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Furthering its credentials as one of the UK’s premier fun-fuelled family festivals – as well as the world’s biggest retro racing celebration – The Classic is moving to an exciting new August Bank Holiday date in 2022 (26-28 August).

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EDOARDO LIBERATI RETURNS TO LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE AND VS RACING FOR NÜRBURGRING ROUND

September 1, 2021 RNW Staff

After over one year Edoardo Liberati is set to return to the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe. The last appearance of the Roman racer in the one-make series was last season at Misano, when starting from the first row of the grid at the wheel of one of the VS Racing’s Huracán Super Trofeo Evos, a drive through penalty prevented him to finished first.

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TRIVELLATO RACING BY VILLORBA CORSE BACK TO ACTION IN THE GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES AT THE NURBURGRING

September 1, 2021 RNW Staff

The engines of GT4 European Series and of Trivellato Racing by Villorba Corse are ready to roar again at the Nurburgring for the fifth round of the season, to be held on September 3-5.

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A+ FOR LLARENA’S BALANCING ACT

August 31, 2021 RNW Staff

Performance Tech Motorsports’ Mateo Llarena is a master scheduler, splitting time between racing, school, and being a teenager.

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OREGON TEAM REACHES CRUCIAL POINT IN LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE CHALLENGE

August 31, 2021 RNW Staff

Oregon Team hits the track this coming weekend for the fifth of six Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe rounds as the one-make series heads to the Nürburgring. After claiming their fourth win at Spa one month ago, Kevin Gilardoni and Leonardo Pulcini look at the German races as a crucial moment of the season having a 21-point margin over the second. A margin that the team led by Jerry Canevisio and Piergiorgio Testa aims to increase.

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DOUBLE PRO-AM CHAMPION AL HARTHY CONFIRMS GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE RETURN THIS WEEKEND

August 31, 2021 RNW Staff

Championship winning Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup racer Ahmad Al Harthy will make a welcome return to the ultra-competitive GT3 category this weekend, 4th/5th September, for the penultimate event of the season at the Nurburgring in Germany.

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UNITED AUTOSPORTS HEAD TO GERMANY FOR ROUND FIVE OF THE GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES WITH CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD

August 31, 2021 RNW Staff

United Autosports are preparing for round five of the 2021 GT4 European Series, at the Nürburgring from 3-5 September. The team will travel to the German circuit with the championship lead in the Silver teams standings after a successful weekend at Spa, last month.

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ASKEW AND DALZIEL RETURN TO WORLD CHALLENGE PODIUM AT ROAD AMERICA

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

The heat turned up this weekend at Road America in the championship fight for the GT World Challenge America Series. DXDT Racing drivers David Askew and Ryan Dalziel returned to the podium this weekend after picking up a third place finish on Sunday afternoon in the No. 63 Mercedes AMG GT3.

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GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES BACK TO ACTION WITH 42-CAR GRID AT THE NURBURGRING

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

The GT4 European Series is back in racing action at the Nürburgring next weekend when a 42-car grid will tackle the German venue’s 5.1km Grand Prix circuit.

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE ENDURANCE CUP BATTLE READY TO RESUME WITH 44-CAR FIELD SET FOR NURBURGRING CHALLENGE

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

The battle for the Endurance Cup will take centre stage this weekend (3-5 September) when Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS travels to the Nürburgring for a three-hour race on the German venue’s 5.1km GP-Strecke layout.

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WRIGHT MOTORSPORTS RETURNS TO VICTORY CIRCLE AT ROAD AMERICA

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

Wright Motorsports secured two victories this weekend at Road America, scoring wins in both SRO GT World Challenge America and SRO GT America with its pair of Porsche race cars. Points leader Charlie Luck celebrated his sixth win this season in the No. 45 Porsche 911 GT3 R on Saturday in GT America, then the pair of Fred Poordad and Jan Heylen followed suit the following day, driving the No. 20 Porsche 911 GT3 R to first in class, third overall.

