RNW Staff

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.

K-PAX Racing is full speed ahead into the second round of GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup, bringing a slightly modified line-up to the famed Nürburgring for six hours of intense series action.

GLENDORA, CA – September 3, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – NHRA announced today the remainder of the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. In collaboration with all stakeholders, NHRA plans to hold six national events to complete the 2020 season. The 2020 NHRA season has looked very different due to the global […]

GLENDORA, CA – September 2, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  – The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum officials announced today the cancellation of the 2020 California Hot Rod Reunion presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Calif. “We made this difficult decision as we see the […]

Performance Tech Motorsports has withdrawn from the IMSA race at MICHELIN Raceway Road Atlanta due to circumstances surrounding COVID-19.

K-PAX Racing will not have to look far to continue its season centered around endurance racing, setting its sights Midwest to “The Racing Capital of the World” for the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC) Indianapolis 8 Hour October 2-4 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team will enter one Bentley-Works driver line-up for its fourth IGTC appearance in the last five seasons.

ByKOLLES Racing has lifted the covers off the new car livery for the 24 Hours of Le Mans mid of September.

With consecutive podium finishes (P3 – Road America and P2 – VIR) in the last two 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races BMW Team RLL has now amassed a total of 80 podium finishes since beginning its BMW racing program in 2009.The team is hoping to add a second season’s win at the six-hour Tirerack.com Grand Prix at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, in Braselton Ga. On Sept. 5th. BMW Team RLL triumphed at this year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona in January, the only event of 2020 not affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The six-hour race at Road Atlanta replaces the six-hour race at Watkins Glen International.

Bentley Motorsport will contest the full 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge via its global family of customer teams to challenge for the outright manufacturers’ title and enabling its works drivers to continue their championship-leading campaign.

Less than one month ahead of Misano opener, Oregon Team returns to Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe as the 2020 season resumes at Nürburgring this coming weekend.

MELVILLE, NY – September 2, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Rookie of the Year contender Justin Ashley announced today that MANSCAPED™ will be added to his 11,000 horsepower Top Fuel dragster as a major associate sponsor. The marketing partnership will cover the remainder of the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag […]

The trio of Alvaro Parente, Misha Goikhberg and Trent Hindman will again combine forces for the second IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup race of the season. The No. 57 Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing squad will head to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for the six-hour race.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.), Toni Vilander (Kankaanpää, Finland), and Jeff Westphal (San Mateo, Calif.) are ready for the IMSA WeatherTech Championship TireRack.com Grand Prix at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, September 4-6.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – September 1, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – It’s the biggest weekend of the NHRA Mello Yello Series season and Ron Capps is feeling plenty of momentum as he prepares to race on the sport’s grandest stage. The former Funny Car world champion won at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis for the […]

After two Italian rounds and a one-month break, the GT4 European Series returns to action at the Nürburgring this weekend (4-6 September). During the past three seasons the circuit in the Eifel hosted the season finale in September, this year the championship will return to the German venue for the third round of the season.

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is heading to Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for the TireRack.com Grand Prix to run this weekend, September 4-5.