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BMW CLAIMS 20th OVERALL VICTORY AT THE NURBURGRING 24 HOURS

September 27, 2020 RNW Staff

Anniversary win for BMW in the ‘Green Hell’: the ROWE Racing team won the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER) to present the Bavarian manufacturer with its 20th overall victory at the endurance classic. 50 years after the inaugural Eifel marathon, the #99 BMW M6 GT3 crossed the finish line in first place after 85 laps of racing. Nick Catsburg (NED), Alexander Sims (GBR) and Nick Yelloly (GBR) alternated at the wheel in an eventful and wet race, which was interrupted for roughly nine hours in the night due to heavy rain. The trio fought back strongly on Sunday to earn BMW’s first overall victory since 2010. At the end of a nerve-racking climax, Catsburg crossed the finish line 15.452 seconds ahead of the second-placed Audi. BMW Team Schnitzer completed the podium in third place, with drivers Augusto Farfus (BRA), Jens Klingmann (GER), Martin Tomczyk (GER) and Sheldon van der Linde (RSA).

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE PODIUM CHALLENGE FRUSTRATED FOR HUTCHISON & SCHOLL AT ZANDVOORT

September 27, 2020 RNW Staff

Attempto Racing’s Finlay Hutchison watched hopes of a Silver Cup podium challenge frustratingly go awry during a one-off outing in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup at a rain-hit Zandvoort on Saturday, 26th September – the Scottish driver ending the event with a best finish of sixth in class.

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ALLIED RACING PORSCHE SWEEPS GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES WEEKEND AT ZANDVOORT

September 27, 2020 RNW Staff

Bastian Buus and Jan Kasperlik scored their sixth class win of the season and the third consecutive overall victory at the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands for the Allied Racing Porsche team. The Toyota GR Supra GT4 took its first class win in the GT4 European Series in the hands of Gael Castelli and Stéphane Lémeret (CMR), with Selleslagh Racing Teams’s Bob Herber taking the Am honours at Zandvoort.

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PORSCHE GB JUNIOR KING DOMINATES AT SILVERSTONE

September 27, 2020 RNW Staff

Porsche Carrera Cup GB – the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK – began a crucial stage of the 2020 season at Silverstone with two races on the short and fast 1.6-mile National circuit. Rookie teammates Matthew Graham (Redline Racing) and Scott McKenna (Redline Racing) topped the combined Practice times on Friday – just one-second covered the top 15 cars following two dry sessions. Esmee Hawkey (Team Parker) maintained her category advantage as the fastest Pro-Am, Lucky Khera (Simon Green Motorsport) was the quickest Am.

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ALLIED RACING TAKES SECOND OVERALL GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES VICTORY IN A ROW AT ZANDVOORT

September 26, 2020 RNW Staff

Bastian Buus and Jan Kasperlik have taken their second overall GT4 European Series victory in a row in the first Zandvoort race. The Allied Racing drivers took their fourth consecutive Pro-Am class win of the season. Valentin Hasse-Clot and Theo Nouet took the Silver Cup victory and the championship lead, with AGS Events teammates Nicolas Gomar and Gilles Vannelet extending their Am lead with their third win of the season.

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TWO GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE WINS FOR SKY TEMPESTA RACING AT ZANDVOORT

September 26, 2020 RNW Staff

After victory in the morning race, the crew of Sky Tempesta Racing have clinched the second win of the day to extend their lead at the top of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup standings. Behind Chris Froggatt and Eddie Cheever III, the Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini partnership crossed the line in second place, improving on their Race 1 result.

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COSTA AND ALTOE CLINCH MAIDEN GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP WIN FOR EMIL FREY LAMBORGHINI

September 26, 2020 RNW Staff

Albert Costa and Giacomo Altoè clinched their maiden GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup victory in today’s second race at Zandvoort, leading a one-two finish for the Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini squad.

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BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT MASTERS CHANGING CONDITIONS TO TAKE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE ZANDVOORT VICTORY

September 26, 2020 RNW Staff

Ryuichiro Tomita and Kelvin van der Linde gave Belgian Audi Club Team WRT a commanding victory in this morning’s opening Sprint Cup race at Zandvoort, sharing the podium with a pair of impressive Silver Cup runners after a highly unpredictable 60-minute contest.

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MERCEDES-AMG READY TO RUN IN THE NURBURGRING 24 HOURS

September 26, 2020 RNW Staff

This Saturday afternoon, the ADAC TOTAL 24h-Rennen as the endurance racing season highlight for Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing gets underway. The initial position for a repeated success after 2013 and 2016 is very good: next to pole position for the #4 HRT Mercedes-AMG GT3, four further GT3s from Affalterbach will be lining up on the first five rows of the grid. During the race, Alexander Bodo will be facing a challenging job. The chief strategist in the Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing team will be coordinating all the tactical interests from the operations centre. Given the changeable weather conditions that are to be expected, the right timing of the driver changes, fuel stops and driver changes in particular will be playing a major role. In the Mercedes-AMG Race Base, Bodo will be supported, among others, by weather experts who are on duty day and night. For everyone involved, anticipation for the race start is huge, even though spectators on site are sadly missed. To greet the fans watching from home, Mercedes-AMG has placed several fan banners along the Nordschleife that are regularly captured by the cameras. Moreover, the Customer Racing website (customerracing.mercedes-amg.com) provides a live stream with exclusive additional features.

