Muscat racing driver Ahmad Al Harthy celebrated his, and Oman Racing’s, third consecutive Pro-Am podium finish of the Blancpain Endurance Cup season at Paul Ricard on Saturday, 24th June, with an excellent second place result in the intense six-hour race maintaining the class points lead.
The twin-podium finishes led the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Customer Racing ranks at the Road America doubleheader that also saw CRP Racing and MCC Motorsports compete in the top-tier GT class.
Thed Björk secured a double podium in the FIA WTCC Race of Portugal on the challenging street circuit Vila Real, enabling Polestar Cyan Racing to maintain the World Championship lead for manufacturers.
Acura TLX GT piloted by Pikes Peak rookie Peter Cunningham clinches top qualifying spot in Pikes Peak Open Class; records second overall fastest qualifying time
Spencer Pigot will join Tristan Nunez and Jonathan Bomarito in the Soul Red No. 55 Mazda Prototype, and Marino Franchitti will share the Machine Gray No. 70 Castrol Edge Mazda with Joel Miller and Tom Long. Long and Miller finished third at Detroit, which marked their best-ever Prototype finish in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
No doubt about it – the learning curve has been steep for all the drivers and teams in the 2017 IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda’s LMP3 class this year.
DAMS added two more top-three finishes to their impressive FIA Formula 2 Championship tally, as Nicholas Latifi recorded his first double-podium at this level in Baku, Azerbaijan (23-25 June).
The third round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup took place last Saturday following the races in Monza and Silverstone. Emil Frey Jaguar Racing competed in the 1000-km-race at Paul Ricard (France) with two GT3 Jaguar after a successful test program.
Team Panoz Racing’s Ian James followed up yesterday’s first-place finish in PWC GTS/GT4 Championship Round 9 race with a victory in Round 10 today at the Grand Prix of Road America.
Lance Stroll finished third at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to become the youngest rookie to secure a Formula One podium, and the first Canadian to do so since 2001
Prior to Sunday’s Kohler Grand Prix Verizon IndyCar Series race, it appeared Team Penske had the numbers in its favor entering the race at Road America.
Veteran Ian James made it two-for-two for Team Panoz Racing Sunday at Road America when the Arizona driver captured his second straight GTS 50-minute sprint race win in the Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix presented by VP Racing Fuels.
The physical demands of racing at Road America in Sunday’s Kohler Grand Prix took its toll on Verizon IndyCar Series driver Hélio Castroneves of Team Penske.
Cadillac V-Performance driver Johnny O’Connell (Flowery Branch, Ga.) drove the No. 3 Velocity Red Cadillac ATS-V.R Coupe to a third place finish in race two of the World Challenge Championship (PWC) World Challenge Grand Prix of Road America today.