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38 Entries For Super Taikyu Race In Autopolis #SuperGT

38 Entries For Super Taikyu Race In Autopoliswww.dailysportscar.com The Eneos Super Taikyu Series Empowered by Bridgestone returns this weekend with the five-hour Super Taikyu Race in Autopolis, scheduled for Sunday 28 July. It’s the third round of the season and the first race since the Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours. Zhongsheng ROOKIE Racing’s #1 Mercedes-AMG GT3 won the Fuji 24 Hours for the

Affalterbach Racing GmbH Founded By Mercedes-AMG, Motorsport Division Reorganised

Affalterbach Racing GmbH Founded By Mercedes-AMG, Motorsport Division Reorganisedwww.dailysportscar.com Mercedes‑AMG has announced that it has strategically reorganised its motorsport division to meet future requirements and plans. The suite of changes includes the creation of a new subsidiary under the name “Affalterbach Racing GmbH”. This company will be responsible for all conceptual and technical customer sport activities of AMG, including the development of the new

50 Cars On Nürburgring Entry, Endurance Cup Title Battles Heat Up #GTWorldCh

50 Cars On Nürburgring Entry, Endurance Cup Title Battles Heat Upwww.dailysportscar.com 50 cars are entered for the third round of the 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup powered by AWS at the Nürburgring, which takes place this weekend. In the headline PRO class, the field features 20 cars, with the addition of Austrian outfit Eastalent Racing, which has entered an Audi R8 LMS GT3

GRAFF Confirm Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 Effort #AsianLeMans

GRAFF Confirm Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 Effortwww.dailysportscar.com GRAFF Racing have confirmed a return to the Asian Le Mans Series for the 2024/25 season in LMP3. The long-standing French squad has already claimed two Asian titles two titles in 2022 (LMP2 Am) and 2023 (LMP3) and returns to the LMP3 category with a Ligier JSP320 driven by Eric Trouillet for the six scheduled

ELMS News Notebook: Paulo Pineiro Passes #ELMS

ELMS News Notebook: Paulo Pineiro Passeswww.dailysportscar.com Paulo Pinheiro The founder and CEO of Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Paulo Pinheiro passed away earlier this month after a short illness. Paulo was also the father of ex Ligier European Series and Michelin LM Cup racer Bernardo Pinheiro. His passing was recognised by LMEM with the following statement. Paulo was more than a cherished

47 Entries For IMSA Sportscar Weekend At Road America #IMSA

47 Entries For IMSA Sportscar Weekend At Road Americawww.dailysportscar.com IMSA has released the provisional entry list for the IMSA Sportscar Weekend at Road America, a two-hour, 40-minute sprint race scheduled for Sunday 4 August. 47 cars are set to enter, and for the first time since Watkins Glen all four classes will be in action including GTP. The ten full-season GTP entries all return

Panis Racing Imola Win Reinstated After Penalty Reversal #ELMS

Panis Racing Imola Win Reinstated After Penalty Reversalwww.dailysportscar.com Panis Racing has been named the winner of the 2024 European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Imola after a reversal of the French team’s post-race penalty. Originally, the team’s ORECA scored the win on the road but was dropped to fifth in the standings after being handed a drive-through converted into a 35-second time

Priaulx & AO Racing Part Ways #IMSA

Priaulx & AO Racing Part Wayswww.dailysportscar.com AO Racing and Sebastian Priaulx – who drives the team’s GTD Pro class Porsche in IMSA – will part ways for the remainder of the 2024 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Priaulx, who was a part of the team’s two wins this season at Laguna Seca and Detroit, will step away from the #77 Porsche 911

NASCAR Star Ross Chastain Joins Skip Barber Aston Martin Effort For Road America #IMSA #MichelinPilotChallenge

NASCAR Star Ross Chastain Joins Skip Barber Aston Martin Effort For Road Americawww.dailysportscar.com NASCAR Cup Series star Ross Chastain will make his IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge debut with Skip Barber Racing at Road America next month. Multiple NASCAR Cup race winner and 2022 Seres runner-up Chastain will share the #16 Skip Barber Racing School Aston Martin GT4 entry with IMSA Diverse Driver Development Scholarship winner Ken Fukuda at

Toyota Planning Transition To Hydrogen Following Hypercar Ruleset Extension #WEC

Toyota Planning Transition To Hydrogen Following Hypercar Ruleset Extensionwww.dailysportscar.com Toyota has plans to race both its current GR010 HYBRID Hypercar and its first generation hydrogen-powered prototype during the maiden season for the hydrogen-powered regulations, should the forthcoming technical ruleset be finalised in time for the 2028 season. Speaking with reporters at São Paulo earlier this month, Toyota Motorsports’ project leader John Litjens shed more

