World Sportscar Championship | 1985 World Sportscar Championship season | 1984 World Sportscar Championship season | 2003 FIA Sportscar Championship season | 1988 World Sportscar Championship season | 1990 World Sportscar Championship season | 1987 World Sportscar Championship season | 1976 World Sportscar Championship season | 1959 World Sportscar Championship season |
Jo Siffert and Pedro Rodríguez, who had an intense rivalry driving for John Wyer's Gulf-sponsored works Porsche endurance sportscar team both lost their lives racing in 1971.
He was killed a week later while driving a privately entered Ferrari 512 at an Interserie sportscar race at the Norisring in Germany.
For the 2010 motor racing season, Al Harthy chose to move into the ultra-competitive world of sportscar racing by signing to race for the Redline Racing team in the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Championship – a support category to the UK's biggest motor racing series, the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
Lancia was also involved in sportscar racing since 1979 with the Monte Carlo model, followed by the LC1 and LC2 prototypes; Lancia won the World Championship for Makes in 1981 and the program continued until 1985.
But after the car had undertaken a tour of that years motorshows, and after feedback from a customer tour in the United States, in the mid-1980s it was sold to Jacques Swaters, a Belgian racing driver turned businessman and car collector who ran a prominent privateer Ferrari endurance and sportscar racing team.
Best known for his sportscar and British Formula One career, as well as for brokering sponsorship deals, Edwards participated in 17 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1974.
The two-seater sportscar had a tubular chassis with an Austin A40 or Coventry Climax 1100cc engine.
The Kremer K8 Spyder, along with its predecessor, the CK7, were open-cockpit prototypes built by Kremer Racing for use in multiple sportscar series, such as the IMSA GT Championship, Interserie, and International Sports Racing Series.
On several occasions both Johansson and Arnoux struggled to outqualify 1987 Formula 3000 champion Stefano Modena and sportscar driver, 33 year old Argentine Oscar Larrauri (an F1 rookie) in the equally uncompetitive EuroBrun (the EuroBrun team were F1 'rookies' in 1988, though Modena, who had made his debut with Brabham in 1987, was seen at that stage as a future star of the sport...if he could get a competitive drive).
Besides running the full FIA Sportscar Championship schedule, the Bob Berridge, along with the assistance of DAMS, were granted special permission to enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the creation of a film about the comic book character Michel Vaillant, with the B98/10 representing the hero.
Judd would use their Formula One V10 engine though dubbed the GV10 in the sportscar application.
RGE was sponsored an SR8 rolling chassis by Radical Sportscars to convert into a road legal electric sportscar.
Team Sovereign did not enter a Rapier 6 in the FIA Sportscar Championship again until the fifth round of the 2003 season, which was the 2 Hours 30 Minutes of Donington Park; Flux returned to the team, and he helped Millard to take fifth overall, and third in the SR2 category.
This new business acquired assets relating to the MG XPower SV sportscar from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the administrators of the defunct MG Rover Group, and intended to continue production of the model as the MG XPower WR.