RNW Staff

It was a six-hour race on a near 100-degree day at Watkins Glen International, but it all came down to an amazing restart by Stephen Simpson in the No. 99 GAINSCO “Red Dragon” ORECA LMP2 car that sealed the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen victory for the JDC-Miller Motorsports team in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition Sunday.

It was a clean sweep for Ford at Watkins Glen International.

Carrying the icons of American history and honoring the branches of the Armed Forces, the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R raced hard to take a sixth place finish in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen on Sunday with drivers Gabby Chaves, Christian Fittipaldi and Filipe Albuquerque. The team had been targeting a third consecutive victory at Watkins Glen in the prestigious six hour race, but were unable to match that result despite a well-executed effort on both sides of the pit wall.

Jerseyman Jack Butel and English teammate Dominic Paul put together a strong weekend in the UK LMP3 Cup with the British team taking a brilliant second place in the opening encounter before an electrical problem robbed them of their first win in the second race at Snetterton (30/1 June/July).

The six-hour race at Watkins Glen in the US state of New York turned into a heated battle: In temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius, the ca. 510 hp Porsche 911 RSR scored positions three and four. At round five of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Sunday, the Frenchman Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy from the UK crossed the finish line ahead of the sister car driven by Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand). In the GTLM class, the Porsche GT Team has notched up two wins so far this season at Sebring and in Mid-Ohio. After five championship rounds, Porsche ranks second in the manufacturers classification.

BMW Team RLL finished the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in seventh and eighth positions in GTLM class. The No. 25 BMW M8 GTE finished seventh with Bill Auberlen, Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims sharing the driving duties after a problem-free race. The No. 24 BMW M8 GTE, of Tom Blomqvist, John Edwards and Jesse Krohn, finished 27 laps down in eighth after a challenging race. The race was won by the No. 66 Ford GT.

Sunday afternoon’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International brought a tenth-place finish for Mazda Team Joest.

Corvette Racing endured one of its most trying races in recent memory Sunday, and the team was rewarded with a runner-up finish by Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen.  The No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R led 30 laps at Watkins Glen International as the squad soldiered through record-setting heat in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Performance Tech Motorsports was forced to retire with two hours remaining from Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen after an incident on track.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.), Jeff Segal (Miami, Fla.) and Gunnar Jeannette (Salt Lake City, Ut.) were thwarted by penalties, flames and 100-degree temperatures to finish seventh in GTD in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen..

The Chang SUPER GT RACE, Round 4 of the 2018 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, was run on July 1th at the Chang International Circuit (4,554m × 66 laps) in Buriram, Thailand. In the GT500 class, the No. 39 DENSO KOBELCO SARD LC500 driven by Heikki Kovalainen and Kamui Kobayashi came from 3rd position on the grid to take the win. In the GT300 class, the No. 11 GAINER TANAX GT-R driven by Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Hironobu Yasuda was the winner.

Round three of the GT4 European Series season brought the teams to the Misano World Circuit in Italy last week. It was a weekend with extremes. High temperatures on the two race days and heavy rain during practice. The two thrilling races provided new overall race winners in the form of RN Vision STS and Equipe Verschuur and as usual the paddock was buzzing again.

Martin Kodric and Dennis Lind extended their Blancpain GT Series Asia championship lead by claiming a first victory aboard their FFF Racing Team Lamborghini in Suzuka’s second race earlier this morning.

After a whirlwind weekend of racing at Watkins Glen International for Round 4 of IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge competition, TeamTGM’s No. 46 Mercedes-AMG GT4 finished the four-hour Continental 240 fifth after using great team execution to come back from a mid-race setback. The result was the best among the Mercedes-AMG GT4 squads as the team continues to learn to get the most out of the new platform.

It was quite the weekend for the Wayne Taylor Racing, Lamborghini Paramus No. 1 driven by Trent Hindman and Jonathan Cecotto..

In a warm, four-hour IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race Saturday at Watkins Glen International, thrills and heartaches were abundant, but there was one Grand Sport (GS) class team that had consistency throughout.

Ford Sweeps Front Row In GTLM Qualifying At Watkins Glen

The qualifying for the Chang SUPER GT RACE, Round 4 of the 2018 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, took place on June 30 at the Chang  International Circuit (one lap 4,554m) in Buriram, Thailand. The GT500  class pole position winner was the No. 16 MOTUL MUGEN NSX-GT driven by Hideki Mutoh and Daisuke Nakajima with a course record of 1’23.341 in 

The third round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series kicked off the weekend with a caution-free event run at the 11-turn, 3.4-mile Watkins Glen International.

Martin Rump and Franky Cheng both claimed their maiden Blancpain GT Series Asia victories at Suzuka this afternoon after their Absolute Racing Audi led home a top-six comprising as many different GT3 manufacturers..