Toyotas win Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain

  Run 1-2 in WEC race
Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez led home a 1-2 victory for the Japanese manufacturer at the conclusion of the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain. The No.7 Toyota TS050 HYBRID finished a lap ahead of their teammates, Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley who were slightly hampered due to contact from another car at the very start of the race.

Rebellion beats Ginetta to WEC Bahrain pole

  Toyota third and fourth
Rebellion Racing has claimed pole position for the 2019 FIA WEC 8 Hours of Bahrain, its second pole in a row this season after a strong performance from Bruno Senna and Norman Nato. The duo set a 1:42.979 combined time, to go over a tenth clear at the top. In LMP2 it was United Autosports’ day, Phil Hanson and Paul Di Resta taking pole with a 1:45.357 combined time. GTE Pro saw the factory crew finish 1-2 with the #91 Porsche taking pole.

The top 6 non-stories of F1's 2019 season

  by Andrew Maitland
Coming in at an impressively arduous 21 races, the 2019 Formula 1 season may have been a never-ending stream of fun for the fan - but for the writer, it was an awful lot of hard work. With all those media scrums taking place almost non-stop in paddocks spanning most of the continents of the planet, we're talking thousands upon thousands of news headlines. What was hot in 2019? What was not?

New BMW M2 CS and BMW M2 CS Racing

  The success story continues
The success story continues: With the BMW M2 CS Racing, BMW M Motorsport continues its tradition of close-to-production customer racing vehicles. The BMW M2 CS Racing is convincing with impressive driving performance and offers motorsport beginners the performance of a pedigree racing car at an attractive price. The BMW M GmbH special edition is also set to make its US debut at the LA Autoshow in November.

GMA Partners With Racing Point F1 on T.50 Supercar

  Has Most Advanced Aerodynamics Ever
Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) is partnering with the Racing Point Formula One Team to further develop and test the aerodynamics of its forthcoming T.50 supercar. According to Professor Gordon Murray, the driver-focused new model will have the most advanced and most effective aerodynamics ever seen on a road car.

Engineering Student Awarded Life-Changing Opportunity

  With Infiniti And Renault F1 Team
INFINITI announced that Tucson, Arizona engineering student, Andre Schreiber, was the recipient of the prestigious INFINITI 2019 Engineering Academy Finals award. This unique career opportunity will allow Schreiber to work closely with the INFINITI Technical Center and the Renault F1 Team for six months each, one year collectively. The 19-year-old electrical and computer engineering student, Andre Schreiber, was selected by a panel of judges from INFINITI, Renault F1 Team, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance and Harvard University, ahead of nine other finalists and hundreds of applicants from around the country in an action-packed final at INFINITI Cool Springs in Nashville (TN).

Lola, Chevron, Peugeot and Porsche Teams Prevail

  in Competitive HSR Classic Sebring 12 Hour
Iconic sports car racing marques Lola, Chevron, Peugeot and Porsche - raced in competition by top teams and drivers from around the world - emerged as deserving and persevering winners this weekend in the Fourth Annual Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Sebring 12 Hour at Sebring International Raceway. A tribute race to the timeless Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, which will be run for the 68th time this March, the Classic Sebring 12 Hour features four different Run Groups of vintage and historic sports cars that each took to the legendary Sebring road course four times in the last two days.

Toyota Gazoo Racing Back In Bahrain

  Neutered last race, can they bounce back in Bahrain?
Toyota Gazoo Racing returns to Bahrain to bring the curtain down on a highly-successful year with the fourth round of the 2019-2020 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The team returns for the 8 Hours of Bahrain as World Champions and in pole position to retain both drivers’ and teams’ titles, with two wins to their credit so far and five races remaining. Toyota Gazoo Racing leads its standings by 27 points while the #8 TS050 HYBRID crew of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley top the drivers’ championship by just three points from team-mates Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez in the #7 car.

2019 FIA Prize Giving ceremony held

  at the Carrousel du Louvre in the City of Light
The 2019 racing season concluded on Friday evening at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France with the annual FIA Prize Giving Gala, where the champions from a number of major international motorsport categories were officially crowned by receiving their FIA trophies. The Mercedes team cleaned with Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas all awarded trophies - Toto on behalf of the team, Lewis and Valtteri for finishing first and second, respectively, in this year's Formula One season. 

Kyle Busch honored as 2019 NASCAR Cup Series Champ

  NASCAR
NASCAR's biggest names gathered in Nashville, TN on Thursday night to honor 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Champion Kyle Busch. The gathering in Nashville—the first time the NASCAR Awards had traveled to Music City—honored Busch, who drove to his second series Championship on Nov. 17 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The annual awards ceremony marked the final

 

We drive the 2019 Kia Sorento SXL AWD

  by Ali Arsham
Kia’s best-selling Sorento has received some upgrades this year and Kia has been trying to make it more upscale.  We were intrigued so we just had to test it ourselves to see if their claims are just hype or for real. What we found was that just as in the past, the Sorento is still a great deal and its success is no accident. Well proportioned, the Sorento goes for a refined and rugged exterior look, which was established when it underwent a complete redesign for the 2016 model year. 

Weathertech Championship 2020: Who's Going Where?

  Halfway point to the Rolex 24
We’re just past the halfway point in the offseason which comes on the first weekend of January with the Roar Before the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Teams, drivers and manufacturers get a little break this week for the Thanksgiving holiday and another one next month around Christmas, but other than that, it’s going to be flat out right up until the Roar – and actually all the way up to the start of the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Saturday, Jan. 25. There has been a fair amount of movement in the driver and team ranks with lineup changes announced for 2020. Here’s a quick look and what’s been confirmed so far: