Motorsport News

Despite it being already more than a third of the way through the year, last weekend Lydia Walmsley and her team headed for Snetterton for the first rounds of the year of the Mini challenge Cooper classes.

In intermittent sunny and cloudy conditions for the late-afternoon race, Paul Bailey and Andy Schulz confirmed their dominance of the day in the SB Race Engineering Ferrari 488 Challenge with a convincing win.

SMP Racing has given Ferrari its first Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup victory in more than six years with a thrilling charge to the front at Silverstone.

Grasser Racing secured its second successive Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup pole position with the #63 Lamborghini crew of Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen.

Following hot on the heels of last weekend's Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe season-opener at Brands Hatch (4/5 May), the Silverstone contest will see the historic Northamptonshire venue stage its ninth event since the formation of the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2011.