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ERA MOTORSPORT PLEASED WITH ROAR BEFORE THE 24 TEST

January 7, 2020 RNW Staff

New IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship team Era Motorsport has just completed the first full-series test of the season, the Roar Before the 24. With eight sessions over the course of the three days, the team made massive strides with their new Oreca LMP2 07 with drivers Kyle Tilley, Dwight Merriman, Ryan Lewis, and Nicolas Minassian.

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PORSCHE FACTORY AND CUSTOMER TEAMS HAVE A SUCCESSFUL DAYTONA TEST

January 6, 2020 RNW Staff

The 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season got off to a successful start for Porsche Motorsport factory and customer programs with the annual ROAR Before the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, January 3 – 5. At the end of three days of testing and qualifying sessions for both the factory-entered Porsche 911 RSR-19 and customer-prepared Porsche 911 GT3 R race cars, all left the Florida test with a positive outlook for the upcoming Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 25 – 26.

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PERFECT PREPARATION FOR PAUL MILLER RACING AT THE ROAR BEFORE THE 24

January 6, 2020 RNW Staff

Paul Miller Racing has completed it’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pre-season preparation with an impressive test at the Roar Before the 24 at Daytona International Speedway.

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HEINRICHER RACING STARTS 2020 STRONG AT ROAR BEFORE THE 24 TEST

January 6, 2020 RNW Staff

The 2020 season started off strong for Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing at the Roar Before the 24. The annual test weekend at Daytona International Speedway saw the combination of Misha Goikhberg, Alvaro Parente, Trent Hindman and AJ Allmendinger on track for three days in preparation for this year’s Rolex 24 At Daytona.

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CADILLAC RACING TEAMS READY FOR ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA

January 5, 2020 RNW Staff

Cadillac’s four DPi-V.R prototype race cars kicked-off the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season by running laps at the Roar Before the 24 at Daytona International Speedway this weekend.

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STRONG START TO 2020 FOR MEYER SHANK RACING ACURA

January 5, 2020 RNW Staff

Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) finished three days of testing at Daytona International Speedway during the annual Roar Before the 24 this weekend. The test lays the groundwork for the IMSA season opener, the Rolex 24 At Daytona later this month (January 24-26) as the team prepares for a successful defense of its 2019 GTD Championship.

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WEATHERTECH RACING COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL ROAR WEEKEND

January 5, 2020 RNW Staff

WeatherTech Racing had a successful Roar Before the 24 test weekend in preparation for the start of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Chammpionship and the season opening Rolex 24 At Daytona to run January 25-26.

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2020 CIRCUIT RACING SEASON GETS UNDERWAY WITH 15th RUNNING OF 24H DUBAI

January 3, 2020 RNW Staff

Gradually, it has become a tradition like the New Year’s Concert in Vienna or the ski jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: for the 15th consecutive year, Dubai Autodrome will be hosting the Hankook 24H DUBAI, the opening round of the 2020 24H SERIES Continents powered by Hankook. From 7 until 11 January, the state-of-the-art circuit in the United Arab Emirates will be a heave of motor racing activity with a packed grid of GTs and touring cars for the 24-hour race, a six-hour race on Tuesday evening as a flyaway round of the Dutch Winter Endurance Kampioenschap (WEK) and thrilling single-seater action with the F3 Asian Championship and FIA F4 UAE. The 15th running of the event will be celebrated in style.

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PR1/MATHIASEN MOTORSPORTS ANNOUNCE LINEUP FOR ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA

January 3, 2020 RNW Staff

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports has announced their lineup for the Rolex 24 At Daytona consisting of drivers Gabriel Aubry, Nick Boulle, Simon Trummer, and Ben Keating in the #52 Oreca 07 LMP2.

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THREE-CAR TEAM FOR AUDI SPORT TEAM VALVOLINE AT BATHURST

January 1, 2020 RNW Staff

Australia’s championship winning Audi Sport Team Valvoline operation will field three Audi Sport customer racing supported R8 LMS GT3 EVOs in the 2020 Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, with a mix of drivers intent on claiming another victory for the brand with the four rings on the eve of the tenth anniversary of their first title in 2011.

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PAUL MILLER RACING READY TO KICK OFF 2020

January 1, 2020 RNW Staff

Paul Miller Racing will kick off 2020 with an exciting new livery, and a partnership extension with Total Lubricants as the team sets its sights on this weekend’s Roar Before the 24 test at Daytona International Speedway.

