Yesterday’s test day at Le Mans was rather intense with Toyota and Glickenhaus mixing in the top 4 as well as Corvette, Ferrari and Porsche in LMGTE PRO.

Rahel Frey tells us about her experience with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the goal of the Iron Dames for the 2022 edition.

Aston Martin with legendary drivers animated the race during the first 6 hours but crashed as many Porsche 911 GT3R did. BMW M4 GT3 suffered technical issues.

#15 Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor, Fred Vervisch and Robin Frijns wins the 50th edition of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
Audi and Mercedes-AMG trust the top 8 positions.

Luca Ludwig was the fastest of the qualification session yesterday driving Ferrari #26 from Octane126, Serliana. Together with his teammates they’ll start from pole position the 50th 24 hours for Nürburgring. 4 manufacturers are represented in the two first rows heading 130 cars on the Nordschleife.

After midnight, the combined qualifiers 1 and 2 sessions of the 2022 24 Hours of Nürburgring confirmed the domination of Rowe Racing and Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3. #98 ROWE Racing and #101 Walkenhorst Motorsport fastest laps in session 1 have not been improved but the gap with competitors was significantly reduced.

BMW M4 GT3 dominates N24 qualifiers 1 with #98 ROWE Racing and #101 Walkenhorst Motorsport setting fastest laps in front of Mercedes-AMG GT3, Porsche 911 GT3R, Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II and Aston Martin Vantage in the top 10.

Maxime Martin tells us about his experiences with the major 24 Hours races: Daytona, Le Mans, Nürburgring and Spa-Francorchamps.

Maxime Martin professional career effectively started in 2010 with Marc VDS… Part 1/4 of Maxime Martin interview by Car Racing Reporter: the DTM years

Oman Racing with TF Sport offers the double to Aston Martin Racing with two Vantage in front: #69 of Ahmad Al Harthy, Marco Sorensen, Samuel de Haan in front of the #95 of John Hartshorne, Henrique Chaves, Jonathan Adam.

Second victory in a row for #9 Prema with Louis Deletraz, Lorenzo Colombo and Ferdinand Habsburg after a dramatic race. Andrew Bentley and Kay van Berlo take victory in LMP3 with #3 United Autosport.

Alessio Rivera with #88 AF Corse Oreca 07 will start from pole in tomorrow’s 4 Hours of Imola, Malthe Jakobsen with #17 Cool Racing Ligier will lead the LMP3 and Ahmad Al Harty with #69 Oman Racing with TF Sport dominated the GTE qualification session this afternoon.

Alexander Peroni with #47 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca 07, Malthe Jakobsen with #17 Cool Racing Ligier and Alessio Picariello with Absolute racing Porsche 911 RSR were the fastest in LMP2, LMP3 and GTE today during practice 1 of the 4 Hours of Imola, second race of the ELMS Championship.

Dramatic LMGTE race with leaders change in both classes. James Calado and Pier Luigi Guidi resisted …

Three red flags with race stopped. Robin Frijns with his WRT #31 dominating the race in the 4th hour under heavy rain. The track was drying the last 2 hours enabling Toyota #7 and Alpine #36 take off to finish in that order.

Frist Pole for Glickenhaus Racing as Oliver Pla did set the fastest qualification time with Glickenhaus 007 LMH #708. Gianmaria Bruni with Porsche 911 RSR-19 #91 was faster LMGTE.

Both Toyota Gazoo Racing dominated the 3rd practice with Jose Maria Lopez fastest (#7) and Rio Harakawo second (#9).

Porsche #92 dominated both practices.

LMP2 cars did dominate the session with Robin Frijns setting the fastest lap driving Team WRT #31. Four LMP2 are in front of Romain Dumas with Glickenhaus 007 LMH setting the best Hypercar performance still 0,758” slower than #31!

Wednesday at Spa-Francorchamps is the day for scrutineering and drivers track walk. Alpine getting a 20kW power reduction. This should reduce the gap with Toyota’s GR010s and Glickenhaus 007 LMH. More news…

Audi’s first victory of the season as Oliver Jarvis, Lucas Di Grassi and Loïc Duval with #8 R18 were the only team with no problem during the 6 hours race.