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Tight Championship Battles Entering Sunoco World Series

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Off a rain-shortened race at Lee USA Speedway last weekend, the Granite State Pro Stock Series will make a stop at Thompson with just two races left in their championship points schedule. And as he looks for his first series championship, Devin O’Connell leads the standings by 20 points over Joey Doiron entering the 60-lap feature on Friday night.

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SPS AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE TAKES 12H SPA POLE BY JUST 0.013s

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The SPS automotive performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#16, Valentin Pierburg / Tim Müller / Lance-David Arnold) has taken pole position for the 2018 Hankook 12H SPA by the narrowest of margins. Lance-David Arnold lapped the 7.004km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 2m 19.574s, just 0.013s faster than the PROsport Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#85, Charles Putman / Charles Espenlaub / Joe Foster / Adam Christodoulou). Incredibly, this is the second time in two races that Christodoulou has lost a 24H SERIES pole position in the closing moments and by less than two hundredths of a second.

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Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge 2018. Road Atlanta. Crash

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IMSA Prototype Challenge 2018. Road Atlanta. Spins

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Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA 2018. Race 1 Road Atlanta. Last Laps

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Mercedes-Benz Challenge 2018. Autódromo Eduardo P. Cabrera. Crash Spins

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BERN COMPLETES LIST OF CITIES ON FORMULA E CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR FOR SEASON FIVE

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The ABB FIA Formula E Championship is bringing fully-electric racing to Bern next season for the Julius Baer Swiss E-Prix – scheduled to take place on June 22.

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CREVENTIC PRESENTS CALENDARS FOR 2019 WITH EVENTS IN SEVEN COUNTRIES ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Dutch race organisers and promoters CREVENTIC used the final round of its 2018 European Championship season at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Belgian Ardennes to present the race calendars for 2019 for its various series and championships. With the 24H EUROPEAN Championship and the 24H Championship of the CONTINENTS, both for the GT and TCE divisions, the 24H PROTO Championship with six-hour races, the 24H MIDDLE EAST Championship and TCR Middle East, CREVENTIC will be organising races in seven countries across three continents. Of course, all series are ‘powered by Hankook’ to testify the long-standing partnership between the premium tyre manufacturer and the Dutch race organisation.

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CREVENTIC PRESENTS CALENDARS FOR 2019 WITH EVENTS IN SEVEN COUNTIES ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS

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MAGNUSSEN HUNTING FOURTH TITLE WITH CORVETTE RACING IN 20TH PETIT LE MANS START

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Danish ace Jan Magnussen is knocking on the door of his fourth major American sportscar series title this weekend as Corvette Racing and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar championship heads to Road Atlanta for the 10-hour Petit Le Mans.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING FASTEST ON FUJI FRIDAY

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

FIA World Endurance Championship leader TOYOTA GAZOO Racing made a strong start to its home event, setting the fastest lap times in both of Friday’s practice sessions for the 6 Hours of Fuji.

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FIVE FERRARIS TO RACE IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT FUJI

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The fourth race of the Super Season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) will be held at the foot of Mount Fuji, while the final round of 2018 is at Shanghai on 18 November. However the championship will conclude in 2019 with the races at Sebring (16 March), Spa-Francorchamps (4 May) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans (15 June).

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NISSAN TO MAKE OFFICIAL ON-TRACK FORMULA E DEBUT

October 12, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Nissan will make its official on-track debut and begin a new brand partnership with Royal Dutch Shell PLC when the ABB FIA Formula E championship stages its preseason test next week.

EuroFormula Open 2018. Round 6. Italy

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Complete race of the EuroFormula open in Monza 2018

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LEXUS RC F GT3s SET TO COMPETE IN PETIT LE MANS SEASON FINALE

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Lexus and 3GT Racing will compete in the IMSA season-finale Petit Le Mans 10-hour race at Road Atlanta on Saturday. Lexus is currently tied for third in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD manufacturer standings with one race remaining on the 2018 schedule.

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Hype Energy eForce India celebrates maiden F1 Esports podium

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Our team’s debut night in the world of F1 Esports saw the team clinch its first top-three finish and claim P4 in the Championship.

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LIVE 🔴 | Preview Season 2019 / Vorschau Saison 2019 | Press Conference

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

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TEN DRIVERS TO DO BATTLE FOR GT4 SPRINT CUP EUROPE HONOURS AT HOCKENHEIM

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

This weekend some of the fastest drivers in Europe will compete in the GT4 Sprint Cup Europe at the 4,575 km Hockenheimring. A total of ten drivers from six different countries, representing six different teams and four manufacturers will compete for outright honours in the last race of the GT4 season in Europe, which takes place during the DTM final weekend. Porsche, BMW and Mercedes hope to claim victory on their home soil, with outsider Ginetta aiming to surprise the German manufacturers.

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MERCEDES-AMG CUSTOMER RACING WITH GOOD TITLE PERSPECTIVES IN IMSA FINALE AT ROAD ATLANTA

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

From 10-13 October, the 21st running of the ‘Petit Le Mans’ race will be held in Braselton, Georgia. The famous ten-hour race at the Road Atlanta circuit is the traditional conclusion of the hard-fought North American IMSA series. In the GTD class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, two Mercedes-AMG GT3 will be competing in the finale. The car with starting number 33 run by Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports will have Ben Keating (USA), Jeroen Bleekemolen (NED) and Luca Stolz (GER) as its drivers. Prior to the final race, the trio is leading the separate endurance standings, the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup, and has excellent chances of defending the title and scoring the ‘triple’ with drivers’, teams’ and manufacturers’ championship wins.

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AUDI SPORT CUSTOMERS PREPARE FOR FINAL PUSH AT BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA FINALE

October 11, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Four Audi customer driver pairings will contest the final two rounds of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Asia this weekend at China’s Ningbo International Speedpark, with two still in contention to lift the Silver and Pro-Am championship titles.

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