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FOUND: 6 - What They Never Told You

How British GT is holding drivers to account for misdemeanours

Without doubt one of the biggest appeals of endurance racing is the multi-class format that it provides, allowing cars and drivers of different performance and abilities to take to the track at the same time. It means that simply being the fastest is not enough to guarantee a crew victory,…

Autosport

BTCC Oulton Park: Hill makes it a double from Sutton in race two

With rear-wheel-drive traction from his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, it was no surprise that Hill got the jump on Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at the start.

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Bruni, Tincknell join Proton's IMSA attack with Porsche LMDh

Former WEC GTE Pro sparring partners Bruni and Tincknell will give Proton Competition's US-based Porsche 963 its debut at Road America on 6 August, just four weeks after they drive the sister car in the WEC’s Hypercar class for the first time at Monza at the beginning of July.

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Bruni, Tincknell join Proton's IMSA GTP attack with Porsche LMDh

Former WEC GTE Pro sparring partners Bruni and Tincknell will give Proton Competition's US-based Porsche 963 its debut at Road America on 6 August just four weeks after they drive the sister car in the WEC’s Hypercar class for the first time at Monza at the beginning of July

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The sorry saga overshadowing national racing that could've been avoided

Hindsight can be a wonderful thing. And there are certainly some decisions and actions Motorsport UK has taken in recent months surrounding the thorny issue of track limits that, with the benefit of hindsight, it admits could have been handled differently. It is reassuring to hear such honesty from the…

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The national motorsport track limits mess that needs to be cleaned up

There’s something going very wrong in British motorsport. The trigger to writing this column is the fallout from Ricky Collard being denied his maiden victory in the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch last Sunday following a thrilling race against three-time champion Ash Sutton. But Collard, whose crime was…

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BTCC Brands Hatch: Turkington wins opener red-flagged after pile-up

Turkington, with the soft option tyres fitted to his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, got the launch from second on the grid, but the problem was he had to do it twice.

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10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 6 Hours of Spa

After being blighted by sensor issues in Portugal, the #7 Toyota crew got their championship challenge back on track with a second victory of the season at Spa.

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WEC Spa: Toyota beats Cadillac to fastest FP3 time on drying track

Times set early in the one-hour session were around 20 seconds off the dry pace set on Thursday, but improved steadily before a final flurry of quick times saw several different manufacturers take turns atop the leaderboard.

Autosport

The Le Mans winner with claims to be motorsport's best privateer

“I’d like to say it was mapped out and planned, but it wasn’t. We only intended to get a race trailer and GT3 Audi, and have some fun. I sometimes wonder how we ended up here!”

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Sharp stuns with British F4 victory from 20th as BTCC supports get under way

For all the impressive drives during his domination of British Formula 4 last year, Alex Dunne never scored a win quite like one Louis Sharp achieved at Donington Park last weekend. Starting 20th on the fully reversed grid for race two, Sharp’s expectations were low. Yet he kept his head…

Autosport

The BTCC plotlines to watch out for in 2023

The series hasn't had the most dramatic of silly seasons - indeed, the top six drivers from 2022 all line up with the same teams and machinery in 2023 - but there are plenty of factors that could shake things up.

Autosport

10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 6 Hours of Portimao

Five manufacturers filled the top five positions after six hours of racing in Portimao on Sunday, but as in Sebring it was Toyota that claimed the spoils.

Autosport

Cadillac enters second Hypercar for WEC Spa 6 Hours

The Chip Ganassi Racing-run factory team will field its IMSA SportCar Championship pairing of Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in the additional Caddy V-Series.R LMDh at the Spa 6 Hours on 29 April, round three of the 2023 WEC.

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WEC Sebring: Toyota dominates, Ferrari scores debut podium

The #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez beat the sister #8 entry of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa at Sebring International Raceway’s WEC opener.

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WEC Sebring: Toyota dominates, Ferrari scores podium on debut

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WEC Sebring: Toyota leads at halfway mark as Ferrari challenge derails

The #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid driven by Brendon Hartley was circulating just over a second clear of the sister #7 entry piloted by Kamui Kobayashi after four hours of racing at the Sebring International Raceway.

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How Toyota's new WEC challengers are shaping up

Toyota is set to face its sternest test in the World Endurance Championship this year since the Hypercar class replaced LMP1 in 2021.

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Why the WEC's eagerly-anticipated new era is unmissable

This is it! The start! It wasn’t the Daytona 24 Hours in January any more than it was the Spa 6 Hours nearly two years ago. The much-heralded golden era of sportscar racing finally begins with this week’s opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Sebring.

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Under the skin of the mobile lab for hydrogen at Le Mans

MissionH24's goal is explained in its name. The programme has been geared to develop hydrogen technology for competition in the Le Mans 24 Hours, and has come a long way since its LMPH2G first appeared in a practice session for a Le Mans Cup race in 2019.

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WEC Prologue: Toyota ends Sebring test on top from Cadillac

The Japanese manufacturer was fastest in three of the testing periods totalling 12 and half hours of track time, with Jose Maria Lopez’s 1m48.208s aboard the #7 entry from the opening period on Saturday morning standing as the best of the weekend.

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WEC Prologue: #51 Ferrari out of Sunday action with crash damage

James Calado crashed the #51 Ferrari AF Corse entry at the fast and bumpy first corner of the Sebring International Raceway on his out-lap in the first of two sessions on the second and final day of the pre-season official WEC test.

Motorsport

United Autosports completes 2023 WEC LMP2 line-up with teen racer

The final United Autosports seat for this year’s World Endurance Championship alongside 2019/20 LMP2 winners Filipe Albuquerque and Phil Hanson has been filled by 18-year-old Freddie Lubin.

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Lubin secures final United Autosports WEC seat

The final United Autosports seat for this year’s World Endurance Championship alongside 2019/20 LMP2 winners Filipe Albuquerque and Phil Hanson has been filled by 18-year-old Freddie Lubin.

Autosport

How a BTCC reunion yielded glory in Britain's 'other' tin-top series

Chris Smiley and Restart Racing chief Bert Taylor found too many obstacles to remain in the British Touring Car Championship. Now they’re reigning champions of TCR UK, a series that’s massively on the up

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