The session was dominated by Jakob Giermaziak driving Scherer Sport Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS GT3 #16 in front of Christian Krognes driving Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 #34. Vanina Ickx back on Nordschleife.

Both Toyota have dominated the free practices and the qualification session with Kamui Kobayashi setting the fastest lap in Toyota #7.

Penultimate race of the WEC championship this weekend in Fuji. We review the teams and drivers championships standings per class.

BMW M works drivers Connor De Phillippi, Sheldon van der Linde, Marco Wittmann, Augusto Farfus, Nick Yelloly, Philipp Eng, Dan Harper, Max Hesse and Neil Verhagen, René Rast has completed a number of laps in the BMW M Hybrid V8.

With the retirements of 5 cars of the top 8 in the early hours, the race ended with Christopher Mies, Patric Niederhauser, Lucas Legeret in Sainteloc Junior Team Junior Team Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #25 moving from P6 to win the race.

Dries Vanthoor, Kelvin van der Linde, Charles Weerts will start from pole with Team WRT Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #32 as each driver was the fastest in his qualifying session.

3 PRO teams are among the top three performers in today’s pre-qualification session with Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes AMG leading. Oliver Millroy, Brendan Iribe, Frederik Schandorff drove Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 #7 in fourth as the only gold cup team in the top 16.

Valentino Rossi did spend some time with us during a round table with colleagues. He spoke about this weekend at Hockenheimring, his satisfaction of his first season so far and his plans for next season.

5 teams are still in the run for the overall Endurance team and driver cups with Akkodis ASP Team leading points ahead of AF Corse.

The Silver Cup is dominated by Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 Team WRT #30 and its drivers Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer, Benjamin Goethe, Thomas Neubauer who count two victories for the 3 races runned so far. In Pro-Am the top 3 teams and drivers are close and the class win is still very open for all of them.

With their victory at the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa, the Iron Dames lead the Endurance Cups standing for Gold Teams and Drivers before Hockenheim race.

The 4 Hours of Barcelona winning trio by class: Prema Racing, Inter Europol Compétition and Proton Competition. Prema and Proton teams and drivers are increasing their ELMS Championships class leadership. Inter Europol is reducing gap with class leader Cool Racing to 5 points.

Cadillac Racing drivers Pipo Derani, Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Sébastien Bourdais participated in three days of testing the Cadillac V-LMDh this week at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.

Paul Loup Chatin in the #28 IDEC Sport Oreca set the fastest time in the first free practice session this afternoon, just a tenth ahead of Bent Viscaal in the #19 Oreca .

Dries Vanthoor, two times GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup winner, currently leader of the 2022 sprint championship speaks about his season so far.

Kevin Estre takes stock of the year 2022 in GT-PRO and shares his first impressions at the wheel of the Porsche 963, for his participation in LMH in 2023.

The Silver Cup has been dominated by both Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 Team WRT #30 and Aka Attempto Racing #99 as well as Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #14 at the merci of pitstops.

Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer, Benjamin Goethe, Thomas Neubauer Team WRT Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #30 ended first.

The PRO-AM class saw a race by successive eliminations. Alessio Picariello lead the Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-R #24 to the top of class until the car was being towed behind the rail with 6 hours 10’ to go. Alessio Rovera and teammates with AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 #52 won the class.

Collaboration agreed between BMW M Motorsport and Team WRT.

The 2023 season will focus on preparations for entering the FIA World Endurance Championship with the BMW M Hybrid V8 from 2024.

Of the six women at the start of the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa, six were at the finish and five on top step of podium. Iron Dames win Gold Cup and Reema Juffali wins Bronze Cup.