IMSA at Road America: Cadillac and BMW challenge
Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims with #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac V-Series.R are currently leading the Driver’s WeatherTech Championship 10 points ahead of Nick Yelloly and Connor De Philippi with BMW M Team RLL #25 BMW M Hybrid V8. Both teams share their perspectives ahead of Road America round.
From Indianapolis to Road America
BMW M Team RLL saw its cars atop the timing screen at the IMSA’s two-day sanctioned test (July 29-29) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Connor De Phillippi, in the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8, was the fastest in a 1:14.655 lap (117.612 mph).
GTWorldChEu at Nürburgring results by class
The Nürburgring Endurance round saw Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO winning two classes (PRO and Gold), Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO 2 also won two classes (Pro-AM and Silver) and Porsche 911 GT3 R won the Bronze Cup class.
Akkodis ASP wins at Nürburgring
Akkodis ASP wins the Nürburgring Endurance round and Marciello, Gounon, Boguslavskiy take the lead of the Endurance Cup drivers’ standings ahead of the last round at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya.
Mercedes tops both Friday Sessions at Nürburgring
A Mercedes topped both sessions today with #88 Akkodis ASP Team during the morning free session and Mercedes-AMG Team AlManar #777 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO in the pre-qualification session.
BMW Junior Team tops Official paid Test Sessions at Nürburgring
Two cars topped the GT3 teams running this afternoon with a very tight margin of 0.006 seconds. Daniel Harper, Neil Verhagen, Max Hesse driving Rowe Racing BMW M4 GT3 #998 did set the fastest lap in 1:54.748.
Top 3 Fanatec GTWorldChEu Endurance Cup Bronze ahead Nürburgring
Sky Tempesta Racing is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Endurance Bronze Team and their drivers Eddie Cheever, Chris Froggatt and Jonathan Hui the Bronze Drivers.
Akkodis ASP team looking to strengten Championship leadership
Akkodis ASP Team is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Team’s ahead of Team WRT.
Rowe Racing at home to strengten Endurance leadership
Rowe Racing is leading the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Endurance Team’s cup as well as their drivers Philipp Eng, Nick Yelloly and Marco Wittman are leading the driver’s cup.
Heart of Racing wins both GTD Pro and GTD in Lime Rock Park
#23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 squad dominated the race while sister #27 won GTD class scoring the double for Heart of Racing.
#23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 will start from pole at Lime Rock
Ross Gunn was the fastest of the qualifying session at Lime Rock Park with #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in 50"593.
Corvette Racing going for two at Lime Rock
Corvette Racing is looking for a seventh Lime Rock triumph Saturday and take the lead of GTD PRO championship.
Proton Competition wins LMGTE at the 4 Hours of Le Castellet
The LMGTE race was animated, mostly dominated by Proton Competition with two of the four prepared Porsche 911 RSR-19s finishing first and second.
Algarve Pro Racing wins the 4 Hours of Le Castellet
With four leader changes in the last 22 laps, It is finally the #25 Algarve Pro Racing with Alexander Lynn, James Allen and K. Simpson that crossed checkered flag first as leading #28 IDEC Sport had to pit due to a puncture with 14 laps to go and Louis Deletraz with #34 Racing Team Turkey had to give up the lead four laps before the end as he was struggling for grip.
Lopez clinch pole at Le Castellet
Jose Maria Lopez with 11 seconds to go before the end of the session clinched pole beating Chatin for 0.266 seconds in 1:44.253. The #47 trio Vladislav Lomko, Reshad De GERUS and Jose Maria Lopez will start from pole the 4 Hours of Le Castellet tomorrow at 11:30 am.
Pechito dominates ELMS at Paul Ricard
Cool Racing strikes the double in FP1 at Paul Ricard this morning with Lopez in #47 fastest in LMP2 and Jakobsen driving #37 in LMP2/AM. Nick Thiim was fastest in LMGTE with #44 Aston Martin.
6 Hours of Monza: Corvette Champion - Porsche takes the podium.
Corvette Racing, Ben Keating, Nicki Catsburg and Nico Varrone are already World Endurance Champions with still 2 races to run before the end of the Championship. Porsche 911 RSR-19 trust the podium.
6 Hours of Monza: Toyota strikes fourth victory
The fifth round of the World Endurance Championship saw 7 different leaders in Hypercars class due to alternate pitting strategies but it was Toyota#7 who dominated the race with 143 laps on the lead out of the 200 covered.
6 Hours of Monza: Toyota leads at mid-race
The start of the 6 Hours of Monza was chaotic with Ferrari #51 spinning after being hit by Toyota #8. Peugeot #93 was on the lead at the end of hour 1 but Toyota #7 took control again at mid-race.
6 Hours of Monza: Toyota leads Ferrari by an inch
Kamui Kobayashi with Toyota GR010 Hybrid #7 clinched the pole point with a lap time of 1:35.358, 0.017 seconds ahead of Antonio Fuoco with Ferrari 499P #50. Kubica in LMP2 and Bovy in LMGTE AM were the fastest in their class.
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