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Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Next month’s 6 Hours of Barcelona is set for an unusual-looking Saturday schedule in order to better accommodate drivers hoping to contest both the penultimate FIA World Endurance Championship race of the season and the clashing Portimao GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS season finale. According to a draft weekend timetable seen by Sportscar365, the WEC’s LMGT3 and Hypercar classes will have their own standalone Free Practice 3 sessions on Saturday in what’s believed to be a first in series history. Instead of taking place back-to-back, the two categories’ respective qualifying sessions will also be held several hours apart, in order to give LMGT3 drivers also wishing to participate at Portimao more time to travel to the Portuguese venue. The three-hour Portimao race is due to begin at 5 p.m. local time which gives the LMGT3 runners approximately five-and-a-half hours once qualifying finishes at 12:20 p.m. to make the trip ...

Photo: ACO The FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have revealed a new ten-year deal that will see the two bodies work together to co-run the FIA World Endurance Championship. Revealed on Wednesday, what was described as a “landmark” agreement will run from the end of 2027, when the current deal lapses, through to the end of 2037. It guarantees the future of the WEC, and the place of the 24 Hours of Le Mans within it, after doubts emerged earlier this month about the state of the relationship between the world motorsport governing body and the ACO, which promotes the series through its Le Mans Endurance Management (LMEM) subsidiary. According to a statement released by both the FIA and ACO, as part of the new deal, “all regulatory processes will be overseen by FIA Working Groups, the FIA Endurance Commission, and will require the final approval of the FIA World Motor Sport Council”, while “the homologation process has also been streamlined, w...

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Photo: AO Racing AO Racing will prepare for Halloween early, with ‘Skeleton Rexy’ returning for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans, while ‘Rockie’ making its series debut. Unveiled on Tuesday, the team’s Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Nick Tandy, Harry King and Alessio Picariello will be sporting ‘Skeleton Rexy’ for the second consecutive year. The No. 77 Porsche will feature Rexy’s mouth and skeleton bones on the doors light up at night. It’s LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson for PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron and Jonny Edgar, meanwhile, swaps from ‘Spike’ to ‘Rockie’ for the ten-hour season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. It will mark the Mobil 1-branded Rockie’s debut in the WeatherTech Championship after the character debuted at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 Pro-Am class. Photo: AO Racing Photo: AO Racing Source: Sports Car 365

Photo: Gruppe C Photography/SRO BMW squad Team KRC has set its sights on a full Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign next year, while confirming plans to return to the FIA GT World Cup in Macau. The Taiwanese team contested two rounds on this year’s IGTC schedule: Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour, where it finished fifth on debut, and the Suzuka 1000km, where its Bronze Cup entry retired but its Pro-Am M4 GT3 EVO took third in class. Its expansion to a two-car Suzuka effort comes at a time that BMW is scaling back on its IGTC efforts, with no Pro class cars entered for the Japanese event. Now team director Mars Kang has outlined ambitions to take on a full IGTC schedule next year that would allow its regular FIA Bronze-rated driver, ‘Tony’ Ruan Cunfan, to fight for Independent Cup honors. It comes as the team prepares to field an M4 GT3 EVO on the streets of Macau in November for Augusto Farfus, who was part of the squad’s Pro-Am Suzuka 1000km effort an...

Photo: RacingPixels/Creventic Marcus Littlewood sealed the inaugural Radical Cup Europe title in the final round at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The RSR driver clinched the SR3 championship with a margin of 23 points to title rivals Sebastian Schou and Morten Strømsted. The prototype racing series was new for the 2026 season and was organized in collaboration with Creventic. It was the first time that Radical had hosted a racing series in Europe since the Radical European Masters championship which ran from 2008 to 2018. Littlewood claimed three wins across the season in his No. 3 Radical SR3 XXR. He was the only repeat winner of the year. A double podium at the opening round at Mugello was enough to provide an early lead on the points table. The British driver, who also took the Radical Cup UK title in 2025, had a difficult weekend at the season finale in Barcelona, scoring a best result of fourth in Race 2. However, his successful efforts earlier in the season provided enou...

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