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Sunday afternoon at the Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix of Road America, GTSA driver Mike Hedlund scored a third place finish, earning the 95th podium for Flying Lizard Motorsports. The No. 45 Audi R8 LMS GT4 drove to his fourth podium finish of the year, leading the team’s three car charge in the double header weekend.

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BACK-TO-BACK WINS FOR IAN JAMES AND TEAM PANOZ RACING

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

Team Panoz Racing returned to Road America aiming to re-claim the back-to-back wins enjoyed last year. Driver Ian James secured the mission in today’s sixth round of the GTS Championship at the challenging 4.048-mile, 14-turn road circuit.

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THE LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE OFFERS ANOTHER SHOW AT MISANO

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

The third round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, held at Misano, once again showed a great balance, with eight winning crews in the four classes. After the first two races held on Saturday night, the one-make series for the cars of the House of Sant’Agata Bolognese offered another exciting show, starting from the battle for victory among the PRO drivers that saw the duo of Imperiale Racing formed by Karol Basz and Vito Postiglione score their third win, after an exciting final sprint of the car of Antonelli Motorsport shared by Giacomo Altoè and Daniel Zampieri, who finished second and are leading the standings by only three points.

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BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT COMPLETES PERFECT WEEKEND WITH DOMINANT BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ONE-TWO FINISH AT MISANO

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT completed a dominant Blancpain GT Series weekend at Misano with a one-two finish in this afternoon’s 60-minute Sprint Cup race. The podium was completed by the #25 Audi R8 LMS of Sainteloc Racing, with last year’s Total 24 Hours of Spa winners returning to form ahead of this year’s 70th edition of the endurance classic.

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EQUIPE VERSCHUUR CLAIMS COMMANDING GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES VICTORY AT MISANO

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

Equipe Verschuur drivers Finlay Hutchison and Ricardo van der Ende secured their first GT4 European Series win of the season at the Misano World Circuit today. Starting from fourth on the grid, Hutchison moved into the lead early in the race, before handing the McLaren 570S GT4 to Van der Ende. The Dutchman then drove it to the finish, to claim Equipe Verschuur’s and McLaren’s first win in the series. RN Vision STS won Pro-Am, TFT Racing claimed victory in the Am class.

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UNSTOPPABLE LUIGI LUCCHINI SCORES FAULTLESS BLANCPAIN GT SPORTS CLUB MAIN RACE VICTORY AT MISANO

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

After topping every session on Saturday, Luigi Lucchini (#7 BMS Scuderia Italia SRL Ferrari 458 GT3) took a lights-to-flag victory in the Blancpain GT Sports Club Main Race at Misano, with Klaus Dieter Frers (#3 Artega Rennsport Ferrari 488 GT3) proving equally dominant in the Iron Cup class.

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VICTORY FOR TEAM PANOZ RACING AT ROAD AMERICA

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

Ian James returned to Road America this week aiming to repeat the back-to-back victories with the No. 50 Panoz Avezzano that the team achieved in 2017. Today, he put the beginning of that plan in motion and took Team Panoz Racing to the top step of the podium for the second time this season.

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TUJULA AND ORTIZ ARE THE KINGS OF THE LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE MISANO NIGHT RACE

June 24, 2018 RNW Staff

The race weekend at Misano, which hosts the third of the six double rounds of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, started with a Saturday night full of emotions. On the Romagna circuit, the two night races reserved quite a few surprises, starting from the first win of the duo of VS Racing formed by Felipe Ortiz and Tuomas Tujula, who also scored a class victory in the PRO category. In the AM, Manuel Lauck and Florian Scholze took their first win with the colors of Dörr Motorsport. In the PRO-AM, instead, Juan Perez and Loris Spinelli (Antonelli Motorsport) scored their fourth victory in a row and managed to increase their advantage in the class standings. Lastly, Joseph Collado took the win in the Lamborghini Cup.

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BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT SECURES CLOSE FOUGHT BLANCPAIN GT SERIES SPRINT CUP TRIUMPH AT MISANO

June 23, 2018 RNW Staff

The #1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT machine of Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas secured a close-fought victory from an entertaining Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup race at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli this evening.

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PIANA AND UMBRARESCU CLAIM THRILLING GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES RACE ONE AT MISANO

June 23, 2018 RNW Staff

Gabriele Piana and Razvan Umbrarescu picked up their first win of the season at the Misano World Circuit after a thrilling race this afternoon. The RN Vision STS drivers made no mistakes to take the top step of the podium. Markus Lungstrass and Hamza Owega won in Pro-Am, with Alessandro Giovanelli and Giuseppe Ghezzi claiming their third consecutive victory.

