SRO AND ARG CONFIRM KEY DETAILS FOR NEW-LOOK GT WORLD CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA
A fourth continent will be added to the global GT World Challenge Powered by AWS platform in 2021 when Australia joins the international manufacturers’ championship.
PR1/MATHIASEN MOTORSPORTS FINISHES MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASON
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports won the 68th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented By Advance Auto Parts, after a dominant performance last weekend at Sebring International Speedway. With this win, the team successfully clinched the Endurance Cup Championship for driver Simon Trummer. The LMP2 Driver Championship and LMP2 Team Championships were also awarded to PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports earlier this season, making this year the most successful in the history of the team.
GT4 SOUTH EUROPEAN SERIES STARTS ITS SEASON AT JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA
In this atypical and in many ways complicated year, international events have suffered a lot due to travel uncertainties. However, GT4 South now have the conditions to organize a short season and deliver the GT4 South European title in 6 races which will take place in two events. The GT4 will start in December, on the 12/13 December, at the fantastic Jerez de La Frontera circuit in southern Spain.
EDWARDS AND KROHN: “WINNING A TITLE IS A GREAT WAY TO END THE SEASON”
Together with BMW and BMW Team RLL, John Edwards (USA) and Jesse Krohn (FIN) crowned their 2020 season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA) with a title win. They claimed the GTLM titles in the Michelin Endurance Cup, a competition representing the four endurance races held in the IMSA. In an interview, Edwards and Krohn speak about the special challenges of endurance races, the perfect team effort as key to success and their personal season highlights including winning the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA).
SRO MOTORSPORT GROUP TAKES UP A NEW CHALLENGE IN AUSTRALIAN GT RACING
SRO Motorsports Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Australian Racing Group (ARG) that will see the two organisations jointly manage the Motorsport Australia GT Championship and Motorsport Australia Endurance Championship in 2021 and beyond.
ERA MOTORSPORT TO RETURN TO ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA
Following a successful debut in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Era Motorsport will return to the series in 2021 to contest in the Rolex 24 At Daytona in the LMP2 class. Era Motorsport owner Kyle Tilley and co-driver Dwight Merriman will be joined by team newcomers Ryan Dalziel and Paul-Loup Chatin.
GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE PAUL RICARD 1000 km ROUNDUP
The 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS season concluded last weekend with the Circuit Paul Ricard 1000km. And, in what was the 50th race for the Endurance Cup, we saw the kind of decider that has become very familiar to the series.
PORSCHE MOTORSPORT GB PROPOSES CALENDAR FOR 2021
Both Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Cayman Islands Porsche Sprint Challenge GB will be returning to the circuits of the UK in 2021 for two full seasons of competition following the challenges of the 2020 season.
SEVEN IMSA YEARS, SEVEN TITLES: THE PORSCHE 911 RSR IN NORTH AMERICA
Porsche’s factory campaign in the North American sports car scene came to an end for at the moment last weekend with the final outing in Sebring. At the twelve-hour race in Florida, the Porsche GT Team and its long-standing partner Core Autosport once again made a strong impression: At a spectacular final round of the season, the two Porsche 911 RSR took the flag in first and second place. The emotional and extremely successful farewell from the fiercely competitive GTLM class contested by numerous manufacturers in North America concludes a seven-year programme that yielded an outstanding record: Seven title wins in the IMSA series, five championships in the North American Endurance Cup, 21 race wins and 56 podium results went to Porsche.
ENGINE VALVE ISSUE LEADS TO GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE RETIREMENT FOR HUTCHISON AND ATTEMPTO AT PAUL RICARD
Hopes of a strong conclusion to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season for Dundee’s Finlay Hutchison ended less than halfway through the six-hour championship finale at Paul Ricard in France on Sunday, 15th November, when engine valve failure triggered a disappointing retirement.
