Archive for the ‘Sports cars’ Category
Despite the global economy the Swedish Porsche Carrera Cup series looks strong for 2009. 35 cars have been confirmed in the entry list and 15 brand new Porsche 997′s were ordered from Germany for what just might be the biggest national field in Carrera Cup for 2009. 2009 will also mark the return of two [...]
Indy Car driver Danica Patrick and NASCAR driver Casey Mears will be racing in the Grand-Am Rolex Dayton 24 Hours for Childress-Howard Motorsport at the end of January. The two drivers will join Andy Wallace and Rob Finlay in the Pontiac Crawford. Danica Patrick raced for the team in the 2006 event (but then under [...]
French Formula 3 racer Franck Mailleux leaves the open wheel world and moves to the Le Mans Series with Signature. Mailleux raced this year in F3 Euro Series for Signature but will during 2009 drive Signature’s LMP1 Oreca Judd in both the Le Mans Series and in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This will [...]
Rahal Letterman Racing (RLR) will assume the management of the Formula BMW Americas championship. The team will during 2009 run BMW M3′s in the American Le Mans Series so BMW must have seen it fitting to let the team Formula BMW championship, which will take part in the support package for ALMS at four tracks [...]
Indianapolis Star are reporting that the Indy Car Grand Prix at Belle Isle in Detroit will be dropped from the schedule. Owner of the Detroit Grand Prix, Roger Penske, stated that he couldn’t in good business sense continue with the event with so many of his area businesses struggling. This means that the ALMS and [...]
Rahal Letterman Racing has now finalized the driver line-up for its 2009 American Le Mans Series GT2 challenge. The new drivers announced were long time BMW touring car veteran Dirk Müller and American Tom Milner. Dirk Müller finished second this season in the GT2 class driving a Ferrari F430 but Müller’s involvement with BMW goes [...]
While Audi may be ditching out of the American Le Mans Series after the opening rounds and only concentrate on the European Le Mans Series everything is not all doom from the German manufacturer. For the first time Audi has now created a customer racing car for the GT3 class. The car, the Audi R8 [...]
For this coming season Audi will cease using their successful R10 Le Mans Prototype and will bring the R15 TDI to track. On March 21 the R15 will debut during the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. According to Dr. Wolfgang Ulrich, head of motorsport at Audi, the step from the R10 to the R15 [...]
