Toyota Motor Philippines kicked off its 2023 motorsports season with the first local round of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Gran Turismo Cup (TGR GT Cup PH) and the first of three legs of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Vios Cup (TGR Vios Cup).
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July 11, 2023
Toyota Motor PH Kicks Off 2023 Motorsports Season With Leg 1 Of TGR Vios Cup, TGR GT Cup PH
Toyota Motor Philippines kicked off its 2023 motorsports season with the first local round of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Gran Turismo Cup (TGR GT Cup PH) and the first of three legs of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Vios Cup (TGR Vios Cup).
Bianca Bustamante Scores Second F1 Academy Win
Bianca Bustamante, scored a second win of her 2023 F1 Academy season on Prema Racing’s home soil at the famous Autodromo Nazionale Monza after a stellar weekend performance.
June 29, 2023
BMW To Race 20th Art Car At Le Mans 2024
Copied, but never equaled, BMW has announced the latest BMW Art Car. New York-based artist Julie Mehretu will create the 20th BMW Art Car.
June 27, 2023
SeaOil Renews Support For Radical Challenge PH 2023 Season
Radical Cars Philippines announces the return of the country's fastest race series for its second season. Along with official fuel partner SeaOil Philippines, the 2023 SeaOil Radical Challenge Philippines is set to kick-off its season this July.
June 26, 2023
Ryan Reynolds Invests In Alpine F1 Team
Actor Ryan Reynolds, through his company, Maximum Effort Investments and Otro Capital and its partner, RedBird Capital Partners, is pouring a 200 million euros into the Alpine F1 team. This represents a 24 percent equity stake in the Formula One team.
June 23, 2023
Women's World Car Of The Year Wants To Draw Attention To Role Of Women In Motorsports
Women’s World Car of the Year celebrates June 24th, International Women Drivers’ Day, by drawing attention to the role of women in motorsports. A survey led by Belgian analyst Candice Bouzendorff revealed that 17.9 percent of respondents don’t know any female motorsports drivers, while 28.5 percent approve of separate categories based on gender. The study also found that 29.6 percent of those interviewed don’t even know if women work in motorsports.
June 12, 2023
Ferrari Returns To Le Mans In Style By Winning Over Dominant Toyota
Ferrari ended a 50-year absence from the 24 Hours of Le Mans in style: by toppling mighty Toyota in the centenary running of the most iconic sports car race in the world.
May 24, 2023
Honda Set For F1 Return In 2026 As Engine Supplier To Aston Martin
Honda is returning to the Formula One World Championship (F1) as a power unit supplier from the 2026 season onwards. The Japanese carmaker has entered a works partnership with the Aston Martin F1 team to supply power units compliant with the new F1 power unit regulations which will take effect in the 2026 season.
2023 PHRX Philippine Rally Flags Off At New Clark City On May 27-28
The Philippine Rallycross Series (PHRX) is set to host the 2023 Philippine Rally at the New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac. Five years following the group’s first rally, the 2018 Philippine Rally in Pampanga, the racing action will take place in Tarlac complete with 12 special stages on the dirt roads of Capas.
May 23, 2023
Hyundai Defends Nürburgring 24-Hour Race Crown
Hyundai successfully defended their class win at the 51st ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring. The Korean automaker snatched a class win and a second-place finish at one of the most demanding racing circuits in the world.
May 22, 2023
The Subaru WRX's 2.4-liter Turbo Is Now A Race-Proven Engine
Subaru’s FA24DIT, used in the current-generation (VB) WRX, can be considered as motorsports proven as it managed to finish the 24 Nürburgring 24 Hours Race.
May 12, 2023
Hyundai Targets 3rd Straight Nürburgring 24 Hours Endurance Race Win
Hyundai Motor Company will compete in the 2023 Nürburgring 24 Hours, the most grueling automotive endurance race in the world, for the eighth consecutive year, seeking its third straight victory in the TCR class and first win in the VT2 class.
May 8, 2023
Bianca Bustamante Becomes First Filipina To Win In F1 Academy
Round 2 of the 2023 F1 Academy series is one that will remain etched in the hearts of not only Filipina racing driver Bianca Bustamante, but all of the motorsport fans in the Philippines. It was an emotional moment for the 18-year-old as Lupang Hinirang, the Philippine national anthem, was played for the very first time in her professional career during the podium ceremony at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain after securing a maiden victory in Race 2 on Saturday.
May 2, 2023
Bianca Bustamante Shines With Podium On F1 Academy Debut
The very first season of the F1 Academy series kicked off in the Styrian mountains, in wet and cold conditions on April 28th. Prema Racing team’s Bianca Bustamante had a rollercoaster weekend with the highs of a first career podium in Race 1 contrasted by an anticlimactic Race 3, being unable to start due to a technical issue with her gearbox. However, the weekend was an overall positive for the young Filipina, with a solid qualifying performance and commendable race pace to take a healthy points haul and put herself sixth in the driver standings after Round 1 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria.
April 23, 2023
Subaru To Race All-New WRX At Nürburgring 24 Hours
Subaru and motorsports division, STI, will once again participate at the 51st Nürburgring 24 Hours Race using, what else, but with the all-new WRX. Set for May 20 to 21, this will be Subaru’s 14th time to participate in the world’s toughest endurance race, and the first to use an all-new racing engine and platform.
April 19, 2023
Mazda MX-5 Notches Another Endurance Race Win At 4-Hour Kagitingan Cup
The Mazda MX-5 once again proved to be a formidable racing platform by taking the 2023 Petron 4-hour Kagitingan Cup Win last April 16. Team MSCC Mazda Miata completed 89 laps with a best time of 1:56.054 bagging them the Class 1 and Open A categories for the 4-hour race. The team also finished second overall for the 2-hour race.
March 17, 2023
Toyota's Hydrogen-Powered Race Car Just Burned Down
Toyota learned first hand the dangers of using hydrogen as a fuel when its endurance race car—the #32 ORC Rookie GR Corolla H2 Concept burned down during a private test run.
March 10, 2023
Mazda PH, Manila Sports Car Club Kicks Off 2023 Season Of MSCC Miata Spec Series
The country’s only one-make sports car series returns. Mazda Philippines and the Manila Sports Car Club (MSCC) announces the 2023 season of the MSCC Miata Spec Series. As the official race event of the country’s premier sports car owners club, this year will have 22 racers all driving track-tuned Mazda MX-5 open-top sports cars.
March 1, 2023
Here Are Your 2022 Toyota Gazoo Racing Vios Cup Champions
Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) officially wrapped up the 2022 season of the Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) Vios Cup in an awarding ceremony held recently in Taguig City.
Honda Creates Wild 800-Horsepower CR-V Hybrid Racer
When it comes to go-fast Hondas, the last thing on your mind would be the CR-V. That’s probably the reason why the guys over at Honda Performance Development—the North American racing arm of Honda—decided to transform it anyway into an 800-horsepower machine.
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