LEXUS AND AIM VASSER SULLIVAN CONCLUDE SUCCESSFUL 2020 SEASON
Lexus and AIM VASSER SULLIVAN (AVS) closed out the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season at Sebring International Raceway on Saturday evening. The Twelve Hours of Sebring didn’t go as planned as both AVS Lexus RC F GT3s were damaged after sliding in oil on the race track while running first and second in the GTD class.
K-PAX RACING COMPLETES GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SEASON
The 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup season was one that initially begged patience to K-PAX Racing following an early-departure from Circuit Paul Ricard in March amid travel bans imposed under a global pandemic. The team, having three top-10 finishes to its credit since in the series, was able to make its return back to South France Sunday, making tracks at its fourth European track this season to a 13th-place finish – putting an exclamation point on a unique season of perseverance and hard work in the team’s challenging debut season.
B-QUIK ABSOLUTE RACING RETAINS TSS SUPER CAR GT3 DRIVERS’ AND TEAMS’ TITLES
A fairytale conclusion to the truncated Thailand Super Series season for B-Quik Absolute Racing at Buriram’s Chang International Circuit yesterday as the team retained the Super Car GT3 Drivers’ and Teams’ titles at the very last gasp.
2021 LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA AND ASIA CALENDARS UNVEILED
Lamborghini has unveiled the race calendars for its three Super Trofeo championships for the 2021 season. Running from April to October, the one-make category reserved for Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo Evos will be represented in Europe, North America and Asia, with the traditional end-of-year Lamborghini World Finals taking place at Misano Adriatico in Italy. Following its cancellation in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, Super Trofeo Asia will make its return to the calendar next season with five rounds, while the World Finals remains at Misano, having been cancelled in 2020.
DANE CAMERON JOINS MEYER SHANK RACING
After securing its second IMSA championship, Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) looks forward to the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO NORTH AMERICA PODIUM FINISH FOR MIDDLETON AT SEBRING
British Racing Drivers’ Club Rising Star Stuart Middleton produced an outstandingly tenacious performance during the final event of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season at Sebring International Raceway on Friday, 13th November, to secure another overall podium.
WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING FINISHES SIXTH IN 68th TWELVE HOURS OF SEBRING
Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Felipe Nasr (Brazil) and Gabby Chaves (Columbia) finished sixth in yesterday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway.
MERCEDES-AMG MOTORSPORT SECURES MANUFACTURERS’ AND DRIVERS’ TITLE IN GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SEASON FINALE
Mercedes-AMG Motorsport claims the overall title in the 2020 GT World Challenge Europe with Timur Boguslavskiy (RUS) of the Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP, teammate Raffaele Marciello (ITA) follows in third place. The manufacturers’ title also goes to Mercedes-AMG Motorsport. In the season finale, Mercedes-AMG Team HRT secured the best result of the day with the Mercedes-AMG GT3: Vincent Abril (MON), Maro Engel and Luca Stolz (both GER) finished in sixth place in the 6-hour race. In the overall Silver Cup standings, Ezequiel Perez Companc (ARG) and Madpanda Motorsport also secured the titles. This weekend, their Mercedes-AMG colleagues Sergei Afanasiev (RUS), Michele Beretta (ITA) and Hubert Haupt (GER) of Haupt Racing Team (#5) secured the best race result in this category, scoring a podium slot by finishing in third place.
PERFECT GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE FINAL ROUND WIN FOR MACDOWALL AND BARWELL MOTORSPORT
Alex MacDowall produced one of the very best drives of his career during the final round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup at Paul Ricard on Sunday, 15th November, to help secure a fantastic class race victory in the six-hour contest and wrap-up a sensational Silver Cup title triumph.
MEYER SHANK RACING BRINGS HOME SIXTH PLACE FINISH AT SEBRING
After twelve hard-fought hours of racing and leading laps at Sebring International Raceway the No. 57 Acura NSX GT3 of Misha Goikhberg, Trent Hindman and Joey Hand came home with a sixth place finish in Saturday’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
