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Ex-williams Formula 1 driver Sergey Sirotkin will contest the remaining rounds of the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship with SMP Racing. He replaces Matevos Isaakyan in the Russian team’s #17 car line-up alongside Egor Orudzhev and Stephane Sarrazin for the 1000-mile Sebring race, the following round at Spa in May, and the Le Mans 24 Hours season finale… Conor Daly has joined Andretti Autosport for the 2019 Indianapolis 500, as the Indycar team expands to five entries. The former GP2 driver took part in last year’s Indy 500 for Dale Coyne Racing, only narrowly making the race after James Hinchcliffe and Pippa Mann were eliminated on Bump Day… Formula Renault Eurocup teams were able to shakedown the category’s new car for the first time at the Cremona Circuit in Italy last week. The car, which includes a halo, was tested by eight teams including defending champion R-ace GP… The Land Motorsport Audi has lost its second position in class at last month’s Daytona 24 Hours for a procedural irregularity. The German team’s GT Daytona class Audi R8 LMS driven by Dries Vanthoor, Christopher Mies, Daniel Morad and Ricky Feller has been penalised for a drive-time infringement and dropped to the back of the field… Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Risi Competizione is aiming to return to the French endurance race this year. The Us-based Ferrari team has filed an entry for the race under its own name for the

first time since 2017… Ferrari and Honda have signed up for the Intercontinental GT Challenge, bringing the number of manufacturers registered for the series to eight. Honda and Ferrari will now be able to score drivers’ and manufacturers’ points in the five-round GT3 endurance series along with Audi, Mercedes, Bentley, Porsche, BMW and Nissan… Chevrolet will contest its home round of the World Endurance Championship at Sebring in March. The US manufacturer will field a