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The brand with the four rings will be entering the 2016 motorsport season with the most powerful and efficient race car Audi has ever built. The new Audi R18 celebrated its world premiere on the occasion of the Audi Sport Finale at the Audi Training Center Munich on Saturday. In the DTM, Audi has opted for continuity with an unchanged driver line-up. In GT racing, the new Audi R8 LMS is facing its first full racing season. For the 2016 Audi Sport TT Cup, 125 candidates have applied for theRead More

Stuttgart. All the six works drivers who have been competing regularly in the Porsche 919 Hybrid are going to race again in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). It will be the third consecutive year that Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AUS) will share one of the Le Mans class one prototypes, with Romain Dumas (FR), Neel Jani (CH) and Marc Lieb (DE) racing with the sister car. Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1: “The advice of ‘never change a winning team’ is spot on. BothRead More

By Josh Farmer, Journalist Sage Karam’s run at Chip Ganassi Racing is reportedly over as Karam’s management has not renewed his contract with the team. According to Racer, there have been issues finding money to keep Karam in a seat and a deal for 2016 was not struck. Karam’s manager, Micky Ryan, did not rule out a return to Ganassi in the future and said that plans for 2016 could include racing in Global Rallycross as well as the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship with the team as well as an Indy 500Read More

DENVER, N.C. (November 24, 2015) – Action Express Racing has announced the complete driver lineup for the team’s two entries in the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The team had announced the return of the four full-time drivers at Road America in August, and recently added Scott Pruett to the team for the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Filipe Albuquerque will co-drive the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype at with two-time and defending series champions Christian Fittipaldi and João BarbosaRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – It was a chance internet search that led jackman Mike Russell to NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program and, ultimately, to a NASCAR XFINITY Series championship with driver Chris Buescher. “I was on the internet searching pit crew development stuff, and I came across coach Phil Horton,” said Russell, who on Saturday became the first African-American D4D alumnus to win a NASCAR national series championship in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “So I called him and talked to him, and thatRead More

By Adam Tate, Managing Editor The next Formula One strategy group meeting is Tuesday in Paris and details of its agenda have been revealed to the press. Chief among the items to be discussed include the proposal to introduce a budget engine in 2017 to lower costs for customer teams. The highly controversial topic came about after Ferrari exercised its veto ability when the sport tried to introduce a cost cap for engines. The proposed budget power units are expected to take up a majority of the meeting. The docket alsoRead More

By Seth Livingstone, NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—At age 30, Kyle Busch completed the transformation from rowdy rebel to deserving champion on Sunday, securing the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title in a campaign which defied all odds. The season, which began disastrously with a crash at Daytona in February, ended in victory lane at Homestead-Miami Speedway with his wife, newborn son, and a cascade of M&Ms, courtesy of his primary sponsor. “It’s pretty unbelievable—a dream of a lifetime, a dream come true,” Busch said. “I just can’t believe it withRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – I first saw Jeff Gordon race in November of 1992, but I barely noticed him. My eyes were glued to the television for the final race of the season, but my interest had nothing to do with Gordon’s debut in NASCAR’s premier series. No, the primary focus was the three-way battle for the championship between Bill Elliott, Davey Allison and privateer Alan Kulwicki. And, oh, yes, there was the small matter of King Richard Petty taking the green flag in aRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Finishing off one of the most remarkable comebacks in NASCAR history—indeed, in the annals of sport—Kyle Busch won Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway and, with it, his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. Absent from the first 11 races of the season because of a broken right leg and left foot sustained in the NASCAR XFINITY Series opener at Daytona in February, Busch pulled away from fellow Championship Round driver Kevin Harvick after a restart with seven laps left and crossedRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief Juan Pablo Montoya topped the time sheets in the FIA World Endurance Championship rookie test at Bahrain. The test was set for five hours and organized by the sanctioning body. Montoya set a best lap of 1m40.861s in the No. 17 Porsche 919 Hyrbid, over 1.2s faster than Richie Stanaway, who was running in the No. 8 Audi R18 e-tron Qauttro. The two-time Indy 500 champion teamed with Mitch Evans, who set a best time of 1m42.946s. Stanaway, an Aston Martin GTE Pro driver, impressed AudiRead More