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2019 BLANCPAIN GT ENDURANCE SERIES CAMPAIGN FOR TEAM PARKER RACING

January 9, 2019 RNW Staff

The team will field one of the cars in the fiercely contested Blancpain Endurance Series, which has its season-opener at Monza in Italy one week earlier (April 12-14).

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CRAMPTON LOOKING FOR GT4 TITLE IN AUSTRALIAN GT

January 9, 2019 RNW Staff

Having claimed second position outright in the GT4 category in his maiden season of the CAMS Australian GT Championship, David Crampton is looking to take the striking bright orange Vantage Freight KTM X-Bow one better this year, the Sydney-sider admitting that 2018 was a real baptism of fire.

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SPECIAL RACES AT THE SILVERSTONE CLASSIC TO MARK MAGICAL MINI MILESTONE

January 9, 2019 RNW Staff

The 60th anniversary of the extraordinary Mini Minor will be celebrated with two record breaking races at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (26-28 July).

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PR1/MATHIASEN MOTORSPORTS POSTS FASTEST LMP2 LAP AT THE ROAR

January 8, 2019 RNW Staff

PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports had an impressive first outing in the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship posting the fastest lap time of the LMP2 class with a 1:35.930 (133.591 mph) in the #52 ORECA.

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BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT TRAVELS TO MARRAKESH WELL PREPARED FOR RACE TWO

January 8, 2019 RNW Staff

New year, new challenge: After victory on its debut in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in December, the BMW i Andretti Motorsport Team is now focussing on the second race of the season in Marrakesh (MAR) this Saturday. António Félix da Costa (POR) leads the Drivers’ Championship with 28 points ahead of the Marrakesh E-Prix following his victory and pole position in Ad Diriyah (KSA). Alexander Sims (GBR), in the second BMW iFE.18, is out to pick up his first Formula E points in his second race in the series. The team and drivers have used the time since the successful season-opener to prepare meticulously for the coming races, as they set their sights on more top results.

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KCMG AIMING FOR DUBAI 24 HOUR VICTORY TO KICK OFF 2019 SEASON

January 8, 2019 RNW Staff

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) gets its 2019 season underway this weekend with the Dubai 24 Hour (11-12 January), in which it will field a pair of Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 cars and a Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK7), as the Hong Kong squad aim for overall and class victories.

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NEW YEAR, NEW RACE: CATERHAM MOTORSPORT TO HOST INDUSTRY FIRST MULTI-CLASS ENDURANCE RACE

January 8, 2019 RNW Staff

Caterham Motorsport will host its first ever multi-class endurance race, Caterham Motorsport Team Enduro, on Saturday 16th March at iconic British circuit, Silverstone, to act as the curtain raiser for the 2019 motorsport season.

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NISSAN E.DAMS BRINGS FORMULA E ELECTRIC STREET RACING BATTLE TO MOROCCO

January 8, 2019 RNW Staff

After a strong showing in the opening round of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, the Nissan e.dams team now heads to the second of five continents on the season five schedule for this week’s Marrakesh ePrix.

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ALESSANDRO ZANARDI: “I CAN’T WAIT TO TAKE ON THE 24-HOUR RACE WEEKEND”

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

The dress rehearsal is over; now it won’t be long before Alessandro Zanardi‘s (ITA) next big challenge gets underway: the 24-hour of Daytona (USA) race on 26th and 27th January. At the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) season opener, Zanardi will share the cockpit of the BMW Team RLL #24 BMW M8 GTE with John Edwards (USA), Jesse Krohn (FIN) and Chaz Mostert (AUS). The car is equipped with a special brake lever that enables Zanardi to brake by hand.

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING QUALIFYING BEGINS TITLE DEFENSE AT DAYTONA

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Whelen Engineering Racing began the defense of its IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship DPi title on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, with Felipe Nasr recording the fifth-fastest lap in the Roar Before the Rolex 24 qualifying.

