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LAMBORGHINI SQUADRA CORSE PRESENTS THE NEW HURACAN GT3 EVO2

May 3, 2022 RNW Staff

Lamborghini presents the new Huracán GT3 EVO2, designed and developed by Squadra Corse of Sant’Agata Bolognese based on the Huracán STO, with which it shares important design elements, rear-wheel drive only, and a naturally aspirated V10 engine, which in the road version delivers 640 horsepower.

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WILKINSON BOUNCES BACK AT BRANDS HATCH WITH TOP 10 SPRINT CUP FINISH

May 2, 2022 RNW Staff

Oliver Wilkinson and team-mate Rob Bell opened their Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup campaign with a hard-earned top-10 finish for the JOTA McLaren 720S GT3 on home ground at Brands Hatch.

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ERA MOTORSPORT TAKES IMSA POINTS LEAD WITH LAGUNA SECA PODIUM

May 2, 2022 RNW Staff

Era Motorsport completed the first sprint race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s LMP2 class this weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Indianapolis-based squad drove a masterful race to finish in second place in the No. 18 Oreca, taking the championship points lead with drivers Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel.

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NTE/SSR HEATS UP SEASON AT LAGUNA SECA

May 2, 2022 RNW Staff

While the temperature at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was rather cool, NTE/SSR put some heat into their season at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round four with the No. 42 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo. Lamborghini GT3 Junior driver Jayden Conwright earned the team a second-place starting position and together, he and Marco Holzer drove to earn a sixth-place finish.

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GT Cup put on a show at Brands Hatch

May 2, 2022 Michael widdowson

GT Cup arrives in Brands Hatch and puts on a show impressing GTWCE fans with some fantastic Multiclass racing.

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WRIGHT MOTORSPORTS RETURNS TO THE PODIUM AND REGAINS WEATHERTECH POINTS LEAD

May 2, 2022 RNW Staff

Wright Motorsports closed out a successful race weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday afternoon, returning the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R to victory circle for the second time this season. With their California victory, the driving duo of Ryan Hardwick and Jan Heylen reclaimed their championship points lead in the GTD class, creating valuable momentum heading into the next rounds of the championship.

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ISAAC TUTUMLU MAKES PROMISING START TO GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP CAMPAIGN AT BRANDS HATCH

May 2, 2022 RNW Staff

The Spaniard of Kurdish ancestry will contest the curtain raiser event of the 2022 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup season this weekend. Tutumlu, who has never raced at Brands Hatch before, will be sharing the GSM Novamarine-run Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo with Austrian Gerhard Tweraser.

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MARCIELLO AND BOGUSLAVSKIY UNTOUCHABLE IN GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP RACE 2 AT BRANDS HATCH

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

A dominant performance from the #89 Mercedes-AMG of Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy gave Akkodis ASP a long-awaited victory in today’s second Sprint Cup contest at Brands Hatch.

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GRT TAKES OVER THE CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD IN THE DTM

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

Successful debut weekend for GRT in the DTM. The Lamborghini team from Austria departs from the season opener at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve with the championship lead in their bag. Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti claimed another top result on Sunday carrying the success ballast of the previous day’s podium. After second place in qualifying, he steered the number 63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO to a commanding third place in the race. In the standings, the Italian and GRT are leading the drivers’ and team standings with 35 points. The next stop of the DTM 2022 will be at the Lausitzring from 20th to 22nd May.

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP WIN FOR AF CORSE AT BRANDS HATCH

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

AF Corse kicked off the Sprint Cup season with a sensational overall victory at Brands Hatch thanks to a mature performance from Ulysse De Pauw and Pierre Alexandre Jean in the #53 Ferrari.

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BMW M TEAM RLL BMW M4 GT3 QUALIFIES P4 IN GTD PRO ATLAGUNA SECA

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

John Edwards will start the No. 25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M4 GT3 fourth in the GTD PRO class in tomorrow’s two-hour-and-forty-minute Monterey Sports Car Championship. He posted a 1:23.740-minute lap around the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Laguna Seca circuit, 0.598 seconds in arrears of the pole sitting Porsche 911 GT3R. Edwards will co-drive with Connor De Phillippi, the duo looking for their first podium finish of the season.

