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Photo: JEP/SRO Bastian Buus will make his DTM debut, joining Land-Motorsport as the team remains active in the German sprint championship following its switch from Audi to Porsche. The Danish racer, a former Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup champion and GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Sprint Cup class winner, will pilot a Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo for the German squad. Land recently announced a partnership with Porsche after parting ways with Audi, which will see it return to the Stuttgart manufacturer after it competed successfully in Carrera Cup competition in its early years. “We are very proud to remain part of the DTM moving into the new season and firmly believe that we have a strong package in partnership with Porsche,” said team principal Christian Land. “In our debut season we demonstrated that we can be right up at the sharp end of the field, and that’s something we will be looking to build on in 2026. With Bastian we have a young driver who brings a lot of talent to the...

Photos: Porsche Flynt Schuring and Marcus Amand have been named Porsche’s new Junior drivers for 2026. Announced during Saturday’s ‘Night of Champions’ awards dinner, the two 19-year-olds from The Netherlands and Finland prevailed in a recent shootout involving 12 drivers nominated from each Porsche single-make Carrera Cup around the world. Both will compete in a full season of Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, as well as a national Porsche Carrera Cup of their choice next year. Amand (pictured above, right) won the Porsche Carrera Cup France title this year, while Schuring won three races in Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Germany and finished third overall in Supercup. In addition to a total of up to €120,000 ($139,000 USD) per junior, Porsche Motorsport’s support also includes intensive training in areas such as vehicle technology, setup work, fitness, nutrition, media and marketing work and career planning. Schuring’s older brother, Morris, is already a Porsche-contracted driver and compe...

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Photo: JEP/SRO Boutsen VDS has announced a new partnership with Porsche in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, joining the Stuttgart marque after a two-year stint campaigning Mercedes-AMG machinery. The Belgian squad will field a pair of Porsche 911 GT3 R Evos in both the Sprint and Endurance Cup, with Alessio Picariello named as the first driver for its Pro effort. “First of all, I would like to thank our former partner, with whom we won the GT World Challenge Europe Silver Cup in the last two seasons,” said team principal Olivier Laine. “However, we are taking on a new challenge which we hope will allow us to aim even higher. I am very excited about racing Porsches next year, especially as we will be a privileged partner of the marque in Europe. “I can already tell you that we will have a Belgian driver in the Pro car in the form of Alessio Picariello, this year’s GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup champion. “I would like to thank my partner, Marc van der Straten,...

Photo: Sandy Mitchell FB Sandy Mitchell will embark on his first full season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship as part of Pfaff Motorsports’ full-time GTD Pro driver pairing. The Scottish driver,  who has been part of Lamborghini’s factory driver roster, will team up with incumbent Andrea Caldarelli for the full season. Mitchell, who primarily raced in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS this season, has four previous WeatherTech Championship starts to his name, including a maiden appearance with Pfaff at this year’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen. Caldarelli and Mitchell will be joined by a rotating cast of co-drivers for the Michelin Endurance Cup rounds, as James Hinchcliffe and Mirko Bortolotti join the team for January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Florida endurance classic will be the final time Pfaff runs the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2, as it will switch to the debuting Temerario GT3 starting at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. At Sebring, Franck...

Photo: Asian Le Mans Series An entry list featuring 48 cars has been released for next month’s opening round of the new Asian Le Mans Series season at Sepang. Published on Friday, the list features the same roster of 16 LMP2s, 10 LMP3s and 22 GT cars that were listed when the full-season entry was revealed in September, and marks an increase of six cars compared to last year’s grid at the Malaysian track. While most lineups for the two four-hour races on Dec. 13-14 in the headline LMP2 class were already revealed by their respective teams, the list fills some notable gaps. DKR Engineering has recruited Mathias Beche and Australian rising star Griffin Peebles to pilot its No. 3 Oreca 07 Gibson alongside Alexander Mattschull, with Peebles having contest the two Middle Eastern rounds in LMP3 for Bretton Racing last season. Proton Competition meanwhile has signed European Le Mans Series race winner Lorenzo Fluxa to join Horst Felbermayr Jr and Horst Felix Felbermayr in its No. 88 c...

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