RNW Staff

Seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup has set the pace during official practice for round two of the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship at The Bend Motorsport Park in what were challenging conditions across both Friday sessions.

Following an exciting pair of races at Misano, Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe makes the trip from the Adriatic coast to the sand dunes of Zandvoort in the Netherlands for round three of the 2019 season. With two qualifying sessions to decide the starting grid for the two 50-minute races – including a rolling start and mandatory pit-stops – action will start with Friday’s free practice sessions at the historic Dutch Grand Prix circuit.

Generation AMR SuperRacing will field a brand-new Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 for Matthew George and James Holder in the GT4 South European Series Rounds 5 and 6 at the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya, Spain.

Before the finale of the current season, Audi sets the course for its future in Formula E: Daniel Abt will continue competing in the fully electric racing series together with Lucas di Grassi for the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team in the coming season. They are the only pairing to have existed since the series was launched in 2014.

Toto looks ahead to Round 10 of the 2019 Formula One season, at the historic Silverstone Circuit

This weekend will see Australian GT return to The Bend Motorsport Park for the second round of the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship where the battle for the first title of the season will heat up thanks to some exciting additions to the field.

Teenager Tom Gamble is set for another first in the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe this weekend (July 12-14) as he makes his debut at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

After the 24-hour race is before the 24-hour race. That also applies to Mercedes-AMG. As the Customer Racing Teams left the Nürburgring, preparations got underway for the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race (25-28 July) for the majority of the Mercedes-AMG Drivers. During the official test days (2-3 July), the teams and drivers with their Mercedes-AMG GT3 prepare themselves for the GT3 endurance highlight and the (in)famous roller coaster in the Ardennes.

After a one-year hiatus, the GT4 European Series returns to Zandvoort this weekend, as it enters the final phase of the 2019 season. In total no fewer than 31 will be on the grid at the popular Dutch circuit with its fast, sweeping corners. The race weekend at the North Sea coast is the fifth of the six race meetings on the 2019 GT4 European Series calendar.

Nissan e.dams aims to extend a run of three straight podium finishes as the team heads into the final weekend of its debut season in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship.

Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Christina Nielsen and Darryl O’Young achieve their second podium of the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia after an incredible fight through the field starting from 14th position in Race 2. In the #88 car, Alessio Picariello scored his third straight pole position, but despite setting the fastest lap in Race 2, was unable to achieve another win after an unlucky safety car intervention followed by track limit drive-through penalty for the #88 entry near the end of the race ended their challenge. Melvin Moh had put the #55 entry in a competitive position after a great stint, handing the car to teammate Daniel Au in 4th place before his fight with the chasing pack.

Ollie Wilkinson will continue the biggest season of his fledgling racing career when he returns to action in the International GT Open Championship this weekend, 13-14 July, at the picturesque Red Bull Ring circuit in Austria.

Nick Adcock returns to Nielsen Racing for the third round of the European Le Mans Series in Barcelona. With team regular Nobuya Yamanaka unavailable for the meeting at Circuit de BCN-Catalunya, Nick steps in alongside James Littlejohn in the #8 Ligier JS P3 Nissan.

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports captured their third consecutive win and moved into the points lead at the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix Presented By Acura with their LMP2 entry. The team also had one podium finish out of their two Prototype Challenge entries as part of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Mazda Team Joest scored its second-straight one-two finish in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship on Sunday afternoon at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.

Few car companies can boast such rich sporting heritages as either Abarth or Alfa Romeo – so it is no surprise that both legendary Italian marques will have a major presence at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (26-28 July), the planet’s biggest retro racing festival where the cars are the stars.

Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe will stage its third doubleheader event of the 2019 season next weekend (12-14 July) when Zandvoort makes a popular return to the calendar..

Shane van Gisbergen will make it three Red Bull Holden Racing team stars on the grid for the second round of the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship this weekend at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia, the former GT endurance race winner joining Liam Talbot at the wheel of the Trofeo Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3.

The SMP Racing team has successfully completed the FIA WEC 2018-2019 Super Season, achieving the highest possible result. The Russian team ran two BR1 prototypes of the LMP1 category, developed by the Russian company BR Engineering and the Italian Dallara. The SMP Racing drivers through the season were Vitaly Petrov, Mikhail Aleshin, Sergey Sirotkin, Egor Orudzhev, Matevos Isaakyan, Stéphane Sarrazin, Jenson Button and Stoffel Vandoorne.

As in the previous four seasons, the title race in Formula E will again be decided on the last weekend. Before the two races in New York City (July 13/14), Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler and Lucas di Grassi are in second place in the teams’ and drivers’ championships..