While competing in a private test at the same venue last Thursday, Schmid reported physical discomfort and made a trip to hospital late in the day, where it was discovered that the pain was caused by his appendix.In a post on Instagram, Schmid posted a video with the caption “I’mContinue Reading
The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver lapped the Taupo International Motorsport Park track in 1:26.4937s to be just 0.03s clear of Matt Payne (Grove Racing) and Will Davison (Dick Johnson Racing).“We are pretty close with the car in Qualifying trim,” Mostert, who recently became a father for the first time,“This trackContinue Reading
Three-time DTM champion Rast set a best time of 1m37.077s on the second and final day of the running at the Hockenheimring to top the timesheets ahead of Schubert Motorsport team-mates Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann.Most of the test’s quickest laps were set during the final session onContinue Reading
The 26-year-old ended his three-month absence from behind the wheel of his Erebus-run Chevrolet Camaro at Winton Motor Raceway on Wednesday, completing a full day’s testing.Kostecki has sat out the opening two rounds (and six races) of the season and said that the test was about “trying to find myContinue Reading
Even though Waters got knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, that didn’t negatively affect his experience.“I had so much fun tonight and all day today. It is totally different racing from what I usually do, and I just wanted to learn,” he said. “I learned soContinue Reading
Following in the footsteps of Supercars champs Shane van Gisbergen and Brodie Kostecki, Waters will make his NASCAR debut early next month.The Australian driver has started nearly 250 Supercars races during his career, winning 11 races. He has been the championship runner-up twice, and has three podiums in the series’Continue Reading
After Matt Payne snatched pole position by a tiny margin of 0.0078s in morning Qualifying, Cam Waters won the start and Payne snuck past after a lap. But before that lap ended, and under pressure from Broc Feeney’s Chevrolet Camaro, the two Mustangs clashed at the final corner.Tickford’s Racing’s WatersContinue Reading
Feeney arrived at the Australian Grand Prix second in the points but, after taking pole position for the weekend’s opening race, could only watch on as Anton de Pasquale took an early lead in the shortened 18-lap race.But the positions swapped back before the end of the first lap, withContinue Reading
All three drivers will race for the expanded Schubert Motorsport team, a departure from BMW’s previous philosophy of splitting its DTM attack across two separate outfits.BMW reasoned that by consolidating its entire line-up in a single team it will be able to pool its strengths and “create optimal conditions” toContinue Reading
The team entering its 30th season, run by Hans-Bernd Kamps, has also announced that its event company Project 1 Drivetime, which ran the BMW M2 Cup on the DTM undercard, will also close down.A short statement released by the team on Monday evening said: “After numerous discussions with investors, manufacturers,Continue Reading