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Foster and Lester’s HubAuto Ferrari wins dramatic first race at Ningbo; Renger crowned GT4 champion following Team Studie’s penalty

 Foster now just five points behind Kodric/Lind with one race remaining > Win #6 helps Renger claim GT4 title > Result: Race 1 > Points: GT3 | GT4 Nick Foster slashed his Drivers’ Championship deficit from 20 to just five points by claiming victory alongside HubAuto Corsa Ferrari co-driver Jono Lester in the first of […]

BEST PORSCHE 911 RSR ON FUJI FOURTH GRID ROW, POLE POSITION IN THE GTE-AM CLASS

The Porsche GT Team qualified on starting positions eight and ten for the FIA WEC World Sports Car Championship in Fuji, Japan. Richard Lietz (A) and Gianmaria Bruni (I) in the No. 91 Porsche 911 RSR and Kevin Estre (F) and Michael Christensen (DK) in the No. 92 sister car will now focus on the race performance. After setting the fastest lap with the RSR in the GTE-Pro category during the free practice on Saturday morning, the qualifying session held three hours later did not yield the expected lap times. Lietz and Bruni take up the six-hour race on the 4.563-kilometre racetrack from the fourth grid row. The French-Danish driver pairing starts directly behind them.

THIRD ROW FOR FERRARI AT FUJI

As anticipated, qualifying for the Fuji 6 Hours was not easy for the five Ferraris entered in the fourth round of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Super Season. In the GTE-Pro class, the 488 GTE no. 71 and no. 51 of the world champion team will start from the third row. The cars competing in the GTE-Am class will be in the third, fourth and fifth rows, with the 488 GTE no. 61 of Keita Sawa, Weng Sun Mok and Matt Griffin the best of the Ferraris.

SPS AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE TAKES 12H SPA POLE BY JUST 0.013s

The SPS automotive performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#16, Valentin Pierburg / Tim Müller / Lance-David Arnold) has taken pole position for the 2018 Hankook 12H SPA by the narrowest of margins. Lance-David Arnold lapped the 7.004km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 2m 19.574s, just 0.013s faster than the PROsport Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#85, Charles Putman / Charles Espenlaub / Joe Foster / Adam Christodoulou). Incredibly, this is the second time in two races that Christodoulou has lost a 24H SERIES pole position in the closing moments and by less than two hundredths of a second.

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