RNW Staff

MADISON, IL – September 30, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Rickie Smith finished up an impressive weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway with his first victory of the season in E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service action, beating points leader Stevie “Fast” Jackson in the final round […]

36 équipages étaientau départ, la plus grosse grille de départ cette année dans un rallye Canadien. Pas moinsque 12 équipes novices s’y étaient inscrites.

SMP Racing drivers took part in the final round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, which took place at the Spanish Barcelona circuit. The crew of Mikhail Aleshin finished in fifteenth position and was classified second in the teams’ standings out of 33 teams from around the world fighting for the title.

It could hardly have been a more clear-cut outcome. Newly crowned champions Patric Niederhauser (27, CH) and Kelvin van der Linde (23, ZA) have now secured the ADAC GT Masters team championship for series newcomers HCB-Rutronik Racing with a comfortable win on the last Sunday of the 2019 campaign. Jimmy Eriksson (28, SWE) and Daniel Keilwitz (30, GER, both Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing) in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 were second. Third place went to Max Hofer (20, AUT) and Christopher Mies (30, GER, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) in another Audi R8 LMS. P3 overall was enough for Hofer to clinch the Pirelli Junior classification for young drivers. “It’s great to finish the season with a victory,” said Kelvin van der Linde. “The team title is a well-deserved reward for the whole team. Their commitment is reflected in the great successes we have had on the track.”

Orange1 FFF Racing captured a brace of Blancpain GT Series and Endurance Cup crowns today when its #563 Lamborghini took a sensational victory in the season-deciding race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The penultimate weekend of Porsche Carrera Cup GB, the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK, saw 18-year-old Porsche GB 2018 / 2019 Junior Dan Harper (JTR) declared as provisional 2019 Porsche Carrera Cup GB champion. Porsche GB Junior Harper needed to score just a handful of points during the Silverstone National weekend to move the title out of the reach of rivals Josh Webster (Team Parker Racing) and Lewis Plato (Motorbase Performance) – a seventh place finish in a dramatic race one was enough to crown the teenager as the youngest champion in the history of the championship.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport claim a 1-2 victory at Sochi

Murod Sultanov beat recently-crowned Blancpain GT Sports Club Overall champion Jens Reno Moller in an enthralling final race of the 2019 season at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The ADAC GT Masters is going for continuity once more with seven meets and an attractive and fan-friendly support programme planned for the 2020 calendar. As is by now the tradition, the 14th season of the ADAC GT Masters will open at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben on the weekend of 24th-26th April 2020 and finish at the Sachsenring, 2nd-4th October 2020. In conjunction with the Super Sports Car League, the ADAC GT4 Germany, the ADAC TCR Germany, the ADAC Formula 4 and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland will hold races in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and the Netherlands next year. Entrants in the ADAC GT Masters will again compete for prize money totalling 500,000 euros plus additional prizes of equipment in 2020.