Vitaphone Racing will lead Maserati's defence of its FIA GT titles which begins this weekend when the 2006 GT Championship kicks off with the RAC Tourist Trophy, a three-hour race at Silverstone

Over the weekend, at the German Hockenheim circuit, the 2006 European Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, the series for historic Maranello marque cars, got underway

Risi Competizione announce that they have signed former Ferrari F1 Driver Mika Salo to drive their 430GT in the 2006 ALMS Series alongside Jamie Melo who drove for them at Sebring setting the race's fastest GT2 lap

Mirroring their win on Saturday, Chris Niarchos and Tim Mullen yesterday took the victory with the Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari F430GT in race two of the 2006 British GT Championship at Oulton Park

The new Ferrari F430GT took its first win in the UK, and its second major win on successive weekends, as the British GT Championship got off to a cracking start at Oulton Park

One of the more unexpected appearances at the FIA GT Championship official presentation this week was the much maligned Pagani Zonda GR, the car now in the hands of Czech outfit Rock Media Racing

Showers made the second day the FIA GT Championship testing at Dijon more complicated, but the teams still got plenty of running and the Vitaphone Maserati MC12 threw down the challenge with the fastest time

Photo Galley: FIA GT Championship - Media Presentation, Dijon - Day 2 (Wednesday)

A new generation of Italian racing machinery from Ferrari Maserati and Lamborghini were represented when the official media day to launch the 2006 FIA GT Championship got underway at Dijon-Prenois yesterday

The new Ferrari F430GT claimed its first international race win after Luca Drudi, Gabrio Rosa and Fabrizio De Simone drove a GPC Sport-entered example to GT2 victory in the 1000kms of Istanbul

The Vitaphone Racing Team has officially announced that it will continue its successful FIA GT Championship involvement with the Maserati MC12 again this season

Photo Gallery: Trofeo Audermars Piguet Maserati Europa Presentation: Corso Vittorio Emanuele,  Milan - Maserati GranSport Trofeo (30th March)

AF Corse have will run a pair of the new Ferrari F430GT racers in the 2006 FIA GT Championship and have assembled a top line-up of drivers in Mika Salo, Matteo Bobbi, Rui Aguas and Jaime Melo

Alberto Cerrai, the winner of the 2005 Trofeo Maserati, edged out Maurizio Fabris to win the first race of the 2006 Trofeo Audemars Piguet Maserati Europa season, held at Monza yesterday

The new Ferrari F430 Challenge racer will made its competitive United States debut when the North American Ferrari Challenge kicks off at Miami's Homestead Speedway next weekend

The Trident brand claimed its first race win of the year after Gianbattista Giannoccaro and Toni Vilander drove the Maserati MC12 to victory at Imola in the Italian GT Championship last weekend

New FIA GT and LMES entrant B-Racing launched its season in spectacular fashion with the presentation of its new Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT at a gala presentation in St-Wolfgang, Austria

The new Ferrari F430 Challenge racer made its competitive track debut yesterday as the 2006 Italian Ferrari Challenge Pirelli kicked off at Imola

Scuderia Ecosse was at the Knockhill Racing Circuit on Friday to reveal the first of two Ferrari F430GT racers which it will campaign in the FIA GT Championship this year

The historic first-ever victory for the Lamborghini Murciélago RG-T, in the Suzuka 300km, came courtesy of Team JLOC, a small, dedicated band of Japanese Lamborghini enthusiasts'

As Maserati Corse continue with preparations for the new racing season, the GranSport Trofeo has lived out a weekend of solidarity during the International Racing Festival in Copenhagen

The Lamborghini Murciélago claimed its first ever race win at the weekend when Marco Apicella and Yasutaka Hinoi raced to victory in the GT300 class of the Japanese Super GT series at Suzuka