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Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum will race in Super Formula next season with Mugen. Ticktum, who finished runner-up in the Formula 3 European Championship to Mick Schumacher and secured a dominant second Macau Grand Prix win this year, has long been regarded as the programme’s likeliest next F1 driver, but did not have the sufficient superlicence points to graduate in 2019... Ferrari Academy driver Marcus Armstrong will compete for Prema Racing in the new-for-2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship next year. New Zealander Armstrong is the first driver to be announced in Prema’s team, after taking fifth in the Formula 3 European Championship in 2018 with nine podiums and one win… Ferrari Driver Academy member Giuliano Alesi will step up to Formula 2 next season with Trident Racing. The 19-year-old Frenchman, who is the son of ex-formula 1 driver Jean, has spent the last three seasons with Trident in GP3… Porsche will again field four factory cars at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the defence of its GTE Pro crown at the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship finale. Porsche expanded its attack on the GTE Pro class at Le Mans this year as part of an increased commitment to GT racing after the culmination of its LMP1 programme at the

end of 2017… BMW has confirmed Alex Zanardi will drive one of its Rahalrun cars in the 2019 Daytona 24 Hours. The ex-formula 1 driver and two-time CART champion will use hand controls aboard the M8 GTE similar to those his DTM car was equipped with when he made his guest outing at Misano in August, which will be disconnected during his co-driver’s stints. Former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello will also race at the Daytona 24 Hours for the Jdc-miller Motorsports team… Hyundai has added DTM convert Augusto Farfus and fellow BMW driver Nicky Catsburg to its four-car 2019 World Touring Car Cup line-up alongside world champion Gabriele Tarquini and Norbert Michelisz. WTCR has also imposed a strict limit on the number of cars represented by each manufacturer to four next year. Each team will also only be allowed to run two cars.