RNW Staff

The Pirelli World Challenge makes its long awaited return to Portland International Raceway this weekend, and  driver Matt Brabham will race alongside full season driver Daniel Morad in the No. 2 Mercedes AMG GT3.

After originally planning to contest just in the Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup (TPNAEC), a strong start to the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season saw the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 make additional race starts as team partners stepped up to keep the campaign on track..

Twelve years have passed since Flying Lizard last raced at Portland International Raceway in the American Le Mans Series, and this weekend, the sports car team will return to the Oregon track for the Pirelli World Challenge Rose Cup Races for rounds seven and eight of the GTS SprintX Championship.

As befits a brilliant birthday bash, the MSA British Touring Car Championship’s 60th anniversary celebrations at next weekend’s Silverstone Classic (20-22 July) will be encrusted with diamonds.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport today announced a planned transition of its senior technical leadership which will see the baton handed on to the next generation of leaders within the Team for 2019 and beyond.

Audi customer teams will be back out in force this weekend at two very different race tracks. Audi Sport customer racing Asia driver pool member Adderly Fong will make his debut at rounds five and six of the Thailand Super Series at the Bangsaen Grand Prix beachside street race alongside Daniel Bilski with B-Quik Racing. Phoenix Racing Asia, meanwhile, resumes its Super Taikyu campaign in Japan with its triple Audi R8 LMS GT3 squad in a five-hour endurance race at the challenging mountain-top Autopolis circuit. 

Season finale of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship on the streets of Brooklyn (USA): This weekend, the Qatar Airways New York City E-Prix brings to a close the fourth season of Formula E for the MS&AD Andretti Formula E team. The two races on Saturday and Sunday are also the last races before the new Gen2 car makes its debut in Season 5. Set against the impressive Manhattan skyline, the race is one of the highlights of the season and also the home event for the MS&AD Andretti Formula E Team. BMW works driver António Félix da Costa (POR) and Stéphane Sarrazin (FRA) will again be at the wheel of the two Andretti ATEC-003.

The announcement that Emil Frey Jaguar Racing will compete at the 70th edition Total 24 Hours of Spa brought the number of brands contesting the Belgian endurance classic to 13.

Today R-Motorsport announced its entry of two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s. The Swiss team also plans to debut the brand new Aston Martin V8 GT3, a derivative of this year’s GTE which is currently being run in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The 2018 DTM season reaches the halfway mark next weekend at Zandvoort. Lucas Auer looks back on the first half of the season and talks about the challenges posed by Circuit Zandvoort

Bentley Motorsport has signed one of Asia’s leading racing outfits, Phoenix Racing Asia, as its latest partner team to campaign the new Continental GT3. Together, Bentley Motorsport and Phoenix Racing Team Asia will contest the Blancpain GT Asia Series starting with the Shanghai round later this year.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport show promising pace on the eve of a challenging weekend

Mercedes-AMG Motorsport is celebrating the next success in the VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft: in the fourth round of the season at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, Patrick Assenheimer and Christian Hohenadel (both GER) with the #13 Mercedes-AMG GT3 run by AutoArena Motorsport finished sixth overall and thus secured another top ten result in the Green Hell for the performance brand from Affalterbach. Stefan Karg, Fidel Leib and Moritz Oberheim (all GER) secured victory in the SP10 class with the #163 Mercedes-AMG GT4 #163 run by the BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA.

Lewis storms to his 50th pole position with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport score 30 points in front of an incredible crowd in Silverstone

Zandvoort marks the half-way stage in the 2018 DTM season: The Circuit Zandvoort is especially challenging for both drivers and cars

The Total 24 Hours of Spa is the second round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge. The Belgian endurance classic will have 68 cars at the start, representing 13 manufacturers. Of those, the five manufacturers entered for the full four-round Challenge have announced their nominated cars, which will be eligible to score points in the Belgian endurance classic.

In an interview, ex-DTM star Timo Scheider (39, GER, BMW Team Schnitzer) delivers an interim summary of his debut ADAC GT Masters season. He tells us about his role as mentor to the BMW Juniors and outlines his objectives for the remaining races of the 2018 Super Sports Car League.

What looked to be a very promising weekend for AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports turned to be riddled with obstacles at the seventh round of the 2018 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship resulting in a 9th place finish.

Paul Miller Racing produced another outstanding race performance this weekend at the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix, extending the championship points lead in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTD class. The No. 48 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 finished in fourth place at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, awarding drivers Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow their sixth consecutive top-five finish of the 2018 season.