Trending Sports Updates

Photo: Julien Delfosse/DPPI Former Alpine vice-president of motorsport Bruno Famin has joined the ACO as its new deputy director of competition, it has been announced. Famin, an engineer by trade who also looked after Alpine’s Formula 1 team at one stage, departed the French manufacturer last week . The highly experienced Frenchman, who previously worked as director of operations at the FIA following his long tenure with Peugeot Sport, will join ACO competition director Thierry Bouvet in the organization’s bolstered department, effective on Tuesday. Famin will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the ACO’s roadmap across all technical and sporting areas, while also being in close collaboration with the FIA in the development of future regulations. “Through this strategic appointment, the ACO is reaffirming its primary ambition: to build and promote increasingly attractive competition, firmly focused on innovation and fully aligned with the major challenges of the ...

Photo: Supplied Former Super2 front-runner and Bathurst 1000 endurance driver Tyler Everingham will turn his attention to Motorcraft Mustang Cup Australia. The 25-year-old will saddle up in the all-new, one-make Dark Horse R class with RM Race Cars, joining the team’s now four-strong lineup that includes 2022 Aussie Racing Cars champion Josh Anderson, Josh Trappett and Keith Kassulke. Everingham has been a leading driver in almost every racing category he has entered. He won the 2018 V8 Touring Car title before stepping up to Super2 where he won his maiden Supercars race at Sandown. He was also awarded the prestigious Mike Cable Young Gun Award in 2019 after claiming sixth overall in his maiden Super2 season. He has contested four Bathurst 1000s, with his best result coming in his last attempt in 2024 with Thomas Randle, finishing 11th. Everingham will drive one of the Dark Horse Rs that RM Race Cars imported from overseas, the car last raced at Le Mans as part of the Mustang ...

The 74th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring marked the second race for the Michelin Pilot Sport Endurance tire, bringing a new set of challenges after its successful debut at Daytona. At Sebring, those challenges were amplified by the circuit’s notoriously rough surface and high track temperatures. Laurin Heinrich, alongside co-drivers Julien Andlauer and Felipe Nasr, took the overall victory Saturday night in the No. 7 Porsche 963. With the win, the Porsche Penske Motorsport trio has now swept the opening two races of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. “In the heat of the day we were double stinting the tires, everything went seamless,” said Heinrich. “To execute on a day like this just makes me so proud, especially after winning GTD Pro here last year. Now stepping up to GTP and winning it as well.” Tire performance played a critical role throughout the race as teams managed long stints across evolving track conditions. Heinrich faced an early challenge after b...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic Sainteloc Junior Team took victory in the Michelin 12H Mugello after a tense final-hour battle with Herberth Motorsport. The No. 18 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II, driven by Pierre Kaffer, Michael Doppelmayr, Elia Erhart, Ernst Inderbitzin and Stephane Tribaudini, crossed the line just 5.758 seconds ahead of the No. 91 Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of Herberth Motorsport. The No. 44 ARC Bratislava Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO came home third overall and first in the GT3-Am class. The Slovakian team led the race on several occasions, but ultimately dropped to third during the final pitstops. Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport crossed the line in fourth. The No. 28 GetSpeed Team PCX Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo rounded out the top five. Friday’s polesitter dropped down to 14 th place at the overnight intervention, but fought back up to fifth at the flag. Sainteloc Junior Team started the final six-and-a-half hours of the race in fifth place on Sunday morning. T...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Porsche Penske Motorsport continued to hold control of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring as the race reached the halfway mark. The No. 7 Porsche 963 of Felipe Nasr held a 1.667-second lead over teammate Kevin Estre in the sister No. 6 machine with six hour completed, following what’s been a 90-minute green flag run. Nick Yelloly ran third in the No. 93 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06, with Fred Vesti and Tom Blomqvist having completed the top-five. Drama struck the No. 25 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Marco Wittmann in the fifth hour when Brendan Iribe spun his No. 70 Inception Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo and got collected by the German as the FIA Bronze-rated driver crept forward. Wittmann lost 15 laps in the garage undergoing left-rear suspension repairs, in what was the first, and only, significant setback for a GTP class entry so far. LMP2 was led by the No. 99 AO Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Dane Cameron, who was ahead of the No. 11 TDS Racing mac...

Photo: NLS Max Verstappen, Dani Juncadella and Jules Gounon have been disqualified from their victory in the opening Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie race of the season after their Winward Racing-run Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo used too many sets of tires. The Verstappen Racing entry had finished almost a minute clear of its rivals, having battled the Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of Christopher Haase in the early stages of the race, to seemingly give four-time Formula 1 champion Verstappen a second NLS win in his second top-class start. However, approximately two hours after the race’s conclusion, the trio were disqualified having breached the category’s rules concerning tire use. It was found that the Verstappen Racing car had used seven different sets of tires during the race day when regulations only permit six sets for each crew. Verstappen, Juncadella and Gounon were therefore disqualified and the victory instead was awarded to the No. 99 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO of D...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic HAAS RT’s No. 21 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II led the opening part of the Michelin 12H Mugello at the overnight intervention. Father-and-son duo Peter and Nicolas Guelinckx, who are the only two-driver lineup on the grid, held the lead as the opening five-and-a-half hours of the event came to a close Peter Guelinckx took the car to the flag with a lead of 39.637 seconds over the No. 44 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO of ARC Bratislava. The No. 21 GT3-Am class Audi started the race in 10th position and endured several battles in the mid-field in the early hours. Varied pitstop strategy after a series of brief Code 60 cautions saw HAAS RT’s car rise up to the head of the field. Herberth Motorsport’s Ralf Bohn overtook the HAAS RT No. 21 car for the lead in the final hour, but chose to pit for fuel in the final minutes after a late-race Code 60. All of the cars will be kept under parc fermé conditions until the race restarts on Sunday. Herberth Motorsport chos...