Major Endurance Race Announced for Istanbul Park
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The Turkish Istanbul Park circuit is expected to host an endurance race for prototypes, GT and touring cars in August.
A new GT3 championship under the IMSA umbrella could start as early as 2016, reports suggest.
Tequila Patrón ESM have announced that they will end their USCC and NAEC interests immediately, in order to focus on the WEC in 2015.
In Prototype Challenge, the #11 of Chris Cumming and Bruno Junqueira dominated Sunday’s Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix at Laguna Seca.
In the GT Daytona class, it was Spencer Pumpelly and Patrick Lindsey that took the win, redeeming Pumpelly’s Laguna Seca record.
The three car Porsche team in LMP1 made it two cars onto the podium, but couldn’t catch the updated #7 Audi.
The Ligier JS P2 of John Pew and Ozz Negri Jr came back from a damaging crash to finish the Laguna Seca race in 3rd.
Despite leading the majority of the race, Wayne Taylor Racing couldn’t finish first in yesterday’s Laguna Seca USCC race.
In the GTLM class, BMW Team RLL took a 1-2 finish at yesterday’s Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix, with the #24 victorious.
The opening round of the DTM season was largely disappointing for BMW, and the M4 DTMs lost out to the pace of the Audis.
In wet conditions, Abt’s Mattias Ekström won race 2 at Hockenheim, with Mortara and Paffett completing the podium.
Despite starting from a penalty, KCMG managed to work its way up to fourth in LMP2 before the race end.
A mistake in tyre strategy cost Marco Sørenen and Christoffer Nygaard a podium in LM GTE-Pro yesterday.
Stevenson Motorsports’ #6 car won yesterday’s CTSC race, but the #9 car didn’t do as well.
JOTA Sport’s Gibson-Nissan was by far the fastest car in LMP2 yesterday, and their win puts them in the best possible position ahead of Le Mans.
Race two of the brand-new Audi Sport TT Cup was a close contest between five drivers for first place, with Dennis Marschall finishing in the lead.
This was a weekend to forget for Toyota, who only finished 5th and 8th in the LMP1 class at Spa.
