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UNITED AUTOSPORTS CLAIMS FIFTH LMP3 PODIUM IN HOME ELMS RACE

For the fifth time since making its European Le Mans Series début in 2016, United Autosports scored an LMP3 podium placing in its home race at Silverstone. #2 Ligier (Garett Grist/Tommy Erdos/Wayne Boyd) claimed a well-deserved third place in the 4 Hours of Silverstone today (31 Aug) – the crew’s third consecutive class podium this season – but apart from this success, the team endured a torrid time. Fastest in both practice sessions and qualifying P2, it appeared United’s best hope of success would be with its new Oreca with an LMP2 podium at the very least. But #22 Oreca (Phil Hanson/Filipe Albuquerque) retired with an electrical issue after a little over 30 minutes. #3 (Christian England/Mike Guasch) crashed heavily out of second place at high-speed having been tagged by another car while #32 Ligier (Alex Brundle/Ryan Cullen/Will Owen) was classified eighth in LMP2. United are now placed seventh (#22) and eighth (#32) in LMP2 Teams championship while #2 now lies third in the LMP3 Teams standings with #3 ninth. The penultimate round of this year’s ELMS is staged at Spa-Francorchamps (BEL) on 22 Sep.

BULLITT RACING WINS AT THE NURBURGRING, GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES TITLES TO BE DECIDED ON SUNDAY

Romain Monti and Alex Lambertz scored their second win in the GT4 European Series at the Nürburgring this afternoon. The Bullitt Racing pairing bounced back from a disappointing Zandvoort weekend with victory in the penultimate round of the season. An exciting final race on Sunday is in prospect, as none of the Silver Cup title contenders finished on the podium and the title fight will go down to the wire. RN Vision STS drivers Marius Zug and Gabriele Piana won the Pro-Am category in today’s race, while Johan Vannerum and Jean-Luc Behets took another Am class win.

BEST PORSCHE 911 RSR TAKES UP THE FIRST RACE OF THE WEC SEASON FROM FOURTH PLACE

 The new Porsche 911 RSR (2019 model year) will start its racing debut from the second grid row. In qualifying for the season-opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Silverstone (Great Britain), the Italian Gianmaria Bruni and his Austrian works driver teammate Richard Lietz planted the No. 91 car on fourth place. The reigning world champions Kévin Estre (France) and Michael Christensen (Denmark) claimed the sixth grid spot in the ca. 515 hp sister car with the starting number 92.

BARWELL MOTORSPORT BECOMES SIXTH DIFFERENT POLE SITTER OF THE SEASON AT THE 24H BARCELONA

The Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo (#77, Adrian Amstutz / Leonid Machitski / Patrick Kujala / Dennis Lind) has taken pole position for the 2019 Hankook 24H BARCELONA. Dennis Lind lapped the 4.655km Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in 1m 46.577s to secure not only the team’s first pole position in the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook this season, but also the first overall top spot for a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 since the season-opening Hankook 24H DUBAI.

PORSCHE GB JUNIOR HARPER TOPS CARRERA CUP GB SILVERSTONE PRACTICE

18-year-old Porsche GB 2018 / 2019 Junior Dan Harper (JTR) led both Friday Free Practice Sessions at Silverstone as the Porsche Carrera Cup GB kick-started its blue riband weekend in support of the 2019 / 2020 World Endurance Championship (WEC). Both morning and afternoon sessions featured a close battle between Porsche GB Junior Harper and 2014 Porsche Carrera Cup GB champion Josh Webster (Team Parker Racing) – in the afternoon session the pair were separated by just 0.057 seconds around the full 3.6-mile Grand Prix circuit. Championship title challenger Lewis Plato (Motorbase Performance) finished both sessions in P3.

CETILAR RACING MAKES FIA WEC DEBUT AT SILVERSTONE

Cetilar Racing is all set for its FIA WEC debut as the long waiting for the 2019-2020 season is almost over. After completing three consecutive editions of the 24H Le Mans and having raced in the European Le Mans Series in the last years, the all-Italian team led by Roberto Lacorte officially enters the Olympus of the Endurance Motorsport. A new thrilling challenge is now starting for Lacorte, Giorgio Sernagiotto and Andrea Belicchi, sharing the driving duties in the #47 Dallara-Gibson LMP2 car technically supported by famous AF Corse.

OREGON TEAM SEEKING FOR REBOUND IN 4-HOURS OF SILVERSTONE EVENT

Oregon Team had an extraordinary season start, the best in the team’s European Le Mans Series history. But it eventually turned out below expectations in terms of results. The first three events of the European championship were double-faced: on one hand, the performance of the team-car-driver combination; on the other hand, the fact of not having scored a better result than the fourth place grabbed in last April’s Paul Ricard opener.

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