RNW Staff

Porsche heads to round two of the season leading the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC. After clinching a class win at the season opener in Sebring (USA), the factory squad now aims to follow up with another victory at the six-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps. The latest generation of the ca. 378 kW (515 PS) Porsche 911 RSR remains unbeaten on the Formula 1 racetrack in Belgium. In the 2019/2020 and 2021 seasons, the 911 dominated the GTE-Pro class on the Ardennes circuit. Porsche is eager to continue this streak this coming weekend.

The 2022 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS season is now in full swing following last weekend’s Sprint Cup opener at Brands Hatch.

The Aston Martin Vantage GTE returns to action in the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship [WEC] in the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps this weekend, having made a winning start to its GTE-Am class campaign with the Sebring 1000 Miles (in the USA), back in March.

Official Qualifying sessions for the FAV HOTEL FUJI GT 450km RACE, Round 2 of the 2022 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, took place on May 3rd at Fuji Speedway (one lap 4,563 m) in Shizuoka Prefecture. The GT500 class Pole Position was won by Sakaguchi in the No. 19 WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra (Yuji Kunimoto/Sena Sakamoto). The GT300 class pole was taken by Yamauchi in the No. 61 SUBARU BRZ R&D SPORT (Takuto Iguchi/Hideki Yamauchi) for the second straight time following Round 1. These two cars will start from the front of their respective class grids in tomorrow’s (May 4th) race.

The Paul Miller Racing team led laps early and notched a fourth-place finish in today’s Monterey Sports Car Championship race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. 

2018 championship runner-up Nick Foster makes his long awaited Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS return this year after joining forces with Triple Eight JMR.

After a brilliant start to the #23’s championship campaign, finishing first at the season opener in Sebring, the team lead the WEC championship as they head to Spa-Francorchamps, a circuit known for United Autosports’ recent LMP2 domination having won the last two consecutive WEC races in 2020 & ’21. Alexander Lynn makes his season debut with […]

Lamborghini presents the new Huracán GT3 EVO2, designed and developed by Squadra Corse of Sant’Agata Bolognese based on the Huracán STO, with which it shares important design elements, rear-wheel drive only, and a naturally aspirated V10 engine, which in the road version delivers 640 horsepower.

Oliver Wilkinson and team-mate Rob Bell opened their Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup campaign with a hard-earned top-10 finish for the JOTA McLaren 720S GT3 on home ground at Brands Hatch.

Era Motorsport completed the first sprint race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s LMP2 class this weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Indianapolis-based squad drove a masterful race to finish in second place in the No. 18 Oreca, taking the championship points lead with drivers Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel.

While the temperature at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was rather cool, NTE/SSR put some heat into their season at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round four with the No. 42 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo. Lamborghini GT3 Junior driver Jayden Conwright earned the team a second-place starting position and together, he and Marco Holzer drove to earn a sixth-place finish.

Wright Motorsports closed out a successful race weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday afternoon, returning the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R to victory circle for the second time this season. With their California victory, the driving duo of Ryan Hardwick and Jan Heylen reclaimed their championship points lead in the GTD class, creating valuable momentum heading into the next rounds of the championship.

The Spaniard of Kurdish ancestry will contest the curtain raiser event of the 2022 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup season this weekend. Tutumlu, who has never raced at Brands Hatch before, will be sharing the GSM Novamarine-run Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo with Austrian Gerhard Tweraser.

A dominant performance from the #89 Mercedes-AMG of Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy gave Akkodis ASP a long-awaited victory in today’s second Sprint Cup contest at Brands Hatch.

Successful debut weekend for GRT in the DTM. The Lamborghini team from Austria departs from the season opener at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve with the championship lead in their bag. Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti claimed another top result on Sunday carrying the success ballast of the previous day’s podium. After second place in qualifying, he steered the number 63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO to a commanding third place in the race. In the standings, the Italian and GRT are leading the drivers’ and team standings with 35 points. The next stop of the DTM 2022 will be at the Lausitzring from 20th to 22nd May.

AF Corse kicked off the Sprint Cup season with a sensational overall victory at Brands Hatch thanks to a mature performance from Ulysse De Pauw and Pierre Alexandre Jean in the #53 Ferrari. 

John Edwards will start the No. 25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M4 GT3 fourth in the GTD PRO class in tomorrow’s two-hour-and-forty-minute Monterey Sports Car Championship. He posted a 1:23.740-minute lap around the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Laguna Seca circuit, 0.598 seconds in arrears of the pole sitting Porsche 911 GT3R. Edwards will co-drive with Connor De Phillippi, the duo looking for their first podium finish of the season.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Daniel Juncadella (Spain) will start tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship Presented by Motul from the front row in GTD Pro.

After a strong start at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Oliver Jarvis brought that momentum into qualifying on Saturday after a run that nearly put the Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) Acura ARX-05 on pole position. Jarvis and teammate Tom Blomqvist will start from second for Sunday’s Monterey Sports Car Championship.

Raffaele Marciello (#89 Akkodis ASP Mercedes-AMG) and Ulysse De Pauw (#53 AF Corse Ferrari) shared the spoils in today’s season-opening Sprint Cup qualifying at Brands Hatch.