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Not just the temperatures were aestival, the on-track action was hot, too. At the end of the practice day at Lausitzring Turn 1 powered by Autohero, the lap times of the four fastest DTM drivers with three different brands at the 4.601 kilometres long track were eight hundredths of a second apart. Fastest driver of […]

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B-QUIK RACING UNITES HOTSHOTS SANDY STUVIK AND AKASH NANDY FOR 2022 THAILAND SUPER SERIES

May 19, 2022 RNW Staff

B-Quik Absolute Racing is pleased to announce its third driver pairing for Thailand Super Series – Super Car GT3 2022: Sandy Stuvik and Akash Nandy will share an Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO 2.

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SSR PERFORMANCE WITH FULL FOCUS ON CHASING DTM POINTS AT THE LAUSITZRING

May 19, 2022 RNW Staff

The second DTM event of the season takes place at the Lausitzring this weekend. At the first German race of the year, SSR Performance is highly motivated to go for points with Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) and Dennis Olsen (NOR).

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MERCEDES-AMG MOTORSPORT WITH HIGH AMBITIONS FOR THE NURBURGRING 24 HOURS

May 19, 2022 RNW Staff

On the back of the successful dress rehearsal with a victory and a further podium result in the 24h Nürburgring Qualifiers, Mercedes-AMG Motorsport is optimistically looking ahead at the anniversary edition of the ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring (26th till 29th May). A total of seven Mercedes-AMG GT3s with a first-class driver line-up will be on the grid for the endurance racing highlight at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife.

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DXDT RACING PREPARED TO TURN UP THE HEAT IN NEW ORLEANS

May 18, 2022 RNW Staff

The battle for the 2022 Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS turns up the heat this weekend as the series prepares for its inaugural event at NOLA Motorsports Park. After a rocky start to the season at Sonoma Raceway, Mercedes AMG customer racing team DXDT Racing stands as one of the few teams to recently test at the venue, having a leg up over the competition leading into the doubleheader weekend.

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GT2 EUROPEAN SERIES ROARS INTO RED BULL RING

May 18, 2022 RNW Staff

he Fanatec GT2 European Series joins the ADAC GT Masters this weekend, 21-22 May, for the second event of the season, which also marks the championship’s debut at the Red Bull Ring. The field of 2022 heads to Austria following a thrilling season-opener at Imola last month. High Class Racing’s Aurelijus Rusteika and Michael Vergers […]

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE ASIA SET FOR LONG AWAITED RETURN AT SEPANG

May 18, 2022 RNW Staff

Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS returns from a two-year hiatus this weekend (May 20-22) at Sepang, which hosts the opening round of 2022’s campaign.

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RECORD DTM FIELD AT LAUSITZRING TURN 1

May 17, 2022 RNW Staff

Spectacular motorsport is guaranteed: when the 29 world-class drivers with their race cars are roaring through the banked first corner, exclusively reserved for DTM, it will be tight at Lausitzring. Turn 1, with its light banking, is something special. A challenge for all, a breath-taking highlight for the fans. Two, three or sometimes even four abreast, the race cars from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-AMG as well as Ferrari, Lamborghini and, for the first time, Porsche will be taking on this magic first corner at around 250 km/h while the spectators have an excellent view of the action from the towering grandstand, 36 metres high.

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LAMBORGHINI ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF ITS LMDh HYBRID SPORTS CAR PROTOTYPE RACING PROGRAM

May 17, 2022 RNW Staff

Lamborghini Squadra Corse is developing its first LMDh prototype, which will debut in 2024 in the FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar class) and the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (GTP class). Since 2015, Lamborghini has been competing at the pinnacle of GT racing, celebrating more than 40 titles and some unique achievements: the triple GTD class win at the legendary 24 Hours at Daytona between 2018 and 2020 was the first time a manufacturer won three times in a row. Now, the company’s commitment to the LMDh class is the step into the top level of sports car racing, allowing Lamborghini to compete for overall victories at the world’s most prestigious endurance races, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours at Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring.

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JACK AITKEN SECURES SECOND SUCCESSIVE ELMS VICTORY AT IMOLA

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

British-Korean driver Jack Aitken maintained his 100% winning record in the second round of the European Le Mans Series at Imola, finishing seventh overall and dominating the Pro-Am category.

