Former IndyCar driver James Jakes has been replaced by 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 winner Matt Howson at Manor for this weekend's Nurburgring World Endurance Championship round. Howson will drive alongside Tor Graves and Antonio Pizzonia in the No.44 Manor ORECA-Nissan 05 LMP2 entry.Manor sporting director Graeme Lowdon was...

Ex-Formula 1 driver Antonio Pizzonia is set to return to the World Endurance Championship with the Manor LMP2 team later this month.The former Jaguar and Williams racer, who was a WEC P2 class winner with the Delta-ADR squad in 2013, has been listed on the entry for the German event...

Manor Motorsport's new ORECA LMP2 coupe has been given a successful shakedown on Paul Ricard's training circuit.The ORECA-Nissan 05 was given its maiden run by Richard Bradley on Thursday morning ahead of the car's participation in the official World Endurance Championship pre-season test at Ricard on Friday and Saturday.Manor sporting...

Ex-British Formula 3 Championship frontrunner Matt Rao has joined the Manor LMP2 team's assault on the World Endurance Championship this year.The 21-year-old, who finished a close second in British F3 in 2014, will race the additional entry of a second ORECA-Nissan 05 coupe that Manor Motorsport announced last week."Matt has...

James Jakes will switch from IndyCar racing to rejoin Manor for an attack on the World Endurance Championship this season. The 28-year-old Briton, who raced for Manor Motorsport in Formula 3 and GP3 in 2007 and 2010, respectively, will line up with fellow Manor alumni Will Stevens and Tor Graves...

Mikhail Aleshin is expected to rejoin Schmidt Peterson Motorsports next season and complete the team's full-time Verizon IndyCar Series lineup. Multiple sources confirmed SPM Indy Lights driver Jack Harvey will not land the seat; 2015 SPM IndyCar driver James Jakes left the team thoroughly underwhelmed, and part-time SPM IndyCar driver...

By Dave LewandowskiPublished: Oct 8, 2015Second of three parts looking at the Verizon IndyCar Series season of Graham Rahal through the eyes of others. Today, race engineer Eddie Jones.While veteran Indy car engineer Eddie Jones worked with Rahal Letterman Lanigan drivers James Jakes in 2013 and Oriol Servia and Luca...

Notes: No. 1 Sato fan joins others in celebrationBy Dave LewandowskiPublished: Aug 2, 2015LEXINGTON, Ohio -- One one side of Takuma Sato's helmet in script is "Sao Paulo 001" and on the reverse side is "Mid-Ohio 100." Down the middle are outlines of various tracks where Sato has competed in...

By Arni SribhenPublished: Jun 30, 2015BOONE, Iowa -- James Jakes is used to racing race cars capable of speeds of more than 230 mph.The Verizon IndyCar Series driver for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports experienced something much slower on June 30 -- an antique tractor with a top speed of 14 mph."I...

By Dave LewandowskiPublished: Jun 28, 2015Graham Rahal’s ascent from 19th on the starting grid of the MAVTV 500 to Victory Circle at Auto Club Speedway proved to be the most positions gained in the 250-lap race on the 2-mile oval.Rahal, driving the No. 15 Mi-Jack Honda for Rahal Letterman Lanigan...