McLaren Applied Partners With MissionH24 #LeMans24

McLaren Applied Partners With MissionH24www.dailysportscar.com MissionH24 and McLaren Applied have announced that they will work in partnership on the forthcoming H24EVO technology demonstrator programme. MissionH24 is a collaborative program between the Automobile Club l’Ouest (ACO) and H24Project, and their third-generation hydrogen electric prototype will be equipped with McLaren Applied’s Vehicle Control Unit, Tyre Pressure Monitoring System and other software. The

Volante Rosso Acquires Ex-IMSA Aston Martin #GTWorldCh

Volante Rosso Acquires Ex-IMSA Aston Martinwww.dailysportscar.com Volante Rosso has acquired a near-new Aston Martin Vantage GT3 for the squad’s return to the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS. The Aston Martin, believed to be the car that raced just three times with Andretti Autosports in 2023, will be delivered to the team’s Marrickville, NSW, base ahead of Round 3

Australian GT Notebook #GTWorldCh

Australian GT Notebookwww.dailysportscar.com Grove Racing return to Grid After missing Round 2 of Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS at The Bend, Grove Racing in its Mercedes-AMG GT3 will make a welcome return to the field at Queensland Raceway. Stephen and Brenton Grove competed at the first round at Phillip Island where illness played a part

Hypercar Teams Set To Test At CoTA Ahead Of Lone Star Le Mans #WEC

Hypercar Teams Set To Test At CoTA Ahead Of Lone Star Le Manswww.dailysportscar.com The majority of the FIA WEC’s Hypercar manufacturers are set to test at Circuit of The Americas this week ahead of the six-hour Lone Star Le Mans race on September 1st. The circuit will be in use for three days as BMW, Cadillac, Ferrari, Porsche (Penske and JOTA), Lamborghini, Peugeot and Toyota complete laps in

Akio Toyoda (Finally) Receives Spirit Of Le Mans Award #LeMans24

Akio Toyoda (Finally) Receives Spirit Of Le Mans Awardwww.dailysportscar.com Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda accepted the 2023 Spirit of Le Mans Award last week after initially refusing to accept in the wake of a Balance of Performance-related spat between Toyota and the Le Mans race organisers. The award, which recognizes individuals who embody the values of endurance racing, was presented to Toyoda San, also known

Borusan Otomotiv BMW & Code Racing Alpine Take Hockenheim Wins #SRO

Borusan Otomotiv BMW & Code Racing Alpine Take Hockenheim Winswww.dailysportscar.com Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport snatched its first GT4 European Series Powered by RAFA Racing Club win of the season at Hockenheim thanks to a stellar comeback performance from Berkay Besler and Gabriele Piana. The #12 BMW started from 19th on the 51-car grid but emerged victorious after a late-race charge from defending Silver Cup champion Piana.

Eastalent Audi & Spirit of Race Ferrari Take Ricard Wins #GTOpen

Eastalent Audi & Spirit of Race Ferrari Take Ricard Winswww.dailysportscar.com Race 1 Simon Reicher and Christopher Haase took their third win of the year on Saturday in their Audi R8 LMS, the Eastalent Audi Racing duo beating off a fine challenge from the GetSpeed Mercedes of Fabian Schiller and Anthony Bartone, the AMG of Motopark driven by Diego Menchaca and Marcos Siebert finished third ahead

DXDT Corvette & Regulator Mercedes Split VIR Weekend #GTWorldCh

DXDT Corvette & Regulator Mercedes Split VIR Weekendwww.dailysportscar.com GT World Challenge America returned to action for the first time in two months, tackling the challenging VIRginia International Raceway for a pair of 90-minute races – where DXDT Racing and satellite team Regulator Racing took top honours. Regulator Racing’s ace driver Philip Ellis put the #91 Mercedes-AMG GT3 on the pole for Race 1

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH Completes First Shakedown Runs #WEC

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH Completes First Shakedown Runswww.dailysportscar.com The new Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH has turned its first laps on track, ahead of a full multi-circuit test programme before the car’s debut campaign in IMSA GTP and WEC Hypercar next year. The new LMH-spec prototype, developed by Aston Martin Performance Technologies and works team The Heart of Racing, has completed shakedown runs and

