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STRONG PERFORMANCE OF THE PORSCHE 911 RSR IN CANADA GOES UNREWARDED

July 9, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Porsche concluded round six of the IMSA SportsCar Championship in Bowmanville/Canada on positions four and six after a long time in the lead. With the #911 Porsche 911 RSR, the duo Patrick Pilet from France and Britain’s Nick Tandy narrowly missed out on a podium finish in fourth place. During Saturday’s qualifying, Tandy set a new lap record for GTLM vehicles in the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and posted pole position. Sharing driving duties in the sister car was the current winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium, and New Zealander Earl Bamber. Both Porsche 911 RSR racers were at times looking good for a one-two finish, but were thwarted by many safety car phases and bad luck with the strategy. After round six of the season, Porsche ranks third in the manufacturers’ classification of the GTLM class.

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CORVETTE RACING IN CANADA: DOUBLE PODIUM FINISH IN GTLM FOR CORVETTE C7.RS

July 9, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Corvette Racing’s pair of Chevrolet Corvettes both finished on the class podium Sunday at the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. It marked the team’s first double podium of the season and allowed both Corvette C7.Rs to gain positions in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) points standings of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

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MEYER SHANK RACING FIGHTS TO FINISH TOUGH RACE IN CANADA

July 9, 2018 RNW Staff 0

After 107 laps of flat-out, door-to-door racing, the Meyer Shank Racing squad fought to a fifth and sixth place result, keeping the team in the championship hunt.

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WEATHERTECH RACING FINISHES EIGHTH IN CANADA

July 9, 2018 RNW Staff 0

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Jeff Segal (Miami, Fla.) finished eighth in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP).

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SCUDERIA PRAHA IS A REPEAT WINNER AT THE 24H PORTIMAO

July 8, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The Bohemia Energy racing with Scuderia Praha Ferrari 488 GT3 (#11, Jiří Písařík / Josef Kral / Matteo Malucelli) has taken victory at the Hankook 24H PORTIMAO for the second year in succession. Jiří Písařík drove the Ferrari across the line to complete 586 laps of the 4.648 km Autódromo Internacional do Algarve and take its second victory of the 2018 24H SERIES powered by Hankook season.

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WILKINSON & ELLIS BATTLE THROUGH BRUISING HUNGARIAN WEEKEND

July 8, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Rising British sportscar star Ollie Wilkinson is hoping that Lady Luck returns to back his International GT Open bid after he and team-mate Bradley Ellis were forced to battle against the odds in two tough races at the Hungaroring.

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FOUR WINS FROM FOUR FOR AUDI CUSTOMER TEAMS IN CHINA

July 8, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Audi customer teams made it a clean sweep of victories in China this weekend, with four overall wins from four races across GT Masters Asia in Ningbo and the China GT Championship in Beijing. There were wins for Audi customers in all classes entered across the two series, with 14 squads in total bearing the four rings.

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BRAZILIAN JOY AT HUNGARORING, AS KHODAIR-HAHN TAKE MAIDEN GT OPEN WIN

July 8, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Allam Khodair and Marcelo Hahn took their maiden overall win today in Race 2 at the Hungaroring, at the wheel of the drivex Mercedes AMG. The Brazilian Pro-Am pair perfectly mastered the race, with Khodair setting pole position and leading throughout the first stint, and Hahn keeping everything under control in the second stint, to beat the Lambo Huracans of Rik Breukers-Riccardo Agostini (Imperiale Racing) and Edoardo Liberati-Kang Ling (VSR)..

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TeamTGM GAINS CHAMPIONSHIP MOMENTUM AT CANADIAN TIRE MOTORSPORT PARK

July 8, 2018 RNW Staff 0

TeamTGM staged a comeback at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park on Saturday as both team entries finished the Canadian Motorsport Park 120.