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MEYER SHANK RACING UNVEILS NEW LIVERY

June 22, 2018 RNW Staff

Known to showcase eye catching liveries that quickly become fan favorites, Meyer Shank Racing is continuing its tradition with the striking Fourth of July-themed Acura NSX GT3 for the annual Shalen’s Six Hours of the Glen next weekend.

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THE KESSEL RACING FERRARI 488 GT3 ON TRACK AT MISANO IN THE BLANCPAIN GT SERIES SPRINT CUP

June 22, 2018 RNW Staff

Following back-to-back Endurance Cup events, attention shifts back to short-format Sprint racing when a closely-matched field of 22 cars tackles the 4.2km Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. With little over a month remaining before the 24 Hours of Spa, the meeting takes on added significance by providing teams and drivers with a final chance to flex their competitive muscles before the most important event of the year.

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CRAFT-BAMBOO RACING SECURES TWO LE MANS WINNERS FOR SUZUKA 10 HOUR LINE-UP

June 22, 2018 RNW Staff

Craft-Bamboo Racing has secured two recent 24 Hours of Le Mans winners for their Suzuka 10 Hour driver line-up. This announcement comes only five days after Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre took victory in the GTE Pro class at the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans in the world’s most iconic Porsche, the ‘Pink Pig’. Completing the trio will be young Porsche driver, Mathieu Jaminet, who is best known for his domination of the Porsche Carrera Cup France. Both the team and drivers are solely focused on claiming victory in the ten-hour endurance event which will run from the 24th-26thof August as part of the SRO’s Intercontinental GT Challenge.

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SIX FERRARI CARS ON TRACK AT MISANO IN THE BLANCPAIN GT SPORTS CLUB

June 21, 2018 RNW Staff

Moving from its usual spot as the Blancpain GT Sports Club season-opener, the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli will welcome the grid for round three of the SRO Motorsports Group’s Bronze-only series. The Italian venue has been ever present on the calendar since the inaugural campaign in 2015, when current title challenger Mario Cordoni took a clean sweep of victories, and will welcome 13 drivers across the three classes as the championship closes in on the halfway stage. Five manufacturers will be represented this weekend, including Ferrari that will be represented by six cars.

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TDS RACING AND G-DRIVE RACING APPEAL THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS STEWARDS DECISION

June 21, 2018 RNW Staff

N°26 G-Drive Racing and n°28 TDS Racing have decided to appeal the decisions of the stewards pronounced last Monday after the 24 Hours of Le Mans in front of the FIA International Court of Appeal.

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RAZVAN UMBRARESCU TO CONTINUE HIS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM AT MISANO

June 21, 2018 RNW Staff

The third stage of the European GT4 series will take place on the Misano-Marco Simoncelli circuit on June 23-24. Răzvan Umbrărescu will be returning this week to the circuit that marked his GT4 debut one year ago. Back then, he claimed the win in the Pro-Am category alongside Gabriele Piana, on a Porsche Cayman entered by RN […]

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SIX HOURS OF THE GLEN – ENTRY LIST NOTEBOOK

June 20, 2018 RNW Staff

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returns to Watkins Glen International for the sixth round of the 12-race season, the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on Sunday, July 1. The race also represents the third round of the four-race Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup season.

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GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES READY TO TAKE ON MISANO

June 20, 2018 RNW Staff

The GT4 European Series is ready for round three of the 2018 season at the Misano World Circuit this weekend. The grid will be packed again, with 44 cars set to compete on the 4.2 kilometer long track,

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THIRD PLACE ‘LIKE A VICTORY’ FOR MENEZES AFTER ‘MAGICAL’ LE MANS

June 20, 2018 RNW Staff

Gustavo Menezes has described his third-place finish in last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours as ‘like a victory’, after the talented young American led the Rebellion Racing charge in a captivating race full of unexpected twists-and-turns.

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LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE READY TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT AT MISANO

June 19, 2018 RNW Staff

After 5 years, the Misano circuit will return to host the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe. The third of the six double rounds of the season will take place this weekend (June 23 and 24). After the Monza and Silverstone rounds, the continental series will be back in Italy to present another exciting challenge with a line-up of almost 50 cars and the absolute novelty of the two Saturday’s races taking place at night, in addition to an unusual subdivision that will group into a single line-up the AM and Lamborghini Cup classes and into a different one the PRO and PRO-AM categories.

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