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HIGH CLASS FIELD FOR THE DTM TROPHY SEASON OPENER AT LAUSITZRING

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

The appeal of the DTM is also effective in the talent pool that is DTM Trophy: drivers from eleven nations fill the grid for the season opener at Lausitzring Turn 1 powered by Autohero this weekend (20-22 May). 20 production-based GT sports cars from six automobile manufacturers, Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Mercedes-AMG, Porsche and Toyota will be starting for the first two of the 14 races of the 2022 DTM Trophy on Saturday and Sunday at 3.15pm CEST.

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MARTIN AND JEWISS MASTER CHALLENGING PORSCHE CARRERA CUP GB CONDITIONS AT BRANDS HATCH

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

Porsche Carrera Cup GB – the fastest single marque GT racing championship in the UK – arrived in Kent for the second weekend of the season with three drivers tied on points at the top of the table. Will Martin (Richardson Racing) drove to victory in the weekend’s dramatic first race while local driver Kiern […]

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SUMMIT IN THE ALPS FOR THE ADAC GT MASTERS

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

The Red Bull Ring is the venue for a motorsport spectacle from 20th to 22nd May. The alpine circuit in the Styria region of Austria hosts the second round of this season’s ADAC GT Masters, which features a first: The McLaren 720S GT3 is making its debut in the German GT Championship, with former Formula […]

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING FINISHES THIRD AT MID-OHIO

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil) and Tristan Nunez (Boynton Beach, Fla.) finished third in Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Lexus Grand Prix at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

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PAUL MILLER RACING PULLS OFF PODIUM AT MID-OHIO

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

It was a fuel save to the finish, but the Paul Miller Racing team hung on to score a second-place result at the Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio. Though the No.1 BMW M4 GT3 qualified on pole in the hands of Madison Snow, Snow would not cross the starting line first, as the No. 17 Lexus […]

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MAIDEN ELMS GTE VICTORY FOR AHMAD AL HARTHY AND OMAN RACING AT IMOLA

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

Ahmad Al Harthy produced a truly faultless performance during round two of the European Le Mans Series at Imola in Italy on Sunday, 15th May, to help secure a dominant GTE class win for his Oman Racing team – in doing so becoming the first Omani to take victory in the prestigious championship.

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GRT ARRIVES TO THE LAUSITZRING FOR ROUND TWO OF THE 2022 DTM AS CHAMPIONSHIP LEADER

May 16, 2022 RNW Staff

The 2022 DTM season got off to an almost perfect start for GRT in Portimão. After a pole position and two podiums by Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti, the squad led by team principal Gottfried Grasser surges on with the first races in Germany this coming weekend. For the third and fourth race of this year’s DTM championship, the crews of the four Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO will travel from Grasser Racing’s headquarters in Styria to the Lausitzring. On this familiar track, Mirko Bortolotti, Clemens Schmid, Rolf Ineichen and Alessio Deledda will be looking to build on their form from the first round of the season.

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MARCIELLO/BOGUSLAVSKIY DOMINATE SPRINT CUP RACE 2 AT MAGNY-COURS

May 15, 2022 RNW Staff

Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy are back on top of the Sprint Cup standings after the Akkodis ASP Mercedes-AMG duo scored a resounding victory in today’s race at Magny-Cours.

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UNITED AUTOSPORTS SCORE DOMINANT ELMS LMP3 VICTORY & CLAIM BRILLIANT LMP2 RUNNER-UP PLACING

May 15, 2022 RNW Staff

United Autosports scored an emphatic LMP3 victory with their #3 Ligier (Kay Van Berlo/Andrew Bentley) and second place overall with its #22 Oreca (Phil Hanson/Tom Gamble/Duncan Tappy) in the second round of the European Le Mans Series at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari track in Italy today (15 May).

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SUNENERGY1 CLINCH MERCEDES-AMG’s FIRST BATHURST 12 HOUR VICTORY SINCE 2013

May 15, 2022 RNW Staff

Mercedes-AMG swept the LIQUI MOLY Bathurst 12 Hour podium at Mount Panorama earlier today after SunEnergy1’s Luca Stolz, Jules Gounon, Kenny Habul and Martin Konrad beat Craft-Bamboo and Triple Eight in the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli season opener Down Under. Gounon took the chequered flag 8.7 seconds clear of Maro Engel, who shared […]

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