HVM Status GP launches its 2013 testing programme this week with a two-day session at Autódromo Internacional do Algarve starting tomorrow, February 28, as part of its preparations for the FIA World Endurance Championship. The team’s LMP2 class Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe will run an exclusive session on the 2.9-mile Portimao track, located in the Algarve, [...]

Status Grand Prix and HVM Racing are pleased to confirm they have this week filed a formal entry application for the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The HVM Status GP entry marks the first stage of the collaboration between two successful teams, the Silverstone and Indianapolis-based organizations committed to running a latest-specification Lola Coupe [...]

Status Grand Prix has forged an alliance with IndyCar Series team HVM Racing to field a joint entry in next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship.   Following on from a successful two-day test of Status GP’s Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe in Spain last week, HVM and Status GP will combine their technical and commercial resources and [...]

Status Grand Prix enjoyed a strong run in the 6 Hours of Silverstone to take eighth place in the ultra-competitive LMP2 class in Britain’s round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.   The team’s Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe set the third-fastest LMP2 lap of the race, quicker than any of the top four finishers in the [...]

Status Grand Prix was one of the leading contenders in a hotly-contested qualifying session for the 6 Hours of Silverstone, in which the leading 10 cars in the LMP2 class were covered by less than one second.   On a slippery but drying track, Alexander Sims put the Status GP Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe briefly on [...]

Status Grand Prix is all set for this weekend’s 6 Hours of Silverstone round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, with French brothers Julien and Maxime Jousse once again joining Britain’s Alexander Sims on the driving strength.   On a track that is within earshot of its Silverstone base, Status GP is confident of returning [...]

Status Grand Prix was forced to retire its Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe from the 6 Hours of Donington in the second hour due to alternator and battery problems.   Alexander Sims was holding a strong fourth place early in his second stint when he was forced to make an unscheduled pit stop. The problems, which the [...]

French brothers Julien and Maxime Jousse will race together for the first time after agreeing to join Status Grand Prix’s sportscar team for this weekend’s 6 Hours of Donington.   Status GP has invited the Jousses to join British ace Alexander Sims in the driver line-up aboard the team’s LMP2 Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe for the [...]

Status Grand Prix has been forced to retire from the Le Mans 24 Hours due to a battery failure that left the car stranded out on the circuit.   The fault, the legacy of an alternator problem a couple of hours earlier, forced Yelmer Buurman to stop the Status GP Lola-Judd B12/80 Coupe on the [...]