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ADAC GT MASTERS WITH STRONG FIELD AND EIGHT BRANDS 2021

December 18, 2020 RNW Staff 0

The ADAC GT Masters will be embarking on its 15th season in 2021 with a field of more than 30 super sports cars from eight different brands. By mid-December, 20 teams had submitted their entries for the International German GT Championship, the ADAC GT Masters, and have thus secured places on the grid. The field will be even more diverse next year as Aston Martin and Honda return to the series. The ADAC GT Masters will get the new season under way in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben on the weekend of 14th/16th May 2021.

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LAMBORGHINI SQUADRA CORSE ANNOUNCES ITS 2021 FACTORY DRIVERS

December 18, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Lamborghini Squadra Corse has unveiled its roster of Factory Drivers for the 2021 season, which will see the return of long-time Lamborghini servant Mirko Bortolotti and the graduation of recently crowned British GT champion Sandy Mitchell into the ranks. Also stepping up is the Lamborghini Young Driver of the year Raul Guzman, who will become the development test driver of the Huracán GT3 Evo.

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MUSTANG SAMPLING RACING/JDC-MILLER MOTORSPORTS CONFIRM DRIVERS AND IMSA PROGRAM

December 18, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Minnesota based JDC-Miller MotorSports in partnership with Mustang Sampling Racing confirmed today that Loïc Duval, Tristan Vautier and Sébastien Bourdais will return to the program for 2021. The all French lineup raced together in the team’s 2020 Mustang Sampling Racing/JDC-Miller MotorSports No. 5 entry in several races during last year’s championship.

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T3 MOTORSPORT TO FIELD LAMBORGHINIS 2021 ADAC GT MASTERS

December 17, 2020 RNW Staff 0

All good things come in threes! Fielding no less than three Lamborghinis, T3 Motorsport intend to cause a sensation in the 2021 ADAC GT Masters. As they embark on their third year in the series, the German outfit are planning to deploy three Huracán GT3 Evos in the ADAC GT Masters which will have the status of ‘International German GT Championship’ for the first time next season.

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A CONFIRMED CLASSIC DATE AT SILVERSTONE IN 2021

December 17, 2020 RNW Staff 0

The Classic next summer is now confirmed for the weekend of 30 July-01 August – and the eagerly-awaited 2021 festival promises to be very special even by its own record-breaking standards.

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE SET FOR 29-EVENT GLOBAL SCHEDULE AS AUSTRALIA REVEALS 2021 CALENDAR

December 16, 2020 RNW Staff 0

The full GT World Challenge Powered by AWS calendar is now in place for 2021, with an expanded schedule of 29 events on four continents set to decide next year’s most successful global GT3 customer racing programme.

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PORSCHE AIMS TO FIGHT FOR OVERALL FIA WEC AND IMSA VICTORIES WITH AN LMDh PROTOTYPE

December 16, 2020 RNW Staff 0

The Executive Board at Porsche AG has given the green light to the development of an LMDh prototype. After a lengthy evaluation phase, Porsche Motorsport received the order to build a vehicle based on future regulations. From 2023, the LMDh cars will make up a new top class in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) […]

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AUDI SPORT CUSTOMER RACING SUCCESSFUL AGAIN IN 2020

December 14, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Audi Sport customer racing can look back on a list of outstanding successes at the end of a highly compressed season with its customers. Even though the number of races worldwide in the 2020 pandemic year was down by around 37 percent, the Audi Sport customer racing models were similarly successful in their categories as in the previous year.

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AUDI SPORT SECOND IN THE KYALAMI 9 HOUR

December 13, 2020 RNW Staff 0

In an extremely thrilling finale of the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC), Audi Sport Team WRT improved from seventh place to second position. Mirko Bortolotti/Frédéric Vervisch/Charles Weerts crossed the finish line 22 hundredths of a second behind the winners in the rain chaos behind the safety car. However, in addition to the joy about the improvement in the course of the race, there was also disappointment in the Audi camp: victory seemed within reach shortly before the end.

