RNW Staff

K-PAX Racing has long been the team to beat for many GT3 teams in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS paddock – 11 straight races from the team’s September sweep at Watkins Glen International last season. The win streak put a target on the team, and while it has enjoyed the taste of champagne and victory at the top of the podium each event since that initial sweep, K-PAX Racing was faced with a more challenging stop at “The Glen” for Rounds 7 & 8 of the 2022 championship.

Prince Jefri Ibrahim and Nick Foster consolidated their place at the top of Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS’s overall standings by battling to their second win of the season in Race 2 at Fuji today.

Takeshi Kimura and Kei Cozzolino came home comfortable winners in the first of this weekend’s two Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS races at Fuji after CarGuy Racing’s Ferrari started on pole, slipped to fourth and worked its way back into contention post pitstops.

United Autosports and Phil Hanson will contest the FIA World Endurance Championship together once more in 2023.

For the BMW M Motorsport teams and drivers, the next big highlight of the endurance season is just around the corner: the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) on 30th/31st July. ROWE Racing Team fields two BMW M4 GT3 in the Pro class, and will hope to challenge for the overall victory. The BMW Junior Team is making its Spa debut in the number 50 car. Walkenhorst Motorsport and ST Racing also line up with a total of three cars in the Cup classes, as the BMW M4 GT3 makes its first appearance in the biggest GT3 race in the world. BMW is the record winner of the 24h Spa-Francorchamps, with 24 victories to its name.

The GT4 European Series is gearing up for its biggest race weekend of the season, and in more ways than one, with a record 55-car entry expected for two races running in support of the world’s most prestigious GT3 event.

Lamborghini Squadra Corse has announced the first two drivers in the line-up for the LMDh (Le Mans Daytona h) program, which will debut in 2024 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar class) and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (GTP class). The Factory Drivers Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti, both currently involved in the most important GT competitions with Lamborghini, have been confirmed for the new project, not only as drivers but also as test drivers, contributing to the development of the prototype. 

When K-PAX Racing announced that it was teaming up with Lamborghini Squadra Corse in 2021, it was not without some sort of confidence behind how strong of a partnership it would be. Fast-forward to about the half-way mark to the 2022 season: The team has created what its Team Owner, Jim Haughey, has long considered as a perfect equation for a formidable team. Behind a strong crew, drivers and manufacturer, the team has since established itself at the top of the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS rankings, and arguably, has the credentials of a dynasty alongside the Italian marque.

The second Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS event in as many weekends takes place at Fuji International Speedway on July 22-24 when an impressive list of local teams and drivers once again goes head-to-head with continental rivals. Rounds five and six of the regular season, as well as 2022’s second Fanatec Japan […]

Silverstone will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary Group C sportscar era at The Classic next month (26-28 August).

The Fanatec GT2 European Series heads into its flagship event of the season, SRO Speed Week at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, with both the Pro-Am and Am class title fights still too close to call going into the second half of the season. The field of 2022 heads to Belgium off the back of an intense third-round […]

The Paul Miller Racing team added another trophy to their trophy cabinet this weekend, scoring a fantastic last-turn, last-lap victory at Lime Rock Park.

Porsche customer team Pfaff Motorsports won overall at Saturday’s Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park. The victory, the fourth for Porsche in the GTD Pro class and sixth total for the 911 GT3 R race car thus far in the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, came in the all-GT car feature event at the Lakeville, Connecticut race track. This is the first overall win for the German sports car manufacturer this year. Pfaff will have its next chance at the overall win when the second of two GT3-spec only races is run at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR), August 25 – 28.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Jules Gounon (France) finished seventh in GTD at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship FCP Euro Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park today.

Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS history was made at Suzuka today when Comet Racing’s Yusuke Yamasaki and Yorikatsu Tsujiko became the first Am crew to win a race outright, while Honda also scored its first-ever series victory.

Kei Cozzolino staged quite possibly the greatest stint in Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS history en route to a sensational victory in Race 1 at Suzuka earlier today after the Ferrari he shares with Takeshi Kimura made up 60 seconds and 12 positions over the final 30 minutes.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Jules Gounon (France) will start the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship FCP Euro Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park from the fifth row tomorrow.

The Paul Miller Racing team will be hoping for some help tomorrow at Lime Rock Park, with the No. 1 Quartz Engine Oil-backed BMW M4 GT3 qualifying seventh.

Connor De Phillippi qualified the No. 25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M4 GT3 third in the GTD PRO class but following a failure of post-qualifying technical inspection will start at the rear of the 15-car GT class field in tomorrow’s two-hour-and-forty-minute Northeast Grand Prix. De Phillippi posted a 51.227- minute lap around the 1.5-mile, 7-turn Lime Rock Park circuit, only .148 seconds behind the pole-sitting No. 9 Porsche 911 GT3R. The BMW was moved to the rear of the field for failing to meet the minimum ride height. De Phillippi will co-drive with John Edwards tomorrow. The pair stands sixth in GTD PRO class driver point standings with a season’s-best third place finish at Laguna Seca earlier this year.

The Paul Miller Racing team is headed to the shortest circuit on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship calendar—and the home race for the Paul Miller Auto Group—Lime Rock Park.