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PERFORMANCE TECH: CONSERVATIVELY STRONG AT DAYTONA

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Performance Tech Motorsports showed strength finishing upfront while running the opening round of IMSA Prototype Challenge at Daytona International Speedway.

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AUDI E-TRON FE05 TO START THE NEW YEAR IN MOROCCO

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

The 2019 motorsport year will begin in Africa for Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler: On Saturday, January 12, the second ABB FIA Formula E Championship race of the season will be held in Marrakesh (Morocco). Following two top-ten finishes at the season opener in December, Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi now aim to up the ante in the Audi e-tron FE05.

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PIETRO FITTIPALDI AND HARRY TINCKNELL TO TEST JAGUAR I-TYPE 3 IN MARRAKESH

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Panasonic Jaguar Racing welcomes back test drivers Pietro Fittipaldi and British driver, Harry Tincknell who will both drive the Jaguar I-TYPE 3 in the one-day test on 13 January following the Marrakesh E-Prix.

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AUSTRALIAN GT TROPHY SERIES RACE WINNER LOOKS TO STEP UP IN 2019

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Having developed into one of the leading contenders for the Australian GT Trophy Series in season 2018, Victoria’s Rio Nugara has revealed that he plans to make his full-time debut in the 2019 CAMS Australian GT Championship behind the wheel of a 2019 evolution of the second-generation Audi Sport R8 LMS GT3, carrying on his successful relationship with Audi Sport customer racing Australia.

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PAUL MILLER RACING DEBUTS NEW CAR, LINEUP AND LIVERY AT ROAR BEFORE THE 24

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Paul Miller Racing kicked off the 2019 season this week at Daytona International Speedway, participating in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Roar Before the 24. The defending GTD class champions debuted the new 2019 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO completing over 125 laps on the 3.56-mile circuit over the course of the two day series-wide test. Full-time drivers Bryan Sellers, Ryan Hardwick were joined by endurance additions Corey Lewis and Andrea Caldarelli.

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DEFENDING GS CHAMPIONS TeamTGM COMPLETE TEST AT DAYTONA

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

This time last year, TeamTGM had taken possession of their all-new Mercedes-AMG GT4 mere weeks before. This time around, the team has three wins and a championship under its belt with the platform.

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ALBUQUERQUE ROARS TO FOURTH WITH MUSTANG SAMPLING IN DAYTONA QUALIFYING

January 7, 2019 RNW Staff

Filipe Albuquerque gave Mustang Sampling Racing a prime choice of garage and pit positions for the upcoming Rolex At Daytona, turning in the fourth-fastest lap of a 15-minute qualifying session Sunday to highlight the Roar Before the Rolex 24.

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FAST AND RELIABLE: PERFECT TEST FOR PORSCHE AT DAYTONA

January 6, 2019 RNW Staff

The Porsche GT Team has wrapped up its preparations for the 2019 IMSA SportsCar Championship. On the occasion of the three-day official tests on the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, the two Porsche 911 RSR race cars covered a total of 2,120 kilometres under changeable conditions. The focus of this intensive work for the factory team was on improving the setup, on tyre comparisons as well as tests for the upcoming 24-hour race on the storied racetrack. The season-opening round of the North American sports car series takes place on 26/27 January.

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CADILLAC RACING TEAMS COMPLETE SUCCESSFUL ROAR WEEKEND AT DAYTONA

January 6, 2019 RNW Staff

Cadillac Racing teams have successfully completed the Roar Before the 24 test weekend at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for the season opening 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Rolex 24 At Daytona, January 24-27.

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WEATHERTECH RACING LEAVES DAYTONA ROAR MOTIVATED FOR THE 24

January 6, 2019 RNW Staff

Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.), Toni Vilander (Finland), Dominik Farnbacher (Germany) and Jeff Westphal (San Mateo, Calif.) are all leaving The World Center of Racing Roar Before the 24 test satisfied with the Scuderia Corsa prepared WeatherTech Racing Ferrari 488 GT3. The team gathered a lot of data in preparation for the Rolex 24 Hour At Daytona to run January 24-27.

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