FIA World Endurance Championship
The 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship has been the proverbial season of two halves. A nightmare start saw defending champions Brendon Hartley, Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard score only 3.5 points at Silverstone, Spa and Le Mans, but successive wins at the Nürburgring, Mexico and COTA have since helped them climb up the table. Can they threaten their Le Mans-winning Porsche team-mates Romain Dumas, Marc Lieb and Neel Jani in the final rounds, or will the No. 8 Audi of Lucas di Grassi, Loic Duval and Oliver Jarvis return the crown to Ingolstadt for the first time since 2013? The standings are also close in GTE-Pro, with Aston Martin and Ford looking for a first ever title, while Ferrari hope to usher in the new era for the 488 in the best possible fashion.
• LIVE, Rd 8, 6 Hours of Shanghai – Sunday 6 November at 02:30.• LIVE, Rd 9, 6 Hours of Bahrain – Saturday 19 November at 12:30.
Macau Grand Prix
There are few venues in the world that evoke the same spirit as the Macau Grand Prix, where bikes and cars compete together on the same weekend. Home to world famous corners such as Mandarin, Lisboa and the Melco Hairpin, Macau is a driver’s favourite, with long straights, fast sweeping corners and unforgiving walls lining the circuit posing a true test of skill and nerve. Top billing goes to the world-famous F3 Intercontinental Cup, first awarded to a certain Ayrton Senna in 1983, before Macau Master Edo Mortara will seek revenge for last year’s defeat to Maro Engel in the second running of the FIA GT World Cup. The four-way TCR International Series title decider starring Stefano Comini, Pepe Oriola, James Nash and Jean-Karl Vernay will keep the tension building before the Motorcycle Grand Prix takes centre stage for some of the most breathtakingly bonkers racing you’ll see anywhere this year, on two or four wheels.
• LIVE, FIA GT World Cup – Sunday 20th November at 15:15• LIVE, TCR International Series – Sunday 20th November at 16:40• LIVE, FIA F3 Intercontinental Cup – Sunday 20th November at 17:35• LIVE, Motocycle Grand Prix – Sunday 20th November at 19:00
SX Tour
Top names in motocross from France and the US do battle in a fan-friendly arena format. Home favourite Romain Febvre will hope to recapture the form that took him to the 2014 MXGP title, as he’s joined by Christophe Pourcel and Dylan Ferrandis in a strong French team, while US riders Eli Tomac, the Stewart brothers James and Malcolm and Weston Peick will always look to threaten. The MX2 class will also be on show, with local man Maxime Desprey the man to watch.• LIVE, SX Bercy-Lille – Saturday 12 November at 18:00 and Sunday 13 November at 14:00.• LIVE, SX Montpellier – Saturday 25 November at 19:00 and Sunday 26 November at 19:00.
International GT Open
It’s not all that often that a series has eight different winners from the first ten races, but we’ve come to expect close competition in the International GT Open series. All the major players in modern GT3 racing are represented, but only the new-for-2016 BMW M6 GT3 has won more than once, with honours shared amongst Ferrari, Aston Martin, McLaren and Lamborghini – the Gallardo and newer Huracan model each proving competitive – while the Renault RS01 also bagged a win at Spa. Italian pair Giovanni Venturini and Thomas Biagi have been the most consistent pairing so far and will hope to tie-up their first crown for Lazarus Racing, but following his mid-season switch from Ferrari to McLaren, Briton Shaun Balfe has his eyes on the prize too.• LIVE, Rd 7, Barcelona – Saturday 5 November at 15:00 (Race 1) and Sunday 6th November at 13:00 (Race 2).
EuroFormula Open
When Leonardo Pulcini looks back on his EuroFormula Open campaign, he may well view the Red Bull Ring weekend as the pivotal turning point. The Italian came about as close to crashing without actually hitting anything as it is possible to do in race one, somehow collecting an enormous slide at the first turn and narrowly avoiding the barriers before recovering to finish fourth. His main championship rival Ferdinand Habsburg then suffered a freak gearbox problem while running second in race two, gifting Pulcini a handy points advantage. Can he wrap up the title in Barcelona, or will Habsburg and Mexican Diego Menchaca pull off a late revival?
• LIVE, Rd 8, Barcelona – Saturday 5 November at 14:05 (Race 1) and Sunday 6th November at 12:05 (Race 2).
