Former McLaren Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has won Japan's Super GT Championship. The Finn, along with Lexus co-driver Kohei Hirate, clinched the title with victory in the season finale at Motegi.Unusually, the final event of the championship was a double-header, with a race added in place of the one...

Chinese entrant KCMG has brought back 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 winners Richard Bradley and Matt Howson for the defense of its class crown.The British duo, who won the class at Le Mans last season with Nicolas Lapierre, will be teamed with Tsugio Matsuda for KCMG's LMP2 one-off entry...

The three Le Mans newcomers in Nissan's LMP1 squad for the 24 Hours will undertake their rookie laps at the wheel of a Ginetta LMP3 car at the official test day.Max Chilton, Alex Buncombe and Tsugio Matsuda will undertake the 10 laps of the Circuit de la Sarthe necessary to...

Related StoriesGP3 race winner Jann Mardenborough (ABOVE) was revealed as one of the drivers of Nissan's innovative LM P1 racing car at the Chicago Motor Show today. At the same time in Yokohama, Japan, it was announced that fellow GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez had also been selected to race...

A second wave of drivers announced for Nissan's 2015 assault on the World Endurance Championship with the radical GT-R LM NISMO includes LMP2 frontrunners Harry Tincknell and Olivier Pla.Tincknell and Pla have been unveiled as full-season drivers in the Japanese manufacturer's two-car LMP1 assault on the WEC along with reigning...

Switzerland's Alexandre Imperatori will return to the Chinese KCMG LMP2 squad for the Le Mans 24 Hours and other selected World Endurance Championship events in 2014.Imperatori, who drove KCMG's Morgan-Nissan LMP2 at Le Mans last season and in the Silverstone WEC round, will race the team's new ORECA-Nissan 03 alongside...

Two-time Formula Nippon champion Tsugio Matsuda will race a prototype for the first time in the Fuji World Endurance Championship round, ahead of a possible Le Mans 24 Hours debut next year.Matsuda, 34, has been given a prototype chance by the KCMG squad, which in June became the first Chinese...