The 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans is likely to mark an end for many programs. It’ll be the last race of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship “super-season”, and with a significant rule change coming for 2020 it may be the last we see of some cars.
With the 2019 ADAC Total Nurburgring 24 Hours (and the GT Sport World Tour event) just five weeks away, preparations are well underway. This past weekend saw the six-hour qualification race for the main event, and it yielded a victor that will be familiar to racing game fans.
Making idle bets on Twitter is never a good idea. This is something that Busch Beer — the official beer of NASCAR (because that’s a thing) — forgot when it laid down a marker last November.
Another esport driver has made the jump to real-world competition. This past weekend, two-time Formula 1 Esports champion Brendon Leigh completed a trio of Formula Ford races at England’s Snetterton circuit.
Busy times here at the Hooncorp HQ! With three weeks to go until the famed 24 Hours of Lemons NZ, we can now announce the lineup of drivers who will be racing under the Hooncorp x GTPlanet banner.
Fangio and Maserati. Clark and Lotus. Senna and McLaren. Certain pairings of names are famous in Formula One, with one modern duo standing out: Schumacher and Ferrari. And come next week, we’ll see them together again.
Brazil’s Igor Fraga is going to have a busy schedule this year. Not only will he be defending his title in the 2019 FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championship, he’ll be duking it out on track in a full-blown open-wheel race car.
Precious few people have even got the chance to drive the new Toyota Supra road car yet, but already there’s three race car versions. Next week at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show, Toyota will add a fourth: the GR Supra GT4 Concept.
You can’t keep a fast driver out of a race car for long. Original GT Academy champion Lucas Ordonez’ name will be back on a car this summer, joining the crew from Crewe in the Bentley Continental GT3.
Last year, F1 revealed it was to partner with Netflix for a 10-part documentary series based on the 2018 season. Netflix officially revealed the title of the series this morning, Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
Things have been a little quiet on the GT Academy front recently. As GT Sport’s full esports competition got into action, the gamer-to-racer program seemed to wither somewhat.
Formula One is a sport right at the cutting edge of technology. The systems and materials used on today’s race cars will inevitably reach the road in a few years — or sooner, in some cases.
You’d think that, by now, the idea that sim racers might be pretty handy with real cars would have sunk in. It’s been over a decade since Lucas Ordonez won GT Academy, and he’s had a class podium at Le Mans among other career highlights.