the future brings. It is, however, no secret that AM has had quite a few problems with their economy, which has resulted in Lawrence Stroll investing a lot of millions in the team, plus bringing the name in Formula 1 in 20201, with the Racing Point being renamed Aston Martin Racing. His son, Lance…

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Hörr in, DHH out

Jens Jensen

Laurents Hörr will have his FIA World Endurance Championship debut this weekend at COTA. The 20 year-old German racing driver replaces David Heinemeier Hansson at Team Project 1 Porsche #56, where he will drive together with  Egidio Perfetti and Matteo Cairoli. Hörr won the Michelin Le Mans Cup 2019 in the LMP3 category for DKR Engineering, and has already been confirmed to race with them again, in their upcoming European Le Mans Series in the LMP3 category. The collaboration between DHH and Team Project 1 got off to a bad…

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