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KCMG EAGER TO TAKE ON NLS 1 AFTER SUCCESSFUL PRE-SEASON TESTING

March 23, 2022 RNW Staff

KC Motorgroup Ltd. (KCMG) is set to take on the historic Nürburgring Nordschleife for the first round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie (NLS) on 26 March. The team will compete in the series for a fourth consecutive year as they prepare for the ADAC TotalEnergies Nürburgring 24 Hours on 26-29 May.

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NICKI THIIM TO MAKE DTM DEBUT IN SECOND T3 MOTORSPORT LAMBORGHINI

March 22, 2022 RNW Staff

Following in the footsteps of his successful father: Nicki Thiim, a two-time FIA World Endurance Champion and the son of former DTM champion Kurt Thiim, will be racing in DTM for the first time. The 32-year-old Dane will be competing in the 16 sprint races of the long-standing series with a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO run by the T3 Motorsport team from Dresden. The 2022 DTM season is getting its season underway at Portimão (POR) from 29 April until 1 May.

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EASTALENT-RACING ENTERS THE ADAC GT MASTERS WITH AN AUDI R8 LMS GT3 EVO II

March 22, 2022 RNW Staff

New team, new car, and a highly-motivated team: Eastalent-Racing, which was formed in December 2021, will go in pursuit of points with great vigour in the team’s first season in the ADAC GT Masters. Sharing the driving duties in the new Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II will be Norbert Siedler (39/A) and Simon Reicher (22/A). The two Austrians are an established pairing, having raced alongside each other in the German GT Championship for the past two years. This season’s ADAC GT Masters gets underway from 22nd to 24th April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.

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ANGUS WHITESIDE TO MAKE PORSCHE CARRERA CUP GB DEBUT WITH TORO VERDE GT

March 21, 2022 RNW Staff

After claiming the Ginetta GT Academy Rookie championship title in 2021, Angus Whiteside is set for a new challenge as he joins Toro Verde GT in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB this year.

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ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE CLAIMS FIRST SEBRING WIN AND MILESTONE 50th FIA WEC VICTORY

March 21, 2022 RNW Staff

The Aston Martin Vantage claimed a glorious GTE-Am class one-two finish and a maiden Sebring success at the opening round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship in a dramatic, weather-shortened, 1000 Miles of Sebring on Friday.

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ERA MOTORSPORT RETURNS TO THE PODIUM IN CHALLENGING SEBRING TWELVE HOUR

March 21, 2022 RNW Staff

Era Motorsport returned to the podium at Sebring International Raceway for the second consecutive year on Saturday evening, braving hot temperatures to finish third place at the always challenging Twelve Hours of Sebring. Drivers Dwight Merriman, Ryan Dalziel, and Kyle Tilley raced all twelve hours of the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship without air conditioning in the No. 18 Oreca, surviving a calamity-filled race to earn their first podium of the 2022 season.

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JAPANESE TEAMS COMET AND GTO CONFIRM GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA ENTRIES

March 21, 2022 RNW Staff

Two more Japanese teams – Comet Racing and GTO Racing Team – have confirmed plans to contest this year’s Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS campaign.

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WRIGHT MOTORSPORTS REBOUNDS FROM EARLY RACE CHALLENGE FOR TOP TEN SEBRING FINISH

March 20, 2022 RNW Staff

The Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday was a character-building race for Wright Motorsports. The Ohio-based team managed to rebound from an early-race setback to earn a top-ten finish in the No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R. After twelve punishing hours at the Sebring, Florida raceway, drivers Ryan Hardwick, Jan Heylen, and Zacharie Robichon brought the car home in tenth-place.

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MEYER SHANK RACING SETTLES FOR FIFTH IN HARD-FOUGHT SEBRING 12 HOUR

March 20, 2022 RNW Staff

In the fight for a podium position for the entire race, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) had to settle for fifth in Saturday’s Twelve Hours of Sebring, Round 2 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING FINISHES THIRD IN 70th TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING

March 20, 2022 RNW Staff

Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Tristan Nunez (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Mike Conway (Great Britain) captured their first podium finish of the season in Saturday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Twelve Hours Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.