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PORSCHE FACTORY AND CUSTOMER TEAMS PREPARE FOR IMSA PRE-SEASON TEST

January 1, 2020 RNW Staff

The motorsport season makes its annual start with the ROAR Before the Rolex 24, January 3 – 5, at Daytona International Speedway. The three-day test session launches the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race season and title defenses by two Porsche motorsport programs. The Porsche GT Team factory effort looks to return to the top of the GTLM class standings with a new-to-North America Porsche 911 RSR race car while Pfaff Motorsports targets a second GTD team title with its Porsche 911 GT3 R racer. While no championship points will be awarded for the multi-day test on the 3.56-mile Daytona Beach, Florida-race track, a qualifying session for each class will help set the stage for the first competition round, the 58th Running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, January 25 – 26.

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CORVETTE RACING AT DAYTONA: START OF A NEW ERA

December 30, 2019 RNW Staff

Corvette Racing returns to the racetrack for another season of IMSA competition, but this time in a very different guise than past years. This weekend’s Roar Before the 24 marks the first public running of the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R, which Corvette Racing will field for this year’s WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

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2020 AUSTRALIAN GT TROPHY SERIES TO GO FOR ‘SIX OF THE BEST’

December 29, 2019 RNW Staff

Australian GT have introduced the last of their calendars for the 2020 season, with the unveiling of a new approach to the Trophy Series program, a schedule which will see ten events offered between February and November, with teams given the option to go for ‘six of the best’, allowing them the ability to ‘drop’ rounds as they compete across the season to card their points tally from their best six results.

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TEAM GMB, HATANO AND KUROIWA JOIN GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA’S GT4 CLASS

December 28, 2019 RNW Staff

Team GMB will make its GT World Challenge Asia debut in 2020 after lodging a full-season GT4 entry.

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CLOSE TO 80 ENTRIES ALREADY CONFIRMED FOR THE 15th ANNUAL 24H DUBAI

December 28, 2019 RNW Staff

There’s less than three weeks to go before the 15th edition of the Hankook 24H DUBAI gets underway, and more than 70 entries are already confirmed for the event.

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ERA MOTORSPORT ANNOUNCES IMSA ROLEX 24 LINEUP

December 28, 2019 RNW Staff

LMP2 sports car racing team Era Motorsport will make their IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut next week at Daytona International Speedway. IMSA’s Roar Before the 24 will open the 2020 race season as the first official test of the year, featuring over 40 cars from four classes, and Era Motorsport will run the No. 18 Oreca 07-Gibson with team principal and driver Kyle Tilley, and drivers Dwight Merriman, Nicolas Minassian and Ryan Lewis.

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TIMO BERNHARD: “IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP”

December 28, 2019 RNW Staff

Timo Bernhard (38, GER) has helped shape the sports car scene as a driver for some 20 years, achieving enormous success wherever he competed – in the 24-hour at the Nürburgring, in the ALMS, at Le Mans and in the FIA World Endurance Championship, the WEC – he triumphed everywhere. Since 2016, he has also been involved in the ADAC GT Masters with Küs Team75 Bernhard and began driving for his outfit in 2018. He achieved his maiden victory in the Super Sports Car League this year at the Nürburgring but has just announced his intention to end his career as a professional racing driver.

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TOM BLOMQVIST TO CONTEST THE 2020 SEASON WITH R-MOTORSPORT

December 20, 2019 RNW Staff

R-Motorsport will field newcomer Tom Blomqvist as the outfit embarks on the new 2020 season. The 26-year-old Briton will compete for the team from Niederwil in Switzerland in both the Endurance Cup and the Sprint Cup of the GT World Challenge Europe. Tom is the son of legendary Swedish rally ace, Stig Blomqvist, who notched up seven wins in his native Sweden and won the 1984 World Rally Championship.

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WINS AND TITLES FOR PORSCHE MOTORSPORT IN 2019

December 20, 2019 RNW Staff

With many major wins in 2019, Porsche has added another chapter to its tradition-steeped history. The world champion title in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the title in the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, victory in the overall classification of the fiercely-contested Intercontinental GT Challenge and, last but not least, the successful debut of the factory squad in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship have made the 2019 motor racing season one of the most successful in the company’s history. The titles and triumphs of the past year once again underline that Porsche’s extensive commitment to motorsport upholds the brand’s tradition as consequently as it sets the standards of modern sports car development.

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