Le Mans LMP2 photoshoot The 16 LMP2 cars set to take part in the Le Mans 24 Hours next month took part in a photoshoot on the Mistral Straight yesterday (featured), led by the 2023 class-winning #34 Inter Europol ORECA. The 2024 edition of the Le Mans 24 will be the eighth for the ORECA 07 Gibson, a total that looks set to reach double figures before the next-gen ruleset arrives. Additional GT3 car goes testing The 43 ELMS cars entered for the 4 Hours of Le Castellet were joined today by an AF Corse-run 296 GT3 driven by Andrea Bertolini. The car took to the circuit in a bare carbon, and after ..read more

United Autosports has completed its driver roster for the 2024 running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, with the news this afternoon that Bijoy Garg, Oliver Jarvis and Nolan Siegel will compete in the team’s #22 ORECA in LMP2. For Garg, the reigning IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge champion, this adds to his programmes the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and European Le Mans Series with the team. “Racing at Le Mans is going to be incredible, I am really excited,” says Garg. “I’m two races into the IMSA season with United Autosports and we’ve already celebrated a podium in LMP2 – so yeah, I’m ..read more

Round 2 of the 2024 ELMS sees the series travel to a traditional early-season stomping ground at Paul Ricard, a circuit that always generates entertaining multi-class racing. Last year’s encounter produced real fireworks, particularly in the final hour, and there’s no reason we won’t see a similarly entertaining clash this time. The question is, what’s in store in each of the classes after an intriguing season opener in Barcelona? Anyone’s game in LMP2? LMP2 in 2024 is the tale of established teams, some established and emerging talents behind the wheel, with a whole lot of new talent poured o ..read more

Aythorpe Promotions Limited (APL) under the leadership of Historic and contemporary racer and car collector Shaun Lynn (pictured below, right in conversation with Andre Lotterer), has confirmed today that they have acquired the Motor Racing Legends organisation from current Chairman Duncan Wiltshire. Motor Racing Legends is one of the world’s leading historic race promoters that participates in iconic events such as the Silverstone Festival, Spa Six Hours and Oulton Park Gold Cup. The agreement will also see APL acquire the Donington Historic Festival, which takes place this weekend ..read more

Ahead of the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps next weekend, you can now re-live the 6 Hours of Imola with the full race broadcast and extended highlights package on YouTube. The post RE-WATCH: FIA WEC 6 Hours Of Imola first appeared on dailysportscar.com ..read more

IMSA has released the entry list for the Motul Course de Monterey, which takes place 10-12 May at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The ten full-season GTP entries will be rejoined by nine cars from GTD Pro, and a further 15 GTD entries to bring the total to 34. On another busy week of sports car racing that also includes the WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on the other side of the Atlantic, the second driver alongside Gianmaria Bruni in the #5 Proton Competition Porsche 963 has yet to be confirmed. Mike Rockenfeller was able to stand in at Long Beach, but will now be returning to his regular ..read more

The Michelin Le Mans Cup grid is once again full to capacity with a huge 41-car grid for the second race of the 2024 season in the South of France at Le Castellet. The grid will consist of 30 LMP3 and 11 GT3 cars, with 28 teams and 82 drivers representing 20 different nations, including five French teams and 19 French drivers racing at the first of two home events. High Class Racing travels to Le Castellet as the championship leaders after Jens Moller and Tommy Foster won the opening race in Spain in its #20 Ligier. The Danish team will face some hard competition from many quarters at Le Caste ..read more

The Ligier European Series moves on to Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet with new entries boosting the entry to 20 cars for the second race meeting of the season on 3 and 4 May. JS P4: Eleven cars, including one new team, are entered. British team Jolt Racing will participate for the first time in the Ligier European Series with the #26 JS P4 driven by Thomas Jack Lee. With 50 points, Team Virage leads the teams’ standings, thanks to the two wins of the #1 car driven by Theo Micouris and Haydn Chance in Barcelona. Qatari Paschalis Paris Stavrakidis will join Lucas Medina in the #32. RLR MSpo ..read more

The GT World Challenge Europe and GT4 European Series season finales at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit have been moved back by one week to 29th/30th November 2024, the SRO has revealed. Initially scheduled for 22nd/23rd November 2024, the extra week will give teams further time to prepare for the season’s climax and reduce pressure on freight at the end of the season. Sea freighting cars to race meetings in the Middle East has become especially tricky in 2024 due to ongoing geopolitical tensions disrupting regular shipping lines through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. Earlier this year the 24H Se ..read more

Ahead of this Saturday’s Fuji GT 3 Hours Race, the Autobacs SUPER GT Series has announced a small change to the series’ new qualifying format. The 107% minimum time requirement has been dropped from Q1 and will only apply to Q2. Teams are now simply required to record a time in Q1, and then set a time within 107% of the average of the three fastest cars in Q2, to be able to qualify for the race. At Okayama, the #8 ARTA Mugen Honda Civic Type R-GT of Tomoki Nojiri and Nobuharu Matsushita had its fastest lap in Q1 taken away after Matsushita ran wide out of the final corner and exceeded track li ..read more