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WEATHERTECH RACING TO START ON THE FRONT ROW AT LAGUNA SECA

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill) and Daniel Juncadella (Spain) will start tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship Presented by Motul from the front row in GTD Pro.

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FRONT ROW START FOR MEYER SHANK RACING AT LAGUNA SECA

May 1, 2022 RNW Staff

After a strong start at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Oliver Jarvis brought that momentum into qualifying on Saturday after a run that nearly put the Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) Acura ARX-05 on pole position. Jarvis and teammate Tom Blomqvist will start from second for Sunday’s Monterey Sports Car Championship.

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MARCIELLO AND De PAUW SHARE OVERALL POLE POSITIONS FOR 2022 SPRINT CUP OPENER AT BRANDS HATCH

April 30, 2022 RNW Staff

Raffaele Marciello (#89 Akkodis ASP Mercedes-AMG) and Ulysse De Pauw (#53 AF Corse Ferrari) shared the spoils in today’s season-opening Sprint Cup qualifying at Brands Hatch.

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DTM PODIUM FOR MIRKO BORTOLOTTI AFTER STRONG COMEBACK

April 30, 2022 RNW Staff

Bittersweet debut for GRT in the DTM. In Saturday’s race at the season opener on the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Mirko Bortolotti claimed a podium for the Lamborghini team from Austria in a dramatic race. In the morning, the Italian had sensationally clinched his first pole position in the DTM, which was also the first for GRT and Lamborghini. In the race, the driver of the number 63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO was on course for victory until a safety car phase. A temporary problem cost him the lead. In the final phase, the Lamborghini works driver made his way back onto the podium in a hard fought battle with Mercedes-driver Maro Engel. With third place, he ensured a conciliatory result.

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PAUL MILLER RACING GOING ‘BACK TO CALI’ FOR LAGUNA SECA IMSA RACE

April 29, 2022 RNW Staff

Following the team’s dominant victory in Long Beach, the Paul Miller Racing team returns to California with the all-new BMW M4 GT3 to chase down another IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship win.

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING SET FOR IMSA ROUND 4 AT LAGUNA SECA

April 28, 2022 RNW Staff

Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Tristan Nunez (Boynton Beach, Fla.) are set to tackle the famous Corkscrew in Round 4 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championship presented by Motul at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca April 29 – May 1.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING AIMS TO BOUNCE BACK IN BELGIUM

April 28, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing aims to get back to winning ways when it makes the short journey to Belgium next week for the second round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

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AUDI SPORT RELIES ON THREE CUSTOMER TEAMS IN DTM TITLE FIGHT

April 28, 2022 RNW Staff

The many fans of the DTM can look forward to a season of records: With 29 race cars – including six Audi R8 LMS from three teams – and drivers from 15 nations, the grid is larger than ever before since the series was relaunched in 2000. René Rast, three-time champion with Audi, returns to the professional racing series after a one-year break. The DTM Trophy as another league in which five Audi R8 LMS GT4 cars from two customer teams will participate completes the popular racing platform. For the season opener from April 29 to May 1, the DTM teams will travel to Portimão for the first time. The circuit on the Mediterranean coast is the first of eight rounds in five European countries. In Portugal, the TCR Europe is also part of the program with three Audi RS 3 LMS gen II cars, among others.

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AUDI AHEAD OF PORSCHE ON FIRST DTM TEST DAY IN PORTUGAL

April 27, 2022 RNW Staff

Audi ahead of Porsche: that was the order at the end of the first DTM test day just before the season opener at Portimão. Swiss Ricardo Feller ended up fastest in the Team ABT Sportsline Audi R8 with a time of 1m 41.573s ahead of Austrian Thomas Preining (1m 41.658s) with the Porsche 911 from KÜS Team Bernhard. With 21-year-old Feller, a DTM newcomer posted the fastest lap time, just like in the first official DTM test in early April. At Hockenheim, it had been German Marius Zug, the youngest driver in the field at 19, who confirmed his performance with the third-fastest time at Portimão on Tuesday with the Attempto Racing Audi. The 29 drivers from the record field of the 2022 DTM will continue the second official test on Wednesday afternoon. The first two of this season’s 16 races will be held at the 4.653 kilometres long track on the Algarve on Saturday and Sunday (race start 1.30pm CEST on both days).

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