RNW Staff

BRAINERD, MN – August 6, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Jason Line Hailing from Wright, Minn., the annual visit to Brainerd International Raceway, the site of the 38th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals on Aug. 15-18, is always a welcome trip for Jason Line. But the Pro Stock standout and three-time world champion wouldn’t […]

Fresh from the podium at the Spa 24 Hours, Strakka Racing next heads to Japan for the Suzuka 10 Hours, where the squad finished in second place overall in 2018. Competing in the penultimate round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge in Suzuka, Strakka Racing will be entering two Mercedes-AMG GT3’s into the event.

AIM VASSER SULLIVAN (AVS) scored two top-10 finishes in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Road America on Sunday, including a fourth-place result for the No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3, driven by Jack Hawksworth and Richard Heistand.

Who will be crowned champion to mark the mid-point in the ADAC GT Masters? The holiday season is well underway, but the ADAC GT Masters will be returning from its summer break to race at the Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands next weekend (9th-11th August). At the holiday resort on the North Sea, the ADAC GT Masters will stage the fourth of seven race weekends in total on the circuit in the dunes which will feature on next year’s F1 calendar. We’ve had four different winners so far this season, driving four different makes of car – Audi, BMW, Corvette and Porsche – so the guest round at this top-class circuit in the Netherlands should prove to be very exciting. More than 30 GT3 sports cars, representing eight brands, will challenge championship leaders Patric Niederhauser (27, CH) and Kelvin van der Linde (23, ZA, both HCB-Rutronik Racing) in the Audi R8 LMS for the top spot while three Dutchmen – Jeroen Bleekemolen, Indy Dontje and Kelvin Snoeks – will want to do exceptionally well in their home fixture.

Whelen Engineering Racing fought to a fourth-place finish in Sunday’s IMSA Road Race Showcase at Road America. The race was the eighth of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season, which has two rounds of racing remaining for the DPi Championship.

Starting on the fourth row, Mustang Sampling Racing faced an uphill battle in Sunday’s IMSA Road Racing Classic at Road America. But the championship caliber team fought all the way, with Joao Barbosa and Filipe Albuquerque finishing sixth in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-V.R.

Performance Tech Motorsports finished second after a valiant effort in recovering its lead in the LMP2 Class at Road America with Sheboygan native James French and Canadian Cameron Cassels.

Paul Miller Racing, with drivers Corey Lewis and Bryan Sellers, delivered a second-place finish at Road America after Lewis scored the team’s best start of the year in second.