RNW Staff

Porsche Motorsport GB has revealed its plans for the 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone. As the championship’s 20th anniversary year entered its penultimate weekend, teams, sponsors and guests were given an insight into what lies ahead for the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK – a successful blend of initiatives that will support the healthy grid and continue to promote close racing. 

The BMW M Hybrid V8 has arrived in North America and was presented to the public in its racing colours for the first time at a launch event at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles (USA). The first prototype developed by BMW M Motorsport in 25 years will sport an avant-garde livery which leverages the iconic BMW M colours when it competes in the GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023. The four core drivers who will take their place at the wheel of the two BMW M Team RLL cars were also announced at the Petersen Museum. They are BMW M works drivers Connor De Phillippi (USA), Philipp Eng (AUT), Augusto Farfus (BRA) and Nick Yelloly (GBR). When the car makes its race debut at Daytona (USA) in January 2023, they will receive big-name support from IndyCar series driver Colton Herta (USA).

The curtain falls on the 2022 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS season next weekend (30 September-2 October) when a three-hour Endurance Cup race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will decide the final championship battles.

The Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland will remain as a support series to the ADAC GT Masters next season. The one-make cup and the German GT championship have extended their partnership, which started in 2018. As a result, most of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland races will continue to run as part of the ADAC GT Masters support programme. This season’s calendar included four joint events – with two doubleheaders still to be contested.

The two SSR Performance Porsche 911 GT3 R are on their way to the penultimate DTM event of the season at the Red Bull Ring. Dennis Olsen (NOR) recently celebrated the team’s first DTM victory at Spa. 

Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific is set for a busy weekend of racing, with its drivers and teams preparing to take on the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), GT World Challenge Asia and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia (PCCA).

WeatherTech Racing drivers Maximilian Götz (Germany), Maximilian Buhk (Germany), and Mikaël Grenier (Canada) will compete in the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 at the season finale IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Motul Petit Le Mans to run at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Sept. 28 – Oct. 1. 

United Autosports will be making their 40th racing appearance at Spa-Francorchamps in the European Le Mans Series LMP3 class. Making their debut at the Silverstone circuit in 2016 in a Liger JS P3, United Autosports finished first and second, a defiant debut, with a line-up that still sees some of those drivers on the current 2022 grid. 

Emotions peaked during the 2021 Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS Championship at Sebring International Raceway, where K-PAX Racing officially reached the top after a continuous uphill battle – a totally restructured program that welcomed new cars, drivers and dynamics. The team, as well as those from Lamborghini Squadra Corse, scaled the fence to watch its Huracán GT3 EVO cross the finish line – securing titles across the board in the penultimate rounds of the series season.

The Austrian factor is generating a lot of excitement in the final sprint for the coveted DTM title. It is points’ leader Sheldon van der Linde (RSA) that everybody is after, especially so the Austrians, and that in the penultimate season round, DTM Red Bull Ring powered by REMUS in Styria from 23 till 25 September: Lucas Auer, second in the standings, is from Kufstein, three-time DTM champion René Rast, currently third, lives in Bregenz and Mirko Bortolotti, fourth in the points’ standings at present, grew up in Vienna. Norisring race winner Thomas Preining, van der Linde’s teammate Philipp Eng and Clemens Schmid also have a home round at the Grand Prix circuit near Spielberg. Moreover, Grasser Racing Team with team principal Gottfried Grasser is based right at the Red Bull Ring.

SRO Motorsports Group has reorganised its European calendars for the 2023 season following the decision to stage next year’s Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on 29-30 July, the date most commonly used by the 24 Hours of Spa since 1953.   The changes principally concern Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS and […]

As North American sports car racing says goodbye to the final days of summer, the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS enters the penultimate weekend of the 2022 season at Sebring International Raceway. Eighteen entries are set to compete in the pair of races this Saturday and Sunday, racing on the infamous track, known through the racing community for its bumpy surface and demanding layout. DXDT Racing earned a second-place finish at the Sebring, Florida track in 2021, and will be strong contenders to return to the steps again.

Lamborghini Squadra Corse has unveiled the first technical specifications of its LMDh project for its upcoming venture into the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship and the GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Takeshi Kimura and Kei Cozzolino head to this weekend’s Okayama season finale tied on points with Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS title rivals Prince Jefri Ibrahim and Nick Foster, while the GT4 championship will also be decided when Brian Lee and Hideto Yasuoka square off against Hiroaki Hatano and Shinya Hosokawa.

Team WRT capped a title-winning Sprint Cup season in spectacular style at Valencia by snatching one of the most dramatic race wins in Fanatec GT history, wrapping up a ninth overall teams’ championship in the process. 

The Fanatec GT2 European Series Pro-Am battle will roll on to the final round of the season after Audi and KTM shared the Pro-Am race honours during the series’ debut at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia this weekend.

Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts are celebrating a third successive Fanatec GT Sprint drivers’ title after the #32 Team WRT Audi duo finished P3 in Saturday’s race at Valencia, which was won by the #52 AF Corse Ferrari of Ulysse De Pauw and Pierre-Alexandre Jean.

Qualifying for the penultimate round of the Fanatec GT2 European Series produced four different class pole position winners from three manufacturers – Audi, Brabham, and KTM, in Valencia

Porsche Visit Cayman Islands Sprint Challenge GB returned following a summer break, rejoining the British GT package for its second triple header weekend of the season at Brands Hatch in Kent. Harry Foster (Team Parker Racing) took pole position and a hat trick of wins, his perfect weekend propelling him into the lead of the championship for the first time this season with just three races remaining.

Rising star Harry King enjoyed a fine end to his first full campaign in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup with a starring role in the season finale at Monza, which resulted in a fourth podium finish of the year.