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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING READY FOR THE SIX HOURS OF WATKINS GLEN
Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Olivier Pla (France) and Mike Conway (Great Britain) head to New York state’s Finger Lakes region for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen June 23-26 at Watkins Glen International. This will be the third of four endurance races on the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech schedule. … Continue reading
IMPRESSIVE 65 CAR ENTRY LIST FOR THE 2022 24 HOURS OF SPA
A 65-car field will gather to contest the toughest event in GT3 racing next month when the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa stages its 74th edition on 28-31 July. The full entry list for the twice-around-the-clock race has been revealed during this week’s official test days (21-22 June) where preparations for the Ardennes classic are … Continue reading
MEYER SHANK RACING TAKES DPi POINTS LEAD TO WATKINS GLEN
Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) returns to Watkins Glen International holding the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship DPi points lead heading into the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on Sunday, June 26. Oliver Jarvis and Tom Blomqvist are riding a streak of three-consecutive runner-up finishes in the No. 60 MSR Acura ARX-05 DPi. Jarvis missed out … Continue reading
K-PAX RACING SWEEPS VIR
Rounds 5 and 6 of the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS took place at VIRginia International Raceway, known to the racing community as “Heaven on Earth”, which translated to “fairytale” in describing the way the weekend ended up going for K-PAX Racing. Andrea Caldarelli & Michele Beretta swept both races in the … Continue reading
GRT EXTENDS POINTS SCORING STREAK IN SUNDAY’S DTM RACE AT IMOLA
GRT was presented with a challenging Sunday at the Lamborghini home race in Imola. After his spectacular fightback to a podium finish on the previous day, Mirko Bortolotti achieved a hard-fought tenth place in the second race. Clemens Schmid and the Lamborghini factory driver had taken P5 and P10 in qualifying with the Lamborghini Huracán … Continue reading
MARCIELLO AND BOGUSLAVSKIY TAKE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE VICTORY AT ZANDVOORT
Akkodis ASP earned a third Fanatec Sprint victory of 2022 thanks to another perfect team performance from the #89 Mercedes-AMG of Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy in today’s race at Zandvoort. Marciello started from pole after topping this morning’s qualifying session by more than half a second, the Swiss driver delivering a brilliant performance on … Continue reading
FELLER CLAIMS MAIDEN DTM RACE WIN
A lot of action, a lot of overtaking, and two new faces on the DTM podium at the end: 22-year-old Swiss Ricardo Feller claimed the maiden win of his still young DTM career. Following René Rast’s victory on Saturday, it was the second win for the ABT Sportsline Audi team in Imola. Dev Gore finished … Continue reading
K-PAX RACING CAPTURES VICTORY AND DOUBLE PODIUM AT VIR
After a week of testing in extreme heat at VIRginia International Raceway, the weather turned friendly for Saturday’s Round 5 of Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS. The beautiful day was capped off with victory from the pole for Andrea Caldarelli & Michele Beretta, who share the No. 1 K-PAX Racing Lamborghini Huracán … Continue reading
GRT SHINES AT LAMBORGHINI HOME RACE IN THE DTM
Forza GRT! The Austrian Lamborghini team celebrated their best result to date in the legendary racing series in Saturday’s DTM race at Imola. In a fiercely contested heat battle at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Mirko Bortolotti and Clemens Schmid kept their cool until the chequered flag and took third and sixth place. Lamborghini … Continue reading
WEERTS AND VANTHOOR SEIZE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP ADVANTAGE WITH ZANDVOORT VICTORY
Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts are back on top of the Fanatec Sprint standings after the #32 Team WRT Audi crew earned a comfortable victory in the weekend’s opening race at Zandvoort. Marking the mid-way point in the short-format championship, the 60-minute contest saw the points advantage swing yet again. Qualifying had suggested that this … Continue reading
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