The Signatech-Alpine team has announced that former official Toyota driver Nicolas Lapierre will return to defend his World Endurance Championship LMP2 title. The team will stick with its Alpine A460, modified to suit the revised regulations.Lapierre, along with teammates Gustavo Menezes and Stephane Richelmi, won the P2 class at the...

Former GP2 driver Stephane Richelmi will move from the GT to the prototype ranks for an assault on this year's World Endurance Championship with the Signatech Alpine LMP2 squad.Richelmi, who raced for the WRT Audi team in the Blancpain GT Series last season, will share Signatech's lead Alpine-badged ORECA-Nissan 05...

Julian Leal has lost his pole position for GP2's reversed-grid race at Sochi after being penalized for a collision in Saturday's opener at the Russian Grand Prix event.Carlin driver Leal finished eighth on the road in race one, which would have placed him on pole for Sunday morning. But he...

GP2 race winner Stephane Richelmi will contest the rest of the Blancpain GT season with the WRT Audi team.The deal, which begins with the Blancpain Endurance Series finale at the Nurburgring this weekend, marks Richelmi's first taste of top-level sports car racing. The 24-year-old joins Jean-Luc Blanchemain and Christian Kelders...

Jolyon Palmer took a huge step toward the 2014 GP2 Series title by scoring victory in the Monza sprint race on Sunday morning. The win completed an amazing turnaround after being thrown to the back of yesterday's feature race grid.DAMS driver Palmer, who stormed to P8 from last on the...

Caterham driver Rio Haryanto has lost his front-row start for the Monaco GP2 feature race after being hit with a blocking penalty post-qualifying.Haryanto had topped the group B session in Monte Carlo's split qualifying format, earning him second on the grid alongside polesitter Jolyon Palmer, who set the pace in...

Jolyon Palmer will start from pole position in Friday's Monaco GP2 feature race for the DAMS squad after setting the fastest time in the quickest of the qualifying sessions.Split into two 16-minute periods, Group A for odd-numbered cars and Group B for evens, it was the first session that proved...

Points leader Jolyon Palmer (pictured) set the fastest time in GP2 free practice in Monaco on Thursday morning.After a brief rain shower, the track was dry for the 45-minute session. As ever in Monaco, finding a clear lap was the order of the day, but it was not until the...

Stephane Richelmi claimed pole position for Saturday's main race in the second round of the GP2 Series in Spain, ahead of DAMS teammate Jolyon Palmer.The 24-year-old was quick out of the blocks and set a time of 1m29.293s on his second lap of the session, and despite the best efforts...

Current GP2 Series leader Jolyon Palmer set the fastest time in free practice ahead of round two at Barcelona on Friday morning.The DAMS driver immediately hit the top of the timesheets with a time of 1m30.798s which he then whittled down to 1m30.448s on the sixth lap during his first...