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ALLY CADILLAC FINISHES SIXTH AT SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

March 20, 2022 RNW Staff

Ally Cadillac drivers Kamui Kobayashi (Japan), Mike Rockenfeller (Germany), and José María López (Argentina) finished sixth the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.

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UNITED AUTOSPORTS DELIVER FAULTLESS DRIVE IN THE 12 HOURS OF SEBRING

March 20, 2022 RNW Staff

United Autosports crossed the line fifth in the LMP2 class today at the 70th Anniversary Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring International WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.

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SEBRING PODIUM FOR TOYOTA GAZOO RACING

March 19, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing started the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) with a podium finish from an eventful and ultimately frustrating 1000 Miles of Sebring, which finished early due to a thunderstorm.

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PORSCHE WINS THE GTE-PRO CLASS AT THE WEC SEASON OPENER AT SEBRING

March 19, 2022 RNW Staff

The Porsche GT Team has kicked off the new season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) with a victory at the Sebring International Raceway. Michael Christensen from Denmark and Frenchman Kévin Estre won the GTE-Pro class at the 1,000-mile race in the US state of Florida ahead of the Corvette crewed by Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and American Tommy Milner. Richard Lietz from Austria and Italy’s Gianmaria Bruni finished third with their ca. 378 kW (515 PS) 911 RSR. The eight-hour WEC race had to be halted and ultimately discontinued a good 60 minutes before the end of the race due to a thunderstorm warning. In the GTE-Am class, American Brendan Iribe and the two British racing drivers Ollie Millroy and Ben Barnicoat finished third with the identical 911 fielded by the Project 1 customer team.

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UNITED AUTOSPORTS WIN IN SEBRING

March 19, 2022 RNW Staff

United Autosports have won the opening round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship at Sebring as Josh Pierson, Oliver Jarvis and Paul Di Resta finished first in the #23 Oreca 07.

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MEYER SHANK RACING ON THE THIRD ROW FOR THE TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING

March 18, 2022 RNW Staff

Meyer Shank Racing will start from the outside of the third row for Saturday’s 70th anniversary running of the Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday.

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BMW CUSTOMER RACING TEAMS QUALIFY AT THE SHARP END OF THE SEBRING IMSA GTD FIELD

March 18, 2022 RNW Staff

Proving that it’s all about customer satisfaction, BMW Customer Racing Teams Turner Motorsport and Paul Miller Racing qualified the all-new BMW M4 GT3 in the second and fourth GT Daytona class starting positions for tomorrow’s 70th annual 12 Hours of Sebring.

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PORSCHE TACKLES THE SEBRING 12 HOUR FROM POLE POSITION

March 18, 2022 RNW Staff

The Porsche 911 GT3 R showed its full strength in qualifying for the 12 Hours of Sebring. At the wheel of the No. 16 car fielded by the customer team Wright Motorsports, Zacharie Robichon turned the fastest lap in the GTD class. For the race, the Canadian shares driving duties in the nine-eleven with Jan Heylen from Belgium and Ryan Hardwick from the USA. In January, the trio had won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Porsche works driver Richard Lietz (Austria) and thus took the lead of the championship. The two 911 GT3 R in the GTD-Pro class qualified on positions five and ten.

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WEATHERTECH RACING TO START NINTH AND TENTH AT SEBRING

March 18, 2022 RNW Staff

WeatherTech Racing will start the 70th running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Advance Auto Parts from ninth and tenth on the GTD Pro grid.

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VAN BERLO SWEEPS PORSCHE CARRERA CUP NORTH AMERICA AT SEBRING

March 18, 2022 RNW Staff

Kay van Berlo (Netherlands) successfully swept the first two rounds of the 16-race Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands season. The second-year Pro class driver of the No. 3 Kelly-Moss Road and Race Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car charged from pole position to victory lane in both the 40-minute season-opening rounds today at Sebring International Raceway. Rookie driver Mark Kvamme (Columbus, Ohio) was also a green-to-checkered winner for the Am class in both rounds piloting the No. 43 MDK Motorsports Porsche. Kelly-Moss teammates Alan Metni (Austin, Texas) in the No. 99 and Efrin Castro (Dominican Republic) in the No. 65 split the Pro-Am class victories in Sebring, Florida on March 17.

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