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SECOND IMSA WIN OF THE SEASON FOR THE PORSCHE 911 RSR

Clinching the second win of the season at Mid-Ohio, Porsche grabbed the lead of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. In a nail-biting finale, Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand) snatched victory with the 510 hp Porsche 911 RSR on Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and celebrated their first win in the USA as teammates at the most gripping race of the season by now.

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BMW TEAM RLL FINISHES 2nd AND 7th AT MID-OHIO

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

The No. 25 BMW M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi and Alexander Sims raced to a well-deserved second place finish in today’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, taking the checkered flag 1.673 seconds behind the race winning No. 912 Porsche. The result was the team’s second runner-up finish of the season and the 70th podium finish since 2009. After starting from the pole, John Edwards and Jesse Krohn had an unfortunate race to finish seventh in the No. 24 M8 GTE.

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STRONG STRATEGY, DRIVING PUT FORD CHIP GANASSI RACING IN PODIUM CONTENTION AT MID-OHIO

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Despite strong strategies and judicious driving by all four drivers, the podium remained just out of reach for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the final stop for the team before the Le Mans 24.

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MAZDA SCORES FIRST IMSA PODIUM OF THE SEASON AT MID-OHIO

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Oliver Jarvis and Tristan Nunez team to finish third and score first IMSA podium for Mazda Team Joest.

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CORVETTE RACING AT MID-OHIO: GARCIA, MAGNUSSEN BACK ON THE PODIUM

May 7, 2018 Charles Côté

Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia earned a podium finish Sunday in Corvette Racing’s return to Mid-Ohio Sports Car in the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. The duo piloted their No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R to a third-place finish in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GT Le Mans (GTLM) class.

SPORTSCAR

Close Battles as Woods and Ely Take Utah Victories in Pirelli Trophy West

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

On a picture-perfect warm and sunny day at Utah Motorsports Campus, Kevin Woods and Laura Ely each took overall victories in the hotly-contested Race 6 of the Pirelli Trophy West USA.

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SECOND PLACE FINISH FOR MEYER SHANK RACING AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

After 125 laps of caution free, green flag to checkered flag racing, Meyer Shank Racing scored its second podium finish of the 2018 season in its home event at the Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio.

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FIRST ACURA DPi WIN IN 1-2 ACURA TEAM PENSKE SWEEP AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

The Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio was all about Acura Team Penske from the first practice session of the weekend on Friday through the checkered flag on Sunday’s two-hour, 40-minute IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race. Every pre-race practice session ended with both of the team’s Acura ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars sitting 1-2 … Continue reading → ...

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LEXUS SCORES HISTORIC FIRST NORTH AMERICAN VICTORY FOR THE RC F GT3

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Lexus put forth the dominating performance it had been dreaming of since entering the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class in 2017 Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

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CADILLAC RACING TEAM MUSTANG SAMPLING FOURTH AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Cadillac V-Performance Racing team Mustang Sampling Cadillac finished fourth today at the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. The No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R finished fifth and the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R came home in eighth.

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WEATHERTECH RACING FINISHES EIGHTH AT MID-OHIO

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill.) and Alessandro Balzan (Italy) drove to an eighth place finish in today’s running of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio.

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PHOENIX RACING AND HHC MOTORSPORT WIN IN THE GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES AT BRANDS HATCH

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Phoenix Racing and HHC Motorsport claimed a win each in today’s GT4 European Series rounds at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit. The #5 Audi R8 LMS GT4 won the opening race on Sunday morning, with the #55 Ginetta G55 GT4 taking victory in the second race. Schwede Motorsport won the Pro-Am class in both races, Autorlando was successful in the Am class.

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BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT TURNS UP THE HEAT WITH DOUBLE BLANCPAIN GT VICTORY AT SUN-KISSED BRANDS HATCH

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT proved too hot to handle at Brands Hatch, securing both race victories at the second Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup round of the season.

FORMULA 1

DTM: 2018 Hockenheim I – Race 2

May 6, 2018 RNW Staff

Two races, two podiums: Gary Paffett made a strong start to the season at the home race of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport in Hockenheim Gary Paffett (Mercedes-AMG Motorsport PETRONAS) secured another podium finish in Sunday’s second race after his victory on Saturday – the 40th podium finish in his DTM career Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes-AMG Motorsport PETRONAS) and […]

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DI AMATO-MONTERMINI SCORE THEIR FIRST GT OPEN WIN

May 6, 2018 Charles Côté

The RS Racing Ferrari 488 took its maiden win in the International GT Open, as Daniele Di Amato and Andrea Montermini emerged in a dramatic and closely-fought finale. They beat the two Teo Martín BMs of Juan Cruz Álvarez-Lourenço Beirão (who took the lead after the pit stops) and yesterday’s winners, Fran Rueda-Andrés Saravia. The Spaniard and the Guatemalan are now second in the overall standings, closing to 13 points the gap with respect to Mikkel Mac, today fifth.

FORMULA 1

Bandini Trophy

May 6, 2018 RNW Staff

The Finn was awarded the prize for his breakthrough performance Valtteri was honoured with the 2018 Bandini Trophy on Saturday As part of the celebrations, he took the team’s 2016 car on a drive through the Northern Italian countryside Aldo Costa, Riccardo Musconi and Andrea Dolfi were also among the honourees Photographic material from the […]

DTM

DTM: 2018 Hockenheim I – Race 1

May 5, 2018 RNW Staff

Gary Paffett (Mercedes-AMG Motorsport PETRONAS) secured his 21st DTM victory and his fifth at Hockenheim – he had earlier taken his 13th DTM pole, his third at the Hockenheimring

RALLY

In Pictures: El Condor reverse

May 5, 2018 RNW Staff

The iconic El Condor stage, run this year in the reverse, uphill, direction for the first time, was an undoubted highlight of last week's YPF Rally Argentina.

Crash videos

Motorsport Crash Compilation 2017 part 23

May 4, 2018 RNW Staff

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING STATEMENT: CAR #7

May 4, 2018 David Martin-Janiak

The pole position-winning #7 TS050 HYBRID of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López will start the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps from the pit lane after an administrative error resulted in the cancelation of the car’s qualifying lap times. An incorrect identification number for the car’s fuel flow meter was declared for the #7 … Continue reading → ...

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