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ALLY CADILLAC RETURNS FOR THE SIX HOURS OF THE GLEN

June 21, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Ally Cadillac drivers Jimmie Johnson (El Cajon, Calif.), Kamui Kobayashi (Japan) and Mike Rockenfeller (Germany) return to IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition for the third endurance race of the 2022 season. The trio are set to do battle in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen at Watkins Glen International June 23-26. The Ally teammates […]

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IMPRESSIVE 65 CAR ENTRY LIST FOR THE 2022 24 HOURS OF SPA

June 21, 2022 RNW Staff 0

A 65-car field will gather to contest the toughest event in GT3 racing next month when the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa stages its 74th edition on 28-31 July. The full entry list for the twice-around-the-clock race has been revealed during this week’s official test days (21-22 June) where preparations for the Ardennes classic are […]

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WHELEN ENGINEERING RACING READY FOR THE SIX HOURS OF WATKINS GLEN

June 21, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Whelen Engineering drivers Pipo Derani (Brazil), Olivier Pla (France) and Mike Conway (Great Britain) head to New York state’s Finger Lakes region for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen June 23-26 at Watkins Glen International. This will be the third of four endurance races on the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech schedule.

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WEATHERTECH RACING HEADS TO THE GLEN

June 21, 2022 RNW Staff 0

WeatherTech Racing drivers Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill), Maro Engel (Germany), and Mikael Grenier (Canada) are ready for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen to run at Watkins Glen International, June 24-26.

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MEYER SHANK RACING TAKES DPi POINTS LEAD TO WATKINS GLEN

June 20, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) returns to Watkins Glen International holding the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship DPi points lead heading into the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen on Sunday, June 26.

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GRT EXTENDS POINTS SCORING STREAK IN SUNDAY’S DTM RACE AT IMOLA

June 20, 2022 RNW Staff 0

GRT was presented with a challenging Sunday at the Lamborghini home race in Imola. After his spectacular fightback to a podium finish on the previous day, Mirko Bortolotti achieved a hard-fought tenth place in the second race. Clemens Schmid and the Lamborghini factory driver had taken P5 and P10 in qualifying with the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO despite carrying extra weight. In a turbulent race, Mirko Bortolotti’s points result proved to be the maximum for Grasser Racing. In the driver standings, the Italian is in second position after three of eight race weekends. GRT is currently in fourth place in its debut year in the DTM.

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K-PAX RACING SWEEPS VIR

June 20, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Rounds 5 and 6 of the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS took place at VIRginia International Raceway, known to the racing community as “Heaven on Earth”, which translated to “fairytale” in describing the way the weekend ended up going for K-PAX Racing.

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MARCIELLO AND BOGUSLAVSKIY TAKE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE VICTORY AT ZANDVOORT

June 19, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Akkodis ASP earned a third Fanatec Sprint victory of 2022 thanks to another perfect team performance from the #89 Mercedes-AMG of Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy in today’s race at Zandvoort.

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FELLER CLAIMS MAIDEN DTM RACE WIN

June 19, 2022 RNW Staff 0

A lot of action, a lot of overtaking, and two new faces on the DTM podium at the end: 22-year-old Swiss Ricardo Feller claimed the maiden win of his still young DTM career. Following René Rast’s victory on Saturday, it was the second win for the ABT Sportsline Audi team in Imola. Dev Gore finished […]

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K-PAX RACING CAPTURES VICTORY AND DOUBLE PODIUM AT VIR

June 19, 2022 RNW Staff 0

After a week of testing in extreme heat at VIRginia International Raceway, the weather turned friendly for Saturday’s Round 5 of Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS. The beautiful day was capped off with victory from the pole for Andrea Caldarelli & Michele Beretta, who share the No. 1 K-PAX Racing Lamborghini Huracán […]

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GRT SHINES AT LAMBORGHINI HOME RACE IN THE DTM

June 18, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Forza GRT! The Austrian Lamborghini team celebrated their best result to date in the legendary racing series in Saturday’s DTM race at Imola. In a fiercely contested heat battle at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Mirko Bortolotti and Clemens Schmid kept their cool until the chequered flag and took third and sixth place. Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti made up no less than 13 positions in the field of 28 GT3 cars driving the #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO. Clemens Schmid had a strong start into the day with fourth place in qualifying and subsequently scored the first points of his DTM career in the race. In the overall standings, Mirko Bortolotti and Grasser Racing remain in second place.

