RNW Staff

Britain’s Phil Hanson is aiming to bring down the curtain on his 2019 European Le Mans Series campaign in style. The 20-year-old won the corresponding four-hour race at Portimão in Portugal for United Autosports with co-driver Filipe Abuquerque last year and is determined for further success this time around on 27 October.

K-PAX Racing will make its final grand entrance of the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge America season October 18-20 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. There, the team will make its last push for multiple championships that are still in play.

ENNIS, TX – October 17, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  A solid, consistent 2019 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has Eddie Krawiec in contention for another world championship. But the three-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champ knows he has to be great the rest of the way for that to happen, including at […]

ENNIS, TX – October 17, 2019  – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  It’s every racer’s goal to be peaking at the right time when the Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship arrives and Erica Enders has been the perfect example of that during the 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. After an up-and-down regular […]

The Audi R8 LMS GT4 will make its Macau Grand Prix debut in the hands of Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup driver Alex Au and Grid Motorsport. The entry ensures that three Audi Sport customer racing products, the Audi R8 LMS GT3, R8 LMS GT4 and the RS 3 LMS, will be fielded together at the world-renowned Asian showpiece for the very first time this November.

Kelvin van der Linde (23, ZA) and Patric Niederhauser (27, CH, both HCB-Rutronik Racing) had a peach of a season on the way to taking the ADAC GT Masters championship title with three pole positions, three wins and ten finishes in the Top Four in 14 races. In interview with the ‘grand masters’, the two Audi drivers talk about the secret of their success, the highs and lows and tell us whether they will defend the title together in 2020.

Three continental championships on sixteen different circuits in Asia, Europe and North America, for a total of thirty-six races. While awaiting the 2019 World Final in Jerez (24-27 October), the calendars for the 2020 Lamborghini Super Trofeo are presented with some big news along with some welcome returns to the championship’s origins. It all begins with the announcement about Misano Adriatico, which for the first time will host the grand finale of the Sant’Agata Bolognese sporting season. Both the Asian and European championships will once again be combined with the GT World Challenge championships organized by SRO, with whom Automobili Lamborghini has renewed its partnership for the 2021 and 2022 seasons as well.

The Motul Petit Le Mans marked the finale of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season for the all-female Heinricher Racing squad of Katherine Legge, Bia Figueiredo, Christina Nielsen and Simona De Silvestro—the first all-female driving team to compete for a full season in the 50 years of IMSA competition. Legge, Figueiredo and Nielsen drove the No. 57 Caterpillar Acura NSX GT3 in the 10-hour classic, finishing seventh.

ENNIS, TX – October 16, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Even after 16 world championships and picking up his 150th (and 151st) win this season, John Force remains as motivated as ever to accomplish more in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. With another championship in sight heading to this weekend’s 34th annual […]

Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing confirms a 2-car entry for the 2019 FIA GT World Cup as part of the 66th Macau Grand Prix. The Official Performance Team of Mercedes-AMG will field two Mercedes-AMG GT3s at this prestigious and world renowned event at the Guia Street Circuit in Macau, one driven by Swiss GT star Edoardo Mortara, and the other by Belgium’s rising young gun Alessio Picariello. Title sponsors and liveries for the #77 and #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3 entries will be announced in the coming weeks.

ENNIS, TX – October 15, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  It was a shocking start to the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship for reigning Top Fuel world champ Steve Torrence. But the talented Texan has more than made up for it at the past two races, looking back in championship form as […]

Henrique Chaves won the second race of the Autodromo Internazionale di Monza International GT Open’s weekend, ending the championship in a high and achieving the third place in the Drivers’ Standings in his GT debut.

Tockwith Motorsports will increase its commitment to GT4 South European Series by entering three more cars at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve round on October 25th and 27th.

CONCORD, NC – October 14, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Steve Torrence took over the Top Fuel points lead in the Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship when he defeated Doug Kalitta at the 12th annual NTK NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway. Robert Hight (Funny Car), Deric Kramer (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines […]

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports won the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title in the LMP2 category at the 22nd annual Motul Petit Le Mans, after being forced to retire at the halfway point of the event.