Motors TV Weekend Highlights April 26,27

Motors TV’s motorcycle racing roster dominates this weekend as the FIM Endurance World Championship kicks off with live Bol d’Or coverage. Now in its 78th year, this prestigious twice-around-the-clock event at Magny-Cours has quickly established itself as the traditional season opener.After breaking Suzuki’s stranglehold in recent years, Kawasaki will try to emulate their compatriots by winning at France’s former grand prix venue for the third consecutive year, although their chief rivals undoubtedly start as favourites to wrap-up a fifth straight teams and manufacturers title double.We travel to New Zealand next for delayed V8 Supercars fourth-round coverage from Pukekohe Park Raceway, the series’ sole meeting outside Australia.Auckland native Fabian Coulthard heads home in supreme form following his victory and third place at Winton while Lee Holdsworth seeks to combine consistency with speed after taking Erebus Motorsport’s maiden win in Benalla. Triple Eight will have similar objectives as they look to stabilise their inconsistent 2014 season.Continuing the High Speed Television Channel’s V8 feast is highlights of NASCAR Nationwide Series’ eighth round from Richmond International Raceway as Chase Elliott pursues a 2014 hat-trick in Virginia’s capital.Following back-to-back victories in Texas and Darlington, the championship leader further extended his points lead over Regan Smith and Elliott Sadler with the latter aiming to gain revenge for his junior namesake’s last-lap pass two weeks ago.From tin-tops to sportscars now as we head to Oulton Park’s undulating ribbon of tarmac for the British GT Championship’s opening two races.Although Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy’s debut has stirred increased interest, focus remains on reigning GT3 title holder Andrew Howard, while Trackspeed will aim to disrupt his title defence by repeating their 2013 Cheshire clean sweep with their Porsche 997s.Finally, we have live and delayed coverage of Eurocup Clio’s season opener from Aragon as the field of Renault Clio RS 197s square up to each other in the World Series support category.Saturday 26 April13:00 LIVE FIM Endurance World Championship, Rd 1, Bol d’Or16:00 V8 Supercars, Rd 4, Pukekohe – Delayed-as-Live (Races 2&3)18:00 LIVE FIM Endurance World Championship, Rd 1, Bol d’Or21:00 Eurocup Clio, Rd 1, Aragon – Delayed-as-Live22:05 V8 Supercars, Rd 4, Pukekohe – Replay (Races 1,2&3)Sunday 27 April09:00 LIVE FIM Endurance World Championship, Rd 1, Bol d’Or11:00 V8 Supercars, Rd 4, Pukekohe – Delayed-as-Live (Race 4)12:45 LIVE FIM Endurance World Championship, Rd 1, Bol d’Or14:30 LIVE Eurocup Clio, Rd 1, Aragon15:20 British GT Championship, Rd 1, Oulton Park – Highlights18:55 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Rd 8, Richmond – HighlightsAll times are BST


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