RNW Staff

The race saw several highs and lows for the No. 57 Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing squad on Saturday. The six-hour endurance event brought together Misha Goikhberg, Alvaro Parente and Trent Hindman who fought through early damage to the race car to bring home a seventh-place result at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

It was the first endurance race in eight months for Mario Farnbacher, Matt McMurry and Shinya Michimi, but the strength of the Meyer Shank Racing-prepared Acura NSX GT3 did not disappoint as the team claimed its first victory of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech season on Saturday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. The win is the sixth for MSR in IMSA competition with the Acura NSX since first moving to the category with the GTD platform in 2017.

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac team finished third in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

For a third consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race weekend, BMW Team RLL performed at a podium level. The No. 25 MOTUL BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi and Bruno Spengler took top honours at the race, held at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. The No. 24 MOTUL BMW M8 GTE of John Edwards and Jesse Krohn finished third.

GPX Racing will lead a Porsche one-two at the start of tomorrow’s six-hour GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS contest at the Nürburgring after narrowly beating Dinamic Motorsport in a highly competitive qualifying session.

Bonaldi Motorsport’s Dean Stoneman and Kikko Galbiati claimed victory in the first Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe race of the weekend at the Nürburgring, beating Target Competition’s Miloš Pavlović and Raul Guzman by just over four seconds. It was Stoneman’s second win in succession this year after his Race 2 victory in the opening round at Misano, while Galbiati secured yet another triumph at the German circuit following his double victory for Imperiale Racing in 2019.

Lluc Ibanez and Xavier Lloveras gave NM Racing Team victory in the first GT4 European Series race at Nürburgring, claiming their second victory of the 2020 season. Victory in Pro-Am went to Allied Racing, while AGS Events won the Am class.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – September 5, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Coming off his first career win at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, veteran Funny Car standout Ron Capps stayed hot, racing to the No. 1 spot during Friday’s opening qualifying session of the prestigious 66th annual DENSO Spark Plugs U.S. Nationals. Shawn Langdon (Top […]

Eight months out of the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 didn’t phase Shinya Michimi as he made his first qualifying run on Friday since Daytona International Speedway in January. Michimi put the AutoNation Acura NSX GT3 fourth for Saturday’s six hour race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.), Toni Vilander (Kankaanpää, Finland), and Jeff Westphal (San Mateo, Calif.) will start the IMSA WeatherTech Championship race at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta from eighth in GTD.

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R will start the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race from the front in second tomorrow at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

At round six of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the Porsche GT Team has claimed its fourth pole position of the season. Driving the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR, Nick Tandy from Great Britain turned the fastest lap in the GTLM class at Road Atlanta setting a time of 1:16.167 minutes. His works driver teammate Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium planted the second works-RSR with the number 912 on position four. With this, Tandy added to his record in the North American sports car championship: The seasoned racing driver from Bedford has now secured a total of nine pole positions. In the GTD category, the Wright Motorsports customer squad takes up the six-hour race in the US state of Georgia from the third grid spot with the Porsche 911 GT3 R.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – September 4, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Chad Green will have the chance to do something unique at this weekend’s prestigious DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, and that’s win twice in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A […]

The GT4 European Series revealed its provisional six-round schedule for the 2021 season today at the Nürburgring, with Monza returning as the season-opener and Barcelona set to host the season finale.

GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS has revealed its provisional 2021 calendar, which will see the continent’s premier GT3 championship return to its familiar 10-round tour of world-leading race tracks.

The Nürburgring will host the second round of the Endurance Cup of the GT World Challenge Europe this weekend. Five Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020s will be involved in the six-hour race. After the season debut at Imola where the Ferraris did less well than they deserved, with only the Sky Tempesta Racing car mounting the podium in the Pro-Am class, Prancing Horse teams will fight it out with forty-three other crews entered in the event.

The provisional entry list for the inaugural Indianapolis 8 Hour has been revealed one month before the world-famous Brickyard welcomes Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli for the very first time on October 2-4.

The Porsche GT Team has big plans for the next highlight on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship calendar: At the upcoming sixth round of the season on 5 September at Road Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, the squad is determined to clinch the first win of the season with the two new Porsche 911 RSR. At the previous three races, the ca. 515 hp GTLM-sports car from Weissach was well on course to score its first class win of the year in North America, only to have bad luck strike every time. The race on the storied circuit near the town of Braselton runs over six hours and is regarded as a critical rehearsal for the classic Petit Le Mans event, which is held at the same venue in October. In the GTD category, the Wright Motorsports customer team fields a Porsche 911 GT3 R.

It has been eight months since the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship held and endurance race, but this weekend, the sports car racing series heads to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. The No. 18 Era Motorsport Oreca earned a third place finish at the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January, and after a series of podium finishes in the subsequent sprint events, the team is ready to climb higher up the podium for this weekend’s endurance event.

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports has announced their lineup for the IMSA raceat Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta consisting of drivers Simon Trummer, Patrick Kelly and rookie Scott Huffaker in the #52 Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2.