UK, Sat 31st Mar – Oman Air Racing Team driver Ahmad Al Harthy made a strong start to the 2012 Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit on Saturday, 31st March, with a Pro-Am 1 podium finish during the first race of the 2012 season. Starring in qualifying by securing the [...]

India, February 01, 2011- Machdar Motorsports has announced the postponement of India’s first motorsport league, the i1 Supercar Series to 2013. A number of factors came into play, due to which the promoters, supported wholly by the team owners and partners, have jointly been forced to make this decision. The unexpected announcement last month of the [...]

Qatar to host Porsche GT3 Cup series Losail International Circuit joins UAE, Saudi, Bahrain in staging Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East has been given a fresh boost with the news that Qatar has joined the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia on the championship circuit  for the first [...]

12th Jan 2012 - NISSAN MOTORSPORTS INTERNATIONAL CO. LTD. (NISMO) is pleased to announce the official release of a Nissan GT-R (R35) that conforms to FIA GT3 regulations: the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3. NISMO and JR Motorsports (JRM), its official partner for this major project, have been jointly developing the car during 2011 and, following a [...]

Abu Dhabi Dec 19/20th – The i1 Supercar Series held a successful pre-season shakedown at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi ahead of the inaugural championship of the city based motorsport racing league. Heinz-Harald Frentzen topped the times followed by Giancarlo Fisichella and India’s Karun Chandhok. Watched closely by the team owners, Darshan M, [...]

Potrero de los Funes, San Luis, Argentina, 5th & 6th Nov 2011- Driving JRM Racing’s Nissan GT-R no 23 Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr became 2011 FIA GT1 World Champions this weekend, when they wrapped up the title in the first of the two one-hour races at the unique Potrero de los Funes circuit in Argentina. [...]

Zandvoort, 14 October 2011 – At the end of day of the final weekend of the 2011 FIA GT3 European Championship it was the nr24 Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo of Albert von Thurn und Taxis and Nikolaus Meyr-Melholf which set the fastest time of the day, in the first Free Practice session.  In Free Practice [...]

Georgia, Oct 4, 2011- Oryx Racing failed to finish at the Petit Le Mans in Georgia on Saturday, but the final race disappointment took nothing away from what has been an astonishing debut season in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) for the UAE-based team and Emirati driver Humaid Al Masaood. The weekend’s action at [...]

September 29th, 2011- UAE-based Oryx Racing is gearing up for this Saturday’s final round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), the Petit Le Mans, a grueling 10 hour challenge at the famous Road Atlanta circuit. But the team, racing in a Mazda Lola Coupé, will need to call on all the experience gained in [...]

Sep 24th Brussels – A meeting held in Brussels yesterday, between current, returning and prospective GT1 team owners, as well as the FIA and Championship organiser SRO, saw the 2012 FIA GT World project take a significant step towards the ultimate goal of bringing together ten teams, representing ten different brands, with two cars each. [...]