Motorsports

As you may have read previously on the site, back in May GTPlanet member Brad McClaren (McClarenDesign) made the trip from Oklahoma, USA to Auckland, NZ (a trip of over 7,500 miles) to race with Hooncorp in the New Zealand 24 Hours of Lemons. Driving the #137 Commodore, Brad managed to survive the dark, the rain, and the opposition, with the team finishing 22nd amongst a field of 53 starters. The second Hooncorp car on the track, the #37 Pulsar, came 15th.

The first ever winner of GT Academy, Lucas Ordonez, has announced on social media that he is to leave the Nissan family.

Prepare to say farewell to the prototype era. A new set of rules agreed by the FIA and ACO confirms that the new top category will use hypercars more closely resembling manufacturers’ road cars, instead of cookie-cutter prototype race cars.

When W Series announced its project earlier in the year, reactions were — to say the least — mixed.

F1 has revealed its first new Grand Prix in the Liberty Media era, with a proposed layout for the Hanoi street circuit.

Earlier this week we heard about a new race series focusing on female drivers called the W Series. Now we’re getting our first look at the calendar, and its partnership with Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM).

Germany’s premier touring car series, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, is set for an injection of British glamor for the 2019 season. Aston Martin, known for GT and Le Mans racing, is heading to the series in place of departing Mercedes-Benz.

Sim racing is getting to the point where it blurs the lines between the real world and the digital one. It often begs the question, is sim racing a motorsports discipline? Thankfully, we now have an answer — at least in one country.

Despite motorsport being one of the most gender-blind sports possible, the sight of a woman in a race car in a top series is unusual.

Audi Sport has been successfully campaigning its second-generation R8 race car for three seasons. Despite a number of titles and trophies, for both professional and amateur drivers, Ingolstadt felt it was time for a change.

Last year BMW unveiled that it was entering into the quickly growing world of Formula E as a works team. Now we have a better idea just how its new car will look when it takes to the starting grid.

The 2018 F1 season has only seven races left. With one eye on 2019 then, teams are trying to nail down their driver contracts.

Last year Rudy van Buren walked away with the title of World’s Fastest Gamer from McLaren. He ended up scoring a job with the company and getting some pretty cool perks along the way. Now the runner-up in the competition is getting a racing job of his own.

24 hour endurance races are quite simply the pinnacle of circuit racing. Man and machine are pushed to their very limit in the ultimate test of finding the perfect balance of speed and staying power. Braving the daylight cycle, the elements, and the opposition, the racing is fierce and the stakes high; surviving the entire 24 hours is the sweetest success for most of the competitors.

McLaren has announced Renault Sport driver Carlos Sainz Jr. as its replacement for the retiring Fernando Alonso.

The roller coaster that is the F1 2018 season continues on unabated. It began with the bombshell reveal of Daniel Ricciardo leaving Red Bull next season. Fernando Alonso has now confirmed he will be stepping away from the sport at the end of the current season.

It seems the future is now brighter for Force India. The Silverstone-based team has been in administration since last month’s Hungarian GP.

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing has announced that Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo will leave the team at the end of the current season.

Since he was crowned U.S. GT Academy champion back in 2013, it has been a busy five years for Nick McMillen.

This was it. The final Formula One weekend before the teams and drivers head off for summer break. Around the many corners of the Hungaroring, the circus put on a fitting show; a bookend to the first half of the season.