RNW Staff

The official qualifying for the FUJIMAKI GROUP MOTEGI GT 300km RACE, Round 7 of the 2020 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, was held at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Tochigi Prefecture on November 7 (Sat.). In the GT500 class, the No. 64 Modulo NSX-GT driven by Takuya Izawa and Hiroki Otsu won its second Pole Position of the season. In the GT300 class, Yamauchi drove the No. 61 SUBARU BRZ R&D SPORT (Takuto Iguchi/Hideki Yamauchi) to the team’s first the pole position of the season. These two cars will start at the front of their respective class grids in tomorrow’s race starting at 13:00.

Audi driver Ricardo Feller (20, CH) set the first best time of the day in FP1 of the ADAC GT Masters finale at Oschersleben. On a drying track, Feller topped the timesheets ahead of Lamborghini drivers Clemens Schmid (30, AUT) and Tim Zimmermann (24, GER, both GRT Grasser Racing Team). The title contenders were meanwhile happy to bide their time in the slippery conditions.

Will championship leaders Patric Niederhauser (29, CH) and Kelvin van der Linde (24, ZA, both Rutronik Racing) become the first drivers ever to mount a successful defence of their ADAC GT Masters title, or can strong competition take the championship away from the Audi drivers during this weekend’s grand finale at Oschersleben (6th-8th November)? There are 50 points still to be won, so anything is possible in the fight for the title in the Super Sports Car League.

T3-HRT-Motorsport are set to continue in the 2021 ADAC GT Masters, so another outfit has already now at this early stage made the commitment to contest the series, in which the title ‘International German GT Champion’ will be bestowed next year. The German team are even planning to boost their line-up for next season while remaining focused on promoting young talent.

Finlay Hutchison’s first season of European Le Mans Series action concluded with a seventh place finish in the LMGTE class during round five at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve on Sunday, 1st November, after an enforced fightback was required due to an early excursion for team-mate Rodrigo Sales.

24 Hours of Le Mans and Rolex 24 At Daytona winner Joey Hand will join the No. 57 Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Hand will fill in for full-season Heinricher Racing driver Alvaro Parente who will be racing at Paul Ricard.

LAS VEGAS, NV – November 3, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – In one of the most unusual years in NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series history Top Fuel racer Justin Ashley prevailed as the 2020 NHRA Rookie of the Year. The 25-year-old from Plainview, New York, raced his Strutmasters.com Top Fuel dragster powered by […]

Lexus and AIM VASSER SULLIVAN (AVS) clinched the 2020 IMSA Sprint Cup Championship in the final sprint race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season at Laguna Seca on Sunday.

Ashington racing driver Stuart Middleton secured his, and team-mate Stevan McAleer’s, fifth Pro class podium of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season on Sunday, 1st November, at the legendary Laguna Seca Raceway in California.

GRT Grasser Racing Team travelled to Brandenburg for the penultimate weekend of the 2020 ADAC GT Masters. The organisers of the Super Sports Car League were forced to cancel the Zandvoort fixture due to the acute coronavirus situation in the Netherlands and to make late arrangements for the two races to be contested at the Lausitzring, which had already hosted the series earlier in summer. There was one slight difference between this event and the season opener in July/August, as the 4,534-metre track variant was used this time. For the Austrian outfit, however, the return to the venue did not bring the hoped-for success, with only one Top Ten finish to show for their endeavours. The strong pace of the three Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVOs was compromised in two tempestuous races by unfortunate timing.

The ADAC GT Masters title contenders have no time to relax. Less than one week after the races at the Lausitzring, the Super Sports Car League will be staging its grand finale in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, 6th – 8th November. It will definitely be a very exciting affair, since no less than ten drivers from Audi, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche still have a chance of securing the drivers’ title. Last year’s champions Patric Niederhauser (29, CH) and Kelvin van der Linde (24, ZA, both Rutronik Racing) are the ones to beat again at Oschersleben. However, the competition led by Porsche drivers Robert Renauer (35, GER, Precote Herberth Motorsport) and Christian Engelhart (33, GER)/Michael Ammermüller (34, GER, both SSR Performance) intend to stop the Audi drivers in their bid to mount a successful title defence. The races will take place in the absence of spectators and in accordance with the latest biosecurity guidelines while following measures developed by the ADAC GT Masters and approved by the authorities to prevent the spread of infection and promote good hygiene.

B-Quik Absolute Racing ended the opening round of Thailand Super Series 2020, held at Chang International Circuit in Buriram last weekend, with strong finishes for both cars in Race 2 and that resulted in a decent haul of points to take forward as we immediately start looking forward to the title decider of this compact and explosive season that comes up, again taking place here, in less two weeks’ time.

BWT Mücke Motorsport competed for the second time this 2020 ADAC GT Masters season at the Lausitzring over the weekend. The season opener took place at this circuit in the summer, and the Super Sports Car League was now back there to contest the penultimate race weekend of the season. Races eleven and twelve were originally calendared to take place at the Circuit Zandvoort, but the Covid-19 pandemic stopped that happening, so the 30 super sports cars, including the BWT Audi R8 LMS #26, raced on the 4.57-km version of the Lausitzring instead. Ricardo Feller and Stefan Mücke were in action without team-mates Igor Walilko and Mike David Ortmann again. Walilko’s recovery is taking longer than expected, so the crew of the BWT Audi R8 LMS #25 were out of contention again.

LAS VEGAS, NV – November 2, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  With a clutch run in the second round on Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Stevie “Fast” Jackson claimed his second straight world championship in the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service. Jackson […]

LAS VEGAS, NV – November 2, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – All four points leaders in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series finished the job on Sunday, as Steve Torrence, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders and Matt Smith claimed world championships during the 20th annual Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil at The Strip […]

RLR MSport was on course to bookend the 2020 European Le Mans Series (ELMS) with podiums, until a starter motor failure removed the team from third place at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (30 October-1 November).

The first podium finish of the 2020 season for the No. 57 Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 was a historic one—marking the first podium for a female-owned team in the history of IMSA racing. The third-place finish for the Jackie Heinricher-owned car was made possible by the continued hard work and diligence of drivers Alvaro Parente and Misha Goikhberg.

The Porsche GT Team has scored its second straight win in the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Belgium’s Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber from New Zealand reached the finish line first on the Laguna Seca Raceway and achieved the first victory for the Porsche 911 RSR on the storied Californian racetrack since the start of the factory campaign in 2014. The identical ca. 515 hp sister car driven by their works driver colleagues Nick Tandy from Great Britain and Frédéric Makowiecki from France finished on fourth place in the hotly-contested GTLM category.

Mario Farnbacher and Matt McMurry claimed their second IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory for Meyer Shank Racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday. 

A poorly timed safety car and mechanical issue today denied Nielsen Racing the opportunity to fight for the final European Le Mans Series podium of the year at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve.