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MUSTANG SAMPLING RACING SIXTH IN UPHILL BATTLE AT ROAD AMERICA

August 5, 2019 RNW Staff 0

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.

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ROAD AMERICA HIGHLIGHTS PERFORMANCE TECH STRENGTH AND SPEED

August 5, 2019 RNW Staff 0

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.

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PAUL MILLER RACING CONVERTS FRONT ROW START TO PODIUM FINISH AT ROAD AMERICA

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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.

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FIFTH PLACE FINISH FOR MEYER SHANK RACING AT ROAD AMERICA

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Keeping the big picture in mind, Meyer Shank Racing drivers Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman focused on growing their 30-point IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship lead heading into the IMSA Road Race Showcase on Sunday. The duo brought home the No. 86 AutoNation Acura NSX GT3 fifth in the GTD standings, and provisionally maintain the championship lead by 25 points.

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PORSCHE GT TEAM DEFENDS IMSA CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD WITH PODIUM RESULT

August 5, 2019 RNW Staff 0

The Porsche GT Team continues its series of podium results at round eight of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand) achieved third place after an immaculate drive in their Porsche 911 RSR at the Road America racetrack and thus have extended their lead in the drivers’ championship even further. In the race over two hours and 40 minutes, Patrick Pilet (France) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain) scored seventh place in the No. 911 sister car. In the manufacturers’ classification, Porsche still holds a convincing lead. In the GTD class, Porsche Young Professional Matt Campbell (Australia) and his teammate Zacharie Robichon (Canada) brought home victory in the Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by Pfaff Motorsports.

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WEATHERTECH RACING SEVENTH AT ROAD AMERICA

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WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Toni Vilander (Kankaanpää, Finland) finished the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Road America seventh in GTD today..

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CORVETTE RACING AT ROAD AMERICA: ANOTHER HARD-LUCK AFTERNOON

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Luck wasn’t on the side of Corvette Racing on Sunday as the team logged fourth- and sixth-place finishes in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Road Race Showcase at Road America.

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MAZDA SCORES IMSA HAT TRICK

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For the third straight race, a Soul Red Crystal Mazda RT24-P was driven into the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar victory lane as Jonathan Bomarito and Harry Tincknell scored victory at the IMSA Road Race Showcase at Road America.

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BMW TEAM RLL FINISHES FIFTH AND EIGHTH AT ROAD AMERICA

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BMW Team RLL salvaged a top-five finish in today’s IMSA WeatherTech Championship Road Race Showcase, at Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wis., with the No. 25 BMW M8 GTE of Tom Blomqvist and Connor De Phillippi, after a very difficult day. After leading a handful of laps, John Edwards and Jesse Krohn finished eighth in the No. 24 BMW M8 GTE following brake failure mid-race. The car completed the two-hour-and-forty-minute race, but after repairs cost four laps, a deserving result was impossible.

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Force Get Win No. 150, Prock Secures First Victory and Hartford Grabs Win at Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals

August 4, 2019 RNW Staff 0

KENT, WA – August 4, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – John Force powered to his 150th Funny Car win on Sunday, rolling to the milestone victory at the 32nd annual Magic Dry Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals. While Force earned his 150th career win, John Force Racing teammate and Top Fuel rookie Austin Prock picked […]

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Mini Challenge UK (JCW) 2019. Race 2 Brands Hatch. Leaders Collide

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COME-FROM-BEHIND CONSECUTIVE SUPER GT WINS FOR WAKO’S 4CR LC500 AT FUJI

August 4, 2019 RNW Staff 0

The FUJI 500mile RACE, Round 5 of the 2019 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, was run on August 4th at Fuji Speedway (4,563m x 175 laps) in Shizuoka Prefecture. The air temperature had risen to 33 degrees Celsius before the start of this 500-mile (805 km) race, the longest in the series, and twice before it was over the Safety Car would come out to control the race, as befitting a tough midsummer endurance race. The winner of the GT500 class race was the No. 6 WAKO’S 4CR LC500 (Kazuya Oshima/Kenta Yamashita), in what was a second consecutive win for the tear following the victory in Round 4 in Thailand. In the GT300 class, the winner was the No. 87 T-DASH Lamborghini GT3 (Tsubasa Takahashi/Andre Couto/Kiyoto Fujinami).

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Ginetta G40 Cup 2019. Race 3 Brands Hatch. Start Spins

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Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA 2019. Race 2 Road America. Michael Levitas & Lawrence Loshak Crash

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SMP RCRS (Super Production/Touring-Light) 2019. Race 2 ADM Raceway. Pastushkov & Antipov Crash

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SMP RCRS (Super Production/Touring-Light) 2019. Race 2 ADM Raceway. Start Crash

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SMP RCRS (Super Production/Touring-Light) 2019. Race 2 ADM Raceway. Borisenko & Nezvankin Crash

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BLANCPAIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA THIRD PLACE FINISH IN GT3S FOR HUBAUTO CORSA IN KOREA

August 4, 2019 RNW Staff 0

After two days of racing at Yeongam in South Korea, the Ferrari of HubAuto Corsa and its driver Yuya Sakamoto are still in the running for the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia.

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British GT 2019. Race Brands Hatch. Glynn Geddie Big Crash

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Salinas, Tasca and Coughlin Seal No. 1 Qualifiers at Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals

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KENT, WA – August 4, 2019 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Mike Salinas secured his fourth No. 1 qualifier of the 2019 NHRA season in Top Fuel on Saturday at the Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways. Bob Tasca III (Funny Car) and Jeg Coughlin Jr. (Pro Stock) are also No. […]

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