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Photo: Lukas Sauseng Photography Razoon – More Than Racing will contest a full season of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS for the first time this season after taking delivery of a new Porsche 911 GT3 R. The squad had been a regular in the 24H Series before making its GT3 competition debut last year and was victorious at the ADAC GT Masters opener. Razoon also made a one-off GTWC Europe appearance at Misano in 2025 with Klaus Bachler and Simon Birch at the wheel of a Porsche. It is now planning a full campaign this year and its drivers will be revealed in due course. “Our entry into the GT World Challenge Europe is a dream come true!” said team owner Dominik Olbert. “It has always been my goal to compete in the best possible racing series, and in the GT3 category, the GT World Challenge Europe is undoubtedly the top international class. “We got a first impression during our guest appearance in Misano last year and now know what we are getting ourselves int...

Photo: SUPER GT Team Mach has completed its SUPER GT lineup for the upcoming season by signing ex-Honda and Red Bull junior driver Souta Arao. Team owner Tetsuji Tamanaka revealed on social media that Arao, 20, will partner Yusuke Shiotsu at the wheel of the minnow squad’s No. 5 Toyota 86 Mother Chassis. Arao replaces Iori Kimura, who has moved on to join the Kondo Racing Nissan team, and is set to drive for the team for the first time in next month’s first official pre-season test at Okayama International Circuit on March 6-7. While mostly known for his single-seater exploits in French Formula 4, GB3 and Super Formula Lights, Arao also contested a single Super Taikyu round in 2024 aboard Team HRC’s ST-Q class Honda Civic Type R CNF Concept. He lost his Honda backing at the end of that year and spent most of 2025 on the sidelines, except for a single Super Formula Lights outing at the start of the season and then a surprise appearance in Super Formula’s end-of-season Suzuka test...

Image: Harmony Racing Ferrari outfit Harmony Racing has announced it will field three cars in this year’s GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS, including a new Pro-Am entry. The Chinese squad will field a trio of Ferrari 296 GT3 Evos in the six-round campaign that kicks off at Sepang in Malaysia on April 4-5, and will also continue to contest the Silver-Am and Silver divisions as well as the top Pro-Am category. It follows the team dipping its toe into Pro-Am in the final two rounds of the 2025 season at Okayama and Beijing when factory Ferrari racer Yifei Ye joined the team. Sharing the No. 95 Pro-Am car that sports a special Toy Story-themed livery (pictured top) will be Song Jiajun, who takes on a full season after a one-off outing for the team partnering Ye at Okayama, and GTWC Australia regular Brendon Leitch. The pair shared a car in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia last year, placing sixth in Pro-Am. “I’m very excited to be joining Harmony Racing and Song Jaijun for the s...

Photo: Rutronik Racing Rutronik Racing has revealed a GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup lineup entirely comprised of Lamborghini factory drivers as it switches to running a Temerario GT3 this year, with Luca Engstler and Marco Mapelli joining the already-announced Patric Niederhauser. The team has regularly fielded a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the category since 2021, and won last year’s Endurance Cup with Niederhauser, Sven Muller and Alessio Piciarello, but has opted to switch to Lamborghini for the Temerario GT3’s first season of competition . Niederhauser remains with the outfit from its Porsche days and will be joined by Engstler, who won the Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa last season with Grasser Racing Team, for a Sprint Cup campaign. Engstler was previously part of the Rutronik squad in ADAC GT Masters in 2022, and scored his first-ever GT3 podium with the team. “We have a new car and a lot to learn, but I think we have the right people in the team a...

Photo: Fabrizio Boldoni/DPPI Action Express Racing elected not to pursue an entry request for the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year in order to focus on its its IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program according to team manager Gary Nelson. The five-time WeatherTech Championship title-winning squad, which has contested the French endurance classic since the debut of the LMDh platform in 2023, elected to stand down from this year’s race, as Nelson believes its previous participation in the twice-around-the-clock enduro compromised its GTP efforts Stateside. “We’ve gone three years in a row,” Nelson told Sportscar365. “You may say some of our toughest IMSA seasons have been those three years. “I think it makes sense to us to try and concentrate on our IMSA program and see if we could build it up. “After that conversation last summer, then we went on to win the last couple of races and then ran good in Daytona this year. “I think the focus is already showing that we’re focused...

Photo: Toyota Toyota teams locked out the top three spots across two days of GT500 manufacturer testing at Fuji Speedway, as 11 cars took to the track in the final group running before SUPER GT’s first official pre-season test early next month. Sho Tsuboi set the fastest time of the test on Friday morning, a 1:25.814, aboard the title-winning No. 36 TOM’S Toyota GR Supra to top the test by a margin of almost seven tenths of a second from Rookie Racing driver Nirei Fukuzumi. The opening day of action had seen Fukuzumi set the pace on a 1:26.518 in the afternoon session at the wheel of the No. 14 GR Supra, but somewhat cooler conditions at Fuji on Friday resulted in the majority of cars improving their best lap times. That time however was still good enough for second overall, marginally ahead of Toshiki Oyu in the Cerumo Toyota, who was second-fastest on Friday with a 1:26.596. Best of the non-Toyotas was the Team Kunimitsu Honda HRC Prelude-GT with a time of 1:26.637 set by Naok...

Photo: Ralf Aron Instagram Ralf Aron has been released from the hospital following his back-breaking accident in last weekend’s Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour. The Mercedes-AMG factory driver sustained two fractured vertebrae in a massive crash when his then-leading Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo slammed into the spun Tsunami RT Porsche 911 GT3 R of Johannes Zelger in the second half of the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener, that resulted in a near one-hour red flag. Aron was transported to Orange Hospital by ambulance and revealed on Monday the severity of his injuries . The 27-year-old Estonian wrote on social media that he’s able to “stand up and walk a little” although will remain in Sydney for the time being due to not yet being medically cleared to fly. He is pictured wearing a brace. Aron also wrote that both of his parents also arrived in Australia, ahead of the start of his recovery process in Australia. The accident has come under significant scrutiny...