RNW Staff

The suspense is rising: The title race in the German GT Championship travels to the Sachsenring this weekend (1st to 3rd October) for the sixth of this season’s eight events, and the contenders for the championship can afford no signs of weakness at the challenging and undulating circuit. Just three points separate championship leaders Ricardo Feller (21/CH) and Christopher Mies (31/Düsseldorf, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) in the Audi from their closest rivals, Mercedes-AMG works drivers Raffaele Marciello (26/I) and Maximilian Buhk (28/Hamburg, both Mann-Filter Team Landgraf – HTP/WWR). As well as being able to follow the action from the grandstands at the Sachsenring, fans will again be allowed in the paddock, where they will be in the thick of the action.

Ollie Wilkinson and JOTA team-mate Ben Barnicoat wrapped up their maiden Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup season with a fourth-place finish in race two at Valencia.

Daniel Harper continued his exceptional recent run of results in the Nürburgring Endurance Series on Saturday (25th September), with a fourth podium finish of the season putting the BMW Junior Team firmly in title contention heading into the season finale next month.

Larry ten Voorde (Team GP Elite) has taken an important step on his mission to defend his Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland title. The Dutchman won race twelve on Sunday at Italy’s Autodromo Nazionale Monza ahead of Porsche Junior Ayhancan Güven (Turkey/Phoenix Racing) and Bastian Buus (Denmark/Allied-Racing). “The wet track surface dried up lap after lap, so the conditions were special. Ayhancan Güven and I had an intense duel, which was great fun. Ultimately, I pipped him at the post,” said ten Voorde. Thanks to his victory as part of the International GT Open support programme, the defending champion managed to extend his lead in Carrera Cup standings and now lies 28 points ahead of Saturday’s winner Güven in the overall rankings.

rsche Carrera Cup GB – the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK – traveled to Silverstone at a crucial point in the championship fight. Dan Cammish (Redline Racing) arrived as the third championship leader of the season following the Croft weekend, but his eight point advantage over Lorcan Hanafin (JTR) would be reduced significantly by Sunday afternoon. 

The Silver Cup and Pro-Am titles were decided in the final Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup race of 2021, while Mercedes-AMG Team Toksport WRT sealed a clean sweep of overall victories to conclude the campaign in style at Circuit Ricardo Tormo Valencia. 

CarBahn with Peregrine Racing faced a final wild weekend out west at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Wright Motorsports secured a third-place finish on Saturday afternoon at the Long Beach Grand Prix, keeping the points battle tight for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD team title. Patrick Long, Trent Hindman, and the crew on the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R excelled under pressure on the downtown streets of Long Beach, earning their third-straight podium finish.

Pfaff Motorsports moved the No. 9 “Plaid Porsche” to the top of the GTD class championship point standings following a hard-fought second-place finish at the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Saturday, September 25. The 100-minute race – the shortest of the season for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – on the temporary race course through the streets of Long Beach, California also saw the No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R continue its podium streak finishing in third-place. In the GTLM class, the Proton Competition-managed WeatherTech Racing No. 79 Porsche 911 RSR-19 also brought home a third-place result.

Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers drove the No. 1 Total lubricants-backed Paul Miller Racing machine to victory lane today at the Long Beach Grand Prix.  

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac team led the trio of Cadillac DPi-V.Rs to a one, two, three finish in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Long Beach Grand Prix.

Victory number three and still a hot contender in the fight for the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland title:

The latest Porsche 911 GT3 Cup has successfully demonstrated its potential for endurance races in a

Madison Snow scores pole position at the famed Long Beach Grand Prix, notching Paul Miller Racing’s second pole position of the year in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Mercedes-AMG was the brand to beat in qualifying at Circuit Ricardo Tormo Valencia after earning five pole positions from a possible six, but it will be the #38 JOTA McLaren that leads the field away for Sunday’s first Sprint Cup contest thanks to a blistering lap from Ben Barnicoat. 

In beautiful late summer weather, the BMW Junior Team finished round eight of the Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS) on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife (GER) on the podium. After four hours of racing, Neil Verhagen (USA), Dan Harper (GBR) and Max Hesse (GER) crossed the finish line in third place in the # 44 BMW M6 GT3. In the end, the trio was only 14 hundredths of a second short of second place. The new BMW M4 GT3 took the chequered flag in fifth place. The #55 car was driven by Philipp Eng (AUT) and Augusto Farfus (BRA).

 Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Mathieu Jaminet (France) will start from the second row in GTLM for tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Long Beach Grand Prix.

The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach (AGPLB) stages a big weekend of racing for Meyer Shank Racing’s (MSR) IMSA WeatherTech and INDYCAR SERIES programs. Dane Cameron was the first of the MSR squad to qualify for the AGPLB on Friday which will see him start fourth in the No. 60 Acura ARX-05 DPi. 

Porsche Motorsport GB today unveiled its 2022 plans at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone in advance of the final part of the 2021 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season. Teams, guests and sponsors were presented a mix of established ideas and exciting new initiatives designed to continue the focus on ensuring strong grids and close, exciting, racing for the season ahead – encompassing both Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Porsche Sprint Challenge GB.

The local boys are out to show how things are done in Saxony when they line up at their home event in the German GT Championship at the Sachsenring (1st to 3rd October). Drivers and teams from the free state are traditionally very strongly represented in the ADAC GT Masters: Corvette driver Marvin Kirchhöfer (27/Leipzig, Callaway Competition) and Lamborghini driver Maximilian Paul (21/Dresden, T3 Motorsport) are determined to give their fans every reason to celebrate on the weekend of German Unity Day. As well as the local drivers, the T3 Motorsport (Dresden) and Yaco Racing (Plauen) teams can also rely on the support of the fans: not only are spectators welcome at the Sachsenring, but they can also experience the series up close and personal in the paddock.