RNW Staff

The first of back-to-back Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS events takes place this weekend at Suzuka International Circuit where 17 of the 25 entries will also contest the all-new Fanatec Japan Cup.

The Porsche 911 RSR fielded by Dempsey-Proton Racing has won the GTE-Am class at the six-hour race of the FIA WEC in Monza. In the No. 77 car, team owner Christian Ried and the two UK drivers Sebastian Priaulx and Harry Tincknell beat the opposition over the line. In the GTE-Pro class, the two works cars took the flag in positions four and five.

The best Porsche 911 RSR in the GTE-Pro class tackles the six-hour race in Monza (Italy) from position four. At the wheel of the No. 91 car, local hero Gianmaria Bruni was 0.220-seconds faster than his brand colleague Michael Christensen (Denmark). In the GTE-Am category, Christian Ried planted the No. 77 car fielded by Dempsey-Proton Racing on the third grid spot.

From 28th till 31st July, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the Belgian Ardennes once again serves as the venue for the legendary TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa. This year, the entry list for the world’s biggest GT3 race includes 66 cars from nine renowned manufacturers, competing in five different classes. Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing aims at the maximum in all the various categories during the 74th running of the endurance racing highlights and is therefore entering an accordingly impressive line-up with 14 Mercedes-AMG GT3s for the race. The Mercedes-AMG Teams AKKODIS ASP, GetSpeed and GruppeM are racing in the Pro category in the prestigious 24-hour event and will receive extended works support from Affalterbach to do so.

Porsche travels to round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC in Monza leading the series. The factory squad is determined to repeat last year’s victory in Italy. The clear goal this year is to claim the world championship title for the Porsche 911 RSR’s swan-song season in the GTE-Pro class.

The Aston Martin Vantage GTE returns to the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship [WEC] fray as the series resumes with the 6 Hours of Monza this weekend, following Aston Martin’s glorious GTE Am victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with TF Sport in June.

United Autosports are preparing for round four of the 2022 World Endurance Championship at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

B-Quik Absolute Racing emerged with a hat full of podium finishes as Thailand Super Series (TSS) 2022 kicked off last weekend with the Bangsaen Grand Prix, the iconic race finally returning after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Whelen Engineering Cadillac drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Olivier Pla (France) finished third in Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

 It was a disappointing fifth place finish for Paul Miller Racing at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park after getting caught out on strategy by a final-hour yellow flag.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing is ready for a new and exciting Hypercar challenge when the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season moves to Italy for the 6 Hours of Monza.

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Daniel Juncadella (Spain) finished fourth in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP).

Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) finished second in Sunday’s race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park after leading 60 laps, but took a major step towards winning the DPi title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with only two races remaining.

The No. 25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M4 GT3, driven by Connor De Phillippi and John Edwards, finished fifth in today’s Chevrolet Grand Prix, the sixth round of the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The team looked to the two-hour-and-forty-minute race, at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, to bounce back from the disappointment of having the win at Watkins Glen taken away due to a drive time penalty, but any hope of getting back to the GTD PRO class podium was eliminated after the right rear wheel and tire fell off the car on lap five. Edwards, who had started from the third position, got the car back to the pits, but with almost one lap lost the team’s day was over. The remaining 106 laps of the race were uneventful ones as Edwards recovered to run as high as fourth before pitting for De Phillippi on lap 60.

Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts will take an 11.5-point advantage into the 2022 Fanatec Sprint finale after completing a clean sweep of race victories at Misano.

NM Racing Team duo Enzo Joulié and Lluc Ibañez celebrated a clean sweep of victories at Misano, with their #15 Mercedes-AMG leading every lap of the second race to put them in the driving seat of the Silver Cup championship.

On his birthday, his good fortune returned: Felipe Fraga claimed his maiden DTM race win in DTM Norisring powered by BMW M on Sunday, his 27th birthday. After multiple retirements, it was also the first success of the season for Red Bull AlphpaTauri AF Corse Ferrari, the teams’ champions of the 2021 season. Fraga is the first Brazilian DTM race winner since Augusto Farfus’s victory at Zandvoort in 2013. The birthday boy was accordingly happy: “This is the best birthday f my life! Thanks to everyone in the team, we have deserved this so much.”

The Misano World Circuit played host to a belter of a second Fanatec GT2 European Series race for round three in Italy, with the PK Carsport duo of Stienes Longin and Nicolas Saelens hanging onto outright victory by a tenth of a second from Am class winner Henry Hassid in the LP Racing Audi. 

Madison Snow stuck the No. 1 BMW M4 GT3 on the second row for the team’s return to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. 

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Daniel Juncadella (Spain) will start from the sixth row for tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP).