RNW Staff

BMW works driver Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) has successfully completed his first test in the BMW M8 GTE in preparation for the 24-hour race at Daytona (USA) in January. This week, BMW M Motorsport and Zanardi spent three days testing at Miramas in the south of France. Although rain meant the conditions were not ideal, Zanardi was still able to get plenty of laps under his belt with the BMW M8 GTE. In total, he drove almost 700 kilometres over the course of the three days.

From 15 to 18 November, the Vallelunga Circuit (Rome) will host the World Final, the pinnacle of the Lamborghini racing season, which will not only proclaim the continental champions of the Super Trofeo Europe, North America and Asia, but will also crown the 2018 world champions.

Jaguar today announced a further entrant to the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY championship. Viessmann Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY Team Germany will compete in the first season, which will begin on 15 December in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. At a press conference in Munich, the team introduced driver Célia Martin.

From 15 to 18 November, the Vallelunga Circuit (Rome) will host the World Final, the pinnacle of the Lamborghini racing season, which will not only proclaim the continental champions of the Super Trofeo Europe, North America and Asia, but will also crown the 2018 world champions. 

At the street race in Macau from November 15 to 18, customer teams from Audi Sport customer racing will compete with both touring cars and GT3 sports cars for the first time. The race in the heart of the city is a classic on the international motorsport calendar. Audi has celebrated six victories in total there since 1996 – two in touring car racing and four with the Audi R8 LMS GT3 sports car.

Starting in 24H DUBAI 2019, CREVENTIC, promotor and organiser of 24H SERIES has an agreement with Manthey-Racing to introduce this new class for 2019. After the successful introduction of the Cayman GT4 Trophy by Manthey-Racing in the VLN-series in Germany, teams can now also enter the Porsche Cayman GT4 Trophy in 24H SERIES.

The RACB Sport National Court of Appeal has concluded its judgement on the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon entry following the penalty applied at the final round of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup (30 September).

Aston Martin has announced that it will enter in to an important new partnership with the successful German racing team PROsport Performance based near the Nürburgring, close to the home of the British brand’s AMR Performance Centre in Germany.

United Autosports have confirmed that Phil Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque will return to the team for the 2019 European Le Mans Series racing a Ligier JS P217.

The first-ever FIA GT Nations Cup has attracted an 18-strong entry list with countries from around the world set to battle for one of GT racing’s newest and most prestigious prizes.

For Mercedes-AMG, the legendary Macau Grand Prix is the grand finale of a successful GT season. At the Guia Circuit, three Mercedes-AMG GT3 will be out from 15-18 November with a top line-up to defend the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles in the FIA GT World Cup. Last year’s winner Edoardo Mortara, racing under the Swiss flag, has starting number 1. 2015 race winner Maro Engel (GER) will be racing the #888 while the #999 will have freshly-crowned Blancpain GT Series champion Raffaele Marciello (ITA) behind the wheel. Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing will be running all the three cars from Affalterbach.

Following the announcement of the provisional calendars of its various series for 2019 during the season finale at Spa-Francorchamps a few weeks ago, Dutch agency CREVENTIC has now finalised its calendar planning for the upcoming season. As a result, the final calendars of, the CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE CONTINENTS, the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP and the GT & PROTO CHAMPIONSHIP have now been published and submitted to the FIA.

In ten days’ time, a high-calibre trio in three Mercedes-AMG GT3s will be seeking to defend the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles in the FIA GT World Cup Macau. In addition to Maro Engel and Raffaele Marciello, the hopes of the brand rest on ‘Mr Macau’, last year’s winner Edoardo Mortara.

In ten days’ time, a high-calibre trio in three Mercedes-AMG GT3s will be seeking to defend the drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles in the FIA GT World Cup Macau. In addition to Maro Engel and Raffaele Marciello, the hopes of the brand rest on ‘Mr Macau’, last year’s winner Edoardo Mortara. This is what happened: Results […]

The penultimate race of the season takes us to the historical track of Interlagos.

The Scuderia have been a staunch critic to Liberty’s 2021 proposals and have threatened to quit Formula 1 on multiple occasions if the new regulations were not to their liking.

Five more countries have confirmed their participation for the inaugural FIA GT Nations Cup, to be held at the Bahrain International Circuit on 1st December 2018.

Nissan is looking to finish the final round of the 2018 Super GT Championship on a strong note with Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli aiming to replicate their victory from last year.

Nissan has completed its domination of the 2018 Pirelli Super Taikyu Series in Japan with the No. 24 ThreeBond Nissan Automobile College GT-R team taking the final race win of the year at Okayama.

The racing facility known as Utah Motorsports Campus (UMC) has changed ownership. Following a vote by the Tooele County Commissioners, Tooele County has agreed to sell Utah Motorsports Campus to Mitime Utah Investment, LLC (Mitime).