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FLYING LIZARD MOTORSPORTS QUICK TO CLAIM CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS AT ROAD AMERICA

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

Flying Lizard Porsche and TKO Motorsports Bentley made a splash at Road America in SRO’s GT America. Andy Wilzoch, driver of the No. 460 Porsche 911 GT3 R secured two class podiums and an overall win, and Memo Gidley, driver of the No. 101 TKO Motorsports with Flying Lizard Bentley Continental GT3 secured second place in class and overall on Saturday.

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FOUR PODIUMS HIGHLIGHT K-PAX RACING RUN AT ROAD AMERICA

August 30, 2021 RNW Staff

In the last three trips to “America’s National Park of Speed,” K-PAX Racing has demonstrated the ability to not only get up to speed quickly, but also use the regular Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS stop as an opportunity to gain valuable championship points late in the season. In the seventh and eighth rounds of the 2021 championship, the team collected four podiums with its Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVOs – a victory to keep the streak alive, as well as tighten its hold on the championship.

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE TITLES DECIDED ON DRAMATIC WEEKEND OF SPRINT CUP RACING AT BRANDS HATCH

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

Team WRT has sealed a record-extending eighth Sprint Cup title, while Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts are the provisional drivers’ champions for a second year in succession following a day of action and drama at Brands Hatch.

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TREBLE PODIUM FOR TEAM PARKER RACING IN PORSCHE SPRINT CHALLENGE GB AT THRUXTON

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

Team Parker Racing enjoyed a trio of podium finishes at Thruxton in the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB, as Matt Armstrong recorded his maiden top three in race one and followed up with second in race two, while Tim Harvey took third on his modern racing return.

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WILKINSON UNHURT AND LOSES CHANCE OF FIRST GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE WIN ON HOME TURF

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

OIlie Wilkinson was thankfully unhurt in a major accident in which his JOTA McLaren 720S GT3 was speared out of the race lead in the closing minutes of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup outing at Brands Hatch.

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PORSCHE SPRINT CHALLENGE GB CHAMPIONS CROWNED AS TIM HARVEY STARS AT THRUXTON

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

Porsche Visit Cayman Islands Sprint Challenge GB returned to Thruxton and its position as part of the TOCA package in support of the British Touring Car Championship for its penultimate weekend of 2021. In addition to provisionally resolving two championship category battles the weekend was notable for the addition of the most successful driver in Porsche Carrera Cup GB history, 1992 British Touring Car Champion Tim Harvey, as guest driver. Harvey made his return to Porsche one-make racing after a decade away, racing in the Pro category with Team Parker Racing .A dry qualifying session on Saturday afternoon resulted in Jack Bartholomew (Redline Racing) securing his third pole position of the season, championship rival Theo Edgerton (TCR) would join him on the front row of the grid for Round 9. Ian Humphris (Valluga) started his weekend by qualifying as the fastest Am in an impressive fourth place overall. Guest driver Tim Harvey (Team Parker Racing) made a single qualifying run which was good enough to put him on the fourth row of the grid.

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TAYLOR HAGLER CLAIMS FIRST SRO WIN AT ROAD AMERICA

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

Taylor Hagler and Dakota Dickerson gave Racers Edge Motorsports its first Pro Am victory in Fanatec World Challenge America powered by AWS with a visit to the overall podium on Saturday at Road America.

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K-PAX RACING RISING TO THE TOP UNDER PRESSURE

August 29, 2021 RNW Staff

During nearly a two-month break in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS Championship, K-PAX Racing showed no signs of easing back on the throttle. In fact, after an extensive and strategic testing program between events, the team’s two Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVOs hooked right up Saturday for the seventh round – two podiums in the event opener at Road America, including one victory from pole.

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MARCIELLO AND BOGUSLAVSKIY SECURE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE POLES AT BRAND HATCH

August 28, 2021 RNW Staff

AKKA ASP will start both of tomorrow’s Sprint Cup races at Brands Hatch from pole position after Timur Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello topped their respective qualifying sessions at the British circuit.

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