A long-term friend of Goodwood motorsport, 2009 F1 World Champion and current Extreme E driver Jenson Button will make his historic racing debut at the Goodwood Revival, taking place September 17-19 at Britain’s much-heralded Goodwood Motor Circuit.The Englishman is set to take part in the Friday-evening Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy....

Brazilian racing designer Ricardo Divila has died at the age of 74. Although he first gained international prominence as the designer of the early Copersucar Fittipaldi Formula 1 cars of the 1970s and '80s, Divila (pictured at right, above, in 1982) had a widely varied and accomplished body of work...

2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will partner with GT team RJN Motorsport to field a Honda NSX GT3 Evo in the 2019 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Silver category under the "Jenson Team Rocket RJN" banner. The team could add a second car for the 24 Hours of...

HTP Mercedes driver Maximilian Buhk claimed pole position for the opening round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Monza.The German jumped to the top spot aboard his Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the closing stages of the final 15-minute qualifying session with a 1m47.509s. That gave him the pole by...

Nissan will defend its Bathurst 12 Hours crown next February with a solo factory-backed GT-R NISMO GT3. The Japanese manufacturer, which took a dramatic victory in last year's event with Wolfgang Reip, Katsumasa Chiyo and Florian Strauss, will again make its entry under the NISMO Athlete Global Team banner.The car...

Nissan LMP1 driver Harry Tincknell will make his GT debut with the Japanese manufacturer in this month's Blancpain Endurance Series finale at the Nurburgring. The 23-year-old Briton will be the professional driver in the RJN team's pro-am class Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 alongside GT Academy winners Gaeton Paletou and Ricardo...

Nissan LMP1 driver Jann Mardenborough has been drafted into the Japanese marque's driver lineup for this weekend's Silverstone round of the Blancpain Endurance Series. The Briton, who is also racing in GP3 with Carlin this year, will take the professional seat in the #22 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 run by...

Three winners of Nissan's GT Academy video gamer-to-racer scheme will team up for an assault on this year's Blancpain Endurance Series.Frenchman Gaetan Paletou and Mexican Ricardo Sanchez, respective winners of the European and International competitions last year, will share a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 run by the RJN Motorsport squad,...

Nissan will bid for overall honors in the Blancpain Endurance Series for the first time this year with an all-professional factory lineup.The RJN Motorsport team, which has run the Japanese manufacturer's programs in the series since its creation in 2011, will field a GT-R NISMO GT3 in the Pro class...

Two-time Super GT champion Masataka Yanagida will join Nissan's lineup for this month's Spa 24 Hours.The long-time Nissan driver, who won the GT500 title in 2011-12 with Ronnie Quintarelli, has been placed in one of the Japanese manufacturer's RJN-run GT-R GT3 NISMOs for the double-points Blancpain Endurance Series round on...