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HARRY KING WRAPS UP PORSCHE SUPERCUP CHAMPIONSHIP WITH FOURTH PODIUM_6320d0c35b36c.jpeg

Rising star Harry King enjoyed a fine end to his first full campaign in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup with a starring role in the season finale at Monza, which resulted in a fourth podium finish of the year.

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GT2 EUROPEAN SERIES TITLE FIGHTS EDGE CLOSER TO THE WIRE AT VALENCIA

September 12, 2022 RNW Staff

The Fanatec GT2 European Series title fight is set to reach boiling point this weekend, 16-17 September, as the penultimate round of the season plays out at Circuit Ricard Tormo in Valencia, Spain.

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HISTORIC VICTORY FOR FALKEN MOTORSPORTS IN INAUGURAL NLS 12 HOUR RACE AT THE NURBURGRING

September 12, 2022 RNW Staff

Falken Motorsports claimed a historic victory last weekend in the inaugural NLS 12-hour race on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Joel Eriksson, Sven Müller, Jaxon Evans and Alessio Picariello steered Falken’s #3 Porsche 911 GT3 R to first place in the new season highlight of the Nürburgring Endurance Series season, while Ayhancan Güven, Côme Ledogar, Klaus Bachler and Martin Ragginger claimed sixth in the sister #4 car.

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Enduro profits from Abba’s late drama, while Topham and Turner sprint to GT4 victory at Brands Hatch

September 11, 2022 Michael widdowson

Team Abba Racing’s retirement on the penultimate lap handed Intelligent Money British GT Championship victory to Enduro Motorsport’s Morgan Tillbrook and Marcus Clutton on a dramatic day at Brands Hatch. The result keeps the #77 McLaren’s drivers in what has boiled down to a four-way GT3 title battle that will conclude at Donington Park next […]

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LONG AWAITED MAIDEN DTM VICTORY FOR NICK CASSIDY

September 11, 2022 RNW Staff

New Zealander Nick Cassidy took his maiden race win in DTM. The 28-year-old Ferrari driver from the Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse team always came out on top in the Sunday race at the Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix circuit in extremely exciting two-way battles at the front of the field. Having started from third place on the grid, Cassidy emerged as the delighted race winner from Sheldon van der Linde with the Schubert BMW and Thomas Preining with the KÜS Team Bernhard Porsche. South African Sheldon van der Linde got his race off to a good start, immediately overtook pole-sitter René Rast (ABT Sportsline Audi) and led the field until he came in for his mandatory pit stop at the end of lap nine. During his stop, there was an issue with the left front wheel, extending it to over eleven seconds and costing him the lead. Subsequently, Nick Cassidy had to work had on several occasions to defend the lead.

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PODIUM FINISH FOR THE PORSCHE GT TEAM IN THE 6 HOURS OF FUJI

September 11, 2022 RNW Staff

The two 911 RSR fielded by the Porsche GT Team have finished the 6 Hours of Fuji (Japan) in positions three and four. Works drivers Michael Christensen from Denmark and Kévin Estre from France achieved a podium result at the wheel of the No. 92 car. In the manufacturer’s classification, Porsche is just one point behind the leader and is still in contention for the title as they head to the final round of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship WEC in Bahrain on 12 November. No decision has yet been made in the drivers’ world championship.

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ONE-TWO HOME VICTORY FOR TOYOTA GAZOO RACING

September 11, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing achieved a perfect one-two victory in the 6 Hours of Fuji to celebrate the return of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) to Japan in impressive style.

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DENNIS OLSEN CLAIMS HIS MAIDEN DTM WIN

September 10, 2022 RNW Staff

With a lights-to-flag victory, Dennis Olsen secured his maiden win in his still fresh DTM career with the SSR Performance Porsche. In qualifying in the morning, the Norwegian had secured the best starting grid position with a lap time of 2m 30.488s. After a pair of second places at Norisring and Nürburgring, it is the long-awaited maiden DTM race win for Olsen. Classified second and third respectively, reigning DTM champion Maximilian Götz (GER, Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD) and Olsen’s fellow Porsche driver Thomas Preining (KÜS Team Bernhard) joined him on the podium. Götz had started from fourth on the grid and was able to make up two places over the race distance of 50 minutes plus one lap to score his first podium finish of the season. Austrian Thomas Preining had good chances of victory following a good qualifying result in second place, but temporarily dropped back to ninth following contact and a spin on the opening lap, then still claimed back third place. The second DTM race at Spa-Francorchamps gets underway on Sunday at 1.30pm CEST.

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HARRY KING FASTEST IN PORSCHE SUPERCUP QUALIFYING AT MONZA, POLE POSITION FOR MARVIN KLEIN

September 10, 2022 RNW Staff

Harry King turned the fastest lap in a Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup qualifying session for the first time in Monza, Italy. However, due to a penalty incurred at the previous race in Zandvoort, the UK driver will tackle the last race of the 2022 season from the fourth grid spot. Instead, pole position goes to the second fastest qualifier, Frenchman Marvin Klein. The three favourites for the title, Luxembourger Dylan Pereira, Larry ten Voorde from the Netherlands and Porsche Junior Laurin Heinrich from Germany, secured positions three, five and seven on the grid. The final round of the Supercup season is contested as support to the Italian Grand Prix and gets underway on Sunday (11 September) at 11:50 am.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING AT THE FRONT IN FUJI QUALIFYING

September 10, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing locked out the front row on home ground for the penultimate round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) to earn its first-ever 6 Hours of Fuji qualifying one-two.