GTWC Europe Hockenheim Gallery #GTWorldCh

GTWC Europe Hockenheim Gallerywww.dailysportscar.com

MZR KTM Sweeps Hockenheim Weekend

MZR KTM Sweeps Hockenheim Weekendwww.dailysportscar.com After the GT2 European Series teams took part in the festivities surrounding the centenary edition of the Spa 24 Hours back in June, with races on the support bill, last weekend saw them head to Hockenheim. And it was MZR and KTM that would take the spoils. Race 1 Reinhard Kofler and Martin Koch surged

#TWISC – The Week In Sportscars Podcast: 21 July Edition #WEC

#TWISC – The Week In Sportscars Podcast: 21 July Editionwww.dailysportscar.com It’s a flappy gums edition of #TWISC – The Week In Sportscars this week with Marshall Pruett and Graham Goodwin as the boys say a fond (and somewhat tearful) farewell to a long-time member of the #TWISC team. There’s a brief wrap-up of IMSA at CTMP and WEC at Interlagos plus a run through some

Emil Frey On Top In Second Hockenheim Sprint #GTWorldCh

Emil Frey On Top In Second Hockenheim Sprintwww.dailysportscar.com Ben Green and Konsta Lappalainen combined to secure their maiden Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS wins in today’s Sprint Cup contest at Hockenheim, returning Emil Frey Racing to the top step of the podium after a three-year absence. The #14 Ferrari owed its victory to the efforts of both drivers and their

Engel & Auer Combine For Race 1 Victory #GTWorldCh

Engel & Auer Combine For Race 1 Victorywww.dailysportscar.com Lucas Auer and Maro Engel secured a hard-fought victory for Winward Racing Team Mann-Filter in today’s Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Sprint Cup contest at Hockenheim. The #48 Mercedes-AMG survived scorching temperatures and a late-race onslaught from the charging Team WRT BMW to grab a narrow advantage at the top of the

CrowdStrike By Riley Withdraws From SRO America VIR Round #GTWorldCh

CrowdStrike By Riley Withdraws From SRO America VIR Roundwww.dailysportscar.com On Friday morning, a recent update of CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity software for Microsoft Windows clients disabled the computer systems of banks, retailers, and airlines worldwide – resulting in the grounding of thousands of commercial airlines, among many other disruptions. CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz, also known to most DSC readers as an experienced amateur

Mazda MX-5 Cup To Race At Martinsville

Mazda MX-5 Cup To Race At Martinsvillewww.dailysportscar.com Martinsville Speedway and the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup have announced that the spec series will hold an exhibition race as part of the 2024 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season finale event on Saturday, October 26th. The event will be a 300-lap doubleheader called the Virginia is for Racing Lovers 300 with the Mazda MX-5 Cup

GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Returns With 33 Cars At Hockenheim #GTWorldCh

GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Returns With 33 Cars At Hockenheimwww.dailysportscar.com The GT World Challenge Europe season resumes this weekend when the Sprint Cup tackles its third round of the campaign at Hockenheim. The trip to southwest Germany comes three weeks after the centenary CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, with 33 cars entered for the pair of 60-minute races on the 4.6km circuit. A field of

Roberto Lacorte Set For GT Open Debut In Cetilar Ferrari #GTOpen

Roberto Lacorte Set For GT Open Debut In Cetilar Ferrariwww.dailysportscar.com Roberto Lacorte will make his GT Open debut in the Cetilar Racing #47 Ferrari 296 GT3 this weekend at Paul Ricard. Lacorte will race solo in the Am class, part of a 35 car all-GT3 grid, the effort in addition to the team’s third season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Endurance series, sharing driving

Malthe Jakobsen Confirmed As 2025 Peugeot Factory Hypercar Driver #WEC

Malthe Jakobsen Confirmed As 2025 Peugeot Factory Hypercar Driverwww.dailysportscar.com 20-year-old Danish racer Malthe Jakobsen has been confirmed in a Peugeot TotalEnergies Hyercar factory seat for the 2025 season. The news comes immediately in the wake of confirmation of the departure from the team at the end of the season of Nico Müller. Jakobsen moves into a factory driver slot in the wake of a

ADESS AD25 Completes First Track Test #ELMS

ADESS AD25 Completes First Track Testwww.dailysportscar.com ADESS’ new LMP3 challenger, the AD25, has completed its first track test with the new-for-2025 Toyota-based 3.5-litre V6 twin-turbo engine. The run came at Estoril in Portugal, where ADESS told DSC it completed “lots of laps and gathered plenty of early data” with 21-year-old Spanish TCR regular Quique Bordas at the wheel. The Portuguese prototype