RNW Staff

Porsche’s customer teams showed excellent form during qualifying for the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. At the rainy session in Belgium, seven 911 GT3 R made it into the Super Pole. The 20 fastest vehicles from today’s qualification will take part in Friday’s final shootout for the top grid spots, which begins at 6:20 pm (CEST). […]

K-PAX Racing, which has quickly shown its speed in its first laps around the Total 24 Hours of Spa circuit, has momentarily shifted its focus leading into one of the year’s most anticipated races to making repairs on one of its two Bentley Continental GT3 entries. The No. 9, piloted by Álvaro Parente, Andy Soucek and Rodrigo Baptista, will undergo an engine change following pre-qualifying, sidelining the car for Thursday afternoon’s qualifying sessions, as well as the evening practice.

On Thursday morning, action for the Total 24 Hours of Spa got underway with a good performance by Mercedes-AMG. In first free practice, three Mercedes-AMG GT3s ended up in the top ten. Maro Engel (GER) of the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT entry posted the third-fastest time in the GT3 field of 56 cars. In total, ten GT3s from Affalterbach will be participating at the circuit in the Ardennes and will be competing for the outright win as well as success in the Pro-Am and Silver classes in the next three days. Seven teams are running the cars, all of them excellently prepared and highly motivated for the endurance racing classic with their 36 drivers in total. Like in the Nürburgring 24-hour race, the efforts of the Mercedes-AMG Performance teams at Spa-Francorchamps will again benefit the ‘Passion for Good’ initiative by the Laureus Sport for Good foundation.

Two weeks after ending the round at the Circuit of Montmeló with a double victory, Oregon Team is set for the Spa-Francorchamps campaing. In Spain the Italian squad claimed its first success in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe with the Dorian Boccolacci and Kevin Gilardoni duo, who moved up to second in the Pro drivers’ standings following their first podium finish of the season at the Nürburgring, last September. 

With the Total 24 Hours of Spa just a few days away, now is the ideal time to brush up on a few key facts and figures concerning the big race. We’ve compiled the ideal number – 24, of course – to whet your appetite for this year’s autumn running of the Belgian endurance classic. 

The historical Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is the venue for the penultimate round of the 2020 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season, with the race for the title closer than ever following an action-filled previous round in Barcelona.

Three years after claiming the Pro-Am championship title, Lincolnshire-based race team Balfe Motorsport is delighted to announce it will return to International GT Open for the final round of the 2020 season.

Roughly four weeks after the highly-acclaimed victory at the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER), the BMW M6 GT3 is now set for the second major endurance highlight of the season this weekend: the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL). Walkenhorst Motorsport travels to Belgium with bags of confidence, following the one-two at the 8 Hours of Indianapolis (USA). After winning the Spa classic in 2018, the team now has its sights set firmly on another podium finish. A host of top-class GT drivers will be at the wheel of the two cars. In the Pro-Am class, the Boutsen Ginion BMW M6 GT3, sporting a design by artist Peter Halley, promises to be a real eye-catcher.

Team Parker Racing is set to resume action in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup as it tackles the daunting 24 Hours of Spa over a late autumnal weekend of October 22-25. Despite bad luck at the opening two rounds of the season, with brake failure at Imola and unnecessary damage from a rival […]

The GT4 European Series heads to Belgium this weekend for the fifth and penultimate round of 2020 at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. The first titles of the season could be decided at the legendary 7.004 km racing venue in the Ardennes.

The GRT Grasser Racing Team arrived for their home fixture at the Red Bull Ring last weekend in resolute mood. After being deprived of a first victory in the 2020 ADAC GT Masters, the team were looking for payback on the fifth weekend of the Super Sports Car League. On the historic Spielberg race track, less than ten kilometres from team headquarters in Knittelfeld, the crews of the three Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVOs once again showed indomitable spirit.

Henrique Chaves, with Miguel Ramos, achieved last weekend at Spa-Francorchamps his second win of the season and goes to the last round of this International GT Open season in the Drivers’ Standings lead.

International travel restrictions caused by COVID-19 will prevent the 2021 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour from taking place as previously planned in February.

K-PAX Racing has one of its toughest challenges yet in its 14 seasons of operation, competing not only in its longest race to date, but also on one of the largest stages in sports car racing worldwide. The team is set to enter its strong two-car Bentley Continental GT3 effort to contend in this year’s unique autumn edition of the Total 24 Hours of Spa – keen on continuing its maiden voyage across Europe in the GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Endurance Cup while sharing the electricity the team has brought to fans stateside for more than a decade.

ENNIS, TX – October 19, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  In an all-Torrence Top Fuel final round at their home track, Steve Torrence powered past his father, Billy, on Sunday at Texas Motorplex to win the 35th annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Matt Hartford (Pro Stock) and Jerry Savoie (Pro […]

ENNIS, TX – October 19, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Brandon Snider capped off an impressive weekend at Texas Motorplex, winning for the first time in his career in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service. Snider, who was the No. 1 qualifier for the second straight […]

Race one Pro-Am class winners Ahmad Al Harthy and Tom Canning experienced a challenging conclusion to their debut weekend in the International GT Open at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday, 18th October, when early delays in the second contest restricted them to a top six Pro-Am finish.

Erik Johansson (24, SWE) and Jens Klingmann (30, GER, both MRS GT-Racing) have gone down in ADAC GT Masters history as winners of the 200th race. Victory for the BMW duo on Sunday at the Red Bull Ring means that the Super Sports Car League has now seen nine different winners in the ten outings of the current campaign. Runners-up were Luca Stolz (25, GER) and Maro Engel (35, Monte Carlo, both Toksport WRT) in a Mercedes-AMG, with third place going to Lamborghini works drivers Franck Perera (36, FRA) and Albert Costa Balboa (30, ESP, both GRT Grasser Racing Team). “Amazing!” was race winner Jens Klingmann’s verdict at the finish. “To have won the 200th race of the ADAC GT Masters is really something very special. After this morning’s quali, I certainly wasn’t expecting the win – I would have been satisfied with just a podium.”

Staying out of trouble, laying down consistent laps times and maintaining patience were key factors in Heinricher Racing’s sixth-place finish at the Motul Petit Le Mans on Saturday. Alvaro Parente, Misha Goikhberg and Trent Hindman once again joined forces to earn another hard-fought finish at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. 

The sixth race weekend of the ADAC GT Masters will be held from October 30th to November 1st at the DEKRA Lausitzring. The second race of the ADAC GT Master on the Brandenburg track after the start of the season at the end of July replaces the races originally scheduled at Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands on the same date. The ADAC GT Masters and Circuit Zandvoort have been working intensively on a concept over the past few weeks to run the race weekend. Due to the high number of infections in the Netherlands and the classification as a risk area by the German government, the ADAC GT Masters has now decided to change the venue at short notice. Together with the ADAC GT Masters, the ADAC GT4 Germany, ADAC TCR Germany, ADAC Formula 4 and the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany race at DEKRA Lausitzring.