The first winner of a new award set up in the name of the late Sean Edwards is Blancpain GT Series frontrunner Jules Szymkowiak.The 21-year-old Dutchman claimed the Sean Edwards Trophy for a young driver who shows similar attributes to the Porsche Supercup star, who died in 2013. It is...

Laurens Vanthoor and Frederic Vervisch have lost their second place in Sunday's Blancpain Sprint race at the Hungaroring after the pair received a post-race penalty for an unsafe release.Vanthoor emerged from the pits right behind the race-winning HTP Mercedes of Dominik Baumann and Maximillian Buhk, but faded in the latter...

The new Garage 59 McLaren squad took a narrow victory at the Monza Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup opener with Rob Bell, Come Ledogar and Shane van Gisbergen.Van Gisbergen withstood a challenge from HTP Mercedes driver Maximilian Buhk over the final 20 minutes to take the flag 0.341s ahead after...

Jazeman Jaafar will remain in Formula Renault 3.5 for a third season in 2015, moving to Fortec to partner Oliver Rowland.Jaafar drove for Carlin and ISR in his previous FR3.5 campaigns, taking three podium finishes so far and 10th in last year's championship, before testing for Fortec during the off-season."I...

WRT Audi driver Stephane Ortelli snatched pole position for the final round of the Blancpain Sprint Series by 0.038 seconds from teammate and overall Blancpain GT title hopeful Laurens Vanthoor."I was a bit disappointed at being told I was P2," said Vanthoor, "but when I heard it was Stephane [ahead],...

Laurens Vanthoor locked up the Blancpain Endurance Series title for himself and WRT Audi after winning the six-hour finale at the Nurburgring.The race began behind the safety car due to heavy rain and fog, but after 20 minutes it was finally able to get under way. Vanthoor's title hopes were...

Former Audi factory driver Alexandre Premat will return to the ART Grand Prix McLaren team for this weekend's Nurburgring Blancpain Endurance Series finale.Premat, who raced for Audi in both LMP1 and the DTM, has been brought back to drive the #98 ART McLaren MP4-12C in which he won the opening...

German Maximilian Buhk is set to drive his third HTP Mercedes entry of the season in the Blancpain Endurance Series finale at the Nurburgring this month.The German looks certain to be given the chance to race the #85 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG in the Nurburgring 1000Km on Sept. 21 in order...

Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos have been demoted to third in Sunday's main Blancpain Sprint Series race at Algarve after being deemed to have exceeded the track limits.The WRT Audi duo made a strong comeback through the field after Ramos dropped from fourth to eighth in the opening phase of...

Jeroen Bleekemolen and Hari Proczyk will start the fifth round of the Blancpain Sprint Series on pole position, having won the qualifying race at Algarve.The Lamborghini sweep of the front row was reversed by the time the cars reached the first corner, as Grasser driver Bleekemolen moved past polesitter Tomas...