10 August 2020 Archives

MR Racing pull out of remaining WEC races

Monday August 10th, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

MR Racing has chosen to pull out of the remaining races of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2019/20 season. The Japanese team with Motoaki Ishikawa, Olivier Beretta and Kei Cozzolino won’t be participating in the race this weekend at Spa Francorchamps, and not the 24 Hours of Le Mans, nor the season finale in Bahrain in November. Team owner Ishikawa explains the decision, that he is not a professional racing driver, but only a gentleman racer, and that he is in contact with elderly people in his daily job, and…

Le Mans 2020 behind closed doors

Monday August 10th, 2020Saturday December 26th, 2020 Jens Jensen

The 24 Hours of Le Mans for cars, will be run behind closed doors in 2020. Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced that they have made the decision together with the local health reponsibilities. ACO was hoping to be able to limit the amount of spectators to groups of 5000 persons, but not even that is possible, due to too much uncertainty. All people with tickets for the race will be contacted by either their travel company or by the ACO themselves, depending on where they have bought the tickets.…