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FARFUS AND CATSBURG WIN KYALAMI 9 HOURS AND DRIVERS’ TITLE: PORSCHE CROWNED MANUFACTURES’ CHAMPIONS

December 12, 2020 RNW Staff 0

BMW’s Augusto Farfus and Nick Catsburg are the 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli Drivers’ champions after winning the Kyalami 9 Hour along with Walkenhorst Motorsport co-driver and home favourite Sheldon van der Linde. Audi Sport Team WRT’s Frederic Vervisch, Mirko Bortolotti and Charles Weerts came home second ahead of Matt Campbell, Patrick Pilet […]

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SCHNITZER MOTORSPORT AND BMW: A REVIEW OF HALF A CENTURY OF SHARED MOTORSPORT HISTORY

December 12, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Schnitzer is a name very closely linked with the history of the BMW brand in international motorsport. For more than half a century Schnitzer Motorsport and BMW were in action on racetracks of the world together and celebrated superb successes in a variety of categories. This collaboration also played a significant role in shaping the sports performance and momentum of the BMW brand. Now this long, successful shared journey is coming to an end. A review of victories, titles and triumphs from the 1960s to today.

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TWO MAJOR WORKS PROJECTS AND ENTICING CUSTOMER SPORT AT PORSCHE

December 12, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Porsche will be well represented on major international stages of the motor racing scene in the 2021 season. The management announced the plans for the coming year on the occasion of tonight’s first virtual Night of Champions. In 2020, the traditional event, which in recent years has been held at Weissach in the first half […]

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HONDA’S FARNBACHER STORMS TO KYALAMI 9 HOUR POLE

December 11, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Team Honda Racing will start the 2020 Kyalami 9 Hour from pole position after Mario Farnbacher set a new qualifying lap record ahead of tomorrow’s Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli championship showdown.

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K-PAX RACING COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL FIRST SEASON IN EUROPE IN 2020

December 11, 2020 RNW Staff 0

K-PAX Racing turned its successful GT World Challenge America team into global operation by setting its sights to Europe in 2020. There, the multi-championship winning team stateside would stack its two-car Bentley Continental GT3 program up against some of GT3 racing’s most elite, featuring a season of firsts with an expanded operation simultaneously covering two continents.

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MEYER SHANK RACING COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL FIRST TEST WITH THE ACURA ARX-05

December 10, 2020 RNW Staff 0

It’s been a busy two months for Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) with the team having claimed its second consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the Acura NSX GT3 following the season finale at Sebring International Raceway in November.

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2021 KYALAMI 9 HOUR CONFIRMED FOR DECEMBER 3-4

December 10, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Next year’s Kyalami 9 Hour – which once again stages the final round of 2021’s Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli campaign – will take place on December 3-4.

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NEW CIRCUITS AND INITIATIVES FOR 2021 GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA

December 10, 2020 RNW Staff 0

GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS will stage 12 one-hour races across six events in as many months next season as part of a new look calendar that, for the first time, includes rounds at Motegi and Zhuhai. Separate 40-minute ‘GT Sprint Asia’ races for single drivers will also bring together GT2, GT3, GT4 […]

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HHC MOTORSPORT JOIN FORCES WITH UNITED AUTOSPORTS FOR GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES CAMPAIGN

December 9, 2020 RNW Staff 0

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that they will bring on board the team from HHC Motorsport to strengthen their GT team.

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SRO MOTORSPORTS GROUP AND ADAC GT MASTERS STRENGTHEN COOPERATION

December 5, 2020 RNW Staff 0

There will be no clash of dates next year between three of the world’s top GT series. The ADAC and Stéphane Ratel’s SRO Motorsport Group have aligned their calendars for 2021 to make it possible for teams and drivers to contest the Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli, the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS and the International German GT Championship in the ADAC GT Masters. Also, the ADAC and SRO intend to go on working together and intensify cooperation in other areas.

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PORSCHE INTENDS TO DEFEND ITS IGTC TITLE AT THE SEASON FINALE IN SOUTH AFRICA

December 4, 2020 RNW Staff 0

Porsche heads to the final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC) with a very clear goal: The sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart is eager to defend its titles at the nine-hour race in Kyalami. The customer squads GPX Racing and Dinamic Motorsport will each field a 500+hp Porsche 911 GT3 R in the Pro-category at the South African racetrack close to Johannesburg. In the Pro-Am class, the Hack Racing team campaigns the identical model of the GT3 racer from Weissach.

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