Former Andretti Autosport Indy Lights driver Dean Stoneman will make the transition from open-wheel racing to piloting GT cars this year in Europe with McLaren factory team Strakka Racing. The 26-year-old Briton will share a twin-turbo V8-powered McLaren 650S GT3 with Andrew Watson and Jazeman Jaafar in the Blancpain Endurance...

Former sports car racer Danny Watts has come out as gay, adding that he felt he could not acknowledge his sexuality during his career in motorsports.The 37-year-old Briton told Gay Times he had felt he would "need to live in the closet if I wanted my motorsport career to go...

The British Strakka team will move from the prototype ranks of the World Endurance Championship to the Blancpain GT Series with McLaren next season.Strakka, which notched up top-six finishes at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2010 and '13 with LMP2 and LMP1 machinery respectively, will field a minimum of...

The Strakka LMP2 squad will miss the final two rounds of this year's World Endurance Championship.The engine problems that blighted the performance of the Strakka Racing Gibson-Nissan 015S in the final stages of this month's Fuji WEC round have been analyzed and found to be terminal.Customs regulations have precluded the...

Former GP3 driver Lewis Williamson will complete the World Endurance Championship season with the Strakka Racing LMP2 squad.The 26-year-old Briton made his race debut in the team's Gibson-Nissan 015S at last month's Nurburgring round and will now contest the remaining five races alongside Jonny Kane and Nick Leventis. Williamson, who...

Ex-Formula Renault 3.5 and GP3 driver Lewis Williamson will make his sportscar debut with the Strakka LMP2 team in the Nurburgring World Endurance Championship round later this month. The Briton, who races for the British outfit in the Renault Sport RS01 Trophy, will take the place of team regular Danny...

Scrutineering for the 84th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans was completed on a wet/dry Monday as the rest of the 60-car field went through car inspection and driver registration in the town center.Among the fan favorites to weave through the various scrutineering stations, Aston Martin, Audi, and...

Porsche maintained its monopoly of the top spots in the timesheets in second practice for this weekend's World Endurance Championship opener at Silverstone.The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid again led the way, with Brendon Hartley setting a session best of 1m39.655s. That put him more than a second and a half...

Strakka Racing has suspended its Formula V8 3.5 championship program and will miss this weekend's season opener at Aragon after failing to sign drivers with sufficient budget.The team joined the series in 2013 in cooperation with P1 Motorsport, and last year it finished fourth in the championship, with Cypriot Tio...

The Tech 1 and Pons teams have pulled out of the Formula V8 3.5 series less than a month before the start of the season.French squad Tech 1, twice a teams' champion and a regular race winner during the championship's Formula Renault 3.5 era, will be replaced by Durango, which...