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UNITED AUTOSPORTS BATTLE TO THE FINISH OF PETIT LE MANS AS IMSA SEASON COMES TO AN END_61915a2f2a349.jpeg

United Autosports have finished fourth in LMP2 and sixth in LMP3 after 10 hours of racing at the Motul Petit Le Mans, the final round of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, held yesterday at the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

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PAUL MILLER RACING PERSEVERES AFTER EARLY DAMAGE TO FINISH IN SEVENTH PACE AT PETIT LE MANS

November 14, 2021 RNW Staff

It all went sideways for the pole-winning Paul Miller Racing team when their championship charge was halted by a out-of-control LMP3 car in the early running of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

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JR III RACING SCORES A PODIUM IN PETIT LE MANS DEBUT

November 14, 2021 RNW Staff

After 10 hours of racing in the Motul Petit Le Mans, Jr III Racing celebrated a first-ever IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship podium result with a strong run to second place on Saturday. The second-place finish is the best race finish of the season for the team, which made its WeatherTech series debut earlier this year at Road America. Drivers Garett Grist, Spencer Pigot, and Ari Balogh combined in the No. 30 Ligier JS P320 to lead the race on the way to a well-fought second place result.

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FAREWELL WEEKEND FOR THE BMW M8 GTE ENDS WITH A PODIUM AT PETIT LE MANS

November 14, 2021 RNW Staff

After two Rolex 24 victories in Daytona (USA) and five IMSA series class wins, the farewell race of the MOTUL BMW M8 GTE added the 26th podium finish and a pole position to the history books. At Petit Le Mans, the final race of the season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road Atlanta (USA), Jesse Krohn (FIN) put the #24 MOTUL BMW M8 GTE on pole position in class and led the field into the last race of the GTLM era. The race proved to be tougher than qualifying but shortly before the end of the ten hours, Krohn and his BMW Team RLL colleagues John Edwards (USA) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) took over P3 and could step on the GTLM podium one final time. The #25 sister car and the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 had to retire due to race incidents.

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WRIGHT MOTORSPORTS SECURES MICHELIN ENDURANCE CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

November 14, 2021 RNW Staff

A day after winning the 2021 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Driver and Team championship titles, Wright Motorsports again celebrated their success securing the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Michelin Endurance Cup championship on Saturday at Petit Le Mans. The No. 16 Porsche 911 GT3 R race car, driven by Patrick Long, Trent Hindman, and Jan Heylen, entered the event with a one-point lead and sailed to championship victory after standing in first-place at the four-hour and eight-hour marks, earning enough points to clinch the title.

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING CADILLAC WINS IMSA DPi CHAMPIONSHIP

November 14, 2021 RNW Staff

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac team of Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani won the IMSA WeatherTech DPi Championship today by finishing second in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

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CONTACT REMOVES ERA MOTORSPORT FROM PETIT LE MANS

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

Motul Petit Le Mans ended in heartbreak for Era Motorsport just 30 minutes after the race began, following contact from a DPi car in the opening stint. The No. 18 Oreca, sporting a livery designed by a seven-year-old race fan, became one of the big stories of the weekend heading into the race, only to have their hopes to win the Michelin Endurance Championship dashed early on.

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EARL BAMBER TO SIT IN FOR MAGNUSSEN IN V-PERFORMANCE ACADEMY CADILLAC AT PETIT LE MANS

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

Earl Bamber has been enlisted as the third driver in the No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R replacing a sickly Kevin Magnussen for today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

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DOUBLE FIRST PLACE FOR PAUL MILLER RACING IN PETIT LE MANS QUALIFYING

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

Paul Miller Racing drivers Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers both notched first place in their respective qualifying sessions, giving Paul Miller Racing maximum qualifying points and a first-place starting position for Saturday’s Petit Le Mans.

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BMW TEAM RLL WILL CONTINUE TO RACE FOR BMW M MOTORSPORT IN NORTH AMERICA

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

In the run-up to MOTUL Petit Le Mans, the season finale of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road Atlanta (USA), BMW M Motorsport is providing updates on the LMDh project for the 2023 season and its plans for the coming year. BMW Team RLL, who have been celebrating successes with BMW M Motorsport since 2009, will compete in the two LMDh prototypes as of 2023. Initial sketches give a foretaste of the car, which will be called BMW M LMDh. Alongside the LMDh test programme, BMW Team RLL will field two BMW M4 GT3s in the new GTD Pro category in the 2022 IMSA season.

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MEYER SHANK RACING QUALIFIES FIFTH FOR PETIT LE MANS

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) will start fifth for Saturday’s Motul Petit Le Mans after Dane Cameron laid down a 1:08.920-second lap in the No. 60 Acura ARX-05 DPi as the team chases another victory in the challenging 10-hour IMSA season finale. .