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IMSA CANADIAN TIRE MOTORSPORT PARK QUALIFYING ROUND UP

July 7, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Pole position for the Porsche 911 RSR in Canada

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GP EXTREME LEAPS TO THE FRONT AT THE 2018 24H PORTIMAO

July 7, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The GP Extreme Renault R.S.01 GT3 (#27, Frederic Fatien / Jean-Pierre Valentini / Nicky Pastorelli / Jordan Grogor / Bassam Kronfli) leads the 2018 Hankook 24H PORTIMAO after four hours of racing around the 4.692 km Autodromo do Algarve. The Emirati team, making only its second outing of the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook season, is the second A6-Am runner to assume the lead this afternoon, and the fourth in total so far.

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CIOCI-SERRA TAKE MAIDEN GT OPEN WIN, THE FOURTH FOR LUZICH RACING

July 7, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Luzich Racing conquered its fourth win of the season, with its new pair that debuted here: Marco Cioci and Daniel Serra. A long-standing contender in the series and a former class champion, the Italian (who took pole on the wet this morning) conquered his maiden overall win. So did also the reigning Stock Car Brazil champion, who is back to the GT Open ten years after his last appearance. The white-and-red Ferrari 488 beat in a thrilling finale the SPS Automotive Performance Mercedes of Valentin Pierburg and Tom Onslow-Cole that put an outstanding show, taking its fourth success of the year in the Pro-Am class, ahead of the Daiko Lazarus Racing of class leaders Fabrizio Crestani-Miguel Ramos.

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PERFORMANCE TECH MOTORSPORTS TO MISS CANADIAN TIRE MOTORSPORT PARK

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Performance Tech Motorsports will not start the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park this Sunday, July 8.

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SPS AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE TAKES ITS FIRST 24H SERIES POLE POSITION OF THE YEAR IN PORTUGAL

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The SPS automotive performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#24, Alexandre Coigny / Iradj Alexander / Richard Feller / Antonin Borga) has taken pole position for the Hankook 24H PORTIMAO. Antonin Borga lapped the 4.692 km Autodromo do Algarve in 1m 43.912s to claim the team’s first pole position of the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook season.

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TRAINING YEAR WITH PLENTY OF RACE ACTION: MID-YEAR REPORT FOR THE BMW MOTORSPORT JUNIORS

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

In the first half of the 2018 training year, the five BMW Motorsport Juniors were in action at many top-class events at the wheel of a wide range of BMW M Motorsport race cars. Ricky Collard (GBR), Mikkel Jensen (DEN), Dennis Marschall (GER), Nico Menzel (GER) and Beitske Visser (NED) raced on tracks throughout Europe – and celebrated impressive successes.

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AUDI COMES TO FORMULA E FINALE WITH CLEAR GOALS

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

A small tradition continues: This year, like all previous Formula E seasons, the champions will be decided in the final race weekend of the season. On July 14 and 15, Daniel Abt, Lucas di Grassi and Audi fight for the prestigious teams’ title: 33 points must be made up in the two remaining races. Season […]

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FOURTEEN AUDI CUSTOMER SQUADS SET TO BATTLE ON CHINESE CIRCUITS

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

Fourteen Audi customer teams will be on the hunt for silverware this weekend in the Four Rings’ largest market: China. GT Masters Asia opens its 2018 season at the Ningbo International Speedpark with rounds one and two, while tensions mount as the China GT Championship reaches its halfway point at Beijing’s Audi Goldenport Motor Park with rounds five and six.

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MAZDA TEAM JOEST TARGETS CANADIAN PODIUM

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

The drivers of the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship have a short turnaround from racing at one of North America’s most daunting circuits to another. One week after racing at Watkins Glen International, the Mazda Team Joest drivers will compete this weekend at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park outside of Toronto.

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AFS/PR1 MATHIASEN LOOKING TO HAVE STRONG RESULT IN CANADA

July 6, 2018 RNW Staff 0

AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports joins the rest of the 2018 IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship in Ontario, Canada this weekend for the seventh round of the season being held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.