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WEERTS AND VANTHOOR SEIZE GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP ADVANTAGE WITH ZANDVOORT VICTORY

June 18, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts are back on top of the Fanatec Sprint standings after the #32 Team WRT Audi crew earned a comfortable victory in the weekend’s opening race at Zandvoort.

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RAST WINS DTM RACE 1 AT IMOLA

June 18, 2022 RNW Staff 0

René Rast is definitely back in DTM! After a one-year break in the 2021 season and a first podium finish at Lausitzring, the three-time champion secured his first race win after 587 days at Imola. Back then, in November 2020, the German had cemented his third title win at Hockenheim. In the Italian heat with […]

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HOT DTM ACTION IN IMOLA AS NICO MULLER LEADS THE WAY IN FREE PRACTICE

June 17, 2022 RNW Staff 0

It could hardly have been closer: from the fastest driver of the day, Nico Müller (SUI, Team Rosberg, Audi), down to Canadian Mikaël Grenier, who ended up in 22nd place with the Mercedes-AMG run by the GruppeM Racing team, the lap times of the DTM drivers in second free practice at the 4.909 kilometres long Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola ranged within just one second. With his time of 1m 40.909s, Müller was the only driver to post a sub-1m 41s lap time and thus ended up as the fastest on the practice day of the DTM round in the Emilia Romagna region.

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BMW PRESENTS THE NEW M4 GT4

June 17, 2022 RNW Staff 0

With the official presentation in the run-up to the SRO race weekend at the VIRginia International Raceway (USA), BMW M Motorsport has rung in the sales phase of the new BMW M4 GT4, which is set to continue its predecessor’s run of success in the internationally established GT4 category as of the 2023 season. The car was on display with the BMW M Motorsport design for the first time on Friday, having previously successfully completed a test race in camouflage livery at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife (GER). The new BMW M4 GT4 goes on sale with plenty of technical highlights. Production is set to start in October 2022, to allow the first cars to be delivered to teams in time for the start of the 2023 season.

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MAXIMILIAN GOTZ IS BACK IN THE ADAC GT MASTERS

June 17, 2022 RNW Staff 0

Maximilian Götz (36/Uffenheim) is returning to the German GT Championship and will line up for the Madpanda Motorsport team at round three of the ADAC GT Masters in Zandvoort (24th to 26th June).

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DXDT READIES TO DEFEND WIN ON HOME TURF AT VIR

June 15, 2022 RNW Staff 0

After enduring a blistering hot weekend last month in New Orleans, the competitors of the Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS head northeast this weekend for rounds five and six of the championship, to be hosted at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR). The No. 63 and No. 08 DXDT Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 cars seek to defend the team’s 2021 win and double-podium weekend June 17-19.

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NTE/SSR SEEKS OUT UNFINISHED BUSINESS AT WATKINS GLEN

June 14, 2022 RNW Staff 0

After taking a brief hiatus from the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule, Lamborghini customer racing team NTE/SSR is back and ready to race next week at the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen. After finishing fourth in the six-hour endurance sports car race last year, the team has unfinished business at the event, hungry as ever to score their first podium finish as a group. This year’s Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen will bring together NTE/SSR regular co-drivers Don Yount and Jaden Conwright with Marco Holzer returning, racing the No. 42 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo.

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GRT ARRIVES IN IMOLA CHASING THEIR FIRST WIN IN THE DTM

June 13, 2022 RNW Staff 0

The third round of the 2022 DTM season is preparing a special kind of home fixture for GRT this coming weekend. For the Austrian Lamborghini team, the home races of Lamborghini in the prestigious GT3 series are on the agenda from 17 to 19 June. On the iconic Grand Prix circuit of Imola, GRT wants to build on its successful start to the season with their four Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVOs. Mirko Bortolotti and his compatriot Alessio Deledda will compete as local heroes in Italy alongside their teammates Rolf Ineichen and Clemens Schmid.