RNW Staff

In the packed race calendar for the second half of the year, another endurance racing highlight is imminent for Mercedes-AMG Motorsport: the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (22-25 October). With ten Mercedes-AMG GT3s, the performance and sports car brand from Affalterbach has, according to the current situation, the largest contingent of all the manufacturers that will be competing in the 72nd running of the classic. One car each for AKKA ASP Team and Haupt Racing Team will be racing with extended works support and ranks among the favourites at the seven kilometres long track in the Belgian Ardennes. 

For the first time since 2011, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will host a round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe season, with the title battle evenly poised ahead of the trip to Spain.

Following a climactic conclusion to the 2020 GT4 America season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Flying Lizard Motorsports collected four championship titles to add to their illustrious history. Michael Dinan, driver of the No. 210 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 secured the Sprint Am driver championship, and together with co-driver Robby Foley in the No. 21 Aston Martin, clinched the SprintX Pro/Am Championship. Dinan and Foley’s performances, combined with the results from teammates Erin Vogel and Michael Cooper in the No. 30 McLaren 570s GT3, secured Flying Lizard Motorsports the 2020 Sprint and SprintX Team Championship titles, netting the California-based team their seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth championship titles since 2003.

United Autosports head to Monza, Italy this weekend (9-11 October) for the penultimate round of the European Le Mans Series and Michelin Le Mans Cup.

The completion of last week’s Total 24 Hours of Spa test days (29/30 September) launched the final phase of preparations for the 2020 running of the Belgian endurance classic. 

Meyer Shank Racing drivers Mario Farnbacher and Matt McMurry will make their debut at the inaugural race on Saturday at the 2.32-mile Charlotte ROVAL 8:00pm ET.

20 years ago IMSA held its only race to-date at the Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS) with Porsche holding nearly half the starting spots. Since that time much has changed in the sport and at the Concord, North Carolina track. It will all come back together on Saturday October 10 when three Porsche-built race cars will challenge the Charlotte “ROVAL” for 100-minutes in the race.

New NHRA Don’t Blink Collection Now Available GLENDORA, CA – October 5, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  NHRA has partnered with Wicked Quick for a collection of high-graphic NHRA tees that delivers an aggressive, visual take on speed. The licensing partnership was secured by JRL Group, NHRA’s licensing agency. The partnership brings a sense of homecoming […]

n the run-up to the fourth fixture of the 2020 ADAC GT Masters at the Sachsenring, BWT Mücke Motorsport had to change their driver line-up: Mike Beckhusen was out with a shoulder injury, so Mike David Ortmann stepped in to take his seat in the number 25 BWT Audi R8 LMS. The 20-year-old is a familiar face in the Berlin-based outfit, having competed for them from 2017 to 2019. On his comeback, he was to share a cockpit with Igor Walilko. The driver pairing for the sister car remained unchanged, with Stefan Mücke partnering Ricardo Feller in the number 26 BWT Audi R8 LMS.

With a focus towards the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship, Mustang Sampling Racing and two-time IMSA Champion driver João Barbosa have agreed to mutually part ways ahead of the remaining three races of the season. Tristan Vautier will assume full-time drive duties of the No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R alongside Sebastien Bourdais as the team […]

MADISON, IL – October 5, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Veteran Doug Kalitta won for the fourth time in St. Louis and pulled within two points of the Top Fuel lead on Sunday, racing to an impressive victory at the ninth annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil at World Wide […]

GLENDORA, CA – October 5, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Camping World, the nation’s largest retailer of recreational vehicles (RVs), RV accessories, and RV-related services, has partnered with the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body to become the sponsor of NHRA’s premier professional series, which will be known as the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing […]

At the second round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, Audi Sport Team Hardpoint WRT with the Audi R8 LMS fought its way back up to fourth place after early setbacks. Rain showers of varying intensity turned the Indianapolis 8 Hour race in the US state of Indiana into an unpredictable lottery in the first phase.

K-PAX Racing has long been recognized for its rigorous attention to detail, and in Sunday’s Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC) Powered by Pirelli Indianapolis 8 Hour, the team was able to show how strong its operation is piece-by-piece, putting forth a unified effort that displayed the team’s ability to produce both a winning and resilient program. The team was able to finish in the top-10 of GT3 competitors qualified to earn IGTC points, helping its driver roster continue to fight for the coveted championship.

BMW scored its maiden Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli victory in dominant fashion with a one-two finish in today’s inaugural Indianapolis 8 Hour.

The Corvette is back in contention! After a frustrating start to the season, Markus Pommer (29, GER) and Jeffrey Schmidt (26, CH) secured a first win of 2020 for the C7 GT3-R of Callaway Competition in Race 2 at the Sachsenring. The duo were beneficiaries of a late penalty imposed on Franck Perera (36, FRA) […]

The Takanokono Hotel FUJI GT 300km RACE, Round 5 of the 2020 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, was held at the Fuji Speedway (one lap 4,563m×66 laps) in Shizuoka Prefecture on October 4 (Sun). In the GT500 class, the No. 39 DENSO KOBELCO SARD GR Supra (Heikki Kovalainen/Yuichi Nakayama) came from 5th place on the starting grid to run away in the final stages and take its first win of the season. In the GT300 class, REALIZE NISSAN AUTOMOBILE TECHNICAL COLLEGE GT-R (Kiyoto Fujinami/Joao Paulo de Oliveira) gave team manager Masahiko Kondo’ team its first class victory.

MADISON, IL – October 4, 2020 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Eight-time Top Fuel world champion Tony Schumacher powered to his first No. 1 qualifier since 2018, breaking the track speed record during Saturday’s ninth annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil at World Wide Technology Raceway. https://motorsportsnewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tony-Schumacher-Record-Run.mp4   Paul Lee (Funny […]

BMW will start tomorrow’s inaugural Indianapolis 8 Hour from the front of the pack after Walkenhorst Motorsport driver Connor De Phillippi mastered the IMS Road Course in this evening’s Pole Shootout.

In a commanding performance at the Sachsenring on Saturday, the Mercedes duo of Marvin Dienst (23, GER) and Philipp Frommenwiler (31, CH, both DLV team Schütz Motorsport) converted pole position into a maiden ADAC GT Masters win. Runners-up on the spectacular rollercoaster track near Chemnitz were Robert Renauer (35, GER) and Sven Müller (28, GER, […]