There are only two weeks to go until the Blancpain GT Series heads to the Hungaroring on August 25th-27th for the penultimate round of the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup. Hungary’s 14-turn, 4.381km circuit could play a crucial role in this year’s fight for the championship..
The Racers Group, one of the most successful teams in all of sportscar racing, is ready to push it to the limits in Utah as the team goes full-throttle for the third round of Pirelli World Challenge SprintX GTS competition.
Trent Hindman and Riccardo Agostini maintained their near-perfect form in Road America Sunday, claiming the second of two wins as Lamborghini Super Trofeo visited the famous Wisconsin track. With the two wins at Road America, following on from a similarly decisive result at Watkins Glen International
The Audi pairing of Markus Pommer (26, DEU) and Kelvin van der Linde (21, ZA) took the win in Sundays ADAC GT Masters race at the Nürburgring and thereby also secured a maiden victory in the Super Sports Car League for Aust Motorsport. Nick Catsburg (29, NL) and Philipp Eng (27, AUT, both BMW Team
BMW driver Philipp Eng (27, A, BMW Team Schnitzer) set a new ADAC GT Masters qualifying record at the Nürburgring and secured pole position for Sundays race in the Super Sports Car League, putting him in the top spot on the grid for the second time this season.
Trent Hindman and Riccardo Agostini were untouchable Saturday at Road America, claiming victory at the historic track in their second-consecutive triumph of the 2017 season. The No. 1 Prestige Performance entry, representing Lamborghini Paramus, was unrivaled today, as Hindman set a blistering time in the mornings qualifying session before jumping out to a sizable lead
Sebastian Asch (31, DEU) and DTM star Lucas Auer (22, AUT, both BWT Mücke Motorsport) secured a comfortable win in the ninth race of the 2017 ADAC GT Masters at the Nürburgring. It was also a first triumph for Mercedes-AMG in the Super Sports Car League since April 2016.
Once again, mere thousandths of a second decided the fight for pole position in the ADAC GT Masters. In qualifying for Saturdays race in the Super Sports Car League at the Nürburgring, Mercedes-AMG driver Luca Stolz (22, DEU, Mercedes-AMG Team ZAKSPEED) finished 63 thousandths of a second up on Mathieu Jaminet (22, F, KÜS Team75
At the end of May, Audi driver Kelvin van der Linde (21, ZA, Aust Motorsport) won the ADAC Zurich 24-hour race. On his return to the Nürburgring, the South African clocked the fastest lap time in the first practice session of the ADAC GT Masters weekend, this time on the shorter sprint circuit.
Following the hugely successful 25th anniversary celebrations for Jaguar’s remarkable Jaguar XJ220 at last weekend’s record breaking Silverstone Classic, a special reunion is being organised for the men and women who hand-built these awesome machines.
This year’s astonishing line-up of 22 memorable races featured the widest ever spectrum of outstanding racing machinery ranging from the ever-evocative Pre War Sports Cars of the roaring twenties right up to equally illustrious super touring cars of the far more modern nineties and noughties.
ADAC GT Masters drivers also do well in endurance races. Following the win in the ADAC Zurich 24-hour race at the Nürburgring by Connor De Phillippi (24, USA), Christopher Mies (28, DEU), Kelvin van der Linde (21, ZA) and Markus Winkelhock (37, DEU), ex-F1 driver Winkelhock, championship leader Jules Gounon (22, F) and Christopher Haase
Weiron Tan proved that the podium is within reach in the latest outing of the fiercely-disputed China GT Championship at Zhuhai International Circuit last weekend, with an impressive performance around a track that was far from ideally suited to his Bentley Continental GT3.
Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America makes its way to yet another classic American road course this weekend for the third stop of the 2017 season at Road America. The historic venue will play host to Rounds 5 and 6 of the championship, marking the midpoint of the season
After four of the seven race weekends of the 2017 ADAC GT Masters season, Corvette driver Jules Gounon (22, FRA, Callaway Competition) has managed to pull out something of a gap at the top of the table.
A fortnight after its historic maiden victory at Lime Rock, the new Porsche 911 RSR now heads to its first outing on the legendary Road America racetrack on 6 August. The storied 6.515-kilometre circuit not far from Elkhart Lake in the US state of Wisconsin is regarded as the birthplace of American sports car racing.