RNW Staff

The first part of the “BMW M Motorsport Super Weekend” – featuring FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races – is completed. In the sixth round of the WEC Super Season, BMW Team MTEK finished second and seventh in the LM GTE Pro class respectively with its two BMW M8 GTEs. It was the first podium finish for the team since WEC’s Fuji (JPN) round.

In racing there are high highs and low lows and TeamTGM experienced just that for the Alan Jay Automotive Network 120 on Friday.

Meyer Shank Racing on Sebring Pole

The “BMW M Motorsport Super Weekend” at Sebring (USA) is in full swing. Thursday and Friday saw the qualifying sessions for the BMW M8 GTE in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2019. The countdown is underway for the first of the two endurance races at the Sebring International Raceway. The sixth race of the WEC Super Season starts at 16:00 local time for BMW Team MTEK.

After a tough opening day on his Australia GT debut at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, US-based Kenny Habul bounced back in fine form to claim a lights to flag victory in race two after getting the jump on pole-sitter Fraser Ross off the start on the run to turn one.

Anstone Racing will become a full-season Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia entrant in 2019 after confirming Xu Wei and Naoki Yokomizo as its Pro-Am pairing.

Day one of the opening round of the 2019 CAMS Australian GT Championship delivered a tantalising taste of what the new season has to offer. Two 20-minute qualifying sessions preceded the opening race of the event with Fraser Ross delivering a fairy tale result on the competition debut of the new McLaren 720S GT3.

The Silverstone Classic is proud to announce that Alzheimer’s Research UK has been appointed as the Official Charity Partner to the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival for the next three years.

Honda will make its Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli debut at the California 8 Hours on March 28-30 with a JAS Motorsport-prepared NSX GT3 Evo shared by Bertrand Baguette, Mario Farnbacher and Renger van der Zande.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will start the 1000 Miles of Sebring from pole position after a clean sweep of the front row in qualifying for the sixth round of the 2018-2019 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).

Porsche has secured the best possible starting position for the 1,000-mile race at Sebring in today’s qualifying. The defending world champions, factory drivers Kévin Estre (France) and Michael Christensen (Denmark), planted their number 92 Porsche 911 RSR on pole position. Piloting their ca. 510-hp race car with starting number 91, Richard Lietz (Austria) and Gianmaria Bruni (Italy) will take up round six of this year’s Sports Car World Endurance Championship (WEC) from eighth on the grid. In the GT-Am category, customer teams Dempsey Proton Racing (#77) and Project 1 (#56) locked out the first grid row.

In the qualification of the sixth round of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship season, SMP Racing car No.17 (Egor Orudzhev / Stephane Sarrazin / Sergey Sirotkin) showed the third result, while the BR1 sport prototype of the Russian team No.11 (Mikhail Aleshin / Vitaly Petrov / Brendon Hartley) became the fifth.

IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge champions TeamTGM got the Sebring event weekend off to a fast start after Owen Trinkler piloted the No. 46 JKTGFoundation.org / Camp Boggy Creek Mercedes-AMG GT4 to the MOTUL pole with a fast lap time of 2:10.521-seconds. The time is a new track record by over one second.

Performance Tech Motorsports closed Round Two of the IMSA Prototype Challenge series at Sebring International Raceway having two cars finish out front after having the lineup challenge the top-10.

Stefano Colombo and Francesca Linossi join team Antonelli Motorsport for the upcoming Italian GT season. Colombo, a 28-year-old skilled racer from Borgomanero who won the GT3 title in 2012, will be partnered by his fiancée on a Mercedes-AMG GT3 car.

The 2019 Blancpain GT Series campaign is officially underway following two days of intensive pre-season testing at Circuit Paul Ricard.