RNW Staff

Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Mathieu Jaminet (France) will start tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Northeast Grand Prix third on the grid. 

The Paul Miller Racing team heads back to the Northeast this weekend for a GT-only round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Lime Rock Park. 

Matteo Cairoli will head to Monza this coming weekend, 17th/18th July, for the third race of the FIA WEC season where he is determined to take the top of the LMGTE Am standings.

A month after the 8 Hours of Portimão, where the Cetilar Racing team led the #47 Ferrari 488 GTE to a class win hitting the maiden victory in the FIA World Endurance Championship, Roberto Lacorte, Giorgi Sernagiotto and Antonio Fuoco are now ready to face what they consider to be the most important race of the whole season together with the 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

The battle for each of the 2021 IMSA Championship titles heats up this weekend at Lime Rock Park for the next rounds of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Michelin Pilot Challenge. The “Road Racing Center of the East” will host the condensed weekend, in which Wright Motorsports will enter a Porsche in each series, with both races taking place on Saturday, July 17th.

Porsche customer teams come loaded with winners at the GT-only race on the road racing bullring known as Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut. The 2-hour, 40-minute Northeast Grand Prix, part of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, will feature four Porsche race cars on July 17. All Porsche 911-based race cars are entered by privateers with three previous winners split among the 17-car field comprised solely of the GTLM and GTD classes. WeatherTech Racing will pursue the top-step of the overall podium with a Porsche 911 RSR-19 racer in GTLM class while Pfaff Motorsports, Team Hardpoint EBM and Wright Motorsports each have a single Porsche 911 GT3 R race cars carrying the German sports car manufacturer’s flag in GTD class. Porsche holds the most wins by a manufacturer at Lime Rock with 20 victories.

A field of 60 cars will aim to conquer the world’s most competitive GT race later this month when the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa stages its eagerly anticipated 73rd edition. 

The team heads into the GT-only weekend ready to battle in the IMSA WeatherTech Sprint Cup Round 4 and IMSA MICHELIN Pilot Challenge Round 5. After a 10-day stay at the smooth and rolling Watkins Glen International, the 1.50, 7 turn, Lime Rock Park is a stark change for the drivers and crew. Fortunately, the Audi R8 chassis thrives on short and fast tracks, making Lime Rock Park its ideal circuit.

The Porsche works team is well prepared as it travels to round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Monza. The high-speed circuit in Italy hosts the world endurance series for the first time. At the six-hour race on July 18, the squad of the Stuttgart sports car manufacturer has a clear goal: the Porsche GT team aims to recapture the top spot of the world championship rankings which it lost at the previous race in Portugal. In the GTE-Pro class for factory teams, Porsche fields two ca. 515 PS 911 RSR. In the GTE-Am category, the customer teams Project 1, Dempsey-Proton Racing and GR Racing campaign a total of five 911 racers.

Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Mathieu Jaminet (France) are ready for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Northeast Grand Prix to run at Lime Rock Park, July 16-17.

The reigning GT FIA World Endurance champion Nicki Thiim (DEN) will return to the cockpit of the Aston Martin Vantage GTE for the 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, on 21-22 August. AMR works driver Thiim, who last raced the Le Mans GTE class-winning car when he clinched the FIA WEC GTE Pro title alongside Marco Sørensen in Bahrain last year, will join Paul Dalla Lana (CDN) and Marcos Gomes (BRA) in NorthWest AMR’s GTE Am line-up.

United Autosports are preparing for round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Monza this weekend (16-18 July).

RLR MSport’s Mike Benham, Alex Kapadia and Malthe Jakobsen had podium potential but were ultimately resigned to a ninth-place result in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) 4 Hours of Monza (9-11 July).

COOL Racing picked up a pair of fourth place finishes during the 4 Hours of Monza in a battling performance at the Temple of Speed.

Daniel Harper and his BMW Junior Team partners Max Hesse and Neil Verhagen recorded a remarkable second consecutive victory in the Nürburgring Endurance Series with a fantastic performance this past weekend (10/11 July).

The fourth round of the European Le Mans Series was held at Monza this weekend. After a difficult start in practice, the French team scored its first victory since its creation. Often unlucky despite a high level of performance, the drivers, the engineers and the technical staff are finally rewarded for their efforts and the quality of their work over the last six years. By leaving Italy as a race winner, Team Principal Olivier Panis and his partners Sarah and Simon Abadie are approaching the Le Mans 24 Hours with an increased desire to reach once again the top of the podium in LMP2.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing aims to maintain its 100% winning Hypercar record this week when the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) returns to Italy for the first time in nearly 30 years for the 6 Hours of Monza.

United Autosports have scored another double podium today in both LMP2 and LMP3 at Monza as the #22 Oreca 07 of Phil Hanson, Tom Gamble and Jonathan Aberdein finished second, with Wayne Boyd, Edouard Cauhaupe and Rob Wheldon also finishing second in the #2 Ligier JS P320. 

Lamborghini moved back into the lead of the International GT Open points standings following a third win in six races for Vincenzo Sospiri Racing’s Frederik Schandorff and Michele Beretta at the Hungaroring. The pair headed the sister VS Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo of Yuki Nemoto and Baptiste Moulin in Race 1 and bagged third place in Sunday’s second race.

Audi was the dominant manufacturer at the third race weekend of the season in the German GT Championship: after yesterday’s success, Charles Weerts (20/B) and Dries Vanthoor (22/B, both Team WRT) claimed a second victory for the brand with the four rings in Sunday’s race. Second place for Mercedes-AMG drivers Maximilian Buhk (28/Hamburg) and Raffaele Marciello (26/I, both Mann-Filter Team Landgraf – HTP/WWR), and third place for Rolf Ineichen (42/CH) and Franck Perera (37/F, both GRT Grasser Racing Team) meant the podium featured three different manufacturers. “I really like the circuit here in Zandvoort and it is nice to have won here,” said winner Charles Weerts. “The whole weekend has been very good for us, with fifth place on Saturday, followed by pole and the win today.”