The Circuit of the Americas was the location to crown the Champion of the 2022 Spec MX-5 Challenge Series Presented by Toyo Tires – a race weekend which had no shortage of stories to showcase
From 2026, Audi will compete in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with a specially developed power unit. The project will be based at Audi Sport’s facility in Neuburg near Ingolstadt.
Today McLaren released another image of the upcoming the Sports Series, giving us a full view of a crossed-up prototype in minimal camouflage. Set to go toe-to-toe with the likes of the Audi R8, Porsche 911 and Mercedes-AMG GT, the Sports Series will be McLaren’s “entry level” offering, slotting below the 650S with a cost of around $180,000.
Just a few short weeks after announcing the new series, Audi has a finalized race calendar for the Sport TT Cup. 165 drivers from 30 nations have applied for the new one-make series, with 18 slots to be permanently awarded by quattro GmbH in spring of 2015, and six other cockpits set to be filled by a rotating roster of guest drivers. The series will be held in conjunction with DTM events starting on the first weekend in May at the DTM opener at Hockenheim.
The 2014 F1 season maintained a fairly busy schedule of 19 grand prix events, but for 2015, the FIA has scheduled a record-setting 21 events,…
Jaguar has announced that it will be creating its own one make series for vehicles made by the British automaker before 1966. Accordingly, the 2015 Jaguar Heritage Challenge will offer entry to C-Types, D-Types, E-Types and Mk I and MkII sedans of said vintage. The series builds upon the success of the Jaguar E-Type Challenge and will be administered by the Historic Sports Car Club.
In the wake of the 2014 SCCA Spec Miata Runoffs debacle on October 10th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in which the first six cars to finish the race were found to be out of compliance during post-race inspections, the SCCA has posted a memorandum outlining changes to class rules in order to address what has clearly become a widespread issue in SM racing.
Today at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, Mazda took the wraps off the all-new fourth generation MX-5 Cup racer, along with a new global racing series that will be held in North America, Europe and Asia, all in identical spec-tuned versions of the new Miata. Mazda also revealed that the winner of the series will be awarded more than just a cash purse for their victory.
A few weeks ago the organizers of the Pirelli World Challenge released a race season schedule for 2015, but today they announced another date that they’re added to the roster, as well as what they’re pretty sure is almost the finalized calendar for 2015, which we’ve included here.
The powers that be for the ChumpCar World Series have announced their plans for the 2015 race season, and it contains more than 50 events throughout the year at tracks like Road Atlanta, Watkins Glen, Lime Rock and Sebring International. Additionally, due to some IRS restrictions, ChumpCar has announced plans to continue racing activities in Canada by way of the ChumpCar Canada “club”. As they explain it, this design will still allow members from either side of the border to compete in each other’s events, though voting influence will be restricted to nationality, and most importantly, Uncle Sam is kept at bay. The Chumps also spelled out some changes to the Central and Eastern region boundaries as well.
Even before the road-going version of the TT hits American shores, the automaker has already revealed a spec racer version of the new coupe and a bespoke series to go along with it.
As we are now into the second half of the 2014 Pirelli World Challenge season, a lot has changed in the GT ranks, especially for our Hawk Performance/CRP Racing team. Those that have been following along will remember that we changed to an Audi R8 after the season had already begun, so we had to learn quickly to get up to speed. After our successes at Road America, we are well and truly in the championship hunt and our primary goal is narrowing the gap to the points leader, O’Connell.
Into our thirteen round of FRGP, this week we’re headed to the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France for the 82nd annual 24 Hours of Le Mans.
This week Cosworth announced the launch of its Cosworth Live On Air system, a new data retrieval program that will be integrated into the Verizon Indycar 14 app, which is available for both iOS and Android platforms. The new system sees WiMAX high bandwidth transmitters fitted to racecars competing in the Indycar series, allowing said cars to send out detailed performance, telemetry and diagnostic data to race fans as the race progresses in real time.
Fantasy Racer GP enters its third round just as the 2014 Formula One season heads to the Persian Gulf for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Are your F1 bench racing skills up to snuff? We certainly hope so – whoever correctly predicts the pole and podium finishers for the race is going to receive this Corvette Racing C6 R adjustable ball cap. Will it be you? Only one way to find out – enter the contest!
It’s not every day we get to report on the founding of a new option for amateur racing. So it’s with a fair bit of excitement that we bring you news of the World Racing League, a recently founded sanctioning body which seems to bridge the gap between the “almost anything goes” fast and loose style of ChumpCar and the 24 Hours of LeMons endurance leagues and the costlier options from sanctions like SCCA and NASA.
A race-spec version of the soon-to-be revealed 2015 Subaru WRX STI will be running in the 24 hour endurance race at the Nürburgring this June, Subaru announced today.
