RNW Staff

It’s a second-row start for the Paul Miller Racing team at the Detroit Grand Prix, with Madison Snow qualifying the No. 1 Quartz Engine Oils-backed BMW M4 GT3 in the third position for Saturday’s sprint race. 

In a dramatic turn of events at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park, Tom Blomqvist qualified the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05 on the front row and just missed out on the pole position by less than one tenth of a second.

Porsche has set itself a big goal for the final GTE-Pro-class race at Le Mans for the 911 RSR: The works team is determined to secure a class win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 11/12 June. The endurance classic on the 13.626-kilometre Circuit des 24 Heures in the west of France will be contested for the 90th time and represents round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC. The Porsche GT Team will field two ca. 378 kW (515 PS) 911s. In the GTE-Am class, five customer squads campaign a total of eight 911 RSR. After careful preparation as part of the Porsche Racing Experience and two years in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), Hollywood star Michael Fassbender celebrates his Le Mans debut in the No. 93 entry. He has documented his personal “Road to Le Mans” journey in his own YouTube series: With 19 outright victories and 108 class wins, Porsche is by far the most successful manufacturer in the world’s most important sports car race.

The Paul Miller Racing duo of Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers are riding a wave of three consecutive top-four finishes into the Detroit Grand Prix weekend, as they chase the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sprint Cup.

Whelen Engineering driver Pipo Derani (Brazil) and his newly announced season-long teammate Olivier Pla (France) are set to do battle on the streets of Belle Isle in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Chevrolet Sports Car Classic June 3-4. This weekend’s 100-minute race will be the first for Pla with Action Express Racing.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing puts its long unbeaten run on the line when it aims for a fifth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours victory in the 90th running of the legendary French endurance race on 11-12 June.

Jack Aitken will take on the renowned 1000km of Paul Ricard this weekend for the second round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, with high hopes of a strong performance after clearly demonstrating his potential this season. And that’s just the beginning of the most intense fortnight of his career, as he then […]

Audi R8 racer Finlay Hutchison returns to track action for the first time in two months this week, when the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup resumes at Circuit Paul Ricard for round two of the campaign.

Whelen Engineering/Action Express Racing (AXR) have signed Olivier Pla (France) to partner Pipo Derani (Brazil) for the remainder of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Tristan Nunez (Boynton Beach, Fla.) will remain with the team in a stand-by role. 

The GT4 European Series emerges from its two-month break to spark back into life at Circuit Paul Ricard this weekend, with a 50-car field set to battle it out at the second round of the season. Continuing to show the diversity of the GT4 formula, the entry features nine different brands being run by 25 […]

Lamborghini Squadra Corse has unveiled the latest intake of drivers into its Young Driver and GT3 Junior Programs for the 2022 season. A total of 15 Junior Drivers and 23 GT3 Juniors have been selected by Squadra Corse, making it one of the most comprehensive development program in GT racing. The Young Drivers Program is […]

Daniel Harper is left with ‘unfinished business’ in the ADAC TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Nürburgring after unfortunately encountering early disappointment with the BMW Junior Team in the 50th anniversary running of the prestigious race (26-29 May).

The Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by the customer team Falken Motorsports has concluded the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring in the top 10. Germany’s Sven Müller and Marco Seefried as well as Frenchman Patrick Pilet and Jaxon Evans from New Zealand finished the 50th edition of the Eifel classic in ninth place with the No. 33 Porsche 911 GT3 R. The identical vehicle campaigned by Huber Motorsport driven by the quartet Lars Kern, Nico Menzel, Klaus Rader and Joachim Thyssen secured eleventh place. Despite some highlights, the race ended with bitter disappointments for Porsche’s other customer teams in the SP9 class.

Audi has won the 50th edition of the 24-hour classic at the Nürburgring: After a spectacular race with numerous overtaking maneuvers, lead changes and a dramatic finale with rain showers, Robin Frijns, Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and Frédéric Vervisch celebrated victory with the Audi R8 LMS from Audi Sport Team Phoenix. It is the sixth overall victory in a decade for the brand with the four rings.

The 50th edition of the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring (GER) represented the conclusion to the anniversary week for BMW M GmbH. However, the race debut for the BMW M4 GT3 did not go as well as hoped. The BMW M Motorsport teams showed strong pace, but both cars, from ROWE Racing and the BMW Junior Team, retired after accidents. Schubert Motorsport was in fourth position until just before the finish, only to be forced to retire due to overheating in the engine compartment. BMW M GmbH provided a spectacular support programme around the classic endurance race, which took part in front of an impressive 230,000 fans, to mark its 50th birthday – the highlight being the BMW M Race of Legends on Saturday.

The Takanokono Hotel SUZUKA GT 300km RACE, Round 3 of the 2022 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series took place at Suzuka circuit (one lap 5,807m × 52 laps) in Mie Prefecture on the afternoon of May 29 (Sun). In a rough race that saw the Safety Car brought out twice, the GT500 class winner was the No. 3 CRAFTSPORTS MOTUL Z (Katsumasa Chiyo/Mitsunori Takaboshi) took its first win in the Nissan Z GT500’s debut season. In the GT300 class race, the winner was the No. 7 Studie BMW M4 (Seiji Ara/Tsubasa Kondo).

The qualifying for the Takanoko Hotel SUZUKA GT 300km RACE, Round 3 of the 2022 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series took place at Suzuka Circuit (one lap: 5,807 m) in Mie Prefecture on May 28 (Sat). In the GT500 class, Kunimoto in the No. 19 WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra (Yuji Kunimoto/Sena Sakaguchi) ran a Suzuka course record to take the team’s first pole position in ten years of GT500 class competition. In the GT300 class, Kondo in the No. 7 Studie BMW M4 (Seiji Ara/Tsubasa Kondo) gave the team their first class pole.

The Porsche 911 GT3 R fielded by the Huber Motorsport customer team will take up the 50th edition of the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring from the ninth grid spot. Nico Menzel (Germany) achieved the fastest lap time with 8:11.928 minutes at the wheel of a GT3 car from Weissach during Friday’s Top Qualifying. The identical ca. 368 kW (500 PS) 911 from Toksport WRT takes up the classic in the Eifel from P14. The fastest of the two 911 GT3 R fielded by Dinamic Motorsport lines up on the grid two positions behind.

After last year’s pole position with the BMW M6 GT3, ROWE Racing has now marked the debut of the BMW M4 GT3 by making it to the front row of the grid in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring (GER). Augusto Farfus (BRA) posted the second-fastest time of 8:10.640 minutes. In the #72 BMW M4 GT3, Dan Harper (GBR) claimed sixth spot for the BMW Junior Team – directly ahead of Christian Krognes (NOR) from the Walkenhorst Motorsport team in seventh position. Nick Catsburg (NED) drove the second ROWE Racing car to 13th on the grid, after his team-mate Sheldon van der Linde (RSA) set a spectacular best time in Top Qualifying 1. Ben Tuck (GBR) reached 18th place in the #102 BMW M4 GT3 from Walkenhorst Motorsport. The 50th edition of the 24h Nürburgring starts on Saturday at 16:00 CEST.

United Autosports announce their first 2023 racing lineup in the form of an LMP2 Pro-Am entry for the European Le Mans Series.