RNW Staff

The sixth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season and the second round of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA Series) share the same Sebring (USA) event next weekend (14th to 16th March) with several BMW entries competing in three races.

Absolute Racing has further increased its Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia commitment by adding a third new Porsche 911 GT3 R to its 2019 line-up.

The Dubai-based company, GP Extreme, has restructured its activities and at the beginning of 2019 it launched GPX Racing, its competitions offshoot. It has chosen the new generation Porsche 911 GT3 R to tackle the forthcoming season with new ambitions in the international concert of Grand Touring racing. The team managed by former European FIA GT3 runner-up, Pierre-Brice Mena, is preparing to take on a double challenge: the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and the 24H Series, which GPX Racing has already kicked off on home turf in the Dubai 24 Hours.

Strakka Racing is pleased to confirm that it will be entering two Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars in the remaining Intercontinental GT Challenge races in 2019 as a performance team of Mercedes-AMG. Later this month the British squad will take on the California 8 Hours at Laguna Seca before the calendar moves on to the Spa 24 Hours, the Suzuka 10 Hours and the Kyalami 9 Hours.

Team Parker Racing is delighted that Seb Morris and Derek Pierce will once again pair up for the demanding Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in the stunning second-generation Bentley Continental GT3.

After announcing Damiano Fioravanti and Gustas Grinbergas, Oregon Team defined the second “Bronze” driver in the line-up for its third straight year in European Le Mans Series competition.

The 2019 CAMS Australian GT Championship will coincide once more with the opening round of the FIA Formula One World Championship on the streets of Melbourne as part of the Australian Grand Prix weekend, with some of the world’s most exotic supercars doing battle over four 25-minute races scheduled across the four days of the event.

Race: Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

Mustang Sampling Racing will look to build on its impressive resume at Sebring International Raceway when it returns to the historic circuit for the 67th annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday, March 16.

Reigning IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge (IMPC) GS champions, TeamTGM return to racing action for the Alan Jay Automotive Network 120 at Sebring International Raceway this weekend.

Having won the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Team and Driver Championships, as well as the Michelin Endurance Cup title, Whelen Engineering Racing is focused on a repeat performance in 2019.

Precision Performance Motorsport has locked in a second entry in its multi-car IMSA Super Trofeo program for the 2019 championship. Steve Dunn will race the No. 11 Killer Dana Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO in the Am class, joining the previously announced duo of Conor Daly and Brandon Gdovic in the No. 46 Pro/Pro class.

The 89th International Motor Show in Geneva has another star turn in the shape of the Mercedes-Benz EQ Silver Arrow 01. The ‘ teaser’ version of the first all-electric racing car to be entered by the Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team has made its world debut.

The winter break is almost over. In eight weeks, BWT Mücke Motorsport will be embarking on their third season in the ADAC GT Masters. In the past two years, the illustrious Berlin-based outfit has notched up three race wins and a tally of six podium finishes. In the highly competitive Super Sports Car League, which is one of the world’s leading GT series, the team has raised its ambitions for the 2019 campaign.

Craft-Bamboo Racing, an official performance team of Mercedes-AMG, confirms entry of a 2 car line-up for the inaugural Asia GT Festival at the Sepang International Circuit as part of the opening 2 rounds of the 2019 China GT Championship season.

A unique occasion in Formula E: Next Sunday (March 10), in Hong Kong, Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi will contest their 50th race for Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler. No other team has competed in all of the races with the same driver pairing since the electric racing series’ inaugural event in September 2014. At the round in Asia, Audi intends to extend its impressive track record.

United Autosports are happy to confirm that Paul Di Resta will join their maiden FIA World Endurance Championship programme for the 2019/2020 season, as well as being part of their Le Mans 24 Hours driver line up.

Nissan e.dams is set to contest the first of two ABB FIA Formula E Championship races taking place in Asia this season, when the series celebrates its 50th race this week in Hong Kong.

Audi Sport Team Valvoline driver Geoff Emery has won round two of the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup on the Adelaide Parklands Street Circuit, propelling him to the top of the GT3 championship leaderboard. Early leader, CTVS Racers by Absolute’s Alex Au, took a hard-earned second after an eventful race ahead of The Bend Motorsport Park’s Yasser Shahin in front of a record Adelaide 500 crowd of 91,500 people.

With the first round of the 2019 Blancpain GT World Challenge taking part at the Circuit of the Americas this weekend, SRO Motorsports Group is pleased to announce that Ferrari and Mercedes-AMG represented at all rounds of the full 18-event calendar will be competing for the inaugural Blancpain GT World Challenge title.