RNW Staff

The year started with the BARC British Endurance championship meeting at Silverstone. A very overcast day. It was so nice to get back trackside after the winter break. Hopefully lots more photo-shoots to come. We hope you like the pictures.

McLaren Factory Driver, Ollie Wilkinson returns to JOTA with the McLaren 720S GT3 for another full season attack on the 2022 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS.

Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS returns to action next weekend (1-3 April) when a three-hour Endurance Cup race at Imola will raise the curtain on the 2022 season. 

Since 1997, Porsche has supported talented youngsters on their path to becoming professional drivers through an exemplary youth development programme. Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb and Earl Bamber are three examples of successful racing drivers who – over and above their world championship titles and Le Mans victories – have one thing in common: All three honed the skills for their remarkable careers in the Porsche Junior Programme. Traditionally, the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup has provided the stage for the young guns. This is where the juniors selected by Porsche can put their skills to the test. The international one-make cup is contested as part of the Formula 1 support programme and is considered one of the toughest series in the world. For the last 25 years, the Supercup has been the perfect training ground for this popular junior initiative. As a new protégé, Laurin Heinrich will kick off his maiden season as a Porsche Junior at the support race to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola on April 24. It is now confirmed that the 20-year-old German will drive the ca. 375 kW (510 hp) 911 GT3 Cup, generation 992, fielded by the SSR Huber Racing team.

Australian-based EMA Motorsport Team has confirmed the first track activities as part of the Porsche Customer Racing stable. The team will campaign the full Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship season with experienced Pro driver, David Russell, in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 992) model.

Aston Martin will return to the Pro class of the Fanatec GT World Series Endurance Cup for the first time since 2019, as Beechdean AMR today announced its two-car Aston Martin Vantage GT3 assault on the world’s premier all-GT racing competition in 2022. 

Toro Verde GT is very happy to announce that experienced racer Jake Giddings will be joining the team as he makes a return to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, some four years after his debut in the series, expanding the team’s line-up to three drivers.

Cumbrian sportsman Alex MacDowall is eyeing a major push for his second Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup title this season, after being officially confirmed as part of Barwell Motorsport’s 2022 driver line-up in the world’s premier GT3 racing series.

50 years of BMW M and the 50th staging of the Nürburgring 24 Hours – this year’s Eifel endurance classic is all about special anniversaries. It will also be the first outing for the new BMW M4 GT3 at the highlight of the Nordschleife season. A strong contingent of BMW M Motorsport works drivers will have their sights set on challenging for overall victory. In total, BMW M Motorsport teams will field no fewer than seven BMW M4 GT3s in the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

United Autosports sign Finn Gehrsitz to complete their final European Le Mans Series LMP3 entry. 

Two strong global brands are united again in the 2022 DTM: Red Bull and Ferrari are racing together with AF Corse, the race team run by former racing driver Amato Ferrari. The team is running two cars under the “Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse” banner. Drivers of the two Ferrari 488s are Brazilian Felipe Fraga, who will be racing the full season, and New Zealander Nick Cassidy, who will be competing in six of the eight race events. Fraga will be campaigning the car in Red Bull livery with starting number 74, GT stalwart Cassidy will be racing in the colours of Red Bull’s premium fashion brand AlphaTauri with starting number 37.

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) is set to take on the historic Nürburgring Nordschleife for the first round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie (NLS) on 26 March. The team will compete in the series for a fourth consecutive year as they prepare for the ADAC TotalEnergies Nürburgring 24 Hours on 26-29 May.

Following in the footsteps of his successful father: Nicki Thiim, a two-time FIA World Endurance Champion and the son of former DTM champion Kurt Thiim, will be racing in DTM for the first time. The 32-year-old Dane will be competing in the 16 sprint races of the long-standing series with a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO run by the T3 Motorsport team from Dresden. The 2022 DTM season is getting its season underway at Portimão (POR) from 29 April until 1 May.

New team, new car, and a highly-motivated team: Eastalent-Racing, which was formed in December 2021, will go in pursuit of points with great vigour in the team’s first season in the ADAC GT Masters. Sharing the driving duties in the new Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II will be Norbert Siedler (39/A) and Simon Reicher (22/A). The two Austrians are an established pairing, having raced alongside each other in the German GT Championship for the past two years. This season’s ADAC GT Masters gets underway from 22nd to 24th April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.

After claiming the Ginetta GT Academy Rookie championship title in 2021, Angus Whiteside is set for a new challenge as he joins Toro Verde GT in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB this year.

The Aston Martin Vantage claimed a glorious GTE-Am class one-two finish and a maiden Sebring success at the opening round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship in a dramatic, weather-shortened, 1000 Miles of Sebring on Friday.

Era Motorsport returned to the podium at Sebring International Raceway for the second consecutive year on Saturday evening, braving hot temperatures to finish third place at the always challenging Twelve Hours of Sebring. Drivers Dwight Merriman, Ryan Dalziel, and Kyle Tilley raced all twelve hours of the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship without air conditioning in the No. 18 Oreca, surviving a calamity-filled race to earn their first podium of the 2022 season.

Two more Japanese teams – Comet Racing and GTO Racing Team – have confirmed plans to contest this year’s Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS campaign.

The Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday was a character-building race for Wright Motorsports. The Ohio-based team managed to rebound from an early-race setback to earn a top-ten finish in the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R. After twelve punishing hours at the Sebring, Florida raceway, drivers Ryan Hardwick, Jan Heylen, and Zacharie Robichon brought the car home in tenth-place.

In the fight for a podium position for the entire race, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) had to settle for fifth in Saturday’s Twelve Hours of Sebring, Round 2 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.