RNW Staff

Coming off of the IMSA WeatherTech endurance weekend at Watkins Glen International with a TPNAEC Round 3 win and a GTD podium, the Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) squad will make a quick turnaround for the sprint weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) this weekend, Round 6 of the GTD IMSA season..

If there is a home venue for Corvette Racing in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, then Canadian Tire Motorsport Park would be it. So it’s understandable that there is great excitement within the perennial championship-winning program as it heads north of the U.S. border again to race in front of the Canadian fans.

With more than 60 cars taking part, the Official Test Day produced an interesting insight into the cars and drivers that will tackle the 70th edition Total 24 Hours of Spa. Following eight hours of running in good weather, the quickest Total 24 Hours of Spa entrant was the #991 Herberth Motorsport Porsche, which just edged in front of the #23 GT Sport Motul Team RJN Nissan GT-R.

The Total 24 Hours of Spa will mark its landmark 70th edition in spectacular fashion thanks to a 68-strong entry list that features world-leading drivers, teams and manufacturers.  

The Spaniard will contest another round of the 24H GT Series at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. Tutumlu will drive a Car Collection Motorsport-run Audi R8 LMS with Ali Çapan, Siegfried Kuzdas and Stefan Aust as teammates. Portimão is the second 24-hour race of the season for the Barcelona native.

Formula E is set to race in Sanya next season, marking the return of the electric street racing series to Mainland China on March 23 – for round six of the 2018/19 ABB FIA Formula E Championship.

Performance Tech Motorsports is adding a few familiar faces to its IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda lineup for Round 4 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Autobacs Racing Team Aguri team-mates Sean Walkinshaw and Shinichi Takagi experienced extreme misfortune during round four of the Super GT Championship season at Chang International Circuit in Thailand on Sunday, 1st July, when a late-race puncture cost a certain GT300 podium.

Today R-Motorsport announced that Dominik Baumann will join its drivers squad. The 24h of Spa-Francorchamps on 28th/29th July will be the Austrian’s debut in the Aston Martin Vantage V12 GT3 of the R-Motorsport team. Dominik Baumann is the latest addition to the Swiss two-car Aston Martin team. The first outing in the Aston Martin V12 GT3 will be at the Spa test day on 3rd July.

The Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 will make its Macau FIA GT World Cup debut later this year after the Japanese manufacturer’s official partner team, KCMG, confirmed a three-car entry for the prestigious end-of-season event.

Our first weekend in the “Toyota Motorsport” championship is done! A very good job by our young driver Jerasak Kongplab in our new #126 Toyota Vios and also a very good job by the young crew that supported him all weekend, setting up and preparing the new car.

GT Sport Motul Team RJN has their sights set on the next round of the Blancpain Endurance Series at the gruelling Spa 24 Hour.

The 3GT Racing No. 15 Lexus RC F GT3 recorded a fourth-place result in the GTD class on Sunday in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Watkins Glen International with drivers Jack Hawksworth, David Heinemeier Hansson and Mario Farnbacher.

In sweltering conditions at Watkins Glen International, Paul Miller Racing earned their fifth consecutive podium of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Sunday. Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow drove in one of the most physically challenging events of the season, bringing the No. 48 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 across the finish line in third place at the Sahlen’s Six Hour of the Glen. Having never finished outside the podium yet this season, the American duo continues to lead the GTD class championship by one point.

United Autosports leave Watkins Glen disappointed after a fourth place finish in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen after contact leaves the team thinking what could have been.

A podium finish at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen has again eluded Tequila Patrón ESM. Although the Nissan Onroak DPi team showed strong speeds and consistent improvements throughout the IMSA SportsCar Championship weekend, the team retired both cars early from the six hour endurance event.

One highlight follows the other in the IMSA SportsCar Championship: Just a week after the six-hour classic at Watkins Glen, North America’s premier sports car race series makes its traditional detour over the border for Canada’s one and only round of the season contested on 8 July at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. The Porsche GT Team fields two 510 hp 911 RSR in the GTLM class on the very fast and demanding course close to Bowmanville. This category, in which four automobile manufacturers compete, is known to be particularly tough and is packed with suspense from start to finish. Porsche’s customer team Wright Motorsports runs two 911 GT3 R racers in the GTD class. 

Phil Hanson scored another very strong finish in a major international endurance race with fourth place at the star-studded Sahlens Six Hours of the Glen at the world famous Watkins Glen, home to the United States Grand Prix from 1961-1980, yesterday (1 Jul). The 18-year-old Briton though left the circuit in upstate New York disappointed after a performance that looked set to leave him and United Autosports team-mates Bruno Senna (BRA) and Paul Di Resta (GB) in real contention for the overall win until rear end contact from another car late in the race.

Meyer Shank Racing continued its streak of quick pit stops, strong strategy and tuned-in drivers to come home with a second-place result along with capturing its second Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup Championship round win of the season on Sunday.

The Spirit of Daytona Racing team battled through several incidents on Sunday to earn a solid finish in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen International, race six of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and race three of the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.