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WEATERTECH RACING SET FOR ROLEX 24 AND 2023 IMSA WEATHERTECH SEASON
WeatherTech Racing will compete in the GTD Pro category for the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship kicking-off with next month’s season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, Jan. 28-29. Jules Gounon (France) and Daniel Juncadella (Spain) will drive the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Mercedes-Benz of Billings, Montana support for the 2023 season. Maro Engel … Continue reading
LAMBORGHINI ANNOUNCES YOUNG DRIVER AND GT3 JUNIOR PROGRAM 2022 WINNERS
Leonardo Pulcini and Danny Formal have been announced as the stand-out drivers of Lamborghini Squadra Corse’s end of year Youngster Program shootout. Winning the GT3 Junior Program, Pulcini has been promoted to Lamborghini Factory Driver for 2023, while Formal is one of three drivers to graduate to the newly created Young Professional Driver category. The … Continue reading
K-PAX RACING RETURNS TO DOMINANCE
It was almost a feeling déjà vu at the conclusion of the 2022 Fanatec GT World Championship America Powered by AWS Championship – almost. While K-PAX Racing celebrated a duplication of the previous season, sweeping the series three major championships, in hindsight it did not come without new challenges. In fact, how the team reacted … Continue reading
WRIGHT MOTORSPORTS ANNOUNCES IMSA ENDURANCE DRIVERS FOR No. 77 ENTRY
As anticipation builds for the 2023 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Wright Motorsports has announced the driver lineup of the No. 77 VOLT Lighting Porsche 911 GT3 R (type 992) for the approaching race season. Wright Motorsports champion Max Root will return to the Ohio-based team for the four IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship endurance races, while … Continue reading
D’STATION RACING RETURNS FOR RENEWED JAPAN CUP ASSAULT
D’station Racing is returning to Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS next season when Satoshi Hoshino and Tomonobu Fujii reprise their race-winning partnership. The team’s Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 will once again contest the pan-continental series’ four Fanatec Japan Cup-counting events at Fuji, Suzuka, Motegi and Okayama. Hoshino and Fujii hit form … Continue reading
FERRARI WINS GULF 12 HOURS: JUNCADELLA CROWNED INTERCONTINENTAL GT CHALLENGE CHAMPION
Antonio Fuoco, James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi led home a Ferrari and AF Corse – Francorchamps Motors one-two at the Gulf 12 Hours, while Daniel Juncadella secured the 2022 Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli drivers’ championship despite his GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG’s early retirement. The #71 488 GT3 clinched a record extending seventh victory … Continue reading
THAILAND SUPER SERIES 2022 ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE WITH ACTION PACKED RACES IN BURIRAM
A hectic weekend for the final round of Thailand Super Series 2022 with a championship battle unfolding that saw the two almost level pegging title protagonists, Andrea Gagliardini and Jacopo Guidetti in the #11 Honda NSX GT3 and Sandy Stuvik and Akash Nandy in the #25 B-Quik Absolute Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II, going … Continue reading
MERCEDES-AMG TEAM GRUPPEM LOCKS OUT GULF 12 HOURS FRONT ROW
GruppeM Racing will start Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli’s 2022 season finale from the front row after its Mercedes-AMGs went toe-to-toe in Gulf 12 Hours qualifying this evening. Lucas Auer, Maro Engel and Maxi Goetz beat their factory team-mates Jules Gounon, Dani Juncadella and Raffaele Marciello by just 0.023s on average times despite Gounon … Continue reading
BMW M MOTORSPORT PRESENTS WORKS DRIVERS AND RACE PROGRAMME FOR THE 2023 SEASON
The squad of works drivers at BMW M Motorsport for the 2023 season includes more prominent newcomers. Belgians Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts receive works driver contracts and join the BMW M Motorsport family. They will compete with BMW M Team WRT in the coming season, among other outings. The initial race programmes for the … Continue reading
RACES IN FOUR COUNTRIES AND ON THREE PLATFORMS: THE 2023 PORSCHE CARRERA CUP DEUTSCHLAND RACE CALENDAR
Next year marks the 34th season for the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland with an attractive race calendar featuring eight events in four countries. A total of 16 rounds with the 375 kW (510 hp) Porsche 911 GT3 Cup are on the schedule. For the first time since 2017, most of the Porsche Carrera Cup races … Continue reading
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