RNW Staff

Lamborghini set the tempo at the start of the German GT Championship weekend at the Lausitzring: two Huracán GT3 belonging to the GRT Grasser Racing Team topped the timing sheet in the first free practice. In the final seconds of the session, Franck Perera (37/F) set the fastest time, just 0.1 seconds ahead of team-mate Mirko Bortolotti (31/I).

SRO Motorsports Group has confirmed plans to stage its inaugural GT1 Sports Club Powered by Curbstone Events next month, bringing together an incredible collection of hyper-sports cars from the world’s leading manufacturers.

Whelen Engineering Cadillac drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Felipe Nasr (Brazil) are on a winning streak and look to make it three in a row at this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship at Laguna Seca.

The Porsche Sportscar Together Fest at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a celebration of the modern Porsche culture with motorsport at its center. Highlighting the three-day weekend are three, 45-minute Porsche Carrera Cup North America. The 28-car field will provide the event-going public an opportunity to see the continent’s top one-make race series in action on the 2.592-mile, 14-turn road course of the historic Speedway, Indiana-race track. Rounds 9, 10 and 11 mark the first time the series will run three events in a single weekend. Joined by the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America by Yohohama and select run groups of the Porsche Club of America (PCA), the three-class championship utilizing the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car will anchor the Sportscar Together Fest between September 10 – 12.

Following their race win in the LMP2 class at Road America last month, Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel will race as co-drivers again at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, on Sunday, September 12 in the No. 17 Era Motorsport Oreca. Despite missing one race this year, the two-time IMSA race winners are fourth in the championship standings. The sixth event in the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, this weekend’s race at Laguna Seca will act as the penultimate race for the LMP2 class.

BMW M Motorsport has taken another important step towards entering the LMDh class in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) from the 2023 season. The chassis for the two prototype cars will be produced in close collaboration with the globally-renowned and successful manufacturer Dallara. The contract was signed on Wednesday at the Dallara headquarters in Varano de Melegari (ITA).

Creation of Grove Racing Junior Team cements Carrera Cup Australia as preferred pathway into Supercars

Another multi-city race weekend is here for Porsche customer racing team Wright Motorsports. The three professional race programs the team holds under the IMSA-sanctioned umbrella race this weekend, with the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Michelin Pilot Challenge competing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and the Porsche Carrera Cup North America running three races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Cadillac Racing is headed west to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Hyundai Sports Car Championship event to run Sept. 10-12.

Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Matt Campbell (Australia) are taking the momentum of winning the last IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Road America to the next round at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to run Sept. 10-12.

Lamborghini has unveiled the calendar for the 2022 Super Trofeo Europe season, the 14th in the history of the one-make GT series dedicated for Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo cars. Across six rounds, a total of 12 races and 600 minutes of competition will be disputed at some of Europe’s most prestigious circuits.

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Phil Hanson will return to the team for the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship.

When the German GT Championship lines up this weekend (10th to 12th September), it heralds the start of an exciting autumn: not only will the halfway leader be determined at the DEKRA Lausitzring, but the teams and drivers will also be jostling for position in what promises to be a thrilling title race. The situation heading to the shortest track on the calendar could hardly be more intriguing: the top six in the championship – super sports cars from no fewer than six different manufacturers – are separated by just 15 points. Fans can watch the ADAC GT Masters live at the circuit again and, for the first time since 2019, will be permitted in the paddock, on the pit walk and at the autograph session again.

Successful GT racer Alex MacDowall encountered his most frustrating outing of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season at the Nurburgring in Germany on Sunday, 5th September, where grip and handling issues led to an eighth place finish in the Silver Cup.

GRT Grasser Racing Team announced their return from the summer break by throwing down the gauntlet this weekend at the Nürburgring. Clemens Schmid, Kikko Galbiati and Tim Zimmermann fought for top positions in the high-calibre GT3 series right from the start of this fourth round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, but after securing pole position in the Silver Cup, the team did not get the top result that was so well deserved. Their Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO was knocked out of the race in an unfortunate collision just before the chequered flag.

At the start of the second half of the DTM season at the Red Bull Ring, Mercedes-AMG further extended his lead in the manufacturers’ standings. With three podium results by Maximilian Götz and Philip Ellis a total of eighth further top ten results, Mercedes-AMG was the most successful manufacturer at the Austrian Grand Prix circuit. The performance and sports car brand continued its successful weekend in the GT World Challenge Europe. At the Nürburgring, the #88 Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP car and the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT entry finished in second and third place.

Oman Racing’s Ahmad Al Harthy, Giacomo Petrobelli and Maxime Martin combined to deliver a top five Pro-Am finish at Germany’s Nurburgring on Sunday, 5th September, during the squad’s eagerly awaited return to the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup. 

The 5th DTM weekend brought a rollercoaster of emotions for the Mercedes-AMG Team Mücke Motorsport team at the Austrian Red Bull Ring. In the 9th round of the DTM season on Saturday, a time penalty of five seconds relegated Maximilian Buhk to 12th place in his #18 Mercedes-AMG GT3, which is equipped with the Space Drive steer-by-wire system from Schaeffler Paravan and does not require any mechanical connection at all between the steering unit and the steering gearbox. With 9th place in Sunday’s race, the 28-year-old AMG driver was then finally able to score DTM points again. However, bad luck in qualifying and minor collisions on the track once again cost the Mercedes-AMG GT3 several ranks.

Two wins out of two: ahead of the weekend, no one could have imagined a better result for Liam Lawson and the 488 GT3 Evo 2020 of Red Bull AF Corse. In the second race, despite 25kg ballast, the nineteen-year-old New Zealander held off Marco Wittmann’s attacks and was first over the finish line with the help of the AF Corse team’s quick pit stop. After a challenging qualifying session, Albon was unlucky to see a potential podium slip away due to a puncture.

Max Weering and Loris Spinelli survived a pit-stop time penalty to give Johan Kraan Motorsports its second Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe victory of the weekend at the Nürburgring – and third of the 2021 season – beating Leipert Motorsport’s Sebastian Balthasar and Seb Morris with a final-lap overtake. The #61 Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evo, in the hands of Spinelli, then opened up a margin of 1.5 seconds to complete the clean sweep in Germany.