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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark Ferguson (Saint John, NB) has virtually clinched the 2018 Eastern Super Mini Cup Series championship heading into the Concept Drilling 20 on Saturday. Ferguson takes a 50 point advantage into the final race and given that he takes the green flag on Saturday will nail down his second championship. Ferguson won the title in a shortened 2016 season with the Series.
AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports has arrived in Georgia for the 10-hours of the Motul Petit Le Mans, the final round of the 2018 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship.
Riding the momentum of last month’s victory at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Tequila Patrón ESM will enter the final race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship looking to defend their 2017 Petit Le Mans victory at Road Atlanta. The 21st anniversary of the Motul Petit Le Mans will feature ten hours of racing in both the day and night, challenging man and machine to battle adversity and finish the season with a coveted endurance victory.
It is a new step in this Super Season, which offers many surprises at each race. After the European rounds at Spa-Francorchamps, Le Mans and Silverstone, Team REBELLION Racing will compete in the 6 Hours of Fuji this weekend.
The Ferrari driver has seen the position of strength he enjoyed earlier this year progressively crumble on the back of mistakes, strategy errors by his team and a dwindling performance level of his car.
Porsche drivers Robert Renauer (33, GER) and Mathieu Jaminet (23, F, both Precote Herberth Motorsport) prevailed in the most exciting ADAC GT Masters season ever seen to become champions of the Super Sports Car League for the first time. But let’s take a closer look at the 14 races!
Hockenheim will host the grand finale of the 2018 DTM season this weekend. There are only four points separating Paul Di Resta and Gary Paffett at the top of the table. This is what happened: Results and facts News from the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport teams Three questions for Paul Di Resta and Gary Paffett Social media […]
The final Australian GT race of the year will have a Grand Final feel to it with two championships set to be decided at this weekend’s Hampton Downs 500.
As the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship draws to a close this weekend, Corvette Racing finds itself in a familiar spot: fighting for another title at Road Atlanta. Saturday’s 10-hour Petit Le Mans is the final race on the IMSA calendar with championships in each of the three classes up for grabs at the series’ cornerstone event.
Lucas Di Grassi and Marino Franchitti will join Mazda Team Joest for the ten-hour Petit Le Mans, the season-ending event of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.