David Martin-Janiak

The BMW M4 GT4, BMW Motorsport’s latest customer racing offering, will make its North American debut at Watkins Glen International during the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen this weekend. Completing the BMW Motorsport product portfolio in between the BMW M235i Racing and the BMW M6 GT3, European sales phase of the BMW M4 GT4

Herberth Motorsport denies Scuderia Praha fifth consecutive pole position in the dying seconds of qualifying for the 2017 Hankook 12H IMOLA. The Herberth Motorsport Porsche 991 GT3 R (#111 Daniel Allemann / Ralf Bohn / Robert Renauer / Alfred Renauer) has taken a last-grasp pole position for this weekend’s 2017 Hankook 12H IMOLA.

This year, successful racing cars are the focus at the traditional Festival of speed being held at Goodwood in South-east England. The successes of these cars left enduring traces and this has earned them a place of honour in the history of motor sport.

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th Anniversary at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with an incredible and diverse display of current and historic Ferrari road and race cars, including the LaFerrari Aperta which is the star car of the company’s anniversary events.

‘Opening an exciting new chapter’ can be something of an overused cliché at times, but over the last few days in Bangsaen the opening up of the ‘second chapter’ of the Grand Prix with the start of its second decade and 11th edition simply couldn’t have been any more appropriate.

Blancpain GT Series Asia’s race-by-race Japanese entries – ARN Racing, CarGuy Racing and D’station Racing – all enjoyed encouraging championship debuts at Suzuka last weekend ahead of their second appearances at Fuji Speedway this August.

Despite plans to race in this weekend’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen as the final race of his prototype career, Ed Brown, driver of the No. 22 Nissan Onroak DPi has been forced to withdraw from the event.

Cape Motorsports continued their bid to win the title in the 2017 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, engineering their driver Anthony Martin to a win and a runner-up finish at Elkhart Lake, WI’s Road America in the third event on the six-weekend schedule.

In only their second Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda event, BN Racing and team driver David Malukas turned heads in the paddock at the Road America event in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin this past weekend. Putting the #79 BN Racing entry on the pole for Friday'sRound #7, Malukas cleared the field by nine-tenths, setting up a spectacular weekend for the young team.

After a successful first edition, which saw about thirty drivers and eleven teams at the start, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East has also been confirmed in 2018.

Solaris Motorsport is strongly determined to change the difficulty 2017 season, harder than expected for the Vantage GT3. The Italian team bets on the second part of the season and it has scheduled some test sessions in July and August.

The collaboration between Nico Verdonck and the Bentley Team ABT during the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, already has a sequel. From the 26th through to the 30th July, the Belgian will in fact be joining the German team for the Total 24 Hours of Spa, the world’s most important race for the GT3 category.

United Autosports have confirmed that Sir Chris Hoy will race for the team at the final round of the Henderson Insurance LMP3 Cup Championship at Donington Park on 16-17 September.

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VISIT FLORIDA Racing has made 13 previous starts in the Sahlen’s 6 Hours of the Glen. Highlights at the Glen include back-to-back victories in 2014 & 2015 when Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante teamed in the No. 90 Corvette DP. The Florida-based team also took a podium finish of third in 2010 when Antonio Garcia and Buddy Rice drove the No. 90 Porsche Coyote.

A tough but very competitive Paul Ricard 1000 km ended in frustration for Pasin Lathouras in the #50 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 after a technical problem scuppered his bid for victory just as the endurance race moved into the closing stages.

After recently experiencing an impressive record of continuous successes, the GRT Grasser Racing Team had to put up with a backslash during the weekend of the 6 hours of Paul Ricard, the sixth race of the Blancpain-GT-Series 2017.

Belardi Auto Racing competed in their home state of Wisconsin this past weekend, taking to the iconic four-mile Road America facility for an Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires doubleheader in support of the Verizon IndyCar Series, and the team’s trio of drivers logged a total of four top-10 finishes.

After a dominating performance at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Juncos Racing entered the weekend at Road America leading the team championship and driver championship with Brazilian Victor Franzoni.