Ligier constructor Onroak Automotive has acquired the company that builds the US Formula 4 chassis.The Crawford Motorsport division, which formerly made Daytona Prototype chassis, has been incorporated into Onroak and its North Carolina workshops will become the service base for Ligier's LMP2, P3 and Group CN cars in North America.Onroak...

Tags: Tequila Patron ESM No. 2After two full seasons in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), Tequila Patrón ESM will return to the United States to compete in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2017.The Florida-based team will renew its current partnerships with Ligier and Oak Racing, through which the...

After two full seasons in the FIA World Endurance Championship, Tequila Patrón ESM will return to the United States to compete in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2017, the team announced Tuesday.The Florida-based team, which told RACER last week it was evaluating its options for next year, will renew...

Quadruple amputee Frederic Sausset will give his Garage 56 Le Mans 24 Hours racer its competition debut at the Silverstone European Le Mans Series round in April.The Silverstone ELMS event on the World Endurance Championship bill over the weekend of April 16-17 will be one of two races Sausset will...

The French Ligier marque will make up more than half the 2016 European Le Mans Series field.There are six LMP2 Ligier JSP2s built by Onroak Automotive on the entry for the Automobile Club de l'Ouest-run series and a total of 19 examples of its new JSP3 design in LMP3. The...

Dunlop will return to the LMP1 category for the first time since 2012 by supplying the privateer Rebellion Racing squad in this year's World Endurance Championship.Rebellion, which confirmed its intention to return to the WEC with an unchanged driver line-up last week, will be Dunlop's official development partner. A statement...

Ligier JS P2 chassis No. 9 is going to be a popular car this year. Two American teams will use the Honda-powered prototype for the world's most famous 24-hour races, and in both instances, the choice to use - and share - chassis No. 9 is being made for practical...

George Russell will switch to the new Hitech GP team for the 2016 Formula 3 European Championship. The British driver finished sixth in this year's standings as a rookie with Carlin, but has tested extensively with Hitech since the season finished. Russell was forced out of Carlin's Macau Grand Prix...

Tequila Patrón ESM has announced that Chris Cumming and Luis Felipe "Pipo" Derani (pictured from left) will join its driver roster of Scott Sharp, Ed Brown, Johannes van Overbeek and Ryan Dalziel for the nine-race 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The six drivers will compete in identical Tequila Patrón-sponsored...

The works OAK Racing Ligier team will continue in either LMP1 or the IMSA series when it is no longer allowed to compete in the World Endurance Championship's LMP2 division.OAK, which sealed the WEC LMP2 title in Bahrain last weekend as G-Drive Racing, will not be able to enter this...