SRO founder and leader Stephane Ratel sits with Graham Goodwin during the Intercontinenal Suzuka 10 Hours of race held in Japan to discuss the present and future of his GT2, GT3, and GT4 formulas, the global and North American Blancpain sports car series, and more in a wide-raging interview.[protected-iframe id="58bd41aecdaae8d58ff65baa8945126c-139854255-134428607"...

Like countless others around the world, Stephane Ratel and the whole SRO Motorsports Group team were left shocked and distraught by the fire that swept through the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral yesterday.SRO is immensely proud of its French roots and of the close connection it enjoys with the capital city....

SRO Motorsports Group announced Friday that it is incorporating WC Vision LLC and the Pirelli World Challenge into their organization, further strengthening SRO Motorsports Group's efforts to provide a global GT racing platform to drivers, teams and manufacturers.The North American leadership and series management will not change, while Bob Woodhouse,...

The 2016 season has been the dawn of a new era of sorts for the Pirelli World Challenge Series. The first few races of 2015 stirred discord between drivers and the series, which could be described as a "state of absolute of rebellion and frustration." Between a change of management...

Stephane Ratel's relationship with Pirelli World Challenge really started with "a problem."Ratel had a contract with a promoter in Azerbaijan for a race in Baku called the "Baku World Challenge." While in Baku, he got a letter from a lawyer telling him that "world challenge" was already owned. And the...

WC Vision announced today that SRO Motorsports Group owner and Blancpain GT Series CEO Stephane Ratel has been named to the WC Vision and the Pirelli World Challenge Board of Directors, as part of the SRO Motorsports Group becoming a shareholder in WC Vision.PWC officials first forged an alliance with...

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 U.S. round of next year's inaugural Intercontinental GT Challenge is set to be a six-hour enduro.The event, which will share the bill at Circuit of The Americas next March with the Pirelli World Challenge, was originally announced as a three-hour event by Stephane Ratel (LEFT) last month, but the...

The Blancpain Sprint Series has been been cut from seven to five rounds for 2016, with Brands Hatch one of only two circuits likely to remain on the calendar.Series boss Stephane Ratel said that the move was aimed at increasing the number of teams contesting both the BSS and its...

An Intercontinental GT Challenge incorporating the Spa 24 Hours and the Bathurst 12 Hours has been launched by Blancpain GT Series boss Stephane Ratel. They will combine with the Sepang 12 Hours, which the Stephane Ratel Organization has taken over this year, and a three-hour endurance race on the bill...