RNW Staff

14 Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli entries are set to contest the Indianapolis 8 Hour Presented by AWS this weekend when SRO Motorsports Group’s globe-trotting GT3 series joins Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS at the Brickyard.

 

The 2022 season for the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yokohama concluded last weekend at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, and professional sports car racing team Flying Lizard Motorsports finished the year proudly adding two more driver and two more team championship titles to the team’s illustrious resume. Drivers Mike Gaulke and Chris Bellomo defended their 2021 titles in their one-make series, earning back-to-back championships in their respective classes. 

Ten drivers can still become DTM champion at the Hockenheimring this weekend. Never before in the long history of this race series, there were so many title candidates prior to the finale. At the top of the points’ table, it is super close: only 16 points separate the first five, the circle of the hot title candidates, five works drivers spread out across five manufacturers. During DTM Hockenheimring powered by AUDI from 7 till 9 October, there are still 58 points to be won. The races on Saturday and Sunday start at 1.30pm CEST.

K-PAX Racing enters the 2022 Indianapolis 8 Hour having secured multiple titles in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS (GTWCA) Championship, but it will be “business as usual” for the multi-year winners. In fact, this year’s edition October 7-9 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is motivated mostly by “unfinished business.” 

The collaboration between BMW M Motorsport and BMW M Team WRT on the racetrack has kicked off with a day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona (ESP). The team and some of its drivers used the day after the season finale in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe for a first chance to gain experience with the BMW M4 GT3 that the team is going to be racing in the upcoming season, parallel to testing with the BMW M Hybrid V8. One of the drivers at the wheel of the BMW M4 GT3 was MotoGP star Valentino Rossi (ITA). BMW M works driver Philipp Eng (AUT) supported the Belgian team, his experience helping the team to quickly get used to the new car.

A superb weekend for the eight strong lineup in Singapore entered under the B-Quik Absolute Racing umbrella with podiums in both TSS The Super Series races capped by a stunning victory for Andrew Haryanto in Race 1.

What was a three-way championship battle has become a fight between five as the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship reaches what is set to be a hugely competitive end to the season. Meanwhile, the ever-fluctuating Morris Pro-Am championship remains on a knife’s edge with a key contender yet to stamp their authority on a pulsating championship battle across the first six rounds this year.

TSS The Super Series made a step forward for Thai motorsport over the weekend as it joined the Singapore Grand Prix support race programme with two races, one in the wet the other in the dry that showcased the series, cars and drivers in front of an international audience.

Daniel Harper has brought his impressive maiden campaign in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup to a close with a strong performance on his first visit to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this past weekend (01-02 October).

Akkodis ASP has clinched a Fanatec GT Endurance title double after a dramatic race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya saw the Mercedes-AMG squad narrowly beat Iron Lynx to the big prize. 

After leading through much of the early stages of the race, the Paul Miller Racing team finished the season-ending Petit Le Mans in fifth place following contact from an LMP3 car. 

Ally Cadillac drivers Jimmie Johnson (El Cajon, Calif.), Kamui Kobayashi (Japan) and Mike Rockenfeller (Germany) finished third in the 25th Motul Petit Le Mans, as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

All three GT4 European Series drivers’ championship titles went down to the wire in a dramatic season finale at Barcelona.

Porsche has won the manufacturer’s championship in the GTD-Pro class. The customer team Pfaff Motorsports secured the title, with Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet crowned the new driver champions. These were the results after the finale of the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship. The Porsche customer team from Canada finished the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta in third place. The Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by Wright Motorsports crossed the finish line in fourth place in the GTD category.

Ten hours of racing came down to a nail-biter finish that saw Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) not only capture its second overall Petit Le Mans victory, but also claim the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Aston Martin’s Seattle-based partner team The Heart of Racing Team and 21-year-old Roman De Angelis (CDN) clinched the GTD Class Drivers’ and Teams’ titles of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in a tense 25th Annual Motul Petit Le Mans 10-Hour finale at Road Atlanta, GA.

When Wright Motorsports secured their monumental victory at the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January, the Porsche customer racing team immediately showed they would be a championship contender for the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Sunday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, the battle for the GTD class title came down to the final laps, and with a fourth-place finish, the Wright Motorsports Porsche finished as runner-up in the championship standings.

Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands recognizes the successes of its season at tonight’s Celebration of Champions. Each of the three drivers’ championships: Pro, Pro-Am and Am came down to the final 40-minute race of the premier Porsche one-make race series on Friday, September 30 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Tonight, the fruits of a 16-race labor for 48 drivers and 19 teams as well as series officials and partners were acknowledged by Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA). 

Madison Snow scored his third pole position of 2022, lining the No. 1 Quartz Engine Oil-backed BMW M4 GT3 up P1 for tomorrow’s 25th running of Petit Le Mans.