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GOOD QUALIFYING FOR THE BMW M6 GT3 ON THE NORDSCHLEIFE

September 25, 2020 RNW Staff

BMW teams secured promising starting positions with the BMW M6 GT3 in Friday’s Top Qualifying on the eve of the Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER). Nick Yelloly (GBR) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) qualified fifth and sixth for ROWE Racing and BMW Team Schnitzer, meaning they start the race from row three. With some stretches of the circuit wet and some dry, qualifying became something of a tyre lottery. Marco Wittmann (GER, ROWE Racing) and Christian Krognes (NOR, Walkenhorst Motorsport) finished eighth and ninth to claim their places in the top ten. Henry Walkenhorst (GER) was 16th in the AM car run by Walkenhorst Motorsport.

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DISAPPOINTING FINAL QUALIFYING FOR PORSCHE AT THE NURBURGRING

September 25, 2020 RNW Staff

Porsche has made it into the new Top Qualifying for the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring, which is limited to 30 vehicles, with all seven customer-run 911 GT3 R racers. In the first heat of the two-part final qualifying session, Dennis Olsen achieved second in the individual time trial with the 500+hp 911 fielded by the KCMG squad. Facing very difficult track conditions with rain setting in, he made the best use of the first of his two laps and missed out on topping the timesheets by a mere quarter of a second. This allowed the Norwegian to take part in the second qualifying segment. However, he had to park the vehicle, which he shares with Timo Bernhard, Jörg Bergmeister (both Germany) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand) due to problems during the warm-up lap. As the best-placed 911 GT3 R, Frikadelli Racing’s No. 30 entry heads into the 24-hour race on Saturday at 3.30 pm local time from P14. Sharing the cockpit are qualifying driver Alex Müller (Germany), Klaus Abbelen, Robert Renauer (both Germany) and Norbert Siedler (Austria). The Porsche, which contests the Pro-Am class, had already made it into the top-17 session after scoring good results in the Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS).

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EMIL FREY RACING LAMBORGHINI DOMINATES GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE QUALIFYING AT ZANDVOORT

September 25, 2020 RNW Staff

Mikaël Grenier and Norbert Siedler produced a dominant qualifying performance in the #14 Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini to secure pole position for both of tomorrow’s GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup races at Zandvoort.

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UNITED AUTOSPORTS TO ENTER GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES IN 2021

September 25, 2020 RNW Staff

United Autosports are delighted to confirm that they will enter the GT4 European Series in 2021.

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TOCKWORTH MOTORSPORTS RETURNS TO THE GT4 SOUTH EUROPEAN SERIES IN 2020

September 24, 2020 RNW Staff

Tockwith Motorsports will be on the starting list of the full season of the 2020 GT4 South European. One car is confirmed while the second car is missing one driver.

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ANTONELLI MOTORSPORT HEADS TO MONZA WITH MOISEEV-NESOV

September 24, 2020 RNW Staff

Two weeks after claiming their first Am victory of the season at the Red Bull Ring, Alexander Moiseev and Alexey Nesov are set for the fourth of six International GT Open rounds this weekend in Monza, the only one to be held in Italy.

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HUTCHISON DRAFTED INTO ATTEMPTO RACING ‘SPRINT CUP’ LINE-UP FOR ZANDVOORT

September 24, 2020 RNW Staff

British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) Rising Star Finlay Hutchison will make an unexpected return to action in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup at Zandvoort in The Netherlands this Saturday, 26th September, after receiving an eleventh-hour call-up from Audi squad Attempto Racing.

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BALFE MOTORSPORT TO MAKE RETURN TO THE GULF 12 HOURS WITH McLAREN

September 24, 2020 RNW Staff

Balfe Motorsport is delighted to announce that it will return to the Gulf 12 Hours early in 2021 (7-9 January) as it competes with a McLaren 720S GT3.

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BMW TEAM RLL MOTOVATED FOR MORE AT MID-OHIO

September 23, 2020 RNW Staff

The September 27th Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio marks the beginning of the second half of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and BMW Team RLL’s run for the GTLM class title.

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STRONG PORSCHE DRIVER LINE-UP FOR 911 GT3 R CAMPAIGN AT THE NURBURGRING

September 23, 2020 RNW Staff

In consultation with its customer teams, Porsche has made a last-minute change to its driver line-up for the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. New to the crew driving the 911 GT3 R are two outright Le Mans winners and endurance champions: the brand ambassador Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand). In addition, the line-up also includes last year’s GTE-Am class winner at Le Mans and brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister, talented youngster Nico Menzel (both Germany) and seasoned specialist Norbert Siedler (Austria). Porsche works driver Sven Müller (Germany), Dennis Olsen (Norway) and Klaus Bachler (Austria) tackle the race for two Porsche customer teams. They replace the nine drivers with works contracts who have had to step down from attending the Nürburgring race on 26-27 September. This reshuffle is the result of three positive Covid-19 tests done as part of a routine check on Porsche employees at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. As a consequence, Porsche Motorsport decided that, for safety reasons, no participant from the French endurance classic would travel to the Eifel.

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NEW ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE GT8R TO MAKE NÜRBURGRING 24 HOUR DEBUT

September 23, 2020 RNW Staff

The new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT8R will make its debut in the ADAC Total Nürburgring 24 Hours on the world-famous Nordschleife in Germany this weekend, with partner racing team Garage 59.

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