Manufacturers and drivers competing in the upcoming Bathurst 12 Hour will now also automatically score points towards the Intercontinental GT Challenge.Last year, the Intercontinental GT Challenge required separate registration, however entrants in both the GT3 and GT4 classes at Bathurst will now also be fighting for the first points in...

The German Phoenix squad will represent Audi in the final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at Sepang next month with two cars and six factory drivers.The pair of Phoenix Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars will be raced by Laurens Vanthoor, Robin Frijns and Christopher Haase, and Rene Rast, Markus...

Newly crowned Pirelli World Challenge GT champion team K-PAX Racing has announced a new addition to its race program with its McLaren 650S GT3: December's Sepang 12 Hours. The team will embark on its first endurance racing event with assistance from the McLaren factory."We have to thank McLaren GT for...

Bentley will contest the new-for-2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge. The British luxury car builder is the first manufacturer to announce that it has signed up for the challenge, which this season combines the big GT3 enduros at Bathurst, Spa and Sepang.The challenge has been devised as a prize for manufacturers, who...

The U.S. round of the new-for-2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge set for Circuit of The Americas in March has been canceled. Series boss Stephane Ratel, who launched plans for a challenge series combining four big GT3 enduros last September, blamed a lack of support from European teams for the decision to...

The factory Manthey team will represent Porsche in the GT World Cup in Macau next November. Porsche was one of the five manufacturers to sign up for the inaugural World Cup last month and has now revealed that it will step up its involvement with a full-factory presence in the...

Laurens Vanthoor returned from a two-month injury layoff to lead an Audi 1-2-3 in the Sepang 12 Hours GT race.While leading the Blancpain Sprint Series, Vanthoor sustained a double fracture of the hip during the Misano round in early October. Having been sidelined since, the Belgian returned in Malaysia as...

Audi has increased production of its new R8 GT3 racer and will deliver more than 50 cars to customers prior to the start of the season.A pre-season run of 45 of the second-generation R8 LMSs was planned, but that figure has been increased through additional demand for the V10-powered car....

The Phoenix Audi team has joined the entry for next month's Sepang 12 Hours enduro in Malaysia.Phoenix Racing, which has a combined total of three victories with Audi in the Nurburgring and Spa 24-hour classics, will field a solo second-generation R8 LMS under its own name for factory drivers Markus...

Blancpain GT Series frontrunner WRT will run two top-class driver lineups in its pair of Audis at the Sepang 12 Hours in December.Four Audi factory drivers will race the two second-generation R8 LMS GT3 contenders entered by WRT in the Malaysian event on Dec. 13, which is being run by...