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PORSCHE DRIVER THOMAS PREINING STARTS DTM WEEKEND IN THE ARDENNES WITH THE FASTEST TIME OF THE DAY

September 9, 2022 RNW Staff

With Thomas Preining (AUT, KÜS Team Bernhard) and local hero Laurens Vanthoor (BEL, SSR Performance) a Porsche driver came out on top in each of the two DTM free practice sessions at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Friday. Preining’s time of 2m 17.786s in second free practice was the fastest time of the day among DTM’s 27 world-class drivers at the 7.004 kilometres Grand Prix track in the Belgian Ardennes, the venue for the sixth and third-to-last race weekend of the current season.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING FASTEST ON WEC’S FUJI RETURN

September 9, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s challenge for home victory got underway with an intense and productive first day of practice for the 6 Hours of Fuji as the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) returned to Japan for the first time since 2019.

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SSR PERFORMANCE IS READY FOR THE NEXT DTM CHALLENGE

September 8, 2022 RNW Staff

Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) and Dennis Olsen (NOR) are ready for the next challenge in the DTM. At Spa-Francorchamps, the two Porsche 911 GT3 R drivers will be chasing points. Olsen had recently celebrated the second place at the Nürburgring.

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SHELDON VAN DER LINDE FOCUSED ON MAXIMUM DTM POINTS SCORE AT SPA

September 7, 2022 RNW Staff

Three, two, one – DTM champion. This weekend (9-11 September), Spa-Francorchamps is the third to last fixture of the 2022 DTM season that has been really intense so far, the battle for the title is notably tightening up. As the DTM championship leader (110 points), Sheldon van der Linde doesn’t want to hear about that at present. “I am not focused on the championship, I simply want to score as many points as possible,” the 23-year-old South African from the Schubert Motorsport BMW team stated in the usual DTM press conference. René Rast (GER), who with the ABT Audi dropped back to fourth in the standings with 81 points behind Mirko Bortolotti (ITA, 89) with the GRT Lamborghini and Lucas Auer (AUT, 85) with the WINWARD Mercedes-AMG at Nürburgring most recently, on the other hand, wants to do everything to keep his chances of winning the title alive. “The goal is to score many points and to keep all the title rivals at bay.”

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PORSCHE AIMS TO EXTEND FIA WEC LEAD AT THE RETURN TO FUJI

September 6, 2022 RNW Staff

Porsche travels to round five of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC in Fuji as the series leader. The factory squad aims to clinch its third GTE-Pro class win of the season in Japan and is eager to take another step towards claiming the world title. After recovering from an illness, Richard Lietz returns to the cockpit of the No. 91 Porsche 911 RSR.

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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS CHALLENGES FOR DTM STARS

September 6, 2022 RNW Staff

La Source, Eau Rouge, Raidillon, Blanchimont – these are all parts of the Belgian Grand Prix circuit of Spa-Francorchamps that instill respect and a certain awe in every racing driver. They are not just famous, they are a real challenge for man and machine first and foremost. When DTM is staging the sixth round of its season in Belgium this weekend (9-11 September), the DTM stars are under pressure, too. Spa-Francorchamps is a circuit at which driving abilities and a healthy dose of courage count more than at most other race tracks. At 7.004 kilometres, the Ardennes roller coaster is also the longest track on the DTM calendar on which no other circuit has a difference in altitude of one hundred metres either.

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TOYOTA GAZOO RACING HEADING HOME TO FUJI

September 5, 2022 RNW Staff

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s GR010 HYBRID Hypercar will make its home debut when the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) returns to Japan for the 6 Hours of Fuji after a three-year absence.

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AUDI 1-2 IN ACTION PACKED GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE CONTEST AT HOCKENHEIM

September 4, 2022 RNW Staff

More than five years after its breakthrough win at the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa, Saintéloc Junior Team has returned to the top step of the podium at Hockenheim thanks to a popular victory for the #25 Audi line-up of Chris Mies, Patric Niederhauser and Lucas Légeret. A stalwart of the Fanatec GT World Challenge […]

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THE BMW M HYBRID V8 TO ENTER THE NEXT PHASE OF TESTING IN THE USA

September 2, 2022 RNW Staff

Since its roll-out on 25th July at Varano de‘ Melegari (ITA), the BMW M Hybrid V8 has got important kilometres under its belt during a number of tests at European racetracks. BMW M Motorsport engineers have obtained valuable basic data and sorted out any initial teething troubles. The result is a good basis on which to further intensify preparations of the car in the USA from September, ahead of the start of the season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Daytona (USA) in January 2023.