RNW Staff

At the Nürburgring 24 Hours from June 3 to 6, Audi Sport customer racing sets its sights on its sixth overall victory. In addition, the chances of equaling or even surpassing the distance record set by Audi in 2014 are good this year. Three strong driver squads with twelve professionals, including nine previous winners, share the work in the cockpits of the three Audi R8 LMS cars fielded by Audi Sport customer racing. The private teams Car Collection Motorsport and Phoenix Racing are also preparing up to four additional private Audi R8 LMS cars.

Porsche Motorsport is teaming up with Multimatic to build its LMDh racing cars. As of 2023, the racing prototypes fitted with a hybrid powertrain system will compete in the newly created top class of the world’s two most important sports car championships: the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC and the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The Multimatic chassis has been chosen as the basis for the development of the Porsche LMDh prototype, which will also be competing for overall victories in the endurance classics at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans as of 2023. The factory cars will be fielded by the recently created Porsche Penske Motorsport team.

After several podiums in 2019, Bullitt Racing now returns to the renamed Supercars – GT4 South to do the full season with a Mercedes-AMG GT4.

Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers notched a third-place finish in the Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio this afternoon, scoring Paul Miller Racing’s second podium of 2021.

Han Sikkens and Lucky Khera share wins in the opening Trofeo Pirelli races of the season, with Graham de Zille winning both races in the Coppa Shell.

The right tyre choice was decisive: with the track drying out, defending champion Michael Ammermüller (35/Rotthalmünster) and Mathieu Jaminet (26/F, both SSR Performance) chose the right time to switch to slicks on their Porsche 911 GT3, before going on to take victory in Sunday’s race in the German GT Championship in Oschersleben. Second place went to BMW drivers Nick Yelloly (29/GB) and Jesse Krohn (30/FIN) in the M6 GT3 run by Oschersleben-based team Schubert Motorsport. Maximilian Hackländer (31/Rüthen) and Mick Wishofer (21/A, both MRS GT-Racing) came home third in another 911. “It went perfectly today,” said a victorious Ammermüller. “First the pole position, then the victory and the lead in the championship. After Saturday was not exactly ideal, we turned things around and brought the weekend to a perfect close.”

Lamborghini recorded a sensational one-two finish on the opening weekend of the International GT Open season at the Circuit Paul Ricard in the south of France, with Michele Beretta and Frederik Schandorff leading home VS Racing team-mates Yuki Nemoto and Baptiste Moulin in Race 2. Schandorff and Beretta had started the second 60-minute race of the weekend from fifth on the grid but produced a superb second-stint charge to take the win by 4.633s at the flag. Moulin took over from Nemoto at the driver-change pit-stop and stole second place at the final corner.

COOL Racing’s LMP3 crew took a second victory in as many races in the European Le Mans Series in a dramatic 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring.

United Autosports suffered a hugely disappointing race today at the Red Bull Ring in Austria as the weather played a huge part in the final result for both their LMP2 and LMP3 teams. 

Austria didn’t hold an ELMS race for three years. Thus, the French team led by Olivier Panis and Sarah and Simon Abadie was back racing around the 4.318 km Red Bull Ring circuit. Unfortunately, the Austrian round turned out to be quite tough for many reasons such as hard rainfall through the race. Despite everyone’s efforts and determination, the #65 Oreca finished its run in P14.

An unpredictable and early contact affected the 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring of 1 AIM Villorba Corse while the team was competing in Austria for the second round of the European Le Mans Series with Alessandro Bressan, Damiano Fioravanti and Andreas Laskaratos behind the wheel of the Ligier Js P320 powered by Nissan.

Dane Cameron put the Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) No. 60 SiriusXM / AutoNation Acura ARX-05 third on the grid for Sunday’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio.

Paul Miller Racing’s No. 1 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO will line up fifth on the grid for tomorrow’s Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, rebounding after an air jack issue that cost them valuable Friday practice time.

Raffaele Marciello (26/I) and Maximilian Buhk (28/Hamburg) overcame difficult conditions to take victory in the Saturday race at the opening round of this season’s ADAC GT Masters in Oschersleben. In doing so, they made it a successful debut for their team, Mann-Filter Team Landgraf – HTP/WWR, in the German GT Championship. Second place went to Lamborghini works drivers Mirko Bortolotti (31/I) and Albert Costa Balboa (31/E, GRT Grasser Racing Team), ahead of Ricardo Feller (20/CH) and Christopher Mies (31/Heiligenhaus, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) in the best-placed Audi. “It feels great to win again,” said a victorious Marciello. “The car feels very good and we were able to control the race.”

High Class Racing cemented their position in the Pro-Am standings with a double victory and two teams visited the winner’s circle in Am for the first time as the Fanatec GT2 European Series enjoyed another action-packed weekend (14-15 May) at Hockenheimring.

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R driven by Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr will start fourth for tomorrow’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sportscar Challenge Presented by the TLX Type S.

High Class Racing and PK Carsport by Heinz claimed a pole position apiece in Pro-Am during qualifying for the Fanatec GT2 European Series at Hockenheim as their title battle looks set to move up another gear in Baden-Württemberg.

Under starter’s orders: the stage is set for the 15th season of the ADAC GT Masters, which kicks off this weekend (14th to 16th May) in Oschersleben. 

Shining star: Mercedes-AMG dominated the first free practice session of the opening round of this season’s ADAC GT Masters in Oschersleben. The Swabian manufacturer’s cars occupied the top three positions, with works driver Raffaele Marciello (26/I) setting the fastest time of the morning. In doing so, he ensured that Mann-Filter Team Landgraf – HTP/WWR enjoyed a promising start to the series.

Audi Sport customer racing welcomes its largest line-up of customer racing teams to two ADAC platforms this year. This year, the automobile club is positioning itself more broadly than ever before in German GT and touring car racing. In two of the club’s event packages, Audi Sport customer racing is one of the leaders with a total of 23 race cars in the GT3, GT4 and TCR categories. The series kicks off with the ADAC GT Masters, ADAC GT4 Germany and ADAC TCR Germany racing series at Oschersleben from May 14 to 16. The new ADAC Racing Weekend series will be launched at the same venue from June 25 to 27.