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STRONG STRATEGY, DRIVING PUT FORD CHIP GANASSI RACING IN PODIUM CONTENTION AT MID-OHIO

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Despite strong strategies and judicious driving by all four drivers, the podium remained just out of reach for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the final stop for the team before the Le Mans 24.

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MAZDA SCORES FIRST IMSA PODIUM OF THE SEASON AT MID-OHIO

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Oliver Jarvis and Tristan Nunez team to finish third and score first IMSA podium for Mazda Team Joest.

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CORVETTE RACING AT MID-OHIO: GARCIA, MAGNUSSEN BACK ON THE PODIUM

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia earned a podium finish Sunday in Corvette Racing’s return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car in the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. The duo piloted their No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R to a third-place finish in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GT Le Mans (GTLM) class.

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SECOND PLACE FINISH FOR MEYER SHANK RACING AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

After 125 laps of caution free, green flag to checkered flag racing, Meyer Shank Racing scored its second podium finish of the 2018 season in its home event at the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio.

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FIRST ACURA DPi WIN IN 1-2 ACURA TEAM PENSKE SWEEP AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

The Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio was all about Acura Team Penske from the first practice session of the weekend on Friday through the checkered flag on Sunday’s two-hour, 40-minute IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race. Every pre-race practice session ended with both of the team’s Acura ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars sitting 1-2 … Continue reading → ...

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LEXUS SCORES HISTORIC FIRST NORTH AMERICAN VICTORY FOR THE RC F GT3

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Lexus put forth the dominating performance it had been dreaming of since entering the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class in 2017 Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

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CADILLAC RACING TEAM MUSTANG SAMPLING FOURTH AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Cadillac V-Performance Racing team Mustang Sampling Cadillac finished fourth today at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. The No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R finished fifth and the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R came home in eighth.

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WEATHERTECH RACING FINISHES EIGHTH AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Alessandro Balzan (Italy) drove to an eighth place finish in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING READY FOR THE 24 HOURS OF THE NURBURGRING

May 4, 2018 David Martin-Janiak

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will compete in the 46th 24 Hours of Nürburgring Endurance Race, which takes place at the Nürburgring in Germany from May 10 to 13, 2018. The Nürburgring 24 Hours Endurance Race is a demanding event that takes place over the course of 24 hours on a circuit that is 25km in length, … Continue reading → ...

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2018-19 FIA WEC SEASON KICKS OFF WITH FIVE FERRARI CREWS

May 3, 2018 Charles Côté

The Super Season of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) kicks off this weekend. The championship will last more than a year, concluding in about 13 months with the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours. Next year’s proceedings will open with a race at Sebring, followed by the second race at Spa-Francorchamps in May and the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.

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THE BMW PEOPLE BEHIND THE MACHINE: TEAM AND DRIVERS PREPARING FOR THE 2018 WEC SEASON

May 3, 2018 Charles Côté

The Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) on Saturday are the season opener in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) for the new BMW M8 GTE. The entire BMW M Motorsport team, BMW Team MTEK and the BMW WEC drivers have completed an intensive and strenuous programme. The focus was not just on the development of the new BMW M8 GTE – the people behind the machine have also been hard at work, meticulously preparing for the FIA WEC entry.

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ESM BRINGS NISSAN PROTOTYPES TO MID-OHIO

May 2, 2018 Charles Côté

Following a second place finish last month at the Long Beach Grand Prix, Tequila Patrón ESM will travel to Lexington, Ohio this weekend for the next round in the IMSA WeatherTech series, the Acura SportsCar Challenge at Mid-Ohio SportsCar Course. The No. 2 Nissan Onroak DPi and the No. 22 Nissan Onroak DPi have each celebrated podium finishes in the last two races, and will look to carry that momentum into round four of the championship.

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CITY CENTRE GT3 PARADE AND AWA-TORA FAN FESTIVAL CONFIRMED FOR SUZUKA 10 HOURS

May 2, 2018 Charles Côté

The inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours will include a GT3 supercar parade through the city centre on August 23 ahead of Asia’s Intercontinental GT Challenge round.

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ACURA DPi PROGRAM BATTLING TOUGH COMPETITION IN WEATHERTECH CHAMPIONSHIP

April 24, 2018 Charles Côté

The first three races of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship have reinforced one thing about racing in the Prototype class: competition is really tough.

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BUTEL GETS HIS LMP3 SEASON OFF TO A STRONG START AT DONINGTON

April 24, 2018 David Martin-Janiak

Jerseyman Jack Butel made a strong start to his UK LMP3 Cup assault at the weekend (21/22 April). The Channel Islander got behind the wheel of the Speedworks Ligier JS P3 LMP3 at Donington Park for two, one-hour long races. Butel was joined by new teammate Dominic Paul and pair notched up seventh and fifth … Continue reading → ...

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WRIGHT MOVES INTO POINTS LEAD, JOINS CLAIRAY IN IMSA PROTOTYPE CHALLENGE WIN AT BARBER

April 22, 2018 Charles Côté

Kris Wright made a statement at Barber Motorsports Park – he is a title contender in the IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda championship.

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CAR COLLECTION MOTORSPORT LEADS 12H NAVARRA AFTER THREE HOURS

April 21, 2018 Charles Côté

Three A6-Am runners head the field at the first-ever Hankook 12H NAVARRA, as the Car Collection Motorsport Audi R8 LMS (#34, Gustav Edelhoff / Elmar Grimm / Max Edelhoff) leads the PROsport Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#85, Charles Putman / Charles Espenlaub / Joe Foster) and the Swiss Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#15, Roberto Pampanini / Christoph Lenz / Mauro Calamia) after a dramatic opening three hours in northern Spain.

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HOFOR-RACING TAKES SHOCK POLE POSITION FOR FIRST-EVER 12H NAVARRA

April 21, 2018 Charles Côté

The Hofor-Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#1, Michael Kroll / Chantal Kroll / Roland Eggimann / Kenneth Heyer / Christiaan Frankenhout) has taken an astonishing pole position for the first ever Hankook 12H NAVARRA. Christiaan Frankenhout set the three fastest laps of the session, but lapped the 3.933 km Circuito de Navarra in 1m 39.161s to take the first A6-Am outright pole position of the 2018 24H SERIES powered by Hankook.

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ISAAC TUTUMLU TO CONTEST NAVARRA 12 HOUR

April 18, 2018 David Martin-Janiak

Spaniard Isaac Tutumlu will take part in second European 24H GT Series race, which is to be held at the Circuito de Navarra in Los Arcos. Tutumlu will team up with Aly Çapan, Peter Schmidt and Dirg Parhofer in a Car Collection Motorsport-entered Audi R8 LMS. The 12-hour race starts at noon and ends at … Continue reading → ...

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WILL OWEN CLAIMS FIRST TOP TEN FINISH OF 2018 ELMS SEASON

April 16, 2018 Charles Côté

Will Owen and United Autosports achieved their first top-ten finish of the 2018 European Le Mans Series over the weekend during the 4 Hours of Castellet where they placed 9th out of the 18 total entries in the LMP2 category.

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