RNW Staff

GAINESVILLE, FL – September 27, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – In the first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series race outside of Indianapolis since February, Top Fuel’s Clay Millican powered to the No. 1 spot in qualifying during Saturday’s 51st annual AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. Matt Hagan (Funny Car), Deric […]

Bastian Buus and Jan Kasperlik have taken their second overall GT4 European Series victory in a row in the first Zandvoort race. The Allied Racing drivers took their fourth consecutive Pro-Am class win of the season. Valentin Hasse-Clot and Theo Nouet took the Silver Cup victory and the championship lead, with AGS Events teammates Nicolas Gomar and Gilles Vannelet extending their Am lead with their third win of the season.

After victory in the morning race, the crew of Sky Tempesta Racing have clinched the second win of the day to extend their lead at the top of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup standings. Behind Chris Froggatt and Eddie Cheever III, the Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini partnership crossed the line in second place, improving on their Race 1 result.

Albert Costa and Giacomo Altoè clinched their maiden GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup victory in today’s second race at Zandvoort, leading a one-two finish for the Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini squad.

Ryuichiro Tomita and Kelvin van der Linde gave Belgian Audi Club Team WRT a commanding victory in this morning’s opening Sprint Cup race at Zandvoort, sharing the podium with a pair of impressive Silver Cup runners after a highly unpredictable 60-minute contest.

This Saturday afternoon, the ADAC TOTAL 24h-Rennen as the endurance racing season highlight for Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing gets underway. The initial position for a repeated success after 2013 and 2016 is very good: next to pole position for the #4 HRT Mercedes-AMG GT3, four further GT3s from Affalterbach will be lining up on the first five rows of the grid. During the race, Alexander Bodo will be facing a challenging job. The chief strategist in the Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing team will be coordinating all the tactical interests from the operations centre. Given the changeable weather conditions that are to be expected, the right timing of the driver changes, fuel stops and driver changes in particular will be playing a major role. In the Mercedes-AMG Race Base, Bodo will be supported, among others, by weather experts who are on duty day and night. For everyone involved, anticipation for the race start is huge, even though spectators on site are sadly missed. To greet the fans watching from home, Mercedes-AMG has placed several fan banners along the Nordschleife that are regularly captured by the cameras. Moreover, the Customer Racing website (customerracing.mercedes-amg.com) provides a live stream with exclusive additional features.

BMW teams secured promising starting positions with the BMW M6 GT3 in Friday’s Top Qualifying on the eve of the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER). Nick Yelloly (GBR) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) qualified fifth and sixth for ROWE Racing and BMW Team Schnitzer, meaning they start the race from row three. With some stretches of the circuit wet and some dry, qualifying became something of a tyre lottery. Marco Wittmann (GER, ROWE Racing) and Christian Krognes (NOR, Walkenhorst Motorsport) finished eighth and ninth to claim their places in the top ten. Henry Walkenhorst (GER) was 16th in the AM car run by Walkenhorst Motorsport.

Porsche has made it into the new Top Qualifying for the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring, which is limited to 30 vehicles, with all seven customer-run 911 GT3 R racers. In the first heat of the two-part final qualifying session, Dennis Olsen achieved second in the individual time trial with the 500+hp 911 fielded by the KCMG squad. Facing very difficult track conditions with rain setting in, he made the best use of the first of his two laps and missed out on topping the timesheets by a mere quarter of a second. This allowed the Norwegian to take part in the second qualifying segment. However, he had to park the vehicle, which he shares with Timo Bernhard, Jörg Bergmeister (both Germany) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand) due to problems during the warm-up lap. As the best-placed 911 GT3 R, Frikadelli Racing’s No. 30 entry heads into the 24-hour race on Saturday at 3.30 pm local time from P14. Sharing the cockpit are qualifying driver Alex Müller (Germany), Klaus Abbelen, Robert Renauer (both Germany) and Norbert Siedler (Austria). The Porsche, which contests the Pro-Am class, had already made it into the top-17 session after scoring good results in the Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS).

Mikaël Grenier and Norbert Siedler produced a dominant qualifying performance in the #14 Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini to secure pole position for both of tomorrow’s GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup races at Zandvoort.

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that they will enter the GT4 European Series in 2021.

Tockwith Motorsports will be on the starting list of the full season of the 2020 GT4 South European. One car is confirmed while the second car is missing one driver.

Two weeks after claiming their first Am victory of the season at the Red Bull Ring, Alexander Moiseev and Alexey Nesov are set for the fourth of six International GT Open rounds this weekend in Monza, the only one to be held in Italy.

British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) Rising Star Finlay Hutchison will make an unexpected return to action in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup at Zandvoort in The Netherlands this Saturday, 26th September, after receiving an eleventh-hour call-up from Audi squad Attempto Racing.

Balfe Motorsport is delighted to announce that it will return to the Gulf 12 Hours early in 2021 (7-9 January) as it competes with a McLaren 720S GT3.

The September 27th Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio marks the beginning of the second half of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and BMW Team RLL’s run for the GTLM class title.

In consultation with its customer teams, Porsche has made a last-minute change to its driver line-up for the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. New to the crew driving the 911 GT3 R are two outright Le Mans winners and endurance champions: the brand ambassador Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand). In addition, the line-up also includes last year’s GTE-Am class winner at Le Mans and brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister, talented youngster Nico Menzel (both Germany) and seasoned specialist Norbert Siedler (Austria). Porsche works driver Sven Müller (Germany), Dennis Olsen (Norway) and Klaus Bachler (Austria) tackle the race for two Porsche customer teams. They replace the nine drivers with works contracts who have had to step down from attending the Nürburgring race on 26-27 September. This reshuffle is the result of three positive Covid-19 tests done as part of a routine check on Porsche employees at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As a consequence, Porsche Motorsport decided that, for safety reasons, no participant from the French endurance classic would travel to the Eifel.

The new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT8R will make its debut in the ADAC Total Nürburgring 24 Hours on the world-famous Nordschleife in Germany this weekend, with partner racing team Garage 59.

MADISON, IL – September 23, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Jonathan Gray plans to enjoy every moment of being in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service championship mix during the rest of the 2020 season. But he’s not going to let the moment overwhelm him. Gray […]

Whelen Engineering Racing drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Felipe Nasr (Brazil) are set to return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge Sept. 25 – 27.

MADISON, IL – September 22, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  With only four races remaining in the 2020 season when the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series arrives at World Wide Technology Raceway on Oct. 2-4 for the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil, championship contenders know they will need an […]