ALL FOUR K-PAX RACING DRIVERS ON THE PODIUM AT WATKINS GLEN
K-PAX Racing returned to a track where it swept last season and built on its successes in the ninth round of Blancpain GT World Challenge America action. Watkins Glen International continues to be a staple track for the Bentley Continental GT3, as the team earned a double-podium with the marque’s second-generation model.
UNITED AUTOSPORTS CLAIMS FIFTH LMP3 PODIUM IN HOME ELMS RACE
For the fifth time since making its European Le Mans Series début in 2016, United Autosports scored an LMP3 podium placing in its home race at Silverstone. #2 Ligier (Garett Grist/Tommy Erdos/Wayne Boyd) claimed a well-deserved third place in the 4 Hours of Silverstone today (31 Aug) – the crew’s third consecutive class podium this season – but apart from this success, the team endured a torrid time. Fastest in both practice sessions and qualifying P2, it appeared United’s best hope of success would be with its new Oreca with an LMP2 podium at the very least. But #22 Oreca (Phil Hanson/Filipe Albuquerque) retired with an electrical issue after a little over 30 minutes. #3 (Christian England/Mike Guasch) crashed heavily out of second place at high-speed having been tagged by another car while #32 Ligier (Alex Brundle/Ryan Cullen/Will Owen) was classified eighth in LMP2. United are now placed seventh (#22) and eighth (#32) in LMP2 Teams championship while #2 now lies third in the LMP3 Teams standings with #3 ninth. The penultimate round of this year’s ELMS is staged at Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) on 22 Sep.
CETILAR RACING MAKES GOOD DEBUT IN FIA WEC QUALIFYING
Cetilar Racing made a good debut in the FIA WEC, taking today the eight best time in the LMP2 qualifying at Silverstone. On British soil, Roberto Lacorte, Giorgio Sernagiotto and Andrea Belicchi completed a promising first part of the weekend.
JEGS Signs Multi-Year Renewal for Sponsorship of NHRA Allstars and SPORTSnationals Program
GLENDORA, CA – August 31, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – JEGS, one of the largest high-performance automotive equipment retailers in the United States, has extended its NHRA sponsorships of the JEGS Allstars program and the JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals event. The multi-year extensions will keep the JEGS name on these tradition-rich programs tailored for sportsman […]
BULLITT RACING WINS AT THE NURBURGRING, GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES TITLES TO BE DECIDED ON SUNDAY
Romain Monti and Alex Lambertz scored their second win in the GT4 European Series at the Nürburgring this afternoon. The Bullitt Racing pairing bounced back from a disappointing Zandvoort weekend with victory in the penultimate round of the season. An exciting final race on Sunday is in prospect, as none of the Silver Cup title contenders finished on the podium and the title fight will go down to the wire. RN Vision STS drivers Marius Zug and Gabriele Piana won the Pro-Am category in today’s race, while Johan Vannerum and Jean-Luc Behets took another Am class win.
POLE POSITION AT SILVERSTONE AND ANOTHER RECORD FOR TOYOTA GAZOO RACING
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing locked out the front row for the opening race of the 2019-2020 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season in qualifying for the 4 Hours of Silverstone.
CALDARELLI AND MAPELLI SEIZE BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP ADVANTAGE
Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli won a thrilling contest at the Nürburgring to seize the advantage in the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe title battle.
FERRARI FRONT ROW AT 4 HOURS OF SILVERSTONE
The qualifying session for the starting grid of the 4 Hours of Silverstone, the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), yielded an all Ferrari front row.
BARWELL MOTORSPORT ON A CHARGE AT THE 24H BARCELONA
The Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo (#77, Adrian Amstutz / Leonid Machitski / Patrick Kujala / Dennis Lind) currently leads the 2019 Hankook 24H BARCELONA, albeit by just 9.2 seconds over the Herberth Motorsport Porsche 991 GT3 R (#91, Daniel Allemann / Ralf Bohn / Robert Renauer / Sven Müller).
BEST PORSCHE 911 RSR TAKES UP THE FIRST RACE OF THE WEC SEASON FROM FOURTH PLACE
The new Porsche 911 RSR (2019 model year) will start its racing debut from the second grid row. In qualifying for the season-opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Silverstone (Great Britain), the Italian Gianmaria Bruni and his Austrian works driver teammate Richard Lietz planted the No. 91 car on fourth place. The reigning world champions Kévin Estre (France) and Michael Christensen (Denmark) claimed the sixth grid spot in the ca. 515 hp sister car with the starting number 92.
ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE GTE IN THE HUNT FOR WEC SEASON OPENER
Aston Martin Racing made a strong start to its 2019/2020 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign by qualifying third on the GTE Pro grid for the 4 Hours of Silverstone, which takes place on Sunday.
