SPORTSCAR

Second win of the season for the Ferrari courtesy of Sergio Pianezzola and Giacomo Piccini in the fourth round of the Le Mans Cup held today on the Barcelona circuit in Spain. The crew of Kessel Racing acquitted themselves perfectly in the race to finish ahead of the Porsche of Baccani-Pera and the 488 GT3 crew of Luzich Racing with Fabien Lavergne and Mikkel Mac.

On July 19-20 Scuderia Villorba Corse will compete for a double challenge in the world of international endurance racing. The Italian team led by Raimondo Amadio will be back in action both in the Le Mans Cup and in the European Le Mans Series at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya one month after their third 24 Hours of Le Mans in a row. Right in the same context of the final round of the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship, Le Mans also hosted the Le Mans Cup round known as Road to Le Mans, a double-race event where the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Mauro Calamia and Roberto Pampanini finished twice in the points, just like the Swiss crew did in Monza earlier in the season. Calamia and Pampanini are tenth in the GT3 driver standings ahead of the fourth round in Spain, which will include its main event of a two-hour race on Saturday at 13:00h CET (live streaming on http://www.lemanscup.com).

The new Porsche 911 RSR (2019 model year) will meet rival vehicles in the GTE-Pro class for the first time at the prologue of the FIA World Endurance Championship on 23 and 24 July in Barcelona, Spain. At the official tests prior to the start of the 2019/2020 FIA WEC season, Porsche, as the reigning world manufacturers’ champions, will run two of the new ca. 515 hp racing vehicles from Weissach. The new Porsche 911 RSR was unveiled at the beginning of July at Goodwood in Great Britain. In the GTE-Am category, the customer squads Project 1, Gulf Racing and Dempsey Proton Racing will field a total of five 2018-spec Porsche 911 RSR racers.

Will Owen returns to the Europeans Le Mans Series with United Autosports in the LMP2 class for the 4 Hours of Barcelona.

“The championship starts now. After two positive races and a long break, we are set to be back on-track to confirm the good showings of the first part of the season.” For Jerry Canevisio, the leader of Oregon Team alongside Giorgio Testa, the 4 Hours of Barcelona race marks a turning point.