David Martin-Janiak

AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports finished 8th in the penultimate round of the 2018 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship at the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix.

This weekend, the twisty and undulating 5.148 km Nürburgring will stage the sixth race weekend of the 2018 GT4 European Series. The concluding round brings the curtain down on an action-packed season that has seen a record number of entries taking part in the championship. With the titles in all categories still to be decided, the Nürburgring race weekend promises to be a thriller!

In the early hours of this morning, Tuesday September 11, 2018, Don Panoz peacefully passed away at his home in Duluth, Georgia. After a short battle with pancreatic cancer, he enjoyed his last cigarette and said goodbye to the world in the early hours of the morning, surrounded by his loving family.

After a challenging last Super GT round at Fuji International Speedway, Nissan’s four GT-R NISMO GT500s have their sights set on redemption this weekend at Sportsland Sugo.

The fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK, the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, heads to Silverstone with title battles raging in each of the three championship categories – Pro, Pro-Am and Am. All the leading protagonists will head to Silverstone facing the perennial challenge of balancing the need to score consistent points with fending off a competitive pack of 23 cars.

From the Alps of Austria to the undulating Sachsenring: last weekend, GRT Grasser Racing Team were competing in the penultimate round of the ADAC GT Masters in front of more than 20,000 spectators. The 3.64km circuit near Chemnitz is considered to be a drivers’ delight and therefore an ideal arena for the team’s six Lamborghini Huracán GT3 drivers to parade their skills.

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Alexander Sims secured his second consecutive victory in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on 9 September 2018. The Warwickshire-based driver and his BMW Team RLL team-mate Connor De Phillippi took GTLM class honours at the America’s Tire 250 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in California, USA.

BMW Team RLL recorded the team’s 19th victory and 73rd podium finish since beginning in 2009 with a second consecutive 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM class victory for the BMW M8 GTE in today’s America’s Tire 250 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The victory is the second consecutive triumph for the all-new BMW M8 GTE racing car and the third BMW win in the GTLM class at Laguna Seca in the last four years.

Tequila Patrón ESM returned to victory circle this weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, starting from the rear of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship field to win the Continental Monterey Grand Prix by ten seconds. The No. 22 Nissan Onroak DPi of Pipo Derani and Johannes van Overbeek won its second race of 2018, also clinching victory at the Twelve Hours of Sebring earlier this season.

Sunday afternoon at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Paul Miller Racing put forth an incredible display of driving expertise and strategy execution to finish in fourth place in the Continental Monterey Grand Prix. Co-drivers Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers endured a chaotic race to defend their points lead over the No. 86 Acura. Heading into the final round at Road Atlanta, Paul Miller Racing holds a six point lead for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

From pole position to podium at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) once again delivered a strong performance as the No. 86 MSR Acura NSX GT3 of Katherine Legge and Alvaro Parente won the America’s Tire 250 on Sunday.

Channel Islander Jack Butel and English teammate Dominic Paul endured a tough weekend in the UK LMP3 Cup with the British pairing retiring from both of the one-hour races despite flashes of front-running pace throughout the weekend.

Whelen Engineering Racing teammates Eric Curran and Felipe Nasr fought to a hard-earned fifth-place finish in Sunday’s America’s Tire 250 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

The Mustang Sampling Racing IMSA championship campaign suffered a setback on Sunday in the opening moments of Sunday’s America’s Tire 250. The No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-V.R was eliminated in a melee involving four cars at the drop of the green flag at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

Ford Chip Ganassi Racing’s fight for its first IMSA GTLM championship title will go down to the final race of the year.

For the second year in a row, Corvette Racing will head to the finale of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the Driver and Team points lead in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) category.

A dominating performance for the No. 55 Mazda RT24-P went unrewarded as Jonathan Bomarito and Harry Tincknell teamed to finish in fourth position on Sunday afternoon at the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

Sunday’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America race was a perfect example of “there is always something to race for.”

There were two surprise winners at the Sachsenring on Sunday, as the championship took yet another twist ahead of the grand finale at Hockenheim in two weeks’ time. The Audi duo of Elia Erhart (30, GER) and Pierre Kaffer (41, GER, both EFP by TECE) exploited one of many safety car deployments in Sunday’s race to make a tactically well-timed pit stop and claim a maiden ADAC GT Masters victory. With Sheldon van der Linde (19, ZA) and Kelvin van der Linde (22, ZA, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) in the runner-up spot and Jeffrey Schmidt (24, CH) and Stefan Mücke (36, Berlin, both BWT Mücke Motorsport) finishing third, the podium ceremony was monopolised by Audi R8 LMS drivers. Meanwhile, fourth place for the Porsche partnership of Robert Renauer (33, GER) and Mathieu Jaminet (23, FRA, both Precote Herberth Motorsport) was enough to take them to the top of the championship table, with only one more event remaining on the calendar. “Magnificent,” said a jubilant Erhart. “I’m actually speechless. It was such a tough fight towards the end. It became clear to me that racing is all about what’s going on in your head, and my head really wanted to win.”