RNW Staff

Having become the youngest driver ever to win a FIA World Endurance Championship title and the youngest British driver to win the LMP2 category in the legendary Le Mans 24 Hours, Britain’s Phil Hanson now targets re-writing the motorsport history books once again. The 21-year-old United Autosports driver is aiming to become the first driver ever to win a WEC title, Le Mans and the outright European Le Mans Series title in the same year.

GAINESVILLE, FL – September 28, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – On a special weekend that saw him share the winner’s circle with his son, Matt, multi-time world champ Rickie Smith raced to his first win of the 2020 E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series season on Sunday, beating Mike Janis in […]

GAINESVILLE, FL – September 28, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Defending Top Fuel world champion Steve Torrence vaulted into the points lead on Sunday at Gainesville Raceway, powering past his father, Billy, in the final round to win the AMALIE Motor Oil Gatornationals for the first time in his career. Ron Capps (Funny Car), […]

BMW Team RLL increased their podium finishing streak to four 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races with a third-place finish by the No. 25 BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi and Bruno Spengler in this afternoon’s two-hour-and-forty-minute Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. Teammates John Edwards and Jesse Krohn finished fourth in the No. 24 BMW M8 GTE. The result was sixth podium finish at BMW Team RLL’s home track and 83rd total for the team since 2009.

What was shaping up to be a run to victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) drivers Matt McMurry and Mario Farnbacher took a dramatic turn with just 30 minutes remaining. But the determination and focus that the No. 86 Acura NSX GT3 drivers delivered resulted in a fifth place finish on Sunday.

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac of Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr finished second in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship Acura Sportscar Challenge at the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course. The Konica Minolta Cadillac came home third.

Mercedes-AMG fell short off of the high goals it had set itself for this year’s ADAC TOTAL 24h-Rennen. The season highlight at the Nürburgring was marked by extreme weather conditions that led to retirements for the favourites including the race-leading Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars and resulted into the race being suspended over nine hours. Once the racing had resumed, Patrick Assenheimer (GER), Dominik Baumann (AUT), Maro Engel and Dirk Müller (both GER) of the Mercedes-AMG Team HRT AutoArenA finished in eighth place, the best result for the GT3s from Affalterbach. The HRT team’s sister car with Nico Bastian (GER), Yelmer Buurman (NED), Hubert Haupt (GER) and Philip Ellis (SUI) behind the wheel finished in ninth place. In the SP8T category, Black Falcon Team Textar celebrated second place in class with its Mercedes-AMG GT4.

Fighting for its sixth overall victory in the turbulent 48th running of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Audi Sport customer racing had to admit defeat by just a few seconds. Audi Sport drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Christopher Haase and Markus Winkelhock in the Audi R8 LMS crossed the finish line in the most adverse conditions in the Eifel region as runners-up. They achieved this result as a squad of three after their team-mate Robin Frijns, who had originally been planned to race with them in Audi Sport Team Car Collection, was unable to compete due to an infection with the common cold.

After claiming their second consecutive Am victory in race one at Monza, following the Austrian triumph only two weeks ago, the Antonelli Motorsport duo Alexander Moiseev, Alexey Nesov showed great pace on Sunday’s race two.

Anniversary win for BMW in the ‘Green Hell’: the ROWE Racing team won the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER) to present the Bavarian manufacturer with its 20th overall victory at the endurance classic. 50 years after the inaugural Eifel marathon, the #99 BMW M6 GT3 crossed the finish line in first place after 85 laps of racing. Nick Catsburg (NED), Alexander Sims (GBR) and Nick Yelloly (GBR) alternated at the wheel in an eventful and wet race, which was interrupted for roughly nine hours in the night due to heavy rain. The trio fought back strongly on Sunday to earn BMW’s first overall victory since 2010. At the end of a nerve-racking climax, Catsburg crossed the finish line 15.452 seconds ahead of the second-placed Audi. BMW Team Schnitzer completed the podium in third place, with drivers Augusto Farfus (BRA), Jens Klingmann (GER), Martin Tomczyk (GER) and Sheldon van der Linde (RSA).

Attempto Racing’s Finlay Hutchison watched hopes of a Silver Cup podium challenge frustratingly go awry during a one-off outing in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup at a rain-hit Zandvoort on Saturday, 26th September – the Scottish driver ending the event with a best finish of sixth in class.

Bastian Buus and Jan Kasperlik scored their sixth class win of the season and the third consecutive overall victory at the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands for the Allied Racing Porsche team. The Toyota GR Supra GT4 took its first class win in the GT4 European Series in the hands of Gael Castelli and Stéphane Lémeret (CMR), with Selleslagh Racing Teams’s Bob Herber taking the Am honours at Zandvoort.

Porsche Carrera Cup GB – the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK – began a crucial stage of the 2020 season at Silverstone with two races on the short and fast 1.6-mile National circuit. Rookie teammates Matthew Graham (Redline Racing) and Scott McKenna (Redline Racing) topped the combined Practice times on Friday – just one-second covered the top 15 cars following two dry sessions. Esmee Hawkey (Team Parker) maintained her category advantage as the fastest Pro-Am, Lucky Khera (Simon Green Motorsport) was the quickest Am.

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.