Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen claimed second place, their fourth podium of the season, in Saturday afternoon’s IMSA Sports Car Championship race at The Raceway in Belle Isle.
All is set at the Misano World Circuit for the second round of the Italian GT Championship 2017. A total of 33 lineups will get on track for the three racing days by the Adriatico sea to challenge each other in the five classes of the event.
The journey of Ferrari.com to discover the Prancing Horse crews competing at Le Mans starts with the GTE-Am class, and specifically with car #61 of Clearwater Racing.
An historic win at an historic race: Sebastian Vettel took the victory ahead of Kimi Raikkonen as Ferrari triumphed in Monaco. This was the Scuderia’s 227th world championship win, the 44th of Seb’s career and his sixth with the Reds. Vettel now leads the championship on 129 points, while Kimi is fourth on 67. This was the 82nd one-two finish in the Scuderia’s history.
Second round of the British GT Cup championship on the Brands Hatch circuit where three races were held with the team FF Corse Ferraris taking two wins and a podium.
It is the shortest track on the calendar, at just 3.340 kilometres in length and it’s the only race that comes in under 300 kilometres, because of the low average speed.
VIR Round 3 winner Daniel Manicelli continue to show impressive speed in the Pirelli World Challenge after posting the quickest time in Friday’s SprintX practice at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.
Autopolis round (Oita Prefecture) was canceled last year due to the affect from the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, but this year the race will be held as the Round 3 "SUPER GT in KYUSHU 300km" on May 20 (Saturday,
With the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class off until the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on July 2, the focus for most competitors in the class now shifts fully to the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 17-18.
Davide Rigon and Sam Bird, with the 488 GTE no. 71 of AF Corse, repeated last year’s triumph in the Ardennes, finishing a few seconds ahead of teammates Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado in car no. 51.
The 2017 season of the Italian Hillclimb Championship opens this weekend with the 19th Cronoscalata del Reventino (the Reventino Time Trial Hillclimb) being held in the streets outside Lamezia Terme and organized by Racing Team Lamezia, Lametia Motorsport and the Automobile Club Catanzaro.
Ferrari began the 2017 season of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) with a podium in the GTE-Pro class and a victory in the GTE-Am at the 6 Hours of Silverstone.