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WEATHERTECH RACING TO START ON THE FRONT ROW AT PETIT LE MANS

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

The Porsche customer team WeatherTech Racing has scored a good grid spot at the qualifying for the final event of this season’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. In the hunt for top times on the Road Atlanta circuit in the US state of Georgia, the Australian works driver Matt Campbell posted the second-fastest time at the wheel of the No. 79 car. His brand colleague Frédéric Makowiecki from France planted the No. 97 sister car on P4. In the GTD class for vehicles complying with the FIA GT3 regulations, the best Porsche 911 GT3 R tackles the so-called Petit Le Mans race over ten hours from position seven.

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING CADILLAC ON POLE FOR PETIT LE MANS

November 13, 2021 RNW Staff

The Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R will start from the pole position for tomorrow’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season finale Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

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CASTRO JOINS PRIAULX AND HALCOME AS PORSCHE CARRERA CUP NORTH AMERICA CHAMPIONS

November 12, 2021 RNW Staff

The Porsche Carrera Cup North America Presented by the Cayman Islands has crowned its champions. With the conclusion of Round 16, held here at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Seb Priaulx (United Kingdom) in the Pro class, Efrin Castro (Dominican Republic) in Pro-Am and Matt Halcome (Dallas, Georgia) for the Pro-Am 991 class have been written into history as the class champions for the inaugural season of North America’s premier one-make race series. Priaulx and Halcome locked their class titles earlier in the weekend, but Castro had to win the third-race of the weekend to have a chance at the Pro-Am title. The Dominican Republic-driver took the lead two-minutes into the race and never relinquished it earning his seventh race win of the year, and his first professional title.

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JR III RACING SET FOR 2022 IMSA WEATHERTECH SPORTS CAR CHAMPIONSHIP CAMPAIGN

November 12, 2021 RNW Staff

Jr III Racing is set to contest the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (IWSC) in the LMP3 category with Ari Balogh and Garett Grist. The growing team will field the Airbnb Ligier JS P320 in their first full season campaign in the top echelon of North America sports car racing. In preparation for their […]

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PRIAULX AND HALCOME ARE PORSCHE CARRERA CUP NORTH AMERICA CHAMPIONS

November 12, 2021 RNW Staff

The Porsche Carrera Cup North America has crowned its first two champions one round ahead of the final race. By virtue of his five race wins, including Race 1 here at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Seb Priaulx (United Kingdom) has forever etched his name as the first Pro class titleholder of North America’s premier one-make championship. Joining the young Brit as an early titlist is Georgia-native Matt Halcome (Dallas, Georgia). Seven Pro-Am 991 class wins on the season, to-date, awarded Halcome the title as he took the green flag here in Race 1 at the Braselton, Georgia-track. Round 16, the final race of the season for the series which exclusively uses the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car, will take the green flag on Friday, November 12 at 11:15 a.m. ET.

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PATRICK LONG SIGNS NEW MULTIYEAR AGREEMENT WITH PORSCHE

November 11, 2021 RNW Staff

After a 20 year professional racing career, over 50 victories and six major sports car championships, North America’s only Porsche factory driver of this century will step back from full-time racing and take-up another mantle within the world of Porsche.

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PORSCHE CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES UPDATED SCHEDULES FOR BATHURST AND THE BEND

November 11, 2021 RNW Staff

The final rounds of Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship have been rescheduled to provide a riveting spectacle for fans headed to The Mountain, with Rounds 4 and 5 of Australia’s premier one-make Championship now set to take place over four races (two races per round) at the Bathurst 1000 event from 01-05 December.

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WINWOOD RACING AND ALEGRA MOTORSPORTS SEEK PETITE LE MANS WIN

November 10, 2021 RNW Staff

Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing teams look to close out the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season the same winning way they started it nearly 10 months ago with another major endurance race victory in Saturday’s season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Mercedes-AMG GT3 teams Winward Racing and Alegra Motorsports will compete […]

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NTE SPORT AIMS FOR STRONG FINALE AT PETITE LE MANS

November 10, 2021 RNW Staff

NTE Sport’s freshman season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will end next weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta as the team competes in the season finale, Motul Petit Le Mans. Don Yount, Jaden Conwright, and Benjamin Hites will drive the No. 42 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo, racing in the ten-hour endurance event on November 13. The young team has also expanded its program, adding a Michelin Pilot Challenge entry to the weekend, with Jean-Francois Brunot and Kerong Li driving the No. 41 Audi R8 GT4.

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