The new Porsche 911 GT3 R scored a place on the podium at its first outing in the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Works drivers Romain Dumas (France) and Sven Müller (Germany) as well as Porsche Young Professional Mathieu Jaminet (France) finished the eight-hour race at Laguna Seca (USA) in third place. Over long stretches, the trio driving the No. 911 vehicle of the American customer team Park Place Motorsports even looked on course for a win. The identical car fielded by the customer team Wright Motorsports had also led the race only to retire early with a technical defect.

Mario Farnbacher’s new qualifying lap record has given Honda Team Motul pole position for tomorrow’s California 8 Hours after a thrilling Pole Shootout at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca earlier today (March 29).

Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli’s 2019 world tour continues this weekend (March 28-30) at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca where a record eight full-season manufacturers will contest the California 8 Hours.

After a perfect opening round to the Intercontinental GT Challenge season, Porsche aims to extend its championship lead at round two of the year in Laguna Seca (USA). At the twelve-hour race in Bathurst (Australia) on the spectacular Mount Panorama racetrack, works driver Dirk Werner (Germany) as well as Porsche Young Professionals Matt Campbell (Australia) and Dennis Olsen (Norway) clinched victory. Notching up the first win for Porsche at Bathurst, the trio not only gave a perfect maiden performance on the world stage with the customer team of works driver Earl Bamber (EBM), but also a fitting farewell to the 2018-spec Porsche 911 GT3 R. After celebrating its race debut at Daytona (USA) in January, the new version of the over 500 hp GT3 vehicle will be fielded at the eight-hour race in Laguna Seca. The U.S. Porsche customer squads Park Place Motorsports and Wright Motorsports each run a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the race on 30 March.

The 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge will have its final round at the Laguna Seca Raceway California 8 Hours. The longest race on the Monterey peninsula will not only see the contenders in the only global GT3 championship vie for the 2018 trophies, there will also be plenty of GT4 and TCR cars fighting for class honours. In total no fewer than 33 cars will be on the grid on the morning of Sunday October 28th.

Strakka Racing is preparing a three-car squad for the final round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge, to be held at Laguna Seca Raceway in California, USA, on 26-28 October 2018.

Mercedes-AMG are the new Intercontinental GT Challenge championship leaders after claiming a one-two finish earlier this evening at the inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours where Intercontinental entries filled the overall top-12 positions.

HubAuto Corsa’s Nick Foster has claimed pole position for tomorrow’s inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours after beating Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing’s Raffaele Marciello in today’s qualifying session. However, the Italian still finished fastest of the Intercontinental GT Challenge entries ahead of the global GT championship’s third race of the season.

Two of Nissan’s top race-winning GT3 teams armed with the 2018 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 are set to fight for victory on “home soil” as the famous Suzuka circuit hosts the Intercontinental GT Challenge.