RNW Staff

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.

Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Tristan Nunez (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Mike Conway (Great Britain) captured their first podium finish of the season in Saturday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Twelve Hours Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.

Ally Cadillac drivers Kamui Kobayashi (Japan), Mike Rockenfeller (Germany), and José María López (Argentina) finished sixth the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.

United Autosports crossed the line fifth in the LMP2 class today at the 70th Anniversary Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring International WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing started the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) with a podium finish from an eventful and ultimately frustrating 1000 Miles of Sebring, which finished early due to a thunderstorm.

The Porsche GT Team has kicked off the new season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) with a victory at the Sebring International Raceway. Michael Christensen from Denmark and Frenchman Kévin Estre won the GTE-Pro class at the 1,000-mile race in the US state of Florida ahead of the Corvette crewed by Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and American Tommy Milner. Richard Lietz from Austria and Italy’s Gianmaria Bruni finished third with their ca. 378 kW (515 PS) 911 RSR. The eight-hour WEC race had to be halted and ultimately discontinued a good 60 minutes before the end of the race due to a thunderstorm warning. In the GTE-Am class, American Brendan Iribe and the two British racing drivers Ollie Millroy and Ben Barnicoat finished third with the identical 911 fielded by the Project 1 customer team.

United Autosports have won the opening round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship at Sebring as Josh Pierson, Oliver Jarvis and Paul Di Resta finished first in the #23 Oreca 07.

Meyer Shank Racing will start from the outside of the third row for Saturday’s 70